“We should do another record, but let’s make it a visual product,” suggested Charlie Hunter, celebrated guitarist and producer, just months after Maritzaida’s stunning debut albums, Boleros Clásicos ...
THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR JAZZ ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.
The year’s best Canadian jazz albums are, as usual ... Here For A While is full of burnished, urbane post-bop music for three articulate horn players and a top-tier rhythm section.
Rather, they are the ages of three storied jazz saxophonists — Charles Lloyd, Charles McPherson and Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen — who each released standout albums this year.
But they shouldn’t be, because it was a vintage year for full-length ... her third album Charm. And it has just that in abundance: the record is a warm, inventive stew of jazz, soft rock ...