jazz Archive
17 Dec 2014
Album Review: Antoine Fafard — Ad Perpetuum
One doesn’t often think of melding progressive rock elements with jazz fusion; at least not if one wants to break even on an album release. But that’s the approach favored […]
17 Dec 2014
Album Review: Marbin — The Third Set
Generally, I avoid reviewing more than one album by relatively unknown artists; even less often – never before, as far as I know – do I review two albums within […]
15 Dec 2014
Album Review: Thom Douvan — Brother Brother
Thom Douvan – Brother Brother A (perhaps) surprising number of the Detroit players known as The Funk Brothers were actually white guys. One of ’em was guitarist Thom Douvan. In […]
21 Nov 2014
Album Review: Oscar Peterson — Exclusively for My Friends [6LP box set]
Oscar Peterson was one of the most beloved figures in jazz. His recording career began in 1945, got fully underway in the 1950s, and tapered off as his health declined […]
19 Nov 2014
Album Review: Abelardo Barroso with Orquesta Sensación — Cha Cha Cha
Full disclosure, right up front: I know next to nothing about Cuban jazz. I enjoyed Kirsty MacColl‘s ventures into the genre, and I’ve long had a special place in my […]
13 Nov 2014
November Hundred-word Reviews, Part 4
Once again, it’s time for a run of hundred-word reviews. My inbox has been overflowing of late, and even after removing the material that I deem not worth my time […]
24 Oct 2014
Back to Bassics: A Chat with Tony Levin
Among musicians, Tony Levin is as close as once can come to being a household name. Among the wider public, he’s not well known at all. That may be because […]
01 Oct 2014
Honeymoon Hundred-word Reviews, Part 3
I’m on my honeymoon this week, so I thought it would be a good time to offer up some backlog-clearing entries in my occasional series of Hundred Word Reviews. And […]
21 Aug 2014
“How did we get where we are right now?” A Conversation with Todd Cochran (Part 3)
Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: We’ve touched on this a bit already: there’s absolutely no guitar on the album. Was that a conscious decision on your part, to arrange […]
20 Aug 2014
“How did we get where we are right now?” A Conversation with Todd Cochran (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… Todd Cochran: And I worked with John Handy, who was on Columbia. To digress a bit back to your earlier question, which is still going around […]