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ONOFFON: Your Mind
by Ed Kopp
With its second release Your Mind, LA prog-rock band ONOFFON blends bass, guitar, and drums along with occasional keyboards, bluesy harp, percussion and reeds. These 11 tunes fluctuate between ethereal acoustic numbers and dark cosmic rockers. Your Mind is jazzier and more rhythmically complex than the band's debut Surrender Now. In fact, some tracks bring to ...
Tierney Sutton: Unsung Heroes
by Ed Kopp
Tierney Sutton is a young jazz singer with a warm, graceful voice, an unpretentious delivery and a great feel for ballads. On Unsung Heroes, Sutton’s fluid style makes some very difficult pieces sound simple and beautiful.Though Sutton didn’t come to jazz until she was 20, she’s a natural talent who released a widely praised ...
ONOFFON: Surrender Now
by Ed Kopp
Fans of Brand X, Yes or Phish should dig ONOFFON , a band that mixes progressive rock, spacey atmospherics and jazz on the self-produced CD Surrender Now. ONOFFON is a southern California group consisting of three accomplished instrumentalists: Don Lake on lead vocals, guitar, and harmonica, Von Babasin on bass and keyboards, and Dave Goode on ...
Alvin "Red" Tyler and the Gyros: Simply Red
by Ed Kopp
Simply Red is a terrific collection of instrumentals recorded by the late New Orleans saxophonist Alvin “Red" Tyler. This music was recorded for the Ace label when New Orleans R&B was at its zenith, and it's a real sleeper for fans of classic Crescent City music. Included are 11 cuts from the 1961 album Rockin' & ...
L.V. Banks: Ruby
by Ed Kopp
Thanks to the mid-'90s blues revival, a handful of deserving Chicago blues musicians managed to land recording contracts after years of hard labor in the clubs. A prime example is South Side bluesman L.V. Banks, a fine guitarist and soulful singer who's been plugging away at the blues thang for 40-plus years. Like so many of ...
Various: Celebrating the Music of Weather Report
by Ed Kopp
The 31 musicians who appear on this tribute album deliver upbeat yet shifty interpretations of compositions by Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter and the parade of musicians who comprised Weather Report from 1970 to 1985. Those paying tribute constitute a fusion who's who. For starters, there's Joe Sample, John Scofield, the Breckers, David Sanborn, Dennis Chambers, Andy ...
Keno Kings: Careless
by Ed Kopp
The Keno Kings are a frisky foursome from the southeast of England. The good people of East Anglia refer to the Kings’ style of music as “Thames Delta R&B,"but to these ears it evokes Texas blues legends The Fabulous Thunderbirds. In fact, the Kings’ guitar-harmonica-bass-drums configuration parallels the ‘79 T’birds.Granted, Mick Sprick isn’t quite ...
Dixie Dregs: California Screamin'
by Ed Kopp
In this age of snooze jazz radio and the retro mainstream, kick-ass fusion is all but dead. Given the climate, it's great to have the Dixie Dregs back in action and rocking the house down. California Screamin' is a live overview of the Dregs' sporadic 25-year existence. The players really seemed to enjoy this ...
WZMG & The Coot: Blues Transmission
by Ed Kopp
WZMG is not a radio station, and the Coot is not a DJ. Rather, they constitute a blues-rock outfit from Orange County, Calif. Blues Transmission is the group's debut CD, and it offers an unusual potpourri of styles – everything from blues-rock to prog-rock to jazz-fusion to folk-pop.About half of this album works for ...
Charlie Musselwhite: Best of the Vanguard Years
by Ed Kopp
When 18-year-old Charlie Musselwhite left Memphis for Chicago in 1962, he wasn't even aware that the Windy City was the center of the blues universe. His only objective was to land a decent factory job. But Musselwhite would soon discover how vital the blues scene was in his new hometown. He would also notice that there ...
