Month: February 2016

My greatest memory of 2015 is not of a concert, nor an encounter with a jazz star, but a of panel discussion. A panel discussion, you ask? That’s right, on September 17, 2015 I was wandering the grounds of the Monterey Jazz Festival, which I hadn’t visited in twenty-five years. Marching all around me were […]

Claire Ritter, Deanna Witkowski and Janice Friedman are not household names on the piano jazz circuit. But like the best ingredients, their taste and intrigue far outshines their notoriety. In late 2014 and 2015, each released a recording worthy of “top ten” status as well as repeated listening. Once a student of Mary Lou Williams […]