April 2026 Jazz Record Reviews
Out Of/Into: Motion II; Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Strasbourg 82; Bijan Taghavi: Cactus Sessions.
Music and Recording Reviews
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April 2026 Rock/Pop Record Reviews
Zach Bryan: With Heaven on Top; Counting Crows: Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!; The Damned: Not Like Everybody Else.
March 2026 Rock/Pop Record Reviews
Brandi Carlile: Returning to Myself; Kings Of Leon: EP #2; New York Dolls: New York Dolls; Tyler Childers: Snipe Hunter; Dry Cleaning: Secret Love.
March 2026 Jazz Record Reviews
ill Ware and The Club Bird All Stars: Martian Sunset; JD Allen: Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions); Pat Bianchi: Confluence; Melissa Errico: I Can Dream, Can't I? (Illusions and Conversations from the Great American Songbook); Joel Ross: Gospel Music.
March 2026 Classical Record Reviews
Enescu: Octet, Mendelssohn: Octet, Quatuor Ébène, Belcea Quartet; Unsuk Chin: Unsuk Chin, Ensemble Intercontemporain; Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Concerto For Orchestra, Lebel: The Sediments, Toronto Symphony Orchestra; 25 × 25, Sõ Percussion/
February 2026 Jazz Record Reviews
Billy Hart: Multidirectional; John O'Gallagher: Ancestral; Thomas Strønen's Time Is A Blind Guide: Off Stillness; Peter McEachern Quintet: Streamin'.
February 2026 Classical Record Reviews
M'a dit Amour, Julia Roset, soprano, Susan Manoff, piano; Ravel: Chamber Music, Nash Ensemble; Lalo | Bonis | Debussy | Ravel: Art Nouveau: French Chamber Music Around 1900, Trio Wanderer.
February 2026 Rock/Pop Record Reviews
Salt Collective: A Brief History of Blindness; Geese: Getting Killed; Tame Impala: Deadbeat; Tortoise: Touch.
Brilliant Corners #35: the 2025 Capital Audiofest and a Classic Frank Sinatra Album
"You should come to CAF," Ken Micallef said. He has been saying this for what seems like decades. "It's cool, smaller and more manageable than AXPONA. You'll like it."
January 2026 Classical Record Reviews
Erin Morley & Lawrence Brownlee: Golden Age; Elena Firsova & Dmitri Smirnov: Love And Loss; Ben-Haim: Symphony No.2, Israel Philharmonic/Lahav Shani; Mahler: Symphony No.7, National Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda.