In a Blue Mood

Simone Kopmajer Christmas Lucky Mojo Records Austrian-born vocalist Simone Kopmajer impressed this listener with her 2019 engaging and charm...

Laura Tate Live From El Paso 811 Gold Records LLC A career as an actor and singer, performing on stage and television, and directing music v...

Hazar Reincarnated Immersive Audio Network Las Hazar, known simply by his last name, will undoubtedly awaken many ears with his superb acous...

José Rizo's Mongorama Mariposas Cantan Saungu Records Popular Los Angeles DeeJay José Rizo founded Mongorama in 2011, a nonet inspired b...

Chris Smither More From the Levee Signature Sounds This new recording from the noted singer-songwriter Chris Smither brings forth ten new tr...

Rachel Caswell We're All In The Dance Turtle Ridge Records   With so many recordings issued, it is easy to miss one. As an example, ther...

John Németh Stronger Than Strong Nola Blue Records With his latest recording, John Németh moves away from the soul-blues singing that has ma...

The Spanish Harlem Orchestra The Latin Jazz Project ArtistShare The Grammy® Award-winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra's latest project is t...

Ben Levin Carryout or Delivery VizzTone About Ben Levin's previous album, "Before Me," I wrote that "he plays and sounds ...

Ashley Locheed & Chris Rottmayer So in Love Timucua Arts Foundation " So in Love " is a delightful album of standards and pop ...

Nicholas Brust Frozen In Time Fresh Sound Records Nicholas Brust is part of the current New York scene. He attended the New England Conserva...

Nora Jean Wallace BluesWoman Severn Records Music lovers have reason to celebrate the return of Nora Jean Wallace with a new CD, " Blue...

3D Jazz Trio Christmas in 3D DIVA Jazz Only a few months ago, this writer reviewed the 3D Jazz Trio's " I Love To See You Smile ,...

Jimmy Carpenter Soul Doctor Gulf Coast Records About Jimmy Carpenter's last album, " Plays the Blues " (VizzTone), I wrote tha...

Jim Waller Big Band Bucket List Self-produced A multi-instrumentalist (saxophones, trombone, piano, organ, guitar), arranger, record produce...

Melody Gardot Live in Europe Decca Records This new release by the singer-songwriter and instrumentalist is taken from several years of conc...

Shemekia Copeland Uncivil War Alligator Records It is amazing to see how it has only been 22 years since Shemekia Copeland's first album...

Quintrepid Quintrepid Unseen Rain Listening to the eponymously-titled debut album by Quintrepid, one might be struck by aspects of the music...

Johnny Rawls Where Have All the Soul Men Gone Third Street Cigar Records Johnny Rawls returns with his third recording for Third Street Ciga...

Tommy Ladnier is a forgotten early jazz trumpeter who participated in a number of notable recording sessions starting with a variety of sess...