review Archive
23 Jan 2021
Album Review: Phil “Fang” Volk — Rocker
Phil “Fang” Volk is best known as bassist for Paul Revere and the Raiders during their most high-profile era, roughly 1965-67. That’s him – the long-running group’s fourth in succession […]
21 Jan 2021
Album Review: Bill Evans — Live at Ronnie Scott’s
Perhaps the most celebrated lineup of the Bill Evans Trio is the one featuring bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian. Sadly, and because of LaFaro’s death in an auto […]
20 Jan 2021
Album Review: Gretchen’s Wheel — Such Open Sky
On Such Open Sky, her latest album as Gretchen’s Wheel, Lindsay Murray takes a turn that’s both darker and more energetic than what has come before. From the opening strains […]
18 Jan 2021
Hundred-word Reviews: January 2021 #2
Here’s five more brief reviews; this time we’ve got progressive rock, powerpop, indie chamber pop, goth rock and one album that’s simply beyond easy classification. What they all have in […]
16 Jan 2021
Album Review: Bobby Rush – Rawer Than Raw
At age 86, bluesman Bobby Rush has nothing left to prove. Recipient of a dozen Blues Music Awards and winner (for Porcupine Meat) of the 2017 Grammy Award for Best […]
09 Jan 2021
Album Review: Dave Brubeck — Lullabies
If someone had asked me a few years ago if I thought I’d be writing a week’s worth of content in 2021 about Dave Brubeck, I would have shot them […]
08 Jan 2021
Album Review: The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Time Outtakes
Released in 1959, The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s Time Out is a landmark album. An accomplished synthesis of West Coast and cool jazz, it’s remarkable for combining “unusual” time signatures – […]
03 Jan 2021
Album Review: Little Richard — The Rill Thing
By the end of the 1960s, it was reasonable to assume that Little Richard’s rock ‘n’ roll career was moribund. Though he was one of music’s most important figures, by […]
02 Jan 2021
Album Review: Little Richard — King of Rock and Roll
Just slightly more than a year after releasing a well-received (if non-charting) comeback album in The Rill Thing, Little Richard returned with the audaciously-titled King of Rock and Roll in […]
27 Dec 2020
Album Reviews: Three from Little Richard
Quite recently, Omnivore Recordings reissued a pair of long out-of-print Little Richard albums, The Rill Thing and King of Rock and Roll. The first was an impressive updating of Little […]