Blake Aaron – Soul Stories

Let’s start out with the bottom line. I love this album. Guitarist Blake Aaron’s Soul Stories has already delivered three hit songs and every song on here has the same…

6th Annual Lake Arbor Jazz Festival

Prince George’s County Cultural Arts Foundation presents the 6th Annual Lake Arbor Jazz Festival on the grounds of the Lake Arbor Community Center in Mitchellville, MD. Events begin the evening…

Boney James – A Conversation About FutureSoul

SV: 23 years and 15 albums if you count the collaboration with Rick Braun and the seasonal projects, which we do because people loved them. Other people have come and…

2015 Potomac Jazz & Seafood Festival

  Information is posted for the 2015 Potomac Jazz & Seafood Festival in St. Mary’s County, MD at Colton’s Point.  The festival will be held on Saturday July 11, 2015….

Bob James Quartet @ The Birchmere

Nowadays, most people, when they think of Bob James, they think of him in context of the super group, Fourplay, of which he is a founding member. And that’s fine,…

Red – Nelson Rangell

It’s like this. It took my breath away from the minute I hit play on track 1. This beautiful keyboard line that holds a promise that unfolds over 10 fabulous…

Brian Culbertson Live – 20th Anniversary Tour

Live has always been better from my point of view. No matter what the genre musicians stretch out more when they get on stage in front of a crowd. The…

Old Friends: A Conversation With Al Jarreau

There is a spirit inside Al Jarreau’s latest album, “My Old Friend: Celebrating George Duke “ that shows up with every note created by Jarreau and the gifted group of…

Marcus Miller’s Afrodeezia 3/17

Marcus Miller has always been one of our most innovative and forward thinking artists and he is exploring new territory again with his Blue Note Records debut Afrodeezia, to be…

Bill Heller

Bill Heller If you’re a Rippingtons fan, then you already know the name Bill Heller, long time keyboardist for the pioneering smooth jazz group.  Over the years, you’ve heard him…