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Album Review

John Shannon: A Day In Tarifa

Read "A Day In Tarifa" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
August 10, 2026

Pittsburgh guitarist John Shannon began playing at age six, was performing around his hometown by his high school years, and has been recording with a variety of acoustic, rock and film music projects since 2008. A Day in Tarifa is his debut jazz album, and it lands firmly in the tradition, with a diverse and beguiling set of original tunes performed by an outstanding trio including Cliff Barnes on organ and James Johnson III on drums. The song titles and ...

Album Review

Ahmad Jamal: Ballades

Read "Ballades" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
December 5, 2019

None other than Miles Davis cited Ahmad Jamal (born 1930) as a stylistic influence. So, as he was approaching his ninetieth birthday, what did this vibrant upstart do to further shake things up? He released his first ever solo album which isn't really a solo album because on three of the exemplarily graceful tracks on Ballades, Jamal duets with his longtime bassist James Cammack. That is what he did. And what we're going to do is sit back ...

Album Review

Ahmad Jamal: Ballades

Read "Ballades" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
September 5, 2019

At 89, Ahmad Jamal remains a master of space, time, openness and poetics. Never one to add too much, yet always one to mine a song for all its rich natural flavors, Jamal is an artist whose work speaks with a direct and engaging sweep. His early trio classics became a model of sorts, inspiring Miles Davis and many others, and his latter day, percussion-laced combo dates carry elegance and some swagger in their DNA. Now, showing us that he ...