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Ronnie Earl: Healing Time
by Ed Kopp
Guitarist Ronnie Earl has evolved from late-blooming blues axeman (he didn’t take up the guitar until his early 20s) into that rare blues artist who’s widely esteemed by jazz critics. The Boston-based guitarist is an unlikely jazz hero -- he doesn’t read music and he isn’t a master technician. Still, the 48-year-old Earl is an inspired ...
Steve Turre: In the Spur of the Moment
by Ed Kopp
With his masterful trombone blowing and unprecedented work with conch shells, Steve Turre is a one-of-a-kind jazzman. Turre’s new release In the Spur of the Moment is an intimate showcase for the artist’s earthy trombone playing in three different formats. Turre also blows enough shells here to keep things exotic.The album is divided into ...
Sue Foley: Love Comin' Down
by Ed Kopp
Sue Foley is one of the best blues guitarists around, male or female. While her guitar work is more versatile than ever, her songwriting skills have also matured. The knock against the Canadian artist is that she can't sing. To these ears, however, Foley's vocals have improved greatly from album to album, to the point where ...
Alvin Youngblood Hart: Start with the Soul
by Ed Kopp
Just when we had Alvin Youngblood Hart pegged as an acoustic blues revivalist, the man emerges with an all-electric album containing roots-rock originals, Southern rock and soul covers, a Chuck Berry tune, a power-trio acid-rock instrumental, a new reggae composition, and even a country novelty number!Though Start with the Soul only includes one country-blues ...
Tarbox Ramblers: Tarbox Ramblers
by Ed Kopp
The Tarbox Ramblers’ music so strongly evokes the rural South, it’s hard to believe these guys hail from Boston. The Ramblers are a primitive Americana outfit with deep blues roots. On this rustic-sounding debut, the Ramblers generate an aural trail mix consisting of old-time country blues, traditional obscurities, a jug band stomper, some spirituals, and two ...
Various: The Rough Guide to South African Jazz
by Ed Kopp
To Americans, the sound of South African jazz is both oddly familiar and wonderfully exotic. The familiar aspect is easy to explain: From Louis Armstrong onward, American artists have exerted a strong influence over South Africa's pop and jazz musicians. Genres as diverse as doo-wop, R&B and bebop have all been incorporated in South African jazz. ...
Calabria Foti: When a Woman Loves a Man
by Ed Kopp
Calabria Foti is a sweet, sexy vocalist who sings 10 familiar songs with sultry finesse on this romantic debut. When A Woman Loves A Man is a concept album that traces a love affair from initial exhilaration ("I Hadn’t Anyone “Til You) through passionate times ("Fever"), troubled times ("I’m Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My ...
Smokin: Bite Me!
by Ed Kopp
Smokin' Joe Kubek (lead guitar) and Bnois King (vocals, second guitar) have been blues collaborators for over a decade now. Kubek is a versatile Dallas-based axeman who favors rock-style guitar effects. Louisiana native King is one of the most tasteful singers ever to front a crunching electric blues band. Unlikely as the Kubek-King partnership seemed in ...
Tony McAlpine, Bunny Brunel, Dennis Chambers: Cab
by Ed Kopp
Remember that old Star Trek episode where an alien race is able to move around the Enterprise at an infinitely quicker pace than Kirk and company? Listening to Cab, you might wonder whether Tony MacAlpine, Bunny Brunel and Dennis Chambers aren’t members of that same alien race. This trio spawns a turbo-charged blend of jazz and ...
Sean Costello: Cuttin' In
by Ed Kopp
With Cuttin’ In, 20-year-old Sean Costello serves up a retro-sounding release that includes gritty jump, raucous Chicago blues and funky New Orleans R&B, all done up with the know-how and agility of an artist twice Costello’s age. Unfortunately, the tinny analog sound – obviously intended to lend a 1950s air to the proceedings - detracts somewhat ...
