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Hiromi: Hiromi & Edmar Castaneda Live In Montreal
by Jeff Winbush
Here's a good rule of thumb to consider when reviewing a jazz record and by that, I mean any jazz record. Jazz music is live music so if it sounds good in the studio will it sound even better on the stage? In other words, if you're willing to pay $50 for a ticket, you're probably ...
Seth Yacovone: Life at Nectar's
by Doug Collette
The title of Seth Yacovone's solo acoustic album, Life at Nectar's, is not a misprint, but a very carefully designated description. In the prolific guitarist/vocalist/songwriter's thirteen years of such shows each Friday evening, the energy at the hallowed venue coalesces around his performances. And while those are somewhat unlike this set of fifteen originals--he invariably mixes ...
U2: Songs of Experience: Deluxe Edition
by Doug Collette
It's perfectly fitting so many of the song titles on U2's Songs of Experience sound like self-help aphorisms (at worst) or quick excerpts from an individual's inner dialogue (at best). “Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way" and “You're The Best Thing About Me," to name just two, are parceled over the course of a ...
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto: Glass
by Nenad Georgievski
It's a rare occasion these days when a certain album manages to shake quietly the foundation of what music is and what it can be. It's very difficult to position an album that breaks all its precedents through an approach that blends a live performance and improvisation. Glass is the latest collaboration between composer Sakamoto and ...
Jamie Saft: Solo a Genova
by Doug Collette
Jamie Saft's first solo album in his twenty-five year career, Solo A Genova, captures this restless, daring artist interpreting a selection of songs that reflect his eclectic taste as a reflection of his customary willingness to challenge himself. The sum effect of hearing this recording from Italy in March of 2017 is an altogether glorious experience ...
Paul Collins' Beat: Long Time Gone/To Beat Or Not To Beat
by Doug Collette
The snapshot quality in the b&w cover photo of Long Time Gone/To Beat Or Not To Beat by Paul Collins' Beat is hardly a visual corollary to the immediacy of the music. Nor does it correspond to the clarity in the prose the bandleader composed for the CD combining these two EP's recorded in the early ...
Alicia Hall Moran: Here Today
by Tyran Grillo
To sing wasn't why we were there... What it was was names tore loose, took wing, what World had been ours theirs now, sound itself... --Nathaniel Mackey, “Song of the Andoumboulou: 138" I may not know from which depth of her soul Alicia Hall Moran summoned Here Today, but I do ...
University of North Texas: Anniversary Package; Lab 2017
by Jack Bowers
To mark the seventieth anniversary of its establishment, the Division of Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas in Denton has issued superb CD compilations honoring four of its distinguished educators / bandleaders in addition to Lab 2017 by the university's flagship One O'Clock Lab Band, the fiftieth annual recording by that widely celebrated ensemble. ...
Jimmy Dawkins: The Chicago Blues Box 2
by Chris Mosey
It's a strange but true story: how a French woman schoolteacher, reared on classical music and Gallic chansons, came to play a major role in reviving the fortunes of Chicago blues in the 1970s. Marcelle Chailleux was introduced to the blues by Jacques Morgantini, a founder member of the Hot Club de France. ...
The Doors: Strange Days - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
by Doug Collette
The Doors' Strange Days did not have the cultural or commercial impact of the iconic band's eponymous debut earlier that halcyon year. And that's all the more regrettable because, in purely artistic terms, this second album is superior in (almost) every way. Accordingly, the more streamlined 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of this laboriously-recorded landmark ...
