Kermit Ruffins, The Barbecue Swingers Live (Basin Street)

This record makes me think of something Tom Waits once said, “In New Orleans, music is like hot sauce. They put it on their food.” Yes, we do, and few […]

Los Hombres Calientes and Moore & More

What’s New? Bass X and Edward Anderson

Michael Pellera, Cloud 9 (Pajacis Music)

Pellera has a remarkable ability to compose evocative, dreamy landscapes, combining the emotionally charged impressionism of post-bop jazz with a romantic, almost classical sense of melody. On Cloud 9, his […]

Bill Summers: The Essence of Kwanzaa

In the Red: The Old and the New

Roland Guerin, The Winds of the New Land (Turnipseed Music)

With this live recording from Sung Harbor in April ’97, the curtain rises on 28 year old bassist Roland Guerin’s ability to compose acoustic modern jazz and lead an all-star […]

The Slackers, Redlight (Hellcat)

The Congregation, Good Old Time Flavor (Necta Music)

Marcus Roberts, Blues for the New Millenium (Columbia)

They told us the Gulf of Mexico was out of oil. Then they drilled deeper and found new, rich deposits. With this recording, young pianist/jazz composer Marcus Roberts shows us […]