Jazz Articles about Zach McKinney

About Zach McKinney

Album Review

Austin Di Pietro: Live at Mackenzie Hall Jazz

Read "Live at Mackenzie Hall Jazz" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 7, 2026

Trumpeter and composer Austin Di Pietro, whose musical enterprises span the border between Canada and the U.S., leads a hard-working quintet in a concert recorded in July 2025 Live at Mackenzie Hall in Windsor, Ontario, a few stones' throw across the border from Detroit. Di Pietro wrote four of the album's seven numbers, while tenor saxophonist Ryan Bills contributed the rapid-fire “Hangtet" to complement the standard “If I Had You" and Marcus Belgrave's charming finale, “All My Love." ...

Album Review

Joseph Herbst: This is Our Environment

Read "This is Our Environment" reviewed by Josh Deakin

by Josh Deakin
March 11, 2021

Joseph Herbst has released something truly original with This Is Our Environment. The record itself is a complex intertwining of jazz and spoken word that blends together for a beautiful product. The instrumentals keep the spoken word element alive and flowing throughout the record and offers a channel for Herbst to speak out on some important topics. The spoken word comes out as a slam poetry accompaniment to the coffeehouse instrumentals. The verses are powerful, often politically charged ...