Thirty-nine years in and still dropping cracking grooves and catchy melodies, Yellowjackets return with their 25th album, which finds the quartet revisiting original material from … Read More “Yellowjackets: Jackets XL (Mack Avenue)”
The pairing of trumpeter John Daversa and tenor saxophonist/bass clarinetist Bob Mintzer on this small-group recording is a particularly inspired one. Both musicians customarily reside … Read More “John Daversa: Wobbly Dance Flower (BFM)”
Bob Mintzer’s All L.A. Band is classic-style big-band music with cutting-edge origins. The album’s 10 tracks, original Mintzer compositions from throughout the tenor saxophonist’s decades-spanning … Read More “Bob Mintzer: All L.A. Band”
