Todd Mosby Blends Jazz, Folk, and Blues on ‘American Heartland’

St. Louis-based composer Todd Mosby takes a wide-angle approach on American Heartland, a 12-track album that moves between contemporary jazz, New Age, folk, blues, solo acoustic guitar, and jazz-rock with a distinctly cinematic sense of motion. The result feels less like a genre exercise than a musical map of Missouri’s emotional and physical landscape. Across the collection, lush orchestration, featured female vocal passages, horn-driven momentum, and stately strings give the music a vivid s