soul Archive
25 Apr 2016
Rehabilitating Herbie, Part 1
Previously-Unheard 1969 Live Tapes from Jazz Flautist and his Band Nominally a jazz musician, flautist Herbie Mann (1930-2003) enjoyed crossover appeal and success that brought his music to a much […]
09 Mar 2016
Album Mini-review: Dr. Lonnie Smith — Evolution
File next to: Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Shirley Scott The title might be taken as a hint that the music’s going somewhere it hasn’t been before, but that’s not really […]
07 Mar 2016
Album Review: Blowfly — 77 Rusty Trombones
Warning: this review may not be suitable for readers under the age of, I dunno, let’s say…twenty-one. And the subject of the review – Blowfly‘s final album, 77 Rusty Trombones […]
29 Jan 2016
Hundred-word Reviews January 2016: Compilations
This week-long run of quick reviews wraps up today with looks at five excellent compilation albums. King Curtis – The Complete Atco Singles Real Gone Music swings for the fences […]
25 Jan 2016
Hundred-word Reviews January 2016: Archival Live Albums
It’s time once again to take a stab at clearing out the massive backlog of worthy CDs clogging my inbox. Today, it’s quick reviews of five archival live albums, all […]
20 Jan 2016
Album Review: Love — Reel to Real
In the community of pop music critics and historians, it’s common to find Love‘s Forever Changes cited as one of the great lost albums of the 1960s. Under-recognized at the […]
06 Jan 2016
Album Mini-review: Bobby Rush — Chicken Heads: A 50 Year History of Bobby Rush
File next to: James Brown, Buddy Guy, Otis Redding Bobby Rush‘s musical career has spanned fifty years, at least twenty record labels, and most American popular music genres. He’s tough […]
25 Dec 2015
Mountain Soul Party: The Soul of Collaboration
Author’s Note: This feature appeared previously in edited form in the pages of Mountain Xpress, and is a preview of a show that took place earlier this month. Happy Holidays! […]
24 Dec 2015
Album Reviews: Five from Fantastic Voyage
The hits just keep on coming. Fantastic Voyage is a London-based label that specializes in thematically-oriented archival reissue collections. In the last few months, they seem to have significantly stepped […]
10 Dec 2015
Box Set Review: George Duke — The Era Will Prevail (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Vol. 3: Feel Released in October 1974, Feel again featured bassist John Heard and drummer Ndugu alongside George Duke, but his guest artists lent a decidedly […]