soul Archive
05 Feb 2020
Jerry Jemmott: The Groovemaster (Part 3)
Continued from Part Two… Jemmott knew how King’s music usually sounded, but he also knew why people booked him as a session bassist. “People usually call me to do something […]
04 Feb 2020
Jerry Jemmott: The Groovemaster (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… But now he had to learn to play the new instrument. “And it didn’t happen right away,” Jemmott says. “I had encountered it before, but the […]
03 Feb 2020
Jerry Jemmott: The Groovemaster (Part 1)
Jerry Jemott is known as the Groovemaster. An in-demand session musician, he’s one of the most recorded bassists ever. Though his musical foundation is in jazz, he played on many […]
27 Jan 2020
Hundred-word Reviews for January 2020
Every so often – pretty often, in fact – I find a stack of CDs has accumulated on my desk. They’ve made the cut as albums deemed worthy of sharing […]
16 Jan 2020
30 Days Out: January 2020 #2: Jake Shimabukuro, Tinsley Ellis, The Seratones, Ashley Heath & Her Heathens
Artist: Jake Shimabukuro Venue: The Orange Peel Date: Friday, Jan 24, 8 p.m. Door: $30 Ukulele probably isn’t the first instrument that comes to mind when one thinks of powerfully […]
11 Jan 2020
Album Review: Empire Strikes Brass — Brassterpiece Theatre
Some creative projects are the result of a carefully thought-out plan. Others happen through a special combination of good fortune and the participants’ openness to whatever develops. The latter is […]
15 Dec 2019
Hundred-word Reviews for December 2019, #3
Here’s the final installment of the year (and the decade!) of my quick, condensed album reviews. Ten titles, 100 words each. Seven are new releases; the remaining three are archival […]
17 Oct 2019
Album Review: Mavis Staples — We Get By
When it comes to African American roots music – for that matter, any American roots music at all – the Staples name is royalty. Led by Roebuck “Pops” Staples and […]
04 Oct 2019
Album Review: The New Mastersounds — Shake It
It may well not have been their explicit intention, but over the last two decades, the New Mastersounds have helped a strain of jazz to become mainstreamed into widespread popular […]
13 Aug 2019
Hundred Word Reviews for August 2019, Part Two
Ten more reviews. All new music, covered in the space of 100 words each. Jazzmeia Horn – Love & Liberation I love instrumental jazz, but I have to admit that […]