Westerlies Records, February 2024 BY PAUL DE BARROS Back when Washington Middle School trumpeter Riley Mulherkar announced himself to the world one afternoon in Bellevue with a crackerjack solo on Duke Ellington’s “The Mooche,” it seemed like a good bet he was a...
Vital Flame Productions, May 2024 BY AKSHAJ TUREBYLU Fourth time’s a charm: Nancy Erickson Lamont recently released her fourth album — her first of all originals — Through the Passages. Lamont’s authorial voice shines as much as her physical, chronicling in scats as...
Sundazed Music, March 2024 BY PAUL DE BARROS The dazzling, Baltimore-raised pianist Jessica Williams moved to Seattle from California in 1991, and while she stayed only a couple of years, she returned to the Northwest often and spent her last years in Yakima, where...
OA2 Records, January 2024 BY AKSHAJ TUREBYLU Francesco Crosara’s recent release from OA2 Records, Circular Motion, vamps and revamps a curation of the jazz pianist’s repertoire—a set of ten pieces taken from a forty-year career. Backing comes from three different...
January 2024, Right Brain Records BY PETER GRAHAM Seattle drummer and improvised music scene veteran Don Berman’s latest record, Threshold, presents his vision of a 21st-century string quartet. While retaining a cello (Heather Bentley), the usual two violins and viola...
