Jessie Galante’s vocals carry the strength of a thunderstorm. As a Buffalo Music Hall of Fame Inductee for 2010, Galante’s heart-pounding melodies echo through any room she graces with her presence. There is no ignoring her; Jessie belts out every lyric as if she’s singing directly to you, imbuing her …
Come March 31, 2023, listeners worldwide can experience something unique when Phat Yaki’s new single, Jupiter, takes over the airwaves. Created by the masterful hands of Lazer, Ethan, Jon, and Josh, this track will be sure to satisfy what everyone has been craving. Starting with an enchanting sci-fi score, then …
Trombonist Eric Goletz’s sextet may be playing standards on his newest album. But it’s anything but standard. On Standard-ized! all six musicians vivify standards with unremitting energy. Even the album’s title contains an exclamation mark. ! More importantly, they perform with unmistakable joy. Their joy is apparent even as the …
John Bailey is one of those superb jazz musicians known by other jazz musicians but not so much by the listening public. That is, not until 2018, when Bailey released his first album, In Real Time. The listening public then became aware of him, for real. It was like, “Where …
Jazz is alive again at the Café Bohemia! And it has been. Since 2019. Yes. The Café Bohemia. The one that Oscar Pettiford, especially, immortalized with his composition, “Bohemia after Dark.” The one that was the venue for some of the landmark recordings of the 1950’s, including The Charles Mingus …
Currently studying for her doctorate in clarinet performance at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Ana Nelson found the time to expand upon her earlier EP—with which she tested the reception of her music—with her first full-length album of original compositions: Bridges. Based upon the absolute professionalism and musical distinctiveness …
Zev Feldman, who goes by the sobriquet of the Jazz Detective, has moved on to apply his investigatory expertise, in a category of its own, to a new label. That label is named, appropriately enough, Jazz Detective. Jazz Detective is a division of yet another new music entity of Feldman’s, …
On Friday, October 28, 2022, PHAT YAKI (Lazer, Jon, Ethan, and Josh) revealed their song, “LEAVE,” to the world. It takes inspiration from R&B, funk, and pop music genres and shows off the quartet’s incredible musical abilities. Within the first seven seconds of the song, the impressive drum section will …
Calvin Keys celebrated his eightieth birthday in San Francisco’s Ruth Williams Memorial Theater in the Bayview Opera House on March 6, 2022. Due to concerns about the Omicron variant of COVID, the date of the concert was postponed for a month after Keys’s birthday on February 6, 1942. Thankfully, occur …
Significantly, the title of Miguel Zenón’s most recent album refers to more than one America. The multiplicity of Americas summarizes the point that he wants to make through his music: There was, and still is, more than one America. Zenón’s album includes a track, “América, el Continente,” that describes the …
