Albums

Easy-rider Dave Stryker has assembled a nice band and smooth set for his seventh lead album (since 1990) on his steadfast home label (ninth overall). … Read More “Dave Stryker Quintet: The Greeting”

Okay, so what’s a record on the Warner Western label with a Buckaroo moniker doing between the pages of this respectable jazz magazine? If you … Read More “Herb Jefferies: The Bronze Buckeroo Rides Again”

This is a drummer’s record. The group has reinvented a series of jazz standards, turning the melodies inside out and framing them with inventive rhythmic … Read More “Steve Davis: Songs We Know”

This is not, as might be expected, a blues collection. Rather, the selections are those habitually favored by singers and musicians with a penchant for … Read More “Jay McShann: I’m Just a Lucky So-and-So”

Continuing in the same direction as his recent projects for CTI, Coryell steers a course rife with easy to digest melodies and drum machine-generated grooves. … Read More “Larry Coryell: Sketches of Coryell”

The exquisite sound of George Mraz’s bass suffuses this new release with deep rich colors. Mraz plays soul to soul-the sounds he produces coming from … Read More “George Mraz: Jazz”

Pianist Cole Broderick is a promising talent whose Autumn in Saratoga is part of a projected four-part series of seasonal tributes to his upstate New … Read More “Cole Broderick: Autumn in Saratoga: Vol. 3”