Jazz Articles about Seth Finch

James Suggs: For All We Know

by Jack Bowers
November 4, 2025

Every bandleader who enters a recording studio presumably does so with a specific game plan either in hand or in mind. And as is true of any idea, some outcomes are better than others. James Suggs, a splendid trumpeter, has enlisted several able sidemen for support on his second album as leader, For All We Know. What he has not done--surely unwittingly--is develop a blueprint whose parts are better than average, and in some cases, it must be conceded, less ...