This is my favorite album by Earth, Wind and Fire. It was the first album where the group featured a full sound: band, horns, strings, orchestrations, production, etc. It also features my favorite vocal moments by Maurice White: “Shining Star,” “That’s the Way of the World,” and my personal favorite,[…]

Herbie Hancock is one of my favorite jazz pianists. He’s played with a lot of artists such as Miles Davis and Stevie Wonder. My introduction to him was through his improvisations in “As” from Stevie’s Songs In The Key Of Life. This is my favorite acoustic piano driven album of[…]

This album is my favorite from one of the more current progressive bands who started out in the 1990’s. For me, this album, along with the next pop driven conceptual album, Snow, are my favorite in the Neal Morse era of the band. Ryo Okumoto played a lot of the[…]

This is my favorite organ and piano driven album in the ELP discography. After my mom bought me a Best Of E.L.P. compilation, I was curious to check out the actual albums. After talking with a friend of ours, we started off with Brain Salad Surgery, because it had the[…]

I thought I’d like to share with you one of my favorite contemporary jazz female composers and vocalists. This is one of my favorite albums of Esperanza’s (when she was in her acoustic phase.) I first heard Esperanza at the Hollywood Bowl at a jazz festival with my dad and[…]