Smoke Sessions Records
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
The venerable trombonist’s fine new album mostly contains ballads and features an all-star rhythm section.
There are no missteps on this disc. Buster Williams and company make all the complications swing, mightily.
Arts Remembrance: Sonny Rollins, Jazz’s ‘Saxophone Colossus,’ Dies at 95