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Brian Ho – Organic
May 11, 2012(B2B Music) San Francisco-based organist Brian Ho first fell in love with playing the organ when he became its full-time practitioner at an African-American church at 16 years old. Today, the thirty-something is a ...
Joe Locke / Geoffrey Keezer Group – Signing
May 4, 2012(Record Label) Vibraphonist Joe Locke and pianist Geoffrey Keezer join forces to lead a stellar lineup musicians on their collaboration Signing. The album acquired its title from a touching story that Locke tells of ...
Brad Mehldau Trio – Ode
April 20, 2012(Nonesuch Records) Ode is the first recording from the Brad Mehldau Trio in 4 years. The project’s title references its musical odes to many different people, fictional and nonfictional, including the late, ...
Sara Leib – Secret Love
April 17, 2012(OA2 Records) Vocalist Sara Leib makes a wonderful recording debut with Secret Love, produced by Matt Pierson. Leib delivers warm, inviting vocals over fresh new arrangements of classic and contemporary tunes. ...
Dan Cray – Meridies
April 13, 2012(Origin Records) On his latest, Meridies, pianist Dan Cray provides a fantastic portrait of contemporary quartet of musicians at work. Cray is joined by a terrific group comprised of Noah Preminger on saxophone, ...
Cathy Segal-Garcia & Yoonseung Cho – Bohemian
March 6, 2012(Dash Hoffman Publishing) Singer Cathy Segal-Garcia and pianist Yoonseung Cho weave a wonderful tapestry of sound on Bohemian. The duet recording has a ‘live art’ feel to it and not the sometimes ...
Kenny Garrett – Seeds From The Underground
March 2, 2012(Mack Avenue) Grammy-winning, journeyman saxophonist Kenny Garrett is back with his first acoustic studio album since 2006. Seeds From The Underground (due out on April10) picks up where he left off very nicely. ...
Triosence with Sara Gazarek – Where Time Stands Still
February 28, 2012(Charleston Square) Where Time Stands Still brings Triosence, the trio of German-born pianist Bernhard Schüler, bassist Ingo Senst, and drummer Stephan Emig, together with American vocalist Sara Gazarek for their ...
Ruslan Sirota – Ruslan
February 21, 2012(Roxboro) Ruslan,from pianist-keyboarder Ruslan Sirota, is the debut of a talented contemporary composer and musician. His playing is stellar, as are his color-filled compositions on this recording. Sirota sings and ...
Hiroe Sekine – After The Rainfall
February 14, 2012(SekaiMusic) After a impressive debut recording, pianist Hiroe Sekine follow things up with an equally impressive second effort, After The Rainfall (due out March 9th). Produced by Russell Ferrante, who also ...