It took Tinsley Ellis 40 years to get around to it, but, for his 21st album, the blues singer-songwriter and guitarist—who long ago established himself as one of the consummate badasses of the genre—has made a solo acoustic album. Naked Truth is the perfect title for it too because Ellis, who has never resorted to […]
Maximum Swing is the sixth collection of previously unreleased material by the groundbreaking jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery to be issued by the indie Resonance Records—the campaign was launched in 2012 with Echoes of Indiana Avenue and has yet to run out of gas. This newest entry serves as something of a companion piece to two […]
Marco Benevento and his trio sound right at home on Barn Burner: Live at Levon’s, his second live release from Woodstock, N.Y., where he’s lived for more than a decade. For the better part of that decade, Benevento’s trio has included talented and energetic bassist Karina Rykman, who in 2019 connected Benevento with her bandmate, […]
