Jazz Articles about Josh Allen

About Josh Allen

Album Review

Negroni's Trio: Esperanzas / Hopes

Read "Esperanzas / Hopes" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
March 8, 2022

The three-time Latin Grammy-nominated group Negroni's Trio unveils their eleventh album titled Esperanzas / Hope, offering a host of consistently bright and sizzling Latin rhythms over vocals and augmented instrumentals featuring other players all on a pallet of six originals and three cover songs. Considered one of the finest trio bands on the jazz landscape today, the group is led by Puerto Rican pianist Jose Negroni with son Nomar Negroni on the drums and young bassist extraordinaire Josh Allen rounding ...

Album Review

Nicholas Brust: Frozen In Time

Read "Frozen In Time" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
November 19, 2020

Want to hear somebody who means business? Just listen to Nicholas Brust deftly drive through Frozen In Time's opener, “Work Ahead." That initial offering on this, the alto saxophonist's full-length debut, explores the travails and triumphs of breaking into the jazz world in New York. Judging by the way Brust burns, flows and blows the doors wide open with his playing, it would seem that he is making significant inroads in that area. An Eastman and New ...