Wow! What a woman! Internationally touring jazz pianist. Subversive alto whose singing soothes and disturbs at the same time. 2003 Guggenheim fellowship winner. Patricia Ba…
I tend to greet "Best of" albums with skepticism. So many are cheap attempts to resell the same old tracks in a different package. And it’s such a subjective undertaking an…
More and more often in this post-post-modern world of sampling, remixes and reconcievings, you come across artistic endeavors about which you can only ask, "Why?" A new rem…
Joe Zawinul is probably best known as the versatile keyboardist for fusion pioneers Weather Report. But his part in the story of American jazz goes back over a decade earli…
Maryland guitarist Rob Levit knows his way around his instrument, that’s for sure. He’s a consummate musician and a dedicated artist, and he has a deep, passionate creative…