Review of the day by Scott Yanow: Jeanfrançois Prins - El Gaucho
Jeanfrancois Prins is a versatile and consistently creative jazz guitarist. His quiet sound and harmonically advanced playing recalls Jim Hall a bit while his Belgium heritage finds him hinting at times at Django Reinhardt. While he has contributed to the music of many other jazz greats (including his wife singer ...
Review of the day by Scott Yanow: Stefan Schmid - exTENded
Stefan Karl Schmid is a young and talented tenor-saxophonist, soprano-saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist, arranger and composer. 26 at the time of this 2010 recording, he had studied at the Manhattan School of Music, earned a Masters in Jazz composition at the University of Cologne, and recorded with several groups as a ...