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     Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyAfter appearing on a number of universally acclaimed jazz recordings last year, including those by Jazzmeia Horn, Charles Tolliver, and Gregory Tardy, multi-faceted pianist, composer and arranger Keith Brown fulfills a long-held artistic vision on “African Ripples.” The music, Brown explains, “was composed and collected to convey my … Continue reading

13 March 2021 Brian Charette thinks like a jazz organist and like a rock and roll lover, both, so his latest recording for his four-woodwind sextet testifies. On the one hand, Charette’s latest release,  Power from the Air, is a classic jazz organ session, with Charette’s Hammond B3 swelling, shimmering, and providing the bass lines as it grooves with drummer Brian Fishler, saxophone solos riding on top. The grooves are powerful and swinging—you can tell that Charette has never skimped o...