review Archive
12 Dec 2024
Album Review: Charlie Parker – The Long Lost Bird Live Afro-Cubop Recordings!
For anyone who appreciates Charlie Parker, most any recordings will be worthwhile. This 2LP set from RockBeat Records is no different. So rather than extol its obvious virtues (i.e. it’s […]
11 Dec 2024
Album Review: Mose Allison – Live 1978
Mose Allison is better known among may listeners as the composer of songs made famous by others. The Who memorably covered his “Young Man Blues” on their landmark live album […]
10 Dec 2024
Album Review: Cal Tjader – Huracán
Cal Tjader was a prime exponent of the Latin jazz scene of the 1950s and early ‘60s. Though his activities began long before and continued long after, it’s those years […]
09 Dec 2024
Album Review: Cannonball Adderley Quintet — Live in Montreal May 1975
Saxophonist and band leader Julian “Cannonball” Adderley was at the forefront of jazz musicians who believed that jazz is the people’s music. And he lived that ethos, moving seamlessly from […]
07 Dec 2024
Album Review: Afterimage – Faces to Hide
“Post-punk” is one of those labels – epithets, one might even say – created by music journalist to describe a type of music, but ultimately (as some or other playwright […]
30 Nov 2024
Hundred-word (Rock) Reviews, November 2024
Five more capsule reviews. Please note that every one of these album deserves not only fulsome praise, but a much longer, more in-depth review that I’m giving here. Suffice to […]
28 Nov 2024
Album Review: Focus – Focus 12
There are bands and artists who end up being inextricably connected in listeners’ minds with a particular time period. This can be the case even if the artist’s work continued […]
27 Nov 2024
Album Review: Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks – True
Let’s start with the bad, getting it out of the way since there’s very little of it. The cover art for Jon Anderson’s latest album is at best uninspired. And […]
25 Nov 2024
Hundred-word (Power Pop) Reviews, November 2024
For this round of Hundred Word Reviews, it’s a veritable feast – a panoply, a cornucopia… a surfeit, even – of power pop. Valley Lodge – Shadows in Paradise New […]
23 Nov 2024
Hundred-word Reviews for November 2024: Blues/Roots
It’s been some time since I’ve done a clutch of hundred-word reviews; three months, to be exact. So here’s five, all in the blues/roots bag. Piper & the Hard Times […]