John Edwin Mason: Documentary, Motorsports, Photo History

Kait Dunton, "Mountain Suite."

Slow Music for a Fast Food World Kait Dunton must know what she's doing. Either that, or she's ever-so-slightly out of her mind. Because here she is -- amid of the clutter and noise of the internet age -- whispering. Mountain Suite, the mesmerizing new album from the LA-based composer... Read more →

Jazz Review: The Olson Pingrey Quartet's "Low Contrast"

I like surprises. Most of the time, anyway. Nobody likes bad news, but, often enough, surprises are good. Yesterday, I got a wonderful surprise -- completely out of the blue. It came in the form of an email from baritone saxophonist Kathy Olson, who was writing to tell me about... Read more →

Jazz Review: Terell Stafford, "This Side of Strayhorn"

Long ago, in a land far, far away, few musicians were as shrouded in myth as Billy Strayhorn. He was the tortured soul who wrote "Lush Life," the booze-soaked anthem of loneliness and despair, and the talented but ultimately minor satellite that orbited around Duke Ellington's radiant genius. Over the... Read more →

Don Braden - Mark Rapp: The Strayhorn Project

Say the words "virtuoso tour-de-force" and whoever you’re talking to will immediately imagine dazzling displays of individual technique and musicianship. When I tell you that tenor saxophonist Don Braden and trumpeter Mark Rapp’s new album, The Strayhorn Project, is exactly that -- a virtuoso tour-de-force -- I mean something very... Read more →