Tom Hunter is a singer/pianist from Minneapolis. While this is Hunter’s third album, it’s been our first chance to hear him. Here I Go Again will see much wider dist…
Every once in a while, a CD arrives and from the first note, you know it’s special and will sit on that shelf of "play me often" discs. Carol Robbins’ Jazz Play is o…
After Beat Records, like its sister label, Little Beat Records, is dedicated to preserving highlights in the history of jazz in Denmark. Both ventures are the work of a con…
Sixty-one years ago, the great Mary Lou Williams emerged from the Asch recording studios in New York City. She had recorded her Zodiac Suite in a single day, June 29, 1945.…
There are some fine new recordings emerging from the San Francisco area recently. Sherri Roberts’ The Sky Could Send You is among them and, I dare say, very near the…