review Archive
20 Jun 2020
Album Review: The Tnek Jazz Quintet Plays the Music of Sam Jones
Bassist Sam Jones was an important figure in hard bop and soul jazz of the 1950s and beyond. Alternatively known as “Cannon’s Theme,” his composition “Unit 7” was a showcase […]
19 Jun 2020
Book Review: The Ballad of Tommy LiPuma
Author: Ben Sidran 274pp Nardis Books One might think that an insider tale such as the biography of a record producer wouldn’t have wide appeal. That thinking goes that unless […]
17 Jun 2020
DVD Review: Krautrock: Romantic Warriors IV Part 1
The term krautrock may just be one of those labels that is meaningful only to those who exist inside a kind of bubble. The person on the street, so to […]
14 Jun 2020
Album Review: Willie Nile — New York at Night
Way back when Bob Seger finally broke through nationally, much was written about how it took him many years to become an overnight sensation. And he’s merely one example of […]
13 Jun 2020
Album Review: Lane Thaw — Falling off the Planet
Existing outside the world of rock ‘n’ roll, Lane Thaw’s Falling off the Planet is the kind of record that suggests an alternate timeline, one in which cult artists like […]
12 Jun 2020
Album Review: Todd Rundgren’s Utopia – Benefit for Moogy Klingman
After the success of his double LPs Something/Anything? (1972) and Todd (1974) as well as the double-album in all but pressing A Wizard/A True Star (1973), Todd Rundgren decided to […]
11 Jun 2020
Album Review: The Explorers Club — s/t
In my previous review I, um, explored To Sing and Be Born Again, the new all-covers album from Jason Brewer’s The Explorers Club. The group isn’t exactly what one would […]
10 Jun 2020
Album Review: The Explorers Club — To Sing and Be Born Again
For more than a decade now, The Explorers Club have been bringing their brand of ear candy pop to listeners. Essentially a vehicle for songwriter, musician, arranger and producer Jason […]
09 Jun 2020
Album Review: Miles Davis – Music From and Inspired by ‘Birth of the Cool’
There’s a trend in recent years: when releasing a film’s companion audio, the CD is sometimes branded as “Music From and Inspired By…” That gives to compiler of the audio […]
07 Jun 2020
Album Review: Vito Dieterle and Joel Forrester – StatusSphere
Jazz fans are likely to pick up on the in-joke of this album’s cover art immediately. It’s a visual homage to the 1957 LP Monk’s Music. And the two round […]