(Above: KUCI’s Jazz Director Hobart Taylor and JALC’s Wynton Marsalis)   Represent. That’s what I did for KUCI and our listeners at the Jazz Congress January […]

Aaron Shragge & Ben Monder  – This world of Dew   – (Human Resource Records) This suite composed by Shragge who plays the dragon mouth trumpet, flugelhorn, […]

John Petrucelli   – Presence   – (Self Released) Ambitious and astounding is this  2 CD suite by composer/saxophonist Petrucelli.  Working in a variety of formats and voicings […]

Makaya McRaven   –  Universal Beings    –  (International Anthem) There is jazzy music and there is something else. I choose to call it “jazz itself”. Jazz […]

Xavier Davis – Rise Up Detroit – (Detroit Music Factory) Dave McMurray – Music Is Life – (Blue Note) Few cities have been as denigrated as […]

Rachel Barton Pine   – Blues Dialogues    – (Cedille Records) This is an essential document for our times. In this period of transition and re-assessment about […]