vinyl Archive
17 Apr 2017
Album Review: Ultimate Spinach — Behold & See (Mono)
At the time of its 1968 release, Ultimate Spinach‘s Behold & See suffered from critical backlash. Those brickbats were directed primarily at the ill-advised “Bosstown Sound” marketing hype that surrounded […]
10 Mar 2017
Album Review: Mushroom — Psychedelic Soul on Wax
File next to: Brian Auger’s Trinity, Can, David Byrne The four cuts on Psychedelic Soul on Wax are as different from another as can be, but then Mushroom has always […]
06 Mar 2017
Album Review: Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans — Space Songs
This curio from 1961 was originally created to serve as an instructional record for children. The word that immediately comes to mind when hearing the vocals and instrumentation is “ginchy.” […]
28 Feb 2017
Album Review: Lincoln Barr — Trembling Frames
It would be misleading to characterize Trembling Frames as a subdued record. True, the most recent previous effort from Lincoln Barr was Pure Delight, a decidedly rock-oriented album from his […]
10 Feb 2017
Album Review: The Oscar Peterson Trio – Walking the Line
Recorded in MPS Records’ Villingen, Germany studio over four days in November 1969 (and released the next year), Walking the Line features pianist Oscar Peterson joined by bassist Jiri Mraz […]
09 Feb 2017
Album Review: Baden Powell – Images on Guitar
This 1973 album for MPS is listed on Wikipedia as a live recording; it’s “live” only in the sense that it was cut that way in the studio. Recorded October […]
08 Feb 2017
Album Review: Freddie Hubbard – The Hub of Hubbard
Don’t let the relatively generic cover art of The Hub of Hubbard dissuade you from checking out this 2016 reissue of an album originally released in Germany in 1970 (and […]
07 Feb 2017
Album Review: Joe Henderson et. al. – Mirror, Mirror
Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone Chick Corea – piano Ron Carter – bass Billy Higgins – drums One of the most consistently thrilling qualities of jazz is the manner in […]
06 Feb 2017
Album Review: Monty Alexander Trio – Montreux Alexander
Alexander’s seventh release for MPS, Montreux Alexander is a document of the pianist’s trio live at the Montreux, Switzerland Jazz Festival in June 1976. As the liner notes explain, neither […]
02 Feb 2017
Album Mini-review: Mike Watt — “Ring Spiel” Tour ’95
File next to: Meat Puppets, Mission of Burma, Sugar Gravelly-voiced bassist Watt first made his name as the bassist in The Minutemen, and after that group’s end in the wake […]