Results for "Mike Jacobs"

Peter Epstein Quartet: In Your Voice

by Mike Jacobs
August 18, 2025

It could be said that jazz, at its best, is a confluence of musical personalities that form a unified collective spirit, brought forth with immediacy. Peter Epstein's “In Your Voice" epitomizes this ethos with remarkably empathetic and stylized performances from the saxophonist, Jamie Saft, Chris Dahlgren and Jim Black. This is further amplified by the one-point, ...

Ojos De Brujo: Color

by Mike Jacobs
July 14, 2025

Scott Kinsey: Badia / Boogie Woogie Waltz

by Mike Jacobs
July 12, 2025

Though an edit of this track is included on electric keyboardist extraordinaire Scott Kinsey's Luniwaz Live (Whirlwind Recordings, 2024), this full, unedited version drives home in no uncertain terms just how qualified Kinsey and company are to take on--and further--the Zawinul legacy. Featuring incendiary performances by Kinsey, bassist Hadrien Feraud, drummer Gergo Borlai and saxophonist Patrick ...

Lost Tribe: Calle Siete

by Mike Jacobs
July 6, 2025

Stanton Moore Trio: (Late Night) At The Maple Leaf

by Mike Jacobs
June 18, 2025

Wayne Shorter Quartet: Live At The North Sea Jazz Festival, 1986

by Mike Jacobs
June 17, 2025

Notable for having some of the hottest young musicians of its day--namely Mitchel Forman (Mahavishnu, John Scofield) on keys, Tom Brechtlein (Chick Corea) on drums and Gary Willis (Tribal Tech, Allan Holdsworth) on bass--Wayne Shorter's first post-Weather Report quartet was as short-lived as it was criminally undocumented. If you weren't fortunate enough to have caught this ...

Kneebody: Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist

by Mike Jacobs
April 19, 2025

Mats Öberg Trio - Hermeto's Cheese (Live at Nyhetsmorgon)

by Mike Jacobs
April 12, 2025

Swedish phenom Mats Öberg is primarily known for his Zappa-esque keyboard work as part of the Mats/ Morgan Band (his longtime duo-led group with drummer Morgan Agren). In more recent years, Öberg has taken some solo piano and piano trio-oriented musical departures--the latter taking him more squarely into jazz territory. Witness the Mats Oberg Trio's “Hermeto's ...

Vahe Sarkissian: Sepastia Groove

by Mike Jacobs
April 11, 2025

Dapp Theory: In The Moment

by Mike Jacobs
April 9, 2025