Jazz/Blues
Sonny Rollins is 'Holding The Stage:Road Shows Volume #4' on New Doxy Records Release [REVIEW]
Pianist Louis Heriveaux Has a 'Triadic Episode' on Hot Shoe Records [REVIEW]
Pianist Louis Heriveaux's 'Triadic Episode' (Hot Shoe Records) with drummer Terreon Gully and bassist Curtis Lundy covers Mulgrew Miller ("From Day To Day"), Cole Porter ("Everything I Love"), Johnny Green ("Body and Soul"), Kenny Dorham ("Blue Bossa"), Jerome Kern ("All The Things You Are") as well as trio originals. Ehud Asherie Jams on 'Shuffle Along' (Blue Heron). Somewhere Eubie Blake is Smiling [REVIEW]
'Shuffle Along' (Blue Heron Records) by Ehud Asherie is a gas gas gas. Ehud may look like a rock star but he's an excavator. For his 12th CD, he's excavated the music Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle wrote in 1921 for the first all-Black Broadway musical of the same name. Rather than treat it as a a museum relic, he uses it as the root for his playful experimentations.