Fay Victor Puts Jazz Pianist Herbie Nichols in Today’s Vanguard
This is Fay Victor’s best recording to date because it looks at a past great composer and reimagines that tradition as part of jazz music’s daring vanguard.
Herbie Nichols
Bill Charlap’s Jazz Trio Elevates Tradition with Subtle Wonder
Bill Charlap is not so much leading a neo-traditionalism movement as he is playing a traditional style well—and with as much nuanced artfulness—as anyone in his generation.