There is a rare kind of confidence in knowing when not to play. Vibraphonist, composer, and bandleader Mike Freeman has clearly mastered that art, and Circles...
You can count some wonderfully heroic performances by members of this group: from the trumpeters, Alex Norris and Matt Hilgenburg, tenor saxophonist Peter Brainin, bassists Raúl...
Instrumental soloists practising their craft 90 miles [or more] north of the Estrecho de Florida have long coveted the Afro-Cuban music that reverberated with the proverbial...
Mike Freeman and ZonaVibe pay wonderful homage to two of great vibraphone masters of musicians on Venetian Blinds; Tito Puente and Bobby Hutcherson. Tongue firmly in...
Steven Kroon is not only living the dream as one of the frontline percussionist playing music in the Afro-Caribbean, Brasilian and Latin-Jazz styles, but he has...
One important aspect of the music on this disc that strikes you almost immediately is that a Hammond B3 organ is melded in with the Organic...
To be correct from the start, this recording by Mitch Frohman and his Latin Jazz Quartet, From Daddy With Love was released almost three years ago....