Arianna Neikrug’s August 24, 2018 “Changes” album
debuts a singer with enormous talents, which bodes well
for the future of jazz and pop music in America.
By Danny R. Johnson – Jazz and Pop Music Critic
LOS…
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Winter’s Jazz Club Presents REVIEW: The Two of Us: Rhiannon & Laurence Hobgood – Raw Masters At Play
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…
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Ten Best Jazz CDs 2016
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…
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Electrifying sneak peek at bold new music
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…
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New Jazz Recordings for Christmas
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…
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Robert Pinsky & Laurence Hobgood: Poemjazz
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…
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