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Chris Whitley / Jeff Lang: Dislocation Blues
by Doug Collette
Dislocation Blues is the work of kindred spirits in a sustained moment of inspiration. Recorded in April of 2005, months before guitarist/vocalist Chris Whitley's death from cancer, the album finds the late Texan united with his Australian cohort, guitarist Jeff Lang, as they confront their emotions and, by the alchemy that is music, transform that interaction ...
Pat Metheny / Brad Mehldau: Quartet
by Doug Collette
The second installment of the Pat Metheny/Brad Mehldau collaboration illustrates how the most accomplished and established musicians endure growing pains as they learn to work together. Even a partnership as complementary as this one benefits from a guiding hand or, alternately, suffers for lack of one. Make no mistake, the presence of Larry Grenadier's bass and ...
Metheny-Mehldau: Playing (Mostly) Together in Boston
by Doug Collette
Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau The Opera House Boston, Massachusetts April 14, 2007 More than one attendee might've been ambivalent while seeing Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau perform at The Opera House in Boston April 14th. Two hours of impeccable musicianship rendered with formidable technique nevertheless contained the same relative ...
The Allman Brothers Band: Boston Common 8/17/71
by Doug Collette
The latest Allman Brothers archive title, Boston Common 8-17-71, is not essential for either the devout Peach-head or the casually curious. But it will remind both the aficionado and the dilettante that the scintillating peaks scaled by The Brothers' At Fillmore East were nevertheless revisited fairly regularly. The group brings an edgy energy---and, ...
Allman Brothers Light Up the Beacon Theatre
by Doug Collette
Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theater New York, New York March 20-31, April 5-8, 2007 The Allman Brothers have always done what they had to do. Whether it's sleeping in abandoned buildings to save money in their struggling days (as recounted in the liner notes of their newest archival ...
JJ Grey & Mofro: Country Ghetto
by Doug Collette
Like all musical genres, the blues has its own particular set of conventions. Yet the seemingly infinite variations on the shuffle tempo and the AABA lyric format derive from the unique personalities involved. Such is the case with JJ Grey & Mofro's new album. Country Ghetto feels like everything that is the blues while mostly sounding ...
John Mayall: Essentially John Mayall
by Doug Collette
Essentially John Mayall, a five-CD box set, is not mere nostalgia. Rather, like most anthologies devoted to the Father of British Blues, it supplies a historically accurate focus on his career by setting his most recent work in relief against earlier recordings. In doing so it reaffirms his virtues as bandleader, composer, musician and talent scout. ...
Van Morrison and Rory Gallagher: Live at Montreux
by Doug Collette
Van Morrison Live at Montreux 1980/1974 Eagle Eye Media 2006 For close to forty years the Montreaux Jazz Festival has set the standard for jazz as an all-inclusive art form. Two artists, purely coincidentally both Irish, have recently released DVDs containing concert performances at the famed fest, ...
Grateful Dead: Live at The Cow Palace New Year's Eve 1976
by Doug Collette
With Live at the Cow Palace, Grateful Dead Productions' newly-formed alliance with Rhino is off to an auspicious start. The three-CD New Year's Eve 1976 is a stunning performance; its combination of improvisational restraint and sense of adventure embroiders a diverse selection of songs. The Grateful Dead do take a couple of numbers to gain traction. ...
Jeff Beck: Live, Remastered And Expanded
by Doug Collette
Jeff Beck is the most explosive guitarist of his generation. Since he first stepped into the spotlight as a replacement for Eric Clapton in the Yardbirds, he has played with an impulsive, unorthodox logic all his own. It's an approach he has continued to hone through pioneering forays in the realm of jazz-rock fusion, as presented ...
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