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Album Review

Betty Bryant: Lotta Livin'

Read "Lotta Livin'" reviewed by Jack Bowers


First, double-check to make sure there aren't any misprints. No, it's an honest-to-goodness fact that Betty Bryant--who sings, plays piano, wrote four of the nine numbers and arranged half a dozen on her fourteenth album--really was almost ninety-four years old when Lotta Livin' was recorded in 2023. Bryant's rough and edgy voice is remarkably strong and steady, while her piano playing simply defies any generational labels. As a vocalist, no note seems out of her reach, and ...

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Album Review

Matt Barber: The Song Is You

Read "The Song Is You" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Matt Barber is a pretty good singer: pleasant voice, decent range, fair sense of swing, healthy respect for a lyric. On his seventh album, The Song Is You, Barber has chosen to revisit a number of evergreens from the Great American Songbook and placed himself in a variety of musical settings designed to enhance the experience. A couple of those songs ("Oh! Look at Me Now," “You Make Me Feel So Young") were closely associated with the ...

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In Pictures

Mid-Century Modern Jazz Illustrations

Read "Mid-Century Modern Jazz Illustrations" reviewed by Tony Guerrero


Drawing was a part of my world long before music (I wanted to be a cartoonist as a young kid) but I've only recently rediscovered it as something I genuinely love. It has become a fulfilling creative outlet and a way for me to combine my musical sensibilities with my love of Mid-Century Modern design and illustration. A note about one of the images: Around 1990-91, I had a few single-panel cartoons published in Contemporary Jazz Review, a ...


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