Steve Jordan

Born: January 14, 1957

Deborah Silver: Deborah Silver with the Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Rocks!

by Jack Bowers
June 19, 2025

Basie Rocks! A great idea? One best left on the cutting-room floor? Or perhaps a little of both? There are reasonable arguments to be made on all sides of the equation. On the one hand, this is the one and only Count Basie Orchestra, swinging in its own exceptional way. On the other, the orchestra has ...

Deborah Silver: Deborah Silver with the Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Rocks!

by Kyle Simpler
June 6, 2025

Jazz musicians frequently cover popular songs, but few do it quite like vocalist Deborah Silver. With Basie Rocks!, Silver teams up with the iconic Count Basie Orchestra for a genre-crossing collection that you truly have to hear to believe. This is a groove-charged big band album that reimagines classic rock and pop classics through the swinging ...

Hackney Diamonds (2CD)

By Mick Jagger

Label: Rolling Stones Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: CD1: Angry; Get Close; Depending On You; Bite My Head Off; Whole Wide World; Dreamy Skies; Mess It Up; Live By the Sword; Driving Me Too Hard; Tell Me Straight; Sweet Sounds of Heaven; Rolling Stone Blues. CD2 �C Live at Racket, NYC: Shattered; Angry; Whole Wide World; Bite My Head Off; Jumpin�� Jack Flash; Sweet Sounds of Heaven.

Bob Weir and Others at the Jazz Foundation of America Gala Concert at the Apollo Theater

by Paul Reynolds
April 3, 2024

Bob Weir, Marshall Allen, Jazzmeia Horn, Dee Dee Bridgewater, et al.The Apollo Theater Jazz Federation of America Gala New York, NY March 28, 2024 At gala concerts for worthy groups, it's understandably easy for the music to play second fiddle to the organization itself--and the desire to support it. ...

Rolling Stones: Hackney Diamonds (2CD)

by Doug Collette
March 2, 2024

The Rolling Stones have taken some risks of greater and lesser proportion over the course of their sixty-plus- year career, but perhaps no gamble is so great as the decision by the surviving members of the band to continue on after the passing of drummer Charlie Watts. With the blessing of their co-founder in ...

Some Things Never Change (Single)

By Clifton Anderson

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Some Things Never Change.

A Change Is Gonna Come

By Bill O'Connell

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Moment��s Notice; Loco-Motive; Covid Blues; A Change Is Gonna Come; Sun for Sonny; Enough Is Enough; Sweet Peanut; A Prayer for Us; Chaos; My Foolish Heart.

Bill O'Connell: A Change Is Gonna Come

by Jack Bowers
February 28, 2022

Pianist Bill O'Connell, who has been at the top of his game for more than four decades with no signs of slowing down, says each of his albums is a snapshot of how he is feeling at a particular time in his life. A Change Is Gonna Come expresses O'Connell's frame of mind after enduring more ...

Blackbirds

By Bettye LaVette

Label: Verve Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: I Hold No Grudge; One More Song; Blues for the Weepers; Book of Lies; Romance in the Dark; Drinking Again; Strange Fruit; Save Your Love for Me; Blackbird.