All About Jazz — One For All Return Of The Lineup (Sharp Nine) The Blue Note 7 Mosaic: A Celebration Of Blue Note Records (Blue Note) Diana Krall Quiet Nights (Verve) Allen Toussaint The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch) Stanley Clarke Jazz In The Garden (Heads Up) ... more info

All About Jazz — Dr. Lonnie Smith Rise Up! (Palmetto) Diana Krall Quiet Nights (Verve) Sean Jones The Search Within (Mack Avenue) The Blue Note 7 Mosaic: A Celebration Of Blue Note Records (Blue Note) 'Papa' John DeFrancesco Big Shot (Savant) Branford Marsalis ... more info

All About Jazz — Dr. Lonnie Smith Rise Up! (Palmetto) Diana Krall Quiet Nights (Verve) The Blue Note 7 Mosaic: A Celebration Of Blue Note Records (Blue Note) Sean Jones The Search Within (Mack Avenue) Benny Golson New Time, New 'Tet (Concord) The Clayton Brother... more info

All About Jazz — Dr. Lonnie Smith Rise Up! (Palmetto) Diana Krall Quiet Nights (Verve) Benny Golson New Time, New 'Tet (Concord) Branford Marsalis Metamorphosen (Marsalis Music) The Blue Note 7 Mosaic: A Celebration Of Blue Note Records (Blue Note) Michael Wolff... more info

All About Jazz — Branford Marsalis, Metamorphosen (Marsalis Music). In the decade the saxophonist's quartet has been making music together, this is its most satisfying album. There's the usual dynamism, even aggressiveness, but little of the anger that Marsalis, Joey... more info

All About Jazz — hERE aND nOW is the first new collaboration in almost two decades by Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey, the acclaimed songwriters of the dB’s. Scheduled for release June 9 on Bar/None Records, the album features legendary saxophonist Branford Ma... more info

Mercury News, California — This lanky, 16-limbed percussion monster had about 200 people sitting in the sold-out club with their jaws dropped. It was, not to overstate things, staggering. more info

Mercury News, California — Branford Marsalis and Joshua Redman, the premiere tenor saxophonists of their time, come to the Bay Area this week more info

All About Jazz — from The Seattle Times: {{Branford Marsalis = 9095}} is one of the biggest names in jazz, a midcareer master who’s maintained an enviable level of visibility for nearly three decades. But the sardonic tenor and soprano saxophonist isn’t... more info

All About Jazz — Metamorphosen (Marsalis Music/Decca) The Branford Marsalis Quartet has been together in its current form for a decade, long enough to develop a common intuition and a strong collective voice: the elusive goal of any band in the ever-mutating postb... more info