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Jake Sherman

Born in Boston, Jake Sherman learned classical piano by listening to his father play Bach every morning. If not for an intervention—stumbling upon the catalog of Weird Al Yankovic at 11 years old—he would have followed in his father’s path or perhaps become a jazz purist. But Weird Al changed everything. Jake started a parody band and sang his newly-written lyrics to classics like “All Star” by Smashmouth and “Men in Black” by Will Smith, along with composing new family classics such as “Amy, You’re Turning 49” and “Charles, Charles Sherman.”

Fast forward some years beyond his time studying at Berklee College of Music and it’s clear Jake has found a way to combine his appreciation of great songwriting with his piano/organ-playing prowess

The Guesthouse

By Shai Maestro

Label: Naive
Released: 2026
Track listing: The Time Bender; Nature Boy; Gloria; Moon Of Knives; Strange Magic; Refuge; GG's Metamorphosis; Sleepwalking Roses; A Little Thank You Note; The Lion And Me; The Guesthouse's Old Piano.

Meshell Ndegeocello at the Newman Center

by Geoff Anderson
February 24, 2026

Meshell Ndegeocello Newman Center Denver, CO February 13, 2026 Protest music has a long history in the United States. It often ebbs and flows depending on the political temperature of the moment. The '60s were a fertile time for such music owing to the twin upheavals of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam ...

Meshell Ndegeocello at SFJAZZ Center

by Harry S. Pariser
February 2, 2025

Meshell Ndegeocello No More Water: The Gospel Of James Baldwin SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA January 17, 2025 The works and courageous career of writer and novelist James Baldwin (August 2, 1924--December 1, 1987) had an immense impact on many people. One of them is bassist and songwriter/composer Meshell ...

À Fleur de Peau

By Cyrille Aimée

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Beautiful Way; Again Again; For the Love of You; Inside and Out; Yo Soy Diosa; Back to You; Feel What I Feel; Here; Ma Préférence; Historia de Amor.

Cyrille Aimée: Music Flows From Within

by Scott Lichtman
April 9, 2024

Renowned vocalist Cyrille Aimée possesses a wholly unique sound. Certainly, it is based on her voice timbre but also reflects her approach to music. She is equally adept at jazz standards and pop-jazz. She can swing and scat on cue, then shift to high tech sound loops. Songs in English, French and Spanish are delivered with ...

Cyrille Aimée: À Fleur de Peau

by Katchie Cartwright
April 7, 2024

Like other parts of Cyrille Aimée's musical journey (her time spent learning “gypsy jazz" with Manouche Romani people in Samois-sur-Seine, for example), À Fleur de Peau (Hypersensitive) has an engaging tale attached. In 2018, on a visit to the Costa Rican jungle at a pivotal moment in her personal life, Aimée was inspired to write “Inside ...

Jake Sherman Gets Sexy

by Leo Sidran
March 28, 2022

Jake Sherman is everywhere at once and yet somehow maintains a certain air of mystery. There he is singing romantic '80s inspired jams. Here he comes making a jazz Hammond organ record at Dizzy's Club and jamming with Larry Goldings. Don't look now but he's hanging out in LA with his friends in Scary Pockets, or ...

Ralph Peterson: ALIVE at Firehouse12 Vol. 1 - The Unity Project

by Steve Bryant
July 16, 2013

Drummer/composer/bandleader Ralph Peterson has got to be one of the hardest working men in jazz today. He seems to drop a new CD every few months, and the kicker is that the theme and product are markedly different than his previous efforts. In addition, he changes lineups like guys change socks. The band on ALIVE At ...