Jim Czak

Just as when we listen to Harry Connick, Jr., there's a sense that John Pizzarelli is an old soul who is living back in the 1940s and '50s golden age of music and that listeners are [more]

Beatles fans love to explain that the key to the successful partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney was their contrasting songwriting personalities -- Lennon was the [more]

Everything I Need is an album of hip music by two of America's hippest composers (and performers), Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough, recorded [more]

Trombonist Gordon is one of the most promising young jazz trombonists. Another out of the Wynton Marsalis groups to emerge as a leader, Gordon is joined by other top modern [more]

Armed with a music degree from Maryland University, instruction from the eminent Dr. William Felder at Rutgers University, and the experience of recording sessions with groups [more]

This album might be subtitled "Frank Vignola Plays the Music of Joe Ascione," as six of the tunes were penned by the talented drummer. Others in the group who collect royalties by [more]

This highly spirited jazz/big band vocal project should be a prime inspiration to those who believe in the adage "better late than never." The Detroit-born singer and pianist [more]

Eighty-three year old clarinetist Buddy DeFranco recorded this pleasantly solid and well-executed mainstream jazz album in December 2006 in the company of trumpeter Lew Soloff, [more]