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Volcano Radar ft. Paquito D’Rivera – Paquito Libre
Volcano Radar ft. Paquito D’Rivera – Paquito Libre Delmark DE 5028 “Paquito D’Rivera is both as free and as embedded as can be with Volcano Radar, the explosive, expansive, radiant electro-acoustic ensemble, co-led by multi-instrumentalist Elbio Barilari and guitarist/synthesist Julia A. Miller. Keyboardist Darwin Noguera, bassist Rollo Radford and drummer Ernie Adams collaborate in the…

Lurrie Bell & The Bell Dynasty – Tribute To Carey Bell
Lurrie Bell & The Bell Dynasty – Tribute To Carey Bell Delmark 855 With special guests Charlie Musselwhite & Billy Branch! It’s almost 50 years since blues harp-master Carey Bell released his debut album on Delmark Records. Carey’s children followed him into blues and performed with him often while growing up. Lurrie’s debut recording was…

Geof Bradfield – Yes, and… Music for Nine Improvisors
Geof Bradfield – Yes, and… Music for Nine Improvisors Delmark DE 5027 Chicago saxophonist/composer Geof Bradfield’s Delmark Records debut brings together nine individual and vital artists from the Chicago and New York jazz scenes in Bradfield’s new multi-movement work Yes, and…Music for Nine Improvisers. Howard Reich wrote in the Chicago Tribune of the premier, “The…

Breezy Rodio – Sometimes The Blues Got Me
Breezy Rodio – Sometimes The Blues Got Me Delmark DE 853 Sometimes The Blues Got Me is Breezy Rodio’s debut album for Delmark Records. A review of Breezy’s self-produced 2015 release So Close To It said “Breezy Rodio absolutely smokes through this highly enjoyable mix of originals and covers. He has it all; the voice,…

Rockwell Avenue Blues Band – Back To Chicago
Rockwell Avenue Blues Band – Back To Chicago Delmark 854 Featuring Tad Robinson, Steve Freund, & Ken Saydak The members of the Rockwell Avenue Blues Band have each achieved successes achieved over long parallel careers, but there was some unfinished business to attend to. Longtime bonds, which sometimes elude conscious recognition, drew them to Delmark’s…

Tribute: Delmark’s 65th Anniversary
Tribute: Delmark’s 65th Anniversary Delmark 856 Newly recorded blues celebration of Delmark’s 65th Anniversary Tribute features Delmark’s current roster of artists paying tribute to founder Bob Koester and artists that recorded for the label in the 1960s and 70s. Jimmy Johnson & Dave Specter pay tribute to Magic Sam. Omar Coleman pays tribute to Junior…

Paul Giallorenzo Trio – Flow
Paul Giallorenzo – Flow Delmark 5026 For his second Delmark release, pianist and composer Paul Giallorenzo does more with less, assembling a classic piano trio backed by masters of jazz minimalism, Joshua Abrams and Mikel Patrick Avery. The writing?s not sparse: there are notes on notes, hummable heads, surprising solos, and a harmonic conception of…

Art Hodes – Hodes’ Art
Art Hodes – Hodes’ Art Delmark DD 213 (1994) Compact Disc If you’re a blues fan looking for a good jazz album, Hodes’ Art is it. Art Hodes’ jazz is drenched with the blues. In the 40s he did gigs with Cow Cow Davenport, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Champion Dupree, and others long before there…