jazz Archive
23 Jul 2013
Album Review: Soft Machine Legacy – Burden of Proof
Readers of rock history will occasionally stumble across references to the “Canterbury scene,” a construct of music journalists that – in real terms – hardly happened at all. But the […]
15 Jul 2013
A Quick Jazz Vinyl Update
Three titles released on the Jazzhaus label last fall are now available on vinyl as well: Legends Live: Dizzy Gillespie Quintet – Liederhalle Stuttgart November 29, 1961 Legends Live: Albert […]
12 Jul 2013
Album Review: Bill Frisell — Big Sur
Avant-jazz. Atonal no-wave. Country. Noise rock. Americana. Those are just a few of the musical idioms within which guitarist Bill Frisell has worked in his thirty-plus years as a recording […]
02 Jul 2013
Album Review: Duke Ellington — Rare Live Recordings 1952-53
If your tastes include the work of Duke Ellington – one of the most important composers and bandleaders of the 20th century – then you might want to check […]
28 Jun 2013
Hundred Word Reviews: June 2013
Here’s another installment in my occasional series of capsule reviews; this time ’round I’m focusing on new releases from long-established artists who nonetheless aren’t quite household names. My self-imposed limit […]
11 Jun 2013
You Can Be Who You Are: The John McLaughlin Interview, Part 4
Continued from Part Three… Bill Kopp: Speaking of playing onstage, how do the live pieces differ from the studio versions? Do you open them up for improvisation, or are they […]
10 Jun 2013
You Can Be Who You Are: The John McLaughlin Interview, Part 3
Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: This is an obvious thing to say, but since instrumental music has to convey its messages without the benefit of lyrics, it has to […]
07 Jun 2013
You Can Be Who You Are: The John McLaughlin Interview, Part 2
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: A Tribute to Jack Johnson is among the most underrated of all Miles’ works, I think. John McLaughlin: A lot of people don’t underrate […]
06 Jun 2013
You Can Be Who You Are: The John McLaughlin Interview, Part 1
Far be it from me to attempt to introduce John McLaughlin. One of the world’s greatest guitarists, his career has spanned five decades. His latest album Now Here This is […]
31 May 2013
Album Review: Redtenbacher’s Funkestra – The Cooker
A very good friend of mine – a drummer and a serious student of music – has, in the last several years, become quite wary – cynical, almost – about […]