a jazz listener's thoughts

After all this time, I just feel like posting quickly today on this wonderfully diverse recording from ECM, "Silk and Salt Melodies...

March has brought me a plethora of new and inviting music, on a wide range of labels from countries near and far. It's time to attack so...

Haven't really touched on mainstream jazz much lately, not since the Smoke Sessions CDs for Harold Mabern and Vincent Herring. So here...

Juhani Aaltonen "To Future Memories" (Tum 2014) is a lovely set of music packaged beautifully in a tri-fold sleeve, with great art...

Pianist Leslie Pintchik is about to release her fourth CD, "In the Nature of Things" (Pinch Hard 2014) this month, a set of eigh...

The beginning of 2014 has brought an incredible number of wonderful CDs to my attention so it's time to start posting about some of them...

At the end of last year I posted about  " Rhapsody in Blue Live" , Scottish National Jazz Orchestra featuring Tommy Smith and Bria...