The celebrated ballet by Piotr Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker – became such a worldwide success in the composer’s lifetime that he [Tchaikovsky himself] made a selection...
If you think Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s remarkable, 1960 interpretation of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1892 ballet, The Nutcracker, is the final jazz word on the popular orchestral...
There’s uncommon poise and elegance in spades in this incredible debut recording of Noah Bless; incredible because Mr Bless has, for years, brought his gifts to...
A rare, albeit singular feeling of joy while living under a lockdown due to the pandemic is the receipt, in the mail, of a recording by...
Joe McCarthy and The New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band continue to impress with their new CD, the first after the band’s relocation from Washington, DC to New...
Heritage and Passion… Never was an album so aptly titled and rarely has an album been so magnificently and ingeniously crafted. And while...
Bringing together three of the most distinguished names on the contemporary jazz, Latin Jazz, and creative music scenes, the LPK Afro-Caribbean X-Trio is a venture of three...
At a time when music is in a state of flux mostly as a result of the virtual collision of idioms and metaphors it is joy...
It is not obvious that Michael Simon is a native of Venezuela, who owes as much to that tradition as he does to the jazz one...
For a fleeting moment -just one fleeting moment- it appears to be a bit of a stretch putting "bolero" and Billie Holiday together...