PI Recordings

Jazz CD Review: The Art Ensemble of Chicago — Still Out on the Edge

Amid the continual flood of new jazz releases, this anniversary bash is one to be savored.

Thomas Garvey June 25, 2019 at 1:29 pm on Theater Commentary: An Open Letter — to the “Open Letter”For what it's worth, the Norton Awards HAVE been parsed with almost surgical precision to "under-served" groups of late. The...
Terry June 24, 2019 at 3:01 pm on Music Review: Dead & Company — Rethinking the Grateful Dead LegacyThanks for the well informed And well crafted review
Pierce June 24, 2019 at 12:54 pm on Book Review: Napoleon — Savior or Hitler?Napoleon Bonaparte was certainly not a proto-Hitler. He was Napoleon Bonaparte. A brilliant military and political tactician, but a poor...
Jonson Lee June 23, 2019 at 4:33 pm on Jazz Commentary Drill Down: Dave Brubeck’s “Elementals”"...but room has to be made for a Eugene Wright bass solo, which is almost drowned out by the orchestra....
Steve Provizer June 21, 2019 at 5:32 pm on Jazz Commentary: Jazz and the Single Trumpet PlayerRich-Thanks for the comment. In terms of Chet, you seem to be pulling against the truism that there's no such...