Jazz Articles about Neil Gray

About Neil Gray

Album Review

Neil Gray's In The Streets is a drummer-led session that, in its traditional sense, understands the purpose of records: to document a working conception of jazz rooted in lineage, discipline, and shared memory. Seven of the eight tracks were composed by Gray and serve as portraits of people, places, and moments, conceived not as abstractions but as lived experiences. The only cover is Cole Porter's well-known standard “Night and Day." The musicians here are fluent in bebop and hard bop, ...

Album Review

Neil Gray: In the Streets

Read "In the Streets" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
December 13, 2025

Saxophonist Cory Weeds, ever the entrepreneur, has never been one to let a clear opportunity raise his antenna without a response. When Weeds spots a promising jazz musician--especially one from his native Canada--he has been known to make the sort of proposal that is all but impossible to refuse. For example, Weeds may say he will produce the artist's next album, provide a recording venue, release the finished product on his Cellar Music Group label and even join the ensemble ...