The Aquarian

February 17, 2025 0

These four? Really? Not since Diz, Bird, Bud, Mingus, and Max convened in 1953 as ‘The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever,’...

Rant ‘N’ Roll: Come Alive Again

March 13, 2024 0

Tidal Currents: East Meets West (Chronograph Records), the seventh album by the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, is a beautiful, adventurous, meandering suite with...

Rant ‘N’ Roll: Five Satisfying Listens

Mike Greenblatt

Columns

January 10, 2024 0

Pianist-vocalist Les McCann passed away on December 29, 2023 in Los Angeles at age 88. Just prior to that, on December...

Rant ‘N’ Roll: Blues, Jazz, & a Book

Mike Greenblatt

Columns

December 11, 2023 0

Although he’s long left Texas in his rear-view mirror, Willie J Laws Jr. has always been known as the “Prophet of the...

Rant ‘N’ Roll: Blues to the Bone

Mike Greenblatt

Columns

September 11, 2023 0

Why has it taken sixties Earth Mother Icon Tracy Nelson, 78, almost 11 years to make a new record? Her...

Rant ‘N’ Roll: Lucky Seven (Records for You)

Mike Greenblatt

Columns

August 21, 2023 0

For his seventh album, Oregon pianist-composer Gordon Lee asks How Can It Be? (PJCE Records). Recorded during the darkest days of the pandemic, the...