As this listener awaited the dynamic duo to start their set, an employee informed us that the Winter Jazz Club was a “listening room”, and that they wanted to keep it that way. Dimly lit, with four grounding columns…

Laurence Hobgood Trio: "Honor Thy Fathers" (Circumstantial): 

Pianist Hobgood pays homage to his "musical fathers" — including Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans and Nat King Cole — and in so doing achieves some of the finest playing of an…

HOWARD REICH | OCT 10, 2015

Pianist Laurence Hobgood will be making a significant statement in 2016.  That's when his newest recording, "Honor Thy Fathers," will be released, but Chicago listeners who crowded the Green Mill Jazz Club…

December 10, 2013 | Howard Reich 

Laurence Hobgood is one of many musicians with new recordings for the holidays.

Christmas recordings often yield unbearable treacle when it comes to jazz and standards, but this year happens to be an…

Robert Pinsky, arguably America’s greatest living poet and the only one in history to serve three terms as U.S. Poet Laureate, has maintained a lifelong appreciation for jazz that is evident throughout much of his writing, though never…