new release Archive
21 Jul 2014
Hundred-word Reviews July 2014, Part One
I’m bound and determined to reduce the contents of my in-box to manageable levels, so this week I’ll be covering 25 albums, each adhering to a 100-word limit. Don’t mistake […]
16 Jul 2014
Short Cuts: July Mini-reviews Part Three
Here are three more shortish reviews, this time all new releases. Randy Jackson – Empathy for the Walrus As a rule, I’m rather wary of tribute albums. More often than […]
15 Jul 2014
Short Cuts: July Mini-reviews, Part Two
Here’s another entry in my short-review series; these three are instrumental albums. Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Boy Named Charlie Brown An entire generation grew up with the music of […]
11 Jul 2014
Album Review: The Roaring 420s – What is Psych?
There’s a bubbling-under sort of cottage industry in sixties revivalism. And it’s been around for at least a couple of decades now, occasionally popping into the mainstream consciousness to enjoy […]
10 Jul 2014
Book Review: One Way Out
The members of The Allman Brothers Band – and there have been many – tend to think of themselves as a jazz band. The onstage interplay owes, they argue convincingly, […]
27 Jun 2014
Book Review: Power Pop Prime, Vol. 3
Powerpop fans are in some ways like metal fans. They – or shall I say we – are hardcore fanatics of a narrow slice of the pop music spectrum, and […]
26 Jun 2014
Book Review: Bob Dylan, American Troubadour
Allow me to begin with some relevant disclosure: I’m much more a “music guy” than a “lyrics guy.” I can know the words to a song – sing along with […]
20 Jun 2014
A Chat with Larry Coryell, Part Three
Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: In the entry on you in the Music Hound Jazz book, the reviewer makes the points that your back catalog is in shameful disarray, […]
19 Jun 2014
A Chat with Larry Coryell, Part Two
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: Though you’re certainly grounded at least in part in rock styles, another remarkable quality of your musicianship to me is the way you take […]
18 Jun 2014
A Chat with Larry Coryell, Part One
One might describe Larry Coryell as something of an undiscovered legend. To those in the know – jazz/fusion aficionados and those like me fortunate enough to stumble onto his vast […]