vinyl Archive
18 Jun 2018
Album Review: Mel Henke — 77 Sunset Strip-per
For a lot of Americans in the late 1950s and ‘60s, jazz wasn’t something they went to clubs to hear. If they heard it at all, jazz was often presented […]
29 May 2018
Boytoy Sez: G’day, Mates!
Discovering Boytoy can be a confusing experience. Visit the web page for the band’s 2014 self-titled debut EP and you’ll read that the group is from Tasmania. “For some reason, […]
04 May 2018
Album Review: The Rising Storm — Calm Before…
A bunch of prep school boys put together a rock band in 1965. Big deal, right? American teens (mostly but not exclusively males) did that all over the USA in […]
03 May 2018
Album Review: The Remains — Live 1969
The Remains were one of the coolest and most promising r&b-flavored American rock bands of the 1960s. The Boston-based group scored the supreme honor of opening for the Beatles on […]
28 Apr 2018
Reviews of Three 45-rpm Singles
“We get letters,” as the saying goes. Actually, I get packages. Lots of ’em. Nearly every day. Mostly CDs, occasionally LPs. Once in a blue moon, a cassette. And nearly […]
20 Apr 2018
Album Review: Richard Lloyd — Lodestones
Richard Lloyd is known to aficionados of cutting-edge 1970s music as one of two guitarists in Television, a band that combined the immediacy of punk with the virtuosity and musical […]
19 Apr 2018
Album Review: Bunk Johnson — Rare & Unissued Masters Volume One
Bunk Johnson was a New Orleans jazz trumpeter who exemplified the pre-war jazz style closer to Louis Armstrong than, say, Miles Davis. Though the style was well past the apex […]
19 Apr 2018
Album Review: The Lurkers — Fulham Fallout
It’s been pointed out by numerous chroniclers of rock history that British punk of the late 1970s grew in large part (though not exclusively) out of the so-called “pub rock” […]
18 Apr 2018
Album Review: Sun Ra — Standards
Jazz great Sun Ra (born Herman Blount) has an imposing reputation as the iconoclastic purveyor of wildly unusual and unconventional music. His influence is felt far beyond the confines of […]
18 Apr 2018
Album Review: An Evening with Ornette Coleman, Part 2
No one would ever accuse Ornette Coleman of making “easy listening” music. One of the acclaimed and innovative jazz musician’s few forays into what could loosely –very loosely – termed […]