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Allen,Jd Radio Flyer CD1. Sitting Bull 2. Radio Flyer 3. The Angelus Bell 4. Sancho Panza 5. Heureux 6. Deadalus 7. Ghost Dance

Time was when the use of any electronically-generated effects in an artist's work, would immediately brand you as a member of the avant-garde. Eventually, however, jazz embraced the modernism of...

Of JD Allen, Giovanni Russonello in The New York Times said, "Mr. Allen has become one of today's most exciting tenor saxophonists not by trying to spotlight his own virtuosity... but by defining a...

I always knew Richie was a great producer of films. When I got to sing some jazz numbers with him and his group I learned something else. The man is a fantastic jazz drummer and an incredible Latin...

The one thing all but one of the works on this recording have in common is that they were used in a motion picture, though only six of the eleven songs were written for a specific movie. They cover a...

When it comes to musical material, a nexus between quality and reception is never a sure thing. Some choice compositions and performances receive their flowers while others slide into relative...

Back in the studio for Savant Records, the versatile pianist with monster chops, Bruce Barth displays those traits which caused the Village Voice to proclaim that he is "one of the best pianists in...

Bruce Barth, despite his professorship at Temple University, is no stodgy jazz egghead. He is a working musician with an abundance of technique, a seemingly bottomless well of ideas and is a composer...

Bergonzi,Jerry By Any Other Name CD1. PG 2013 (Giant Steps) 2. Of a Feather (Bye Bye Blackbird) 3. First Lady (Lady Bird) 4. Sprung (Joy Spring) 5. Deek (How Deep Is the Ocean?) 6. Wilbur (I'll...

You encounter nothing but sheer musicality when it comes to the Boston saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi. But Bergonzi's no-nonsense approach to music cannot mask the fact that he is one of the most...

Bergonzi,Jerry Dog Star CD1. Pleiades 2. Dog Star 3. Vertigo 4. Live Stream 5. Repore-Pa-Int 6. Darkness 7. Separated 8. Darf

Boston doesn't get enough credit as a jazz town. From the days of the Storyville club and Cambridge-based Transition label to the star factory that is Berklee College of Music, the city stands tall...