
Yellowjackets – Parallel Motion(Mack Avenue MAC1196. Album review by Peter Bacon) As a descriptor the label “jazz fusion band – it appears in the Yellowjackets’ Wikipedia entry – has always struck me as […]
Yellowjackets – Parallel Motion(Mack Avenue MAC1196. Album review by Peter Bacon) As a descriptor the label “jazz fusion band – it appears in the Yellowjackets’ Wikipedia entry – has always struck me as […]
Yellowjackets + WDR Big Band – Jackets XL(Mack Avenue MAC1175. CD review by Peter Bacon) The classy Cologne-based jazz orchestra has made many fine albums with illustrious guests but this one with the […]
Christian McBride – The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons (Mack Avenue MAC 1082. CD review by Peter Vacher) The brilliant US bassist Christian McBride is something of a present-day […]
Erroll Garner – Campus Concert (Mack Avenue Octave Music. MA1162. CD review by Leonard Weinreich) The elf-like Erroll Garner was engulfed by myth: couldn’t read music; in 1947, was the first piano […]
Joey DeFrancesco – In the Key of the Universe (Mack Avenue 1147. CD Review by Peter Jones) Playing in a band with Hank Mobley and Philly Joe Jones at age 10, awarded […]