jazz Archive
24 Mar 2017
Roy Ayers’ Positive Vibrations
Few popular musicians have been successful at making a switch from one genre to another while holding on to a substantial fan base. Singer and vibraphonst Roy Ayers has done […]
22 Mar 2017
Quick Takes, Part Three
Today I take a quick look at ten archival releases of note. Tim Buckley — Wings: The Complete Singles 1966-1974 The music of Tim Buckley (yeah, late father of the […]
20 Mar 2017
Quick Takes, Part One
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, these days I spend the majority of my time writing for print publications. Altweeklies across the USA, music and entertainment magazines in the U.S. […]
07 Mar 2017
Album Review: Sun Ra and His Arkestra — At Inter-Media Arts 1991
Sonic explorer Sun Ra was quite prolific during his lifetime; in fact archivists – those you’d expect to know – can’t accurately tally just how many albums the man released. […]
22 Feb 2017
Postmodern Jukebox: Breathing Old Life into New Classics
It’s one of those inspired ideas that leads listeners to wonder why someone hadn’t thought of it before: take modern-day hit songs, and recast them in the styles of yesteryear. […]
13 Feb 2017
New Albums from Larry, Tracey and Murali Coryell
There was a time in the late 1960s and early ’70s when it looked as if Larry Coryell would break out as the Next Big Thing. A fiendishly gifted guitarist […]
10 Feb 2017
Album Review: The Oscar Peterson Trio – Walking the Line
Recorded in MPS Records’ Villingen, Germany studio over four days in November 1969 (and released the next year), Walking the Line features pianist Oscar Peterson joined by bassist Jiri Mraz […]
09 Feb 2017
Album Review: Baden Powell – Images on Guitar
This 1973 album for MPS is listed on Wikipedia as a live recording; it’s “live” only in the sense that it was cut that way in the studio. Recorded October […]
08 Feb 2017
Album Review: Freddie Hubbard – The Hub of Hubbard
Don’t let the relatively generic cover art of The Hub of Hubbard dissuade you from checking out this 2016 reissue of an album originally released in Germany in 1970 (and […]
07 Feb 2017
Album Review: Joe Henderson et. al. – Mirror, Mirror
Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone Chick Corea – piano Ron Carter – bass Billy Higgins – drums One of the most consistently thrilling qualities of jazz is the manner in […]