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Robert Hurst – Unrehurst, Vol.2 – Bob Ya Head
February 25, 2011(Bebob Music) Robert Hurst, who spent eighteen years in the bass chair at the Tonight Show, is out with not one, but two bold new recordings. UnRehurst ,Vol. 2 has Hurst in a trio setting with the herald-pianist ...
Russell Malone – Triple Play
February 22, 2011(MaxJazz) Triple Play is simply Russell Malone at his best. Believe it or not, this is Malone’s first trio album, as he didn’t think he was ready – until now. Well, the time is right. Malone sounds ...
Tony Guerrero – Blue Room
February 18, 2011(Charleston Square Recordings) Veteran flugelhorn and trumpet player Tony Guerrero has that ‘sweet sound’ that horn players work hard to achieve. On his latest recording, Blue Room, that sound comes ...
Matthew Rybicki – Driven
February 15, 2011(Matthew Rybicki Music) After many years working behind the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Terrell Stafford, Nneena Freelon and host of others, 37-year old Cleveland-born, New York-based Matthew Rybicki offers an ...
Esperanza Spalding Is Grammy’s 2011 Best New Artist
February 14, 2011In the past decade there has been a steady movement away from presenting jazz at the Grammy Awards primetime telecast, so it came as a shock to many people when bassist/composer Esperanza Spalding was presented the ...
Kurt Elling – The Gate
February 8, 2011(Concord Records) You’d be hard-pressed to find a more inventive vocalist in music today than Kurt Elling. On The Gate, produced with Don Was, Elling finds the gem in songs most music lovers have heard ...
Grace Kelly – Phil Woods – Man With The Hat
February 1, 2011(Grace Kelly Music) This recording is a great musical conversation between two generations of saxophonists. On Man With The Hat, alto saxophonist/vocalist Grace Kelly teams up with saxophone legend Phil Woods for ...
Pete Levin – Jump
January 21, 2011(Pete Levin Music) We’ve probably said it before, but there’s nothing like listening a master of his craft and organist Pete Levin certainly fits that description. Jump! is the bodacious, bluesy, ...
Luther Hughes and The Cannonball-Coltrane Project – Things Are Getting Better
January 14, 2011(Primrose Lane Music) The fourth release from bassist Luther Hughes and his Cannonball-Coltrane Project, Things Are Getting Better, is the work of a band at its best. While mining the genius of the greats for which ...
Michael Dease – Grace
January 7, 2011(Jazz Legacy Productions) Trombonist Michael Dease was hooked when he heard a J.J. Johnson album from his father’s record collection. What’s resulted is a 28- year old musical progeny who has played on ...
