Linda Carone: A Conduit for The Heart of The Song
By Susan Frances Linda Carone’s musical journey begins as a collector of fine jazz, actively seeking a myriad of popular, rare, and sometimes risque …
Benjamin Schnake: Transforming Photographic Images into Music
Benjamin Schnake: Transforming Photographic Images into Music hat guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger Benjamin Schnake communicates in his compositions affects audiences the way …
Teri Parker: Pursuing Harmony within Improvised Passages
By Susan Frances The ruminating verses of composer-pianist Teri Parker take audiences into other worlds. Sometimes venturing into abstract formations and other times wheedling …
Paul Metcalfe: Constructing Rhythmic Conversations
By Susan Frances New Orleans isn’t the only town cultivating hot jazz bands these days. Canada’s Toronto has become a hotbed of musicians turning …
Ilana Katz Katz: Building More Roots in Roots Music
By Susan Frances The Roots Music Report covers a verdant field of artists who play rhythmic blues, acoustic rock, soul, country, Celtic folk, gypsy …
Carolyn Lee Jones: Songs from My Mother’s Piano Bench
By Susan Frances Multiple factors go into an artist’s drive to pursue making music and performing professionally. For vocalist Carolyn Lee Jones, she reveals …
Christian Overton: Chasing That Euphoric Feeling
By Susan Frances Canadian jazz is not a term often used by music journalists, but trombonist and composer Christian Overton illustrates openly that Canadian …
Ori Dagan: The Potential that Jam Sessions Unleash
By Susan Frances Vocalist, composer, and pianist Ori Dagan discovered, early on, the potential that jam sessions unleash. Such opportunities to promote spontaneity to …
Barrett Martin: Channeling the Natural and Spirit Worlds into Music
oundscapes are intangible to describe, but audiences know them when they hear them. Soundscapes can transport listeners from the temporal plane and experience an …
Diane Delin: Looking To The Past To Pilot the Future
By Susan Frances t the age of 80, Chicago-based jazz pianist Jodie Christian passed away in 2012. Still, his contributions continue to surface …
Kristin Callahan: Conveying the Feel of the Song
By Susan Frances ontemporary Fusion Reviews columnist Dick Metcalf wrote about singer-songwriter Kristin Callahan claiming, “What sets her apart from all the others is …
Aubrey Wilson: Classic Ideals in Music and Performance
By Susan Frances lassic jazz vocalists have often honed a stage presence that identifies them. For instance, part of Ella Fitzgerald’s stage presence was …
Xander Naylor: Viewing Music as One of the World’s Greatest Treasures
By Susan Frances Beyond being a musician, a composer, and an educator, Xander Naylor has the spiritual awareness of a Tibetan monk and the …
Sebastien Lovato: The Collective Experience of Playing Jazz
By Susan Frances Playing in a jazz collective offers each member collaborative opportunities to open up their imagination, contribute, and react to the other …
Jesse Ryan: Bridging Traditional Themes with Modern Tropes
By Susan Frances omposer, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader Jesse Ryan is quoted in his biography, found on his website HERE, saying, “I consider myself to …
Tony Koch: The Art of Cross-Pollinating Musical Styles
By Susan Frances ross-pollination is a phenomenon that horticulturists use to create a new plant by transferring pollen from one plant to another plant. …
Rebecca Hennessy: Melodic Themes Rooted in the Natural World
By Susan Frances yrics and music filled with a deep love and appreciation of the natural world is a significant factor driving singer, composer, …
Allyson Briggs: Swing Jazz for Modern Audiences
Allyson Briggs: Swing Jazz for Modern Audiences By Susan Frances ndowed with the glamorous looks of a Classic Hollywood starlit and possessing a voice …
Marlow Rosado: Honoring the Timeless Traditions of Salsa Music
Marlow Rosado: Honoring the Timeless Traditions of Salsa Music By Susan Frances 2K earmarked a new millennium across the globe, opening people to new …
David Boswell: Creating Adventures with Music
David Boswell: Creating Adventures with Music By Susan Frances he way landscape artist John Constable transports audiences through the dales of England’s countryside in …
Amanda Tosoff: Music Made As A Vessel For Poetry
By Susan Frances he music of Canadian composer-pianist Amanda Tosoff is like a beam of light through the modern jazz landscape. She merges the …
Moore McColl Jazz Society: Partners in Excellence and Distinction
artners possess a magical quality that puts ego aside and champions excellence and distinction. Partners in music that have made such a lasting impression …
David Restivo: Home Is Where Music Comes From
cclaimed pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader David Restivo has called many different cities home, having lived in Lansing, Michigan then moving to Toronto, Canada. …
Wayne Alpern: Riding An Endless Creative Existential Journey
Wayne Alpern: Riding An Endless Creative Existential Journey By Susan Frances Composer and multi-instrumentalist Wayne Alpern has been on a proverbial magic carpet ride. …
Tal Yahalom: Jazz Music’s Duality of Individualism and Community
Tal Yahalom: Jazz Music’s Duality of Individualism and Community By Susan Frances Born in Isreal, guitarist-composer Tal Yahalom has been based in Brooklyn, New …
Christian Tamburr: Boundless Creativity
Christian Tamburr: Boundless Creativity By Susan Frances From Cocoa Beach, Florida to the world stage, composer, bandleader, vibraphonist and multi-instrumentalist Christian Tamburr is a …
Brian Kooken: Leading a Blues Trio with Soul
Brian Kooken: Leading a Blues Trio with Soul By Susan Frances The BK Trio are pros at creating harmony in their dialogue, using the …
Mark Lettieri: The Beauty of Instrumental Music
Mark Lettieri: The Beauty of Instrumental Music By Susan Frances If audiences can imagine one guitar that has traveled through the decades since its …
Jeff Reed: The Art of Musical Conversation
Jeff Reed: The Art of Musical Conversation By Susan Frances Few listeners would disagree that jazz allows musicians to practice their skills at holding …
Santiago Leibson: 9 Bars of Self-Expression
Santiago Leibson: 9 Bars of Self-Expression By Susan Frances Born in Argentina and based in Brooklyn, New York, jazz pianist and composer Santiago Leibson …
Amy Shook: The Power of a Trio
Amy Shook: The Power of a Trio By Susan Frances 3D Jazz Trio, where the D stands for Divas, is a swinging jazz ensemble …
Nubya Garcia: Expanding the Vision of Jazz
Nubya Garcia: Expanding the Vision of Jazz By Susan Frances The jazz spectrum is one of the few breeds of music that invite visionaries …
Nicholas Brust: Expressing Personality Through Music
Nicholas Brust: Expressing Personality Through Music By Susan Frances Frozen in Time, the latest offering from composer/saxophonist Nicholas Brust is more than merely an …
Mick Hayes: Philly Soul Meets Buffalo Blues
Mick Hayes: Philly Soul Meets Buffalo Blues By Susan Frances Singer-songwriter-guitarist Mick Hayes entered 2020 with the intention of resetting his recording career, forging …
Sherrie Maricle: Time Is The Stuff Life Is Made Of
Sherrie Maricle: Time Is The Stuff Life Is Made Of By Susan Frances The opening scene of the 1939 film Gone with the Wind …
John Santos: Drums Are the Voices of Our Ancestors
John Santos: Drums Are the Voices of Our Ancestors By Susan Frances Unknowingly, one of the first instruments children begin to play is the …
Eddie Paton: The Infinite Possibilities of Guitar Playing
Eddie Paton: The Infinite Possibilities of Guitar Playing by Susan Frances Multi-faceted guitarist Eddie Paton quickly discovered that the journey of a guitarist is …
Kevin Laliberté: Jazz Harmonies With No Limits
Kevin Laliberté: Jazz Harmonies With No Limits by Susan Frances Canadian born and bred guitarist, vocalist, and composer Kevin Laliberté is known for his …
Up Jumped Three: Music With Permanence
by Susan Frances The digital age has proven to have a wide range of benefits and also disadvantages. One benefit allows listeners the opportunity …
Paul Shaw: From Military Bands To Being A Bandleader
by Susan Frances Every artists journey is truly their own with no journey identical to one another. For drummer, composer, and bandleader Paul Shaw, …