In a Blue Mood

Omer Kringel Okan Project Israeli pianist-composer-bandleader Omer Kringel's latest album is a multi-cultural project entitled ...

Veronneau Love & Surrender Veronneau Music The acoustic trio Veronneau are back with a new album (their fourth) that building on their...

Paul McCandless Morning Sun: Adventures with Oboe Living Music This is described as "A Retrospective Celebrating 45 Years of Genre-Be...

Congratulations to Don Cherry for his selection in the DownBeat Critics Poll to the magazine's Hall of Fame. Cherry, with his pocket tru...

Our Thing  (Motéma Music) is the first time studio collaboration between Israeli-born guitarist/composer Roni Ben-Hur and Panamanian-bor...

Until listening to Area 52 by Rodrigo Y Gabriela and C.U.B.A. (ATO Records) I was not familiar with the acoustic guitar duo Rodrigo Y Gabri...

Rudresh Mahanthappa is one of several artists who come from the Indian Subcontinent that will be featured at Blues Alley, in Washington DC, ...

Harry Belafonte’s Sing Your Song: The Music (Sony Masterworks) has been issued to accompany the acclaimed documentary Sing My Music  (showi...

Corey Harris certainly has distinguished himself over the years with his blues and world music recordings. Back in February, I looked back...

Its been nearly two decades since Fleck and the original line-up of The Flecktones, with pianist/harmonica player Howard Levy back in the fo...

One of the most remarkable reissues of the past few years was the reissue of material from field recordings Alan Lomax made in Haiti in 1936...

Several months ago I reviewed a recording by Grandpa Elliott, a New Orleans Street Singer who was associated with Playing For Change. At tha...