Jazz

Heather Powell’s crystal clear vocals easily carry the 10 tracks in this, her second album.

For us timid souls unlikely to be exploring anything at all, Josh Nelson’s 'Exploring Mars' offers a welcome taste of what we’re missing.

Three vocalists take different approaches to the repertoire of their new albums.

Los Angeles based drummer Jerry Kalaf is something of a musician’s musician.

These albums are excellent reminders that genre labels have their limits, a testament not to anyone's lack of imagination but to the universality of this thing we call music.

'Spiritman' is a welcome addition to Smoke Sessions’ expanding catalog.

If Gershman and company have done nothing else, they have completely captured the sounds of the past.

'Swing Makes You Happy!' deserves that exclamation point in the title.

This is an album with a truly excellent big band sound, ideal to calm any worries for the future of jazz.

Plus Widespread Panic, Slipknot, Noel Gallagher, Art Pepper, Hugh Masekela, Anonymous 4, and Katrina of Katrina and the Waves.