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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 ...
Joe Beck: Tri07
by Chris M. Slawecki
Tri07 is a different type of release for Joe Beck. Which is a powerful statement, since this guitarists' guitarist has won the Most Valuable Player Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS) five different times, and his career, which spans five decades, includes working with Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Antonio ...
Bobby Broom: Song and Dance
by Chris M. Slawecki
Chicago native Bobby Broom has been playing guitar since he was about eleven. He decided to become a professional musician after hearing guitarist George Benson kick ass throughout Bad Benson, and was invited on tour by colossal saxophonist Sonny Rollins when Broom was only sixteen. You don't hear or read the phrase “song and ...
JJ Grey & Mofro: Country Ghetto
by Chris M. Slawecki
It's rather promising for a band's debut to remind you of the Faces on the fast numbers and of Otis Redding on the slow ones, but these legends provide solid points of reference for JJ Grey & Mofro's Country Ghetto. Country Ghetto is swampy, funky, bluesy, and above all genuine, straight from JJ Grey's ...
