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Thanks for Covering Every Corner
by Chris M. Slawecki
Dear Miles, It's hard to believe that you've already been gone for sixteen years now. And I know you don't miss much from your perch up there, but I wanted to make sure that you knew what we've been doing with your music down here, in case you and Hendrix have been busy working ...
Supercharged: Down to the Bone
by Chris M. Slawecki
Contemporary jazz doesn't come much better than the seventh release from this UK-based ensemble led by founder and producer Stuart Wade, who plays no instruments but is very instrumental in Supercharged's bright, crisp contemporary sound. As drummer Adam Riley, alternating bassists Richard Sadler and Julian Crampton, and guitarist Tony Remy man the rhythm section, ...
Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale: Breathing Under Water
by Chris M. Slawecki
Anoushka Shankar learned the Indian classical music tradition from perhaps its best teacher--her father, Ravi Shankar. She made her recording debut on In Celebration (Angel Records, 1995), George Harrison's four-CD retrospective tribute to her father, and her debut as a solo artist with Anoushka (Angel, 1998). Anoushka's first album of original material, Rise (Angel, 2005), was ...
Praxis: Tennessee 2004
by Chris M. Slawecki
Praxis is the operative name of an experimental jazz/rock/funk/dub quartet led by bassist Bill Laswell with drummer Brain (Les Claypool's Primus), guitarist Buckethead and keyboardist Bernie Worrell (wizard of synthesized funk for P-Funk, Talking Head, etc...). They first came to Frankenstein-like life in 1993: because like that mad doctor, Laswell stitched Praxis together from disparate parts ...
James Chance & the Contortions: Soul Exorcism (Redux)
by Chris M. Slawecki
Soul Exorcism (Redux) is just as much a document of a space and time as it is the triumphant reissue of the legendary live album by James Chance & the Contortions. Chance & the Contortions (and his alter-ego-band, James White & the Blacks) were focused on probing the outer reaches of the late 1970's ...
Mushroom with Eddie Gale: Joint Happening
by Chris M. Slawecki
I'll resist any pun that might connect the words “mushroom and “joint but more than a little psychedelia wafts like incense and patchouli through this collaboration between progressive rock and jazz veterans. Mushroom is a more-or-less underground ensemble led by drummer Pat Thomas that has explored modern instrumental rock and jazz from its San ...
Gaudi + Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Dub Qawwali
by Chris M. Slawecki
At the time of his 1997 passing, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was widely recognized as a transcendent and eternal-sounding vocalist, and as the world's premier Qawwal, a singer of traditional Qawwali music--spiritual music from Pakistan with ancient roots in Sufism. Khan's voice even appeared in progressive “western music such as Peter Gabriel's work on 1988's The ...
Six Sideways, Side by Side
by Chris M. Slawecki
Continued explorations of music “outside jazz from within the jazz perspective... James Chance & the Contortions Soul Exorcism (Redux) ROIR 2007 Soul Exorcism (Redux) is just as much a document of a space and time as it is the triumphant reissue of the legendary live album by James ...
Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Ten Days Out: Blues from the Backroads
by Chris M. Slawecki
When guitarist Shepherd does a blues tour of the American musical south, he does it right: Ten days with friends Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton (Stevie Ray Vaughan's longtime rhythm section Double Trouble), plus a mobile studio and documentary film crew; starting from the mouth of the Mississippi River in New Orleans, to Shreveport, up to ...
Ron Carter: Dear Miles,
by Chris M. Slawecki
Even considering Ron Carter, the bassist who rode through many mercurial musical styles, albums, and personas with Davis through the 1960s and '70s, with admitted skepticism, the question is asked: What kind of message to the late, great Miles Davis could Dear Miles be without a trumpet or other horn player in the ...
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