Chris serves as Senior Editor for AllAboutJazz and served as the Jazz Voice for the ConcordMusicGroup from 2007 to 2013.
Joined March 2014
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Color Red Records: A Label, Sound, and Vision article @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/color-red-r…
Cannot recommend this band's artistry and soul, musically and lyrically, highly enough. If Downbeat awarded eight stars, NoteSpeak 12 would have received eight. PLEASE HAVE A LISTEN!
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Thx @RonKadish: Bassist Quinn Sternberg paints a dreamy portrait of a languid summer evening at home full of snoozing dogs, meandering cats and the natural summer serenade of its title track: Quinn Sternberg: Cicada Songs @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/cicada-song…
With no chord instruments between them and three saxophonists, bassist Mike Downes and drummer Stich Wynston move like madmen to keep @ShuffleDemons moving, and simultaneously swing and rock #AllIn hot as demons: Shuffle Demons: All In @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/all-in-shuf…
Enormous and sprawling w/ten pieces, most never recorded before and several never performed again, of glorious jazz sound from Brazilian composer and sorcerer @PascoalHermeto (@FarOutRecs) Hermeto Pascoal: Planetario Da Gavea @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/planetario-…
"Wedding on the Cyclone" is a perfect fit and description, a marriage made up of different musical cultures whirled together by @DavidKrakauer @kathleentagg w/guitarist Yoshi Fruchter: Mazel Tov Cocktail Party! @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/mazel-tov-c…
Recorded live in the studio w/ bassist Paul McDaniel and percussionist/pianist Matt Mayhall helping @davedevinejr paint dreamy sonic landscapes of various moods and hues: Dave Devine: Played Against The Harmony Of The Real @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/played-agai…
Writers often want to make great music sound more complicated than excellent tunes swung with power and grace. But sometimes it really is that simple. This is an absolute joy: @AlexanderBirdy: You Are the Light and the Way @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/you-are-the…
A Christmas fire in the heart(h), Changing Tides (@iridium_records) revisits with warmth and light music that @christrinidad composed in the Advent season and its spirit of "expectant waiting": Chris Trinidad's Changing Tides album review @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/chris-trini…
Blues sound foundational on #Loguslabusmuzikus (@effendirecords) but in the way that @Mingus used the blues: for tone and content but not (bar) structure: JazzLab Orchestra: Loguslabusmuzikus album review @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/loguslabusm…
Keyboard, Chapman stick and guitar doctor Dave Hartl contemplates thru the pandemic and emerges w/the stylistically kaleidoscopic and careening "Tales of the Plague" - an absolute monster! Dave Hartl: "Tales from the Plague" album review @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/tales-from-…
"Forever" blends intricacies of form and structure (European, Latin American, Caribbean) with emotional blues, elation and release: Great jazz from @extremeflute, #BillMcBirnie and friends: Forever album review @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/forever-bil…
#SeriouslyDeep (@moonjune) sounds too powerful & beautiful to mainly come from a trio: #Beledo with @KennyGrohowski and @tonylevin. More than beautiful: Good for getting (back) in touch with your soul: Beledo: Seriously Deep album review @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/seriously-d…
#Distancia (@OdradekRecords) presents a unique travelogue w/#RodrigoAlmonte's Dublin home and shimmering sonic similarities w/guitarists @PatMetheny and #TerjeRypdal as epicenter: Rodrigo Almonte: Distancia review @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/distancia-r…
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We are so sad to hear of music legend Jerry Granelli's passing. Our Elementary Choir was blessed to perform with and learn from him as part of @HFXJazzFest Tales of a Charlie Brown Christmas. His genius and humanity will be sorely missed. #MySHSH #JerryGranelli #musiclegend
#NewVideo #TalkinJazz #FromTheInsideOut seeks and finds #TheCallWithin,
shapeshifting sonics from @tigranmusic on @NonesuchRecords (w/thanks to @AllAboutJazz): Talkin' Jazz From the Inside Out: Tigran Hamasyan - The Call Within youtu.be/VvJgdfm3GCA via @YouTube
#NewVideo #TalkinJazz #FromTheInsideOut: Hot Stuffed & Baked: #SoftMachine Live at @BakedPotatoJazz on @MoonJune (w/thanks to @AllAboutJazz): Talkin' Jazz From the Inside Out: Soft Machine - Live At The Baked Potato youtu.be/KmyO9p8WWP8 via @YouTube
#NewVideo #TalkinJazz #FromTheInsideOut discovers a "love story between Spanish guitar and African drum" thru #LigaLatina on #MultinationMusic (w/thanks to @AllAboutJazz): Liga Latina: Liga Latina album review @ All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/liga-latina…
#NewVideo #TalkinJazz #FromTheInsideOut goes far and further out w/the Discovery Project Live in Japan by @nelsonpiano Josh Nelson Trio (w/thanks to @Michael_BloomMR & @AllAboutJazz) : Josh Nelson Trio: The Discovery Project youtu.be/0OR2xBfNydI via @YouTube
Please read and "heart" this story of my #VaccineChamp friend and #ShareTheScience healthyeconomies.wixsite.com…
