Jazz Articles about Victor Provost

About Victor Provost

Album Review

Dwayne Dolphin: Let the Music Play

Read "Let the Music Play" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 3, 2026

Bassist Dwayne Dolphin, less than happy with the jazz he was hearing in person or on the radio, set out to simply Let the Music Play on an album whose happy vibe, he hoped, would rekindle “the spirit of jazz" that he remembered growing up with in his native Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. While “happy" is an intuitive concept that rests in the ears of the beholder, there is no doubt that nearly every theme on Dolphin's latest album swings.

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Jazz from the US Virgin Islands' new breed

by Nigel Campbell
November 4, 2017

September 2017 was a horrible month for the US Virgin Islands (USVI). As the New York Times wrote, “In the Virgin Islands, Hurricane Maria Drowned What Irma Didn't Destroy." We should not forget that from these isles, a pool of talent has created music that has endured, survived, and influenced. Music writers and researchers have investigated the interrelationship between the mainland and the Virgin Islands jazz scenes to conclude that they have “a fundamental mutual relationship: the American jazz scene ...