instrumental Archive
15 Apr 2022
Album Review: Trees Speak — Vertigo of Flaws
Musoscribe’s latest “vinyl week” wraps up today with a real stunner. When I first heard Trees Speak’s album Ohms back in 2020 I was knocked out; the group’s knowing embrace […]
14 Apr 2022
Album Review: Pepper Adams – Live at Room at the Top
To date, my familiarity to the work of saxophonist and composer Pepper Adams has been minimal. I discovered and enjoyed a 2014 vinyl reissue of Bethlehem Records’ 1960 release Motor […]
12 Apr 2022
Album Review: Bill Evans — Inner Spirit
A week’s worth of coverage of new vinyl releases continues with the second of two archival releases from a jazz giant. Bill Evans played Buenos Aires in 1973, and a […]
11 Apr 2022
AUDIO: A Conversation with Tony Levin of Stick Men
For more than a decade now, Musoscribe has been home to my interviews, features, reviews and essays, all in print form. Going forward, I’ll be expanding into audio and possibly […]
11 Apr 2022
Album Review: Bill Evans – Morning Glory
A week’s worth of coverage of new vinyl releases kicks off with a vintage recording. Bill Evans earned fame for his work with Miles Davis, and went on to an […]
01 Apr 2022
30 Days Out, April 2022 #1: Philip Glass Ensemble, Moon Hooch, Samantha Fish, Stick Men
There’s some fantastic live music coming to Asheville in the next 30 days. No foolin’: sophisticated modern minimalism, a sax-and-drums trio that’s equal parts out-there and accessible, a blues (and […]
01 Mar 2022
30 Days Out, March 2022 #1: Floyd Philharmonic, Chatham Rabbits, Uncle Acid, Greyboy Allstars
In this edition: One local, one regional, two nationally touring acts. All four are excellent onstage. Welcome back to live music. Artist: Floyd Philharmonic Venue: Isis Music Hall Date: Thursday, […]
29 Jan 2022
Album Review: Scott T. Jones — Fictional Characters
If your tastes run toward fusion – not the watered-down Weather Channel background music, but the muscular, virtuosic but melodic stuff – then you might well be frustrated with the […]
20 Dec 2021
Album Review: Popol Vuh – Vol. 2: Acoustic & Ambient Spheres
In 2019, BMG put together a boxed set of five important albums by krautrock/ambient group Popol Vuh. The Essential Album Collection Vol. 1 featured vinyl re-pressings of Affenstunde (1970), 1972’s […]
13 Dec 2021
Album Review: The Lord Baltimores
As a rule, when I receive CDRs in the mail, I don’t consider them for review on Musoscribe. (Why, you may ask? Simple: I receive so many submissions, there has […]