Featured: Top of Home Page/Music/Reviews Tayuka Kuroda: Rising Son By Will Layman / 17 February 2014 A soul-jazz Blue Note debut for Jose James's trumpet man. Tasty if somewhat samey.
Culture/Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Music How Can a Listener Ignore the Influence of the Market on the Beautiful Art of Jazz? By Will Layman / 31 January 2014 Some will tar a record with being “commercial” due to preset notions of what one might think an artist should be doing, rather than listening for what he actually is doing.