I’ve always regarded the ultimate jazz album as being totally transparent.When you need it to lay out in the background as you read, muddle through 6:00PM traffic…
Canadian Alto Sax Monster Richard Underhill’s Moment In Time is a Jazz Dream come true. It is a complete album, exhibiting all of the intensity, passion and gra…
This young pianist, the most important force in jazz in the post-Keith Jarrett era - not that Jarrett is in any way "over" - continues to reinvent himself, or at least to e…
Someone once asked me what my favorite instrument was. I guess they thought since I am a drummer, I would automatically spit out my love for all things percussive! Howev…
It is no secret that Kurt Elling is the most outstanding male vocalist in jazz. Since his performance at the 1996 International Association of Jazz Educators meeting in Chi…