Josh Ginsburg’s star is rising in the jazz world. The talented, Brooklyn-based composer and bassist, who has played with a host of jazz luminaries over the past dozen years, has a new album, Zembla Variations (Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records), which showcases his felicitous writing and prodigious chops. Drummer Rudy Royston and pianist George Colligan are featured on the eight original tunes, along with Israeli sax innovator Eli Degribri, who swings and brings the heat at different turns. There is always something going on here, and repeated listening reveals new delights. — Mordecai Specktor
(American Jewish World, 2.17.12)
