Results for "Jimi Hendrix"

Jimi Hendrix - Valleys of Neptune (Experience Hendrix)

March 18, 2010

Please excuse the prevalence of first-person commentary in this piece, but it just seems the smoother route to go in describing my personal reactions to this release. The commodification of Hendrix continues with this latest posthumous collection of odds and sods on the Sony-licensed Experience Hendrix imprint. I've lost track of the legal-wrangling within and without ...

Frank Butrey: Malicious Delicious

by Victor L. Schermer
March 10, 2010

The versatile Frank Butrey lends a psychedelic rock-infused flavor to the jazz repertoire in Malicious Delicious. The Philadelphia-based guitarist displays his wares through these original compositions (some co-written), performed with some of his favorite musicians including members of bassist Warren Oree's Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble (Butrey is a working member), who flavor the tracks in various ways. ...

CD Review: Jimi Hendrix, "Valleys of Neptune"

March 9, 2010

Given Jimi Hendrix's stature as one of the all-time greatest rock guitarists, the release of any new, previously unreleased material from the 40-years-dead guitar god tends to be cause for celebration. And why the hell not? Much of his barrel-bottom scrapings have more soul in them than the master cuts of more skillful axe-wankers. If you're ...

Putting Jimi Hendrix's House in Order

February 11, 2010

Janie Hendrix hopes that 'Valleys of Neptune' and other official releases help restore her guitar hero stepbrother's recording legacy. The keepers of Jimi Hendrix's flame are calling the new album of long-buried recordings by the proto-rock guitar hero Valleys of Neptune. The obvious explanation is that it's the title of one of the cornerstone songs that ...

A Jimi Hendrix Treasure in 'Valleys of Neptune'

February 10, 2010

Chris Jentsch: Cycles and Reflecting on the Journey

by Ludwig vanTrikt
February 9, 2010

John Coltrane once said, “Let the music speak for itself." The guitarist/composer and band leader Christopher Jentsch adds an interesting twist on that subject by opting to describe himself when asked about the broader subject of how to capture his music in his own words. “I think of myself as a composer/guitarist working with contemporary improvisational ...

Jack DeJohnette, Project/Object, William Bell and Johnny Winter

by Martin Longley
February 4, 2010

The Jack DeJohnette GroupBirdlandJanuary 6, 2010 This was the second night of a residency featuring the debut of a new fusion-orientated quintet. Drummer Jack DeJohnette is no stranger to electrification, but this lineup presented an intriguing proposition, confounding the audience in any attempt to predict exactly where the music would ...

The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Meets Fred Sturm

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 2010

The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra was onstage January 23, 2010 at the University of New Mexico's Woodward Hall for a concert featuring the compositions and arrangements of Fred Sturm, director of Jazz Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. The concert was a part of the New Mexico All-State Band Competition, which was being held at the ...

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: I Speak Fula

by Chris May
January 28, 2010

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba I Speak Fula Sub Pop! 2010 Much has been made of the symbiosis between traditional Malian and roots North American musics, of which the “desert blues" of guitarist Ali Farka Toure (1939-2006) provides convincing evidence. Any remaining doubts about west African savannah-belt culture ...

Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow

by Chris May
January 25, 2010

Trumpeter Christian Scott started raising expectations in 2006, with Rewind That (Concord), and hit the spot again in 2007 and 2008. Those earlier promises of greatness are clinched by Yesterday You Said Tomorrow. Scott's fourth Concord album is a gym-ripped amalgam of edgy jazz, hip hop and rock rhythms, off-kilter ostinatos, intimate rhapsodies and full-on passions, ...