Soul / Funk Jazz - CD Reviews (220)
Breaking away from the traditional ‘live albums’ recorded in front of an audience, Marlon Saunders and his Mood Control into the studio and just let the tape run, select…
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Without so much as looking at the liner notes, a trained ear for jazz music would have picked up Brand New Heavies' co-founder/member Jim Wellman's involvement on the la…
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As one of the tracks suggests, this is "Lance’s Groove." The new album by Lance Ellis incorporates grooves along with subtle touches of soul by vocalists Yadonna and Dor…
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All scratches by DJ Vicious Lee. The self-titled album by Def Jazz invariably reads as an all-star joinathon - ‘lets ask Joey DeFrancesco is he would put some Hammond do…
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Arthur Kell is a character. Just like the title of his album, he is also a traveler. His experiences have injected on him new ideas about composition, but most important…
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Myanna Pontoppidan is not your typical jazz musician. A saxophonist extraordinaire, Myanna blows up a storm in her new release One Never Knows, Do One? A Boston…
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Maceo Parker's School's In! is a very likable disc with quite a bit going for it. The album has a conceptual base, but one that is pleasantly light and whimsica…
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Prolific Javon Jackson had since his early beginnings a voracious appetite for jazz and a constantly eagerness to go further. Since his childhood he decided to pick up t…
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Rawls and the Rays prove the Blues knows No BoundariesThe first things you hear on No Boundaries are overdriven electric guitar l…
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If you come to John Scofield’s latest tribute release That’s What I Say wanting mainly open ended, jazz-blowing versions of famous Ray Charles tunes, you’ll lik…
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Who’d have thought it? A Swedish big band raising the roof with blues-shouting numbers, coupling this with some excellent contemporary jazz arrangements, some suggesting a …
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Javon Jackson’s got his groove back. Starting with his first Palmetto release, Easy Does It, Jackson gave his listeners a taste of funk in a style influenced as much…
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Another Ray Charles tribute. That's what I first thought, but after a listen - I had quickly come to realize that Sco had once again put his magic to the test.
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The latest release Soul Circus from bassist Victor Wooten is exactly what it says it is a circus. Let me first say don’t expect a jazz album from this one. Victor is…
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Private Stock has the right amount of ingredients to make a successful R&B, jazz, funky compilation. The cover boasts of smooth metropolitan grooves triple distilled wit…
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Cassandre McKinley's new CD "BARING THE SOUL - The Music of Marvin Gaye" shows just how effective it can be to step back into one's past to reflect and rejoice in it…
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Steve Clarke, through the work of KeyNote Productions notably Edwin Hernandez have brought us another slick produced album full of signature melodies and slap style bass.
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Last year, Ron Levy released Best of Ron Levy’s Wild Kingdom, B3 Organic Grooves,which was all the way jamming, followed by After Midnight Grooves,giving his …
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Vibesman/singer, Roy Ayers, is living proof that longevity is the name of the game in the music business. The fact that Ayers has been around successfully churning out j…
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Heavily influenced by Manu Dibango, Fela Kuti, Osibisa and Hugh Masakela, Toronto based Mr. Something Something incorporates their own rhythmic stylings into an impressive …
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