Jazz Articles about Jacob Thompson

About Jacob Thompson

Album Review

It is heartening to hear a new artist coming on strong. Drummer Robert Diack's self-released debut, Lost Villages, placed the artist in the visionary column of jazz artists, as he spotlighted, with an original voice, the concept concerning a series of flooded townships in Southern Ontario, Canada, places put underwater in the 1950s for the creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Diack's sophomore effort, Small Bridges, expresses the artist's tribulations with his relocation from Canada to ...

Album Review

Alisa Amador: Narratives

Read "Narratives" reviewed by Kyle Simpler

by Kyle Simpler
September 25, 2021

Artists frequently discover something about themselves during the process of creation, and Boston-based musician Alisa Amador is no exception. In her case, the songwriting process allows her to investigate her thoughts and feelings until she discovers what the song will be about. With Narratives, she opens up and allows listeners to come into her inner world and experience her joy, vulnerability and strength. Amador was born into a musical family, and pursuing music was never really a choice. ...