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One of the first jazz records I can recall hearing was a B3 organ piece titled “I Got A Woman” by Jimmy McGriff. I heard it repeatedly for about three years in the mid-1960s --- it was the theme music for a television program I watched --- ...

Danan Healy takes a humorous yet relaxed approach to Christmas time this year. Her holiday album, Christmas Time Rocks, is her self-released holiday album which is a cute and funny gift idea in which everyone can relate to the lyrics. In the first, self-titled song, Healy replays memories that most ...

Ellen Honert, a native of the Netherlands, originally decided to study jazz when she was a little girl. From there, she studied at the Dutch Conservatory of Music, but dropped out when she felt she wasn’t being given the opportunity to be unique. After dropping out, she met American musicians ...

After the success of their first compilation, Jazzanova return with the follow up in Broadcasting From Offtrack Radio. They team up with DJ extraordinaire Dirk Rumpff to offer up a heaping helping of some of the most obscure music out there.While I am not a fan of most of the ...

When I received this album in the mail the first thing I did was listen to it from start to finish, next I surfed the net to find more information about the group. What I found were endless pages about the history and culture behind this soulful singing group ...

The number of jazz CDs released each year is amazing. The state of the genre for years has been one in which more and more players chase a shrinking pool of dollars. Yet, the music persists. Actually, it does more than persist. As the music industry collapses ...

Melani Skybell’s fourth album, Just a Chase Away, is an easy dose of light, mostly upbeat jazz, ideal for martinis and pensive winter afternoons. Skybell, who produced the album and wrote all but three of the cuts, tickles the keys and provides strong, effortless vocals tossed away with a groovy ...

Long Island, New York is probably one of the last places in America that you would expect to be the hometown of a blues musician, but that is where Dr. Richard Michelson, aka MOTU, hails from. Better known as a blues, rock, and jazz guitarist, MOTU also moonlights as a ...