Dan Rose’s consummate artistry and superb taste are perfectly served in this set of intimate duets with another remarkable musician, Claudine Francois. They work delicate and tasteful wonders on bold, new originals and pointedly chosen covers and demonstrate how true communication and fine listening can create timeless expression. MORE HERE

The quality about Nate Kahn and his music that immediately appeals is that he’s fluent in the vocabularies of a host of different genres and styles but is pinned down by none of them. One listen to this recording will reveal influences as diverse as Steely Dan, jazz fusion, Lynrd Skynrd, horn-driven funk, blues, ballads, …

A solo guitar hymn to the intimate and lovely romantic songs of yesteryear.  This most inventive and imaginative musician takes on two hands full of standards – “Body And Soul,” ‘Darn That Dream,” “What’s New,” “Moonlight in Vermont,” ‘If I Loved You” and six more – plus a medley of all Ellington tunes and another …

Singer Ayelet Gottlieb and saxophonist Eric Lawrence play a tribute to the latter’s father – the late, extraordinarily influential saxophonist/ teacher Arnie Lawrence – in this specially-priced two-disc set that features a world of instruments played by the leaders and pianist Anat Fort, and vocals and effects by Gottlieb’s children!  The music goes from free …