2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (198+ words) Summary: Ran Blake’s Voices is a striking solo piano album where jazz, gospel, blues, popular song and cinema converge. An album that makes familiar melodies sound strange again. This is where Voices becomes unmistakably cinematic. A familiar melody appears like…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (195+ words) Summary: Gretchen Parlato returns with The Wise Ones, an intimate contemporary jazz album featuring Robert Glasper, Alan Hampton and Becca Stevens, blending jazz, soul, pop and Brazilian influences with remarkable sensitivity. Some will love this record immediately. Others may need…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (592+ words) Summary: Matt Wilson’s Love Is the Whole Thing, We Are Only Pieces brings Good Trouble back with a deeper, more intimate sound, featuring Dawn Clement, Tia Fuller and Jeff Lederer in a powerful celebration of jazz, love, community and musical…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (125+ words) Coming off a year that saw the seven-piece play more than 130 shows across eleven countries, the band hasn’t made an album about touring so much as an album that carries touring in its bones, its intimacy, its exhaustion, its flashes…...