Love Letter

By Jimmy Heath

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2020
Track listing: Ballad From Upper Neighbor��s Suite; Left Alone; Inside Your Heart; Fashion Or Passion; Con Alma; Don��t Misunderstand; La Mesha; Don��t Explain.

Featuring Jimmy Cobb

By Peter Anderson

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Two For One; Hot And Cold; Blues For You; Rhythm In F; Autumn In New York; Pick Your Spot; Someday My Prince Will Come; Jeanine; Polka Dots & Moonbeams; I'll Tell You Later.

Andy Fusco: Remembrance

by David A. Orthmann
August 23, 2020

Since 2016 SteepleChase Records has released five discs by alto saxophonist Andy Fusco. This impressive, often stunning body of work goes a long way in raising the profile of a man who had seldom been given the opportunity to record under his own name. While Fusco leads the sessions, he's the antithesis of a star or ...

Adam Shulman Septet: West Meets East

by Jack Bowers
August 14, 2020

The “west" here is represented by San Francisco-based pianist and group leader Adam Shulman, the “east" by the other half-dozen members of Shulman's impressive septet. Even though the reasons that led to the alliance are ambiguous, what matters is the payoff, and that is more than admirable from any vantage point. As if ...

Jimmy Heath: Love Letter

by Thomas Fletcher
July 10, 2020

Often nicknamed “Little Bird," Jimmy Heath began on the alto saxophone acquiring this informal title by dedicating his studies to Charlie Parker and his wee stature. Although not a familiar name to many outside of the devoted jazz community, Heath would go on to pursue a remarkable 76-year career sadly passing away in January, 2020. A ...

Jimmy Heath: Love Letter

by Chris May
July 3, 2020

Love Letter is the final album to be made by saxophonist Jimmy Heath, who passed in January 2020 aged 93. It was completeted just a month earlier. The title is well chosen: the album is a love letter to jazz, a love letter to ballads, and a love letter to Heath's surviving family members, friends and ...

Peter And Will Anderson: Featuring Jimmy Cobb

by Edward Blanco
June 15, 2020

Grammy Award-winning saxophonists and identical twins, Peter and Will Anderson document another burner of a recording on their Featuring Jimmy Cobb album, released within days of the passing of the legendary drummer in May 2020. The last surviving member of the Miles Davis band that recorded the ground-breaking jazz album Kind of Blue ...

Naama Gheber: Dearly Beloved

by Dan Bilawsky
May 5, 2020

There's much to admire in this debut from New York-based Israeli vocalist Naama Gheber. With a highly developed sense of phrasing built on pitch-perfect delivery and some tasteful back-end vibrato, an eye and ear for fine golden-age material, sharp navigational skills, and a knack for picking the perfect sidemen, her first flight garners attention in all ...

David Wong

Bassist David Wong was born and raised in New York City, and is a graduate of the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts, where he developed his passion for music under the tutelage of tuba master Bob Stewart. He graduated from the Juilliard School in classical music in 2004 and has studied with Orin O��Brien (New York Philharmonic), Ron Carter, Ben Wolfe, and John Clayton. From 2003 to 2004, as part of the Eric Reed Trio, Wong performed in Switzerland, Scotland, the Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles), the Algonquin Hotel (New York City), and with Jazz at Lincoln Center, as well as at many other venues worldwide

Immigration Nation

By Charlie Porter

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Immigration Nation; Contradictions Within; Divergent Paths; Flight; Second Chance; The Unexpected; The Privileged Few; A New Vernacular; Survival of the Fittest; A Deepening Sense; Belonging; Chant.