Jazz

If you are adventurous in your listening choices and want a bit of the unknown to color your listening experience, then I heartily encourage you to listen to Mr. Branxton’s 3 Compositions many, many times.

Meron is a melodist with talent.

Following in the footsteps of an icon like Wes Montgomery, is a daunting prospect; Charlie Ballantine has bravely taken the first of those footsteps.

For fans of top-flight Brazilian-oriented jazz, any time Adolfo is recording, that is a very good thing.

Fanfare Ciocarlia's 'Onwards to Mars' continues to break all stereotypes you might have about a brass band.

One of the long-running Jim Cullum Jazz Band's great achievements is its jazz-band version of 'Porgy and Bess,' now available on a two-CD set, including narration by William Warfield, who played Porgy on stage many times.

If his debut is any indication, both as composer and performer, Darren English is a force to be reckoned with.

'Some Other Time' is a welcome addition to the Bill Evans canon.

Melody is the key to 'I Have Known Mountains.'

Three Jazz vocalists with distinctive styles.