Jazz Articles about Charlie Halloran

About Charlie Halloran

Album Review

Burgamy-Hancock New Originators: Down in Honky Tonk Town

Read "Down in Honky Tonk Town" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 13, 2026

Most longtime jazz fans are well aware of what transpires Down in Honky Tonk Town: lively, high-stepping close- quarters classic jazz with a spicy New Orleans flavor. And that is precisely what banjoist Hunter Burgamy, cornetist Colin Hancock and the New Originators deliver on their bright and swinging debut recording for Turtle Bay Records. This is music designed to set toes tapping and bodies dancing as the New Originators nonet mirrors the rigorous and razor-sharp ensemble work and ...

Album Review

Jon Cleary: The Bywater Sessions

Read "The Bywater Sessions" reviewed by Thomas Cole

by Thomas Cole
May 28, 2025

Interviewed on WWNO in New Orleans, when asked what has inspired his The Bywater Sessions album (and it is an album as the traditional vinyl format is available), the response was simple. Musicians from New Orleans thrive on live performances and, too often for one reason or another, the CDs sold at gigs do not reflect the one-off ambiance of a live performance that, by its very nature, immediately disappears into the ether. Cleary's goal was to produce a recording ...