May 28, 2018
To honor those who gave their lives defending America, the Straight No Chaser song of Memorial Day is Joe Zawinul’s “Unknown Soldier.” Recorded by Zawinul with Weather Report for their I Sing the Body Electric album in 1972, the band at that time was Wayne Shorter on sax, Zawinul on keyboards (and synthesizer for ...
May 24, 2018
Flutist Jamie Baum has created one of the first truly exception jazz recordings of 2018 with the release of Bridges, performed by the Jamie Baum Septet +. A Guggenheim Fellow, Ms. Baum has deftly merged what we classify as “World Music” with jazz in a way that honors both genres. By taking sounds from the Jewish...
May 19, 2018
It’s a great joy for me to find recordings that I’ve not heard before. Maybe they are vintage, maybe brand new but from small labels or self-released. There are a number of blogs much better than mine in doing this kind of crate-digging, especially Marc Myers’ JazzWax. Check it out now!
It took singer E.J....