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December 5, 2009
Claudia Acuña En Este Momento(Marsalis Music) Singer Claudia Acuña’s delivers a lyric with such beauty and passion that you are captured from the very first word, even if you don’t understand ...
November 28, 2009
Sean JonesKaleidoscope(Mack Avenue Records) Trumpeter Sean Jones is one of the most exciting voices in jazz and deserves tremendous acclaim for what he’s doing to advance the idiom. ...
Review: Lizz Wright Live @ Alys Steven Center – Birmingham
November 23, 2009On Friday, October 23, 2009, I had the great pleasure of seeing Lizz Wright perform live at Alys Stephen Center in Birmingham, Alabama. Wright walked on to the stage in bare feet and a hypnotically, ...
November 20, 2009
Melissa WalkerIn The Middle Of It All(Sunnyside Recordings) From the very first song you know that this album isn’t just a collection of songs, but something personal to vocalist Melissa Walker. In The ...
Bill Boynton
November 19, 2009Bill Boynton was the host and flamekeeper of jazz from noon to 6PM every Sunday on WVAS, a public radio station on the campus of Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama. Bill was the most jovial guy I ever ...
November 13, 2009
Benny ReidEscaping Shadows(Concord Jazz) While many of musicians of his generation have fled for smooth jazz pastures, saxophonist Benny Reid continues to bridge the gap between jazz and contemporary jazz ...
November 6, 2009
Jackie Ryan Doozy (Open Art) Jackie Ryan is a real-deal jazz singer, as she proves once again on her latest release, Doozy. The recording is a double CD edition with a total of 20 wonderful performances. ...