jazz Archive
23 May 2014
Album Reviews: Brand X — Is There Anything About? / Missing Period / Live at the Roxy L.A.
It’s a popular (and not wholly inaccurate) contention that Phil Collins did his best work with Genesis in the immediate years after Peter Gabriel left, and then – around the […]
22 May 2014
Album Review: Sun Ra — A Space Odyssey
As Kris Needs notes in his excellent and detailed liner notes for A Space Odyssey: From Birmingham to the Big Apple – The Quest Begins, Sun Ra was a practitioner […]
19 May 2014
Album Review: The Butterfield Blues Band — East-West
Some people — musicians, listeners, you name it — get their nose out of joint when writers apply labels to music. How dare we, the thinking goes. The music shouldn’t […]
24 Apr 2014
Album Review: Lalo Schifrin — ‘Bullitt’ Soundtrack
Here’s a look at another Record Store Day release, available on limited-edition 200-gram vinyl. If, like me, you grew up in the late 60s and early 70s, this music will […]
23 Apr 2014
Album Review: Jaco Pastorius – Modern American Music…Period! The Criteria Sessions
This week, I’m quite busy attending Moogfest 2014 here in Asheville NC, the adopted of hometown of both myself and the late Dr. R.A. Moog, for whom the five day […]
09 Apr 2014
Book Review: The Evolution of Mann
Lately I’ve been mulling the age-old question: what makes a bandwagon-jumper? Pop music’s history is filled with examples of bands and solo artists who have adopted stylistic u-turns in a […]
01 Apr 2014
Festival Review: Big Ears 2014, Day 2 (Part 1)
Marc Ribot (Again) The second day of Big Ears 2014 kicked off with a most unusual event: Marc Ribot seated in total darkness, armed with only a classical acoustic guitar. […]
25 Mar 2014
Album Review: Bethlehem Records Reissues
For several years in the decade of the 1950s, Bethlehem Records released some fine jazz albums. Recently Verse Music Group has licensed those albums, and is in the midst of […]
13 Mar 2014
Book Review: Experiencing Jazz
As part of my expanding odyssey of discovering the art form called jazz, I bought a book in December 2012, a title called Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to Learning […]
05 Mar 2014
Hundred-word Reviews: New Jazz
So much music, so little time. I’m still a relative novitiate when it comes to jazz, but I know what I like. And I like these. All new/contemporary artists, these […]