Jazz was working all the angles in 2010. Is there any other genre that has as much range -- from solo instruments to big bands, from instrumental to vocal, from European musicians to both North and South Americans, from truly pretty music to raucously avant-garde "noise"?
New Jazz pianist and composer Kris Davis makes a recording that presses with excitement into hip-hop and groove music without sacrificing any daring or compromising her vision.
In resting her ears, the ex-Geraldine Fibber Carla Bozulich explores strange new terrain on Quieter.
YRU Still Here?'s undercurrent muddies the water just enough to remind the listener that Marc Ribot and Ceramic Dog will never take the easy way out, even during the best of times.
Jazz organist Gregory Lewis takes the compositions of Thelonious Monk around his Hammond for the fourth time, and it's still groovy.
