whirlwind recordings

Spanish Pianist Marta Sanchez Faces Grief and Generates Beauty with Her New York Quintet

Spanish Pianist Marta Sanchez Faces Grief and Generates Beauty with Her New York Quintet

Marta Sanchez’s SAAM (Spanish American Art Museum) is powerful without ever being loud, Spanish and American, complicated in its construction but clear as can be in its emotional power.

Walter Smith III and Matthew Stevens Make New Jazz So Easy to Love on ‘In Common 2’

Walter Smith III and Matthew Stevens Make New Jazz So Easy to Love on ‘In Common 2’

Two of the top players in modern jazz make the second in a sequence of quintet recordings that presents jazz as unusually easy to love even as it maintains modern complexity.