basia - IT'S THAT GIRL AGAIN
We are just so pleased she's back bringing us jazzed up pop music that doesn't sound like it was manufactured by bean counters to fit the specifications of a focus group's consensus. This is beautifully crafted, lyrically inventive music that sounds like nothing else out there. And that voice! More clear and pure than ever and able to glide effortlessly over the fastest grooves and shift from high to low without losing a beat.

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joyce cooling - GLOBAL COOLING
Joyce Cooling has been entertaining us for decades.  It’s her infectious rhythms, attractive melodies, and oh-so-cool grooves that keep us coming back album after album, year after year.  Now her 7th new CD, Global Cooling,  lives up to and exceeds what we’ve come to expect and, bonus, takes us for a very hip trip around the world and into her heart’s core, exploring the ideologies that make Cooling tick.  In my opinion, this is one of Joyce Cooling’s most creative, intriguing, and musically exotic albums ever. 

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craig chaquico - FOLLOW THE SUN
Hearing Follow The Sun for the first time is almost a sonic shock, especially if you listen to a lot of more traditional smooth jazz CDs and have gotten used to a studio oriented producer driven sound. This one sounds like a live band jamming in a club on a very hot night and has very little in the way of technological bells and whistles. The most noticeable thing here is that he has continued to add more types of guitar sounds, keyboard textures and horn arrangements to the music. There is a strong Latin influence, especially on the first two songs, and the whole album has this loose, open, almost jam-band type vibe. The songs stretch out around a lot of rhythmic and textural shifts with melody lines weaving in and out of stretches of improvisation. These songs don't work on the 10-second intro test either. A lot of them start out with deceptively simple straight melody lines then go off in fascinating directions.

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