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Euforquestra: Explorations In Afrobeat
by Chris M. Slawecki
The second release from this seven-piece ensemble seems quite purposeful. Subtitled A fusion of Nigerian and Cuban music rooted in Yoruba tradition, it explores the deep connection between West African Afrobeat and Afro-Cuban music channeled through the religious, ceremonial music of the Yoruba tradition of West Africa. Purposeful? The detailed liner notes sure seem ...
Detroit through New York to Berlin and Brazil: Music Beats Around the World
by Chris M. Slawecki
Detroit, USA Don Byron Do The Boomerang: The Music Of Junior Walker Blue Note 2006 Through previous recordings in honor of Sly Stone, Igor Stravinsky, Henry Mancini and other influences on his highly individualized muse, Don Byron has demonstrated a great feeling for tributes. His sixth Blue Note release honors ...
Specialty Records Profiles Ride a Rocking Horse
by Chris M. Slawecki
Theirs was, for better or worse, in many ways a simpler time. A time, for example, when you could begin a song with the line, “I got a girl named Bony Maronie/ She's as skinny as a stick of macaroni," and watch that song climb up the charts. In 1946, Art Rupe founded a ...
John Stein: Concerto Internacional de Jazz
by Chris M. Slawecki
You can tell from just one look that Concerto is serious music seriously played by serious musicians. In the cover photo, Stein presents what us folks in the cliché trade would call “a stern visage --and in case you weren't certain of the program, the title informs you directly that this is an international concert of ...
Lenine: Lenine
by Chris M. Slawecki
This past August, composer/guitarist/vocalist Lenine began his first US tour with solo and band performances in support of this release, his American debut, which pulls together tracks from multiple sets previously released in his homeland. Can you tell anything from the company that a musician keeps? Seems so: Lenine is often referred to as ...
Skip Heller: Mean Things Happening In This Land
by Chris M. Slawecki
Skip Heller seems like a pretty fun-loving guy. But this new release, from its opening cover of XTC's anti-prayer “Dear God through its concluding folk song about the closing of a Georgia mill, presents his own scathing commentary on current social, economic and political landscapes. Working with David White on drums and percussion and Chris Spies ...
Guitar Shorty: We the People
by Chris M. Slawecki
Each summer seems to offer one song that you just crank up and bust out at the top of your stereo while you cruise in your car... sort of your summertime theme. That song, this summer, was for me the title track from We the People. One of Texas' most venerated blues guitarists, Guitar ...
Chasin' Charlie's Ghost: Modern Guitar
by Chris M. Slawecki
Charlie Christian may or may not have been the first musician to master the electric guitar, but one thing is certain: the first guitarist who plugged in, whoever it was, forever changed the course of modern music. Guitar styles through the decades since passed seem to have multiplied until they outnumber guitarists! But since there always ...
Esteban: Best of Esteban
by Chris M. Slawecki
Born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Stephen Paul apprenticed in Spain for four years under Andres Segovia, who bequeathed upon this protégé the professional name Esteban. Esteban's first new release since 2003 is not a convenient repackaging of previously recorded music; he recorded new versions of favorites from his repertoire, from Spanish dances to familiar ABBA and Beatles ...
Joyce Cooling: Revolving Door
by Chris M. Slawecki
Gibson Guitars' 1999 Jazz Guitarist of the Year, Joyce Cooling, paints a bright and colorful picture on Revolving Door with loving strokes. You might be surprised to learn that this is her portrait of an often dark subject. Says Cooling, “'Revolving Door' is a metaphor for a situation we humans often find ourselves in where there ...
