Jazz Articles about The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang

by Doug Collette
October 15, 2005

The Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang Virgin 2005

Rolling Stones albums have always been tricky never more so than in recent years as assorted songs and collections of same sneak up on you after having made little or no impression at first encounter. It's almost like the Cheshire cat in “Alice in Wonderland where you only see the smile, only with the Stones, all you may see are those big red lips!!! ...

Rolling Stones: Live Licks

by C. Michael Bailey
January 23, 2005

Rolling Stones Live Licks Virgin Records 2004

All About Jazz comrade Doug Collette has already astutely commented on this recording. I have been listening to it since entering Best Buy two weeks ago and, like a lemming marching into the sea, purchased it. I was not holding out very much hope for this recording to be any better than the band's recent live offerings (briefly detailed in The Rolling Stones-Get Yer Ya Yas Out ...

Live Licks: The Rolling Stones On Tour 2002-2003

by Doug Collette
November 20, 2004

The Rolling Stones Live Licks: The Rolling Stones On Tour 2002-2003 Virgin Records 2004

Leave it to the Stones, the band that cannot be killed with conventional weapons. They tour the world presenting a show rife with circus-like theatrics, then release a live two-CD set culled from those shows, right at what's defined as Chirstmas time for the music industry. How predictable!?...Then listen to it and find it's chock-full of off-the-wall selections--the ...

The Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya Yas Out!

by C. Michael Bailey
September 10, 2004

The Rolling Stones Get Yer Ya Yas Out! London 8005 1969 I was born in a crossfire hurricane... “--Oh Yea--thank yoo kindly--Ah think Ah lost uh Buttin' on mah trowzas-- yew don' wan' mah trowzas ta fall down now doo ya." With this Mick Jagger banty rooster boast, the Rolling Stones flipped off the '60s and the Summer of Love and swaggered confidently into their decadent decade, the ...