Canada-born pianist Oscar Peterson was among jazz's most popular performers. HIs lyrical appeal crossed musical boundaries so that many people who didn't consider themselves jazz fans were fans of Oscar's.

Yet while Peterson's music was hardly challenging or grandly innovative, his virtuosic playing and unerring good taste were equally appealing to the aficionados.

We like promoting independent vinyl projects so when Nova Social’s Thom Soriano contacted Analogplanet about a review of their new album For Any Inconvenience we bit.

Soriano (electric and acoustic guitars/synths/sampling/programming) and his musical partner David Nagler (vocals/multiple instruments) are both music biz veterans with a wide range of recording, producing and arranging credits you can find searching online. Nagler plays in John Wesley Harding and did some arranging for the Mekons' Jon Langford, among many other credits and projects.

Over the past few years, jazz fans have been treated to some astonishing, heretofore unreleased treasures. Unlike in the rock world, where such finds, along with “bonus tracks” usually tell you why they weren’t released in the first place (with Bob Dylan being a notable exception), these jazz releases have felt like un-mined diamonds, only occasionally in the rough.