Jazz Articles about Leonardo Lucini

About Leonardo Lucini

Album Review

Heather McKay: Life Got in the Way

Read "Life Got in the Way" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 15, 2025

Guitarist Heather McKay, who has performed with artists in a variety of styes from Latin jazz to rock, rhythm and blues to Afro- Caribbean, even Persian music and beyond in a career that has spanned more than twenty-five years and counting, provides a rationale for writing every song (save one) on her debut recording, Life Got in the Way. But she does not say why she chose the album's name. The presumption is that she has been far too busy ...

Album Review

Alan Schulman: AS IS: O Holy NIght

Read "AS IS: O Holy NIght" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
December 17, 2021

The jazz ensemble AS IS is cleverly made up of husband and wife Alan Schulman (guitar) and Stacey Schuleman (vocals) with a historically fluid remainder of the band. The pair have two previous self-produced releases: A Love Like Ours (2017) and Here's To Life (2018). The two artists return in this holiday season with a provacative reading of the French Carol “O Holy Night." With a fearless abandon, the two plop the chilly and ancient carol squarely into ...