“I believe that your life should be a succession of steps and that those steps should be along an ascending path.” Buster Williams shows no

For his third Mack Avenue Records release, 5-time GRAMMY Award winner Billy Childs assembles an all-star quartet with trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, bassist Scott Colley, and

John Leslie “Wes” Montgomery (March 6, 1923 – June 15, 1968) was an American jazz guitarist. Montgomery was known for his unusual technique of plucking the strings with the side

The New Mastersounds are a British four-piece jazz fusion and blues/funk band with members now based in Denver, Colorado, The UK and Spain. Over the

On Feb 3rd, Preeminent Bassist and Composer Ben Wolfe celebrated the release of Unjust — which features a collection of Jazz Masters offering dynamic performances of

In Lingala, a Bantu language spoken in the Congo, ‘kobina’ means ‘to dance.’ In the mid-to-late 1960s, Chambers played drums for numerous Blue Note luminaries

Recognized as one of the top 5 female jazz musicians to watch out for, Toronto-based French/American singer Laura Anglade is making a name for herself in the

Pianist and composer Kevin Fort follows his extraordinary debut, Red Gold (CD Baby, 2014), with another tip of the hat to jazz standards and the modern tradition; Perspectives is

From the hundreds of hours (willingly) spent listening to Jazz this year, I’ve come up with some of my favorite albums that caught my ear