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Forgotten Series: Reevaluating Hall and Oates
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Something Else!
By Something Else Reviews Call them a guilty pleasure. (We have.) But the truth is, there's more to Hall and Oates than the sum of their blow-dried caricature. So, we set about looking for tunes that made some points: That they brilliantly connected the dots between new wave and and rock music's R&B ancestry. That they were more than just Daryl. That they had an untold complexity, leaving aside those awful videos. In the end, “Kiss on My List" isn't ...
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Aaly Trio + Ken Vandermark - Stumble (Wobbly Rail, 1998)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
The Scandinavian AALY Trio of Mats Gustafsson on saxophones, Peter Janson on bass, and Kjell Nordeson on drums is joined by American milti-reedist Ken Vandermark for an album that veers away from the very loud and boisterous free jazz they are normally associated with into more subtle and nuanced terrain. It makes for an interesting departure, Gustafsson and Vandermark can be unfairly categorized as leather lunged blowers, although it takes a great deal of concentration on the part of the ...
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UK - Danger Money (1979)
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By Pico It's not a unique story when it's about a 70s progressive rock that went through rapid lineup changes and ultimately broke apart after “artistic differences." That's essentially the narrative of the short-lived supergroup UK, which existed roughly from 1977 to 1980. It's also not all that surprising that somehow in a group of uber talented musicians with big egos, they managed to make one or two albums that represented the prog rock genre well before splintering under the ...
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Recent Listening: Partyka-Philipp, Blackwell-Smith, Hackett-Haggart
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Flip Philipp & Ed Partyka Dectet, Hair Of The Dog (ATS). In their third album as co-leaders, Philipp and Partyka make a substantial addition to the recorded history of medium-sized jazz groups. From bands led by Fletcher Henderson through Red Norvo, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Miles Davis,Gerry Mulligan, James Moody, Shorty Rogers, Dave Brubeck, Teddy Charles, Rod Levitt, Bill Kirchner and Charles Mingus—among many others— arrangers for six to eleven pieces have achieved flexibility that the mass of a sixteen-piece ...
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The Friday Morning Listen: Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans (1974)
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By Mark Saleski “Dear Betsy,—To begin; Hi! I Miss you & Love you. You seem to be the echo of all of my thoughts. I am going to try very hard to convey my feelings on this paper. It is hard for me sometimes. I'm not at all sure of them myself. When I think of you, I am Lost. I don't know what to think or feel. The only thing that enters my mind positively is: “God I wish ...
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Ferit Odman - Nommo (2010)
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By Nick DeRiso Drummers, even the rare ones who find fame, are enablers. They spend the bulk of their time refocusing the spotlight on others. It's no different on Nommo, the sterling new quartet release by Turkish-born Ferit Odman. He assembled a thoughtful group of notables for sessions held in Brooklyn, N.Y., and then smartly allowed each of them to join the conversation. The result is a collaborative, almost communal, effort, as if Nommo was put together over a series ...
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Seval Releases New LP "I Know You" on 482 Music.
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Two for the Show Media
Can music be gentle and intense, expansive and intimate? Seval answers that question in the affirmative on i know you (482 Music), eight tracks of sonically rich and emotionally uplifting music that is cozy and airy, panoramic and passionate, but never slight or lethargic. Formed by the Chicago-based cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and filled out by Stockholm's Sofia Jernberg (vocals), Patric Thorman (bass), Emil Strandberg (trumpet) and David Stackenäs (acoustic guitar), Seval is rooted in jazz but doesn't stop at jazz's ...
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One Track Mind: Hannah Miller, "All My Love" (2010)
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Photograph by Caleb ChanceyBy Nick DeRiso Hannah Miller sings in a raw, emotionally available register that occasionally goes so high it's almost outside of her control. That lends a heartrending urgency to songs like “All My Love," released in August as part of a four-song EP called Journey to the Moon. With her partner away, Miller briefly considers a night on the town, but then decides to forgo the bustle and noise for hearth and home: “Not tonight," she sings, ...
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