Jazz Album Review

Jazz artists from around the world invariably come to NYC to perform, study, and often move here. Recent releases highlight these musicians.

Hollywood has an enduring ethnic stereotype of Italian men as frustrated opera singers.

“Belleville,” recorded live at the title Oslo jazz club and the Drammen Theatre, launches with Andersen’s ambitious four-part suite.

The kora might be somewhat exotic, but is not unheard of in jazz contexts, having been featured on sessions led by Randy Weston and Herbie Hancock, among others.

Jazz artists from around the world invariably come to NYC to perform, study, and often move here. Recent releases highlight these musicians.

Hollywood has an enduring ethnic stereotype of Italian men as frustrated opera singers.

“Belleville,” recorded live at the title Oslo jazz club and the Drammen Theatre, launches with Andersen’s ambitious four-part suite.

The kora might be somewhat exotic, but is not unheard of in jazz contexts, having been featured on sessions led by Randy Weston and Herbie Hancock, among others.