Self-released, February 2024 BY M.V. SMITH While the saxophone is possibly the most prominent instrument in jazz, in classical music, it gets short shrift; nearly a century on from its premiere, the brief, sultry tenor and soprano solos in Maurice Ravel’s Boléro...
Origin Records, March 2024 BY ERIC OLSON Despite jazz’s embrace of standards, there’s nothing “standard” about jazz album art. From dim-lit interiors, think Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue to psychedelic desertscapes, Herbie Hancock’s Sextant — the principal role of a...
Westerlies Records, February 2024 BY PAUL DE BARROS Back when Washington Middle School trumpeter Riley Mulherkar announced himself to the world one afternoon in Bellevue with a crackerjack solo on Duke Ellington’s “The Mooche,” it seemed like a good bet he was a...
Vital Flame Productions, May 2024 BY AKSHAJ TUREBYLU Fourth time’s a charm: Nancy Erickson Lamont recently released her fourth album — her first of all originals — Through the Passages. Lamont’s authorial voice shines as much as her physical, chronicling in scats as...
Sundazed Music, March 2024 BY PAUL DE BARROS The dazzling, Baltimore-raised pianist Jessica Williams moved to Seattle from California in 1991, and while she stayed only a couple of years, she returned to the Northwest often and spent her last years in Yakima, where...
