Jazz Articles about Josh Collazo

About Josh Collazo

Album Review

Not everyone was fortunate enough--or long lived enough--to have been around for the glory days of Benny Goodman's 1937 band, with a young Martha Tilton singing songs she barely knew, and scared to death of Benny as well. But the Liltin' Miss Tilton was plenty talented, and she made a big impression soon enough. And if a listener just moved the dial a bit, Connee Boswell or Lee Wiley could be found too. They were spectacularly good singers: great phrasing, ...

Album Review

Phi-Psonics: Expanding to One

Read "Expanding to One" reviewed by Andrew Hunter

by Andrew Hunter
May 21, 2025

Expanding to One, Phi-Psonics' third album, was recorded over six live sessions in front of a small audience in a record shop in Pasadena, with the core quartet of Seth Ford-Young (leader and bass), Josh Collazo (drums) Sylvain Carton (sax and flute) and Randal Fisher (sax) supplemented by 11 additional musicians including Jay Bellrose (recently heard playing with the Jeff Parker IVtet). The tracks they recorded over those dates, and which now make up the four sides of double LP ...