Jazz Articles about Howe Gelb

About Howe Gelb

Album Review

Singer/songwriter Howe Gelb has made his name with desert-rock/alt-country pioneers, Giant Sand, but he also has a lengthy solo-career, and his 24th album, Gathered, finds him in his usual excellent form. The album follows a flirtation with jazz that came to the fore on the superb Future Standards (Fire Records, 2016) and the follow-up Further Standards (Fire Records, 2017). Those albums were very much carried by Gelb's skewed piano playing, equally old-fashioned and hip, swinging in his ...

Album Review

Howe Gelb: 'Sno Angel Like You

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 19, 2006

Howe Gelb 'Sno Angel Like You Thrill Jockey (2006 - distr. Wide) Valutazione: 3,5 stelle A molti sarà capitato di assaggiare un vino che viene servito come una delle più straordinarie meraviglie dell'arte enologica, di quelli di cui “gli intenditori" si riempiono la bocca, vezzosamente protesa verso il piacere, lasciandolo vagare come risacca pigra per il palato. Sarà capitato di assaggiare il vino e di rimanere piuttosto perplessi, di sentire sì che il vino in questione è buono, ma francamente ...