Doug Webb’s New Renovations Takes It Up a Notch

lucidculture.wordpress.com Last summer, jazz saxophonist Doug Webb released an entertainingly trad album titled Midnight. This new one, from the same session, is called Renovations. If we’re in luck, maybe we’ll live...

Outside Inside Out reviews “Inner Flights”….

outsideinsideout.wordpress.com 3 new discs from posi-tone, part 1: benjamin drazen’s inner flights By outsideinsideout Thanks to the good folks at Posi-Tone records I’ve been receiving their new releases after reviewing Ralph Bowen’s...

The first review for our latest release “Slipstream” by pianist Noah Haidu…

steptempest.blogspot.com Slipstream - Noah Haidu (Posi-Tone Records) -The Los Angeles, CA-based Posi-Tone keeps finding new artists deserving of our attention.  Haidu, a Virginia native and graduate of Rutgers University, is no...

SomethingElse! reviews the Captain Black Big Band CD…

somethingelsereviews.com — March 23, 2011 10:31 am One Track Mind: Orrin Evans, “Jena 6 ” (2011) Posted by Nick DeRiso by Nick DeRiso Turns out, it actually does mean a thing,...

Lucid Culture reviews Orrin Evans – Captain Black Big Band….

lucidculture.wordpress.com Orrin Evans’ Captain Black Big Band Is Everything You’d Expect In some ways, what Pink Floyd, Nektar, Supertramp and all the rest of the orchestrated rock bands were to the...

First Listen: Orrin Evans, ‘Captain Black Big Band’

www.npr.org March 20, 2011 There's a certain type of payoff only a big band, or large jazz ensemble, can provide. It's akin to driving a muscle car, or owning the...

Jeff Krow’s Audiophile Audition review for Orrin Evans – Captain Black Big Band…

www.audaud.com Orrin Evans/ Captain Black Big Band - Posi-Tone Records PR8078, 59:54  ****: (Artists include: Orrin Evans - piano; Tatum Greenblatt, Brian Kilpatrick, Walter White, Jack Walrath - trumpets; Mark...

Here’s the Lucid Culture write-up for Mike DiRubbo ” Chronos”….

<href="http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/mike/">lucidculture.wordpress.com Saxophonist Mike DiRubbo’s new album Chronos is a refreshingly different kind of B3 jazz album. Not that there’s anything wrong with funky organ shuffles, it’s just a lot of...

Mike DiRubbo makes the hang on “The Scene”…

hardbopjazzjournal.wordpress.com You can now hear episode 2 of “The Scene”, Hardbop’s monthly podcast. The podcast will feature a different jazz artist on the scene, either emerging or established and play...