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Bradley Sowash: For The Beauty Of The Earth
by Mark Sabbatini
If there's a prototypical album for Starbucks to play on Sunday mornings, this is it. Whether that's a good or bad thing will ultimately shape opinions about Bradley Sowash's For The Beauty Of The Earth. He performs the fourteen solo piano hymns and spirituals well with a sprinkling of personal accents and a lively contemporary sound, ...
The Emeralds: Off The Edge
by Mark Sabbatini
Fiddler Matthew Smith formed the Emeralds as an instrumental folk trio at age seven, about as “critic-proof as a band gets. But after aging a bit and releasing a couple of albums, what one newspaper calls the “Cute Era is over. Off The Edge is the second album by the Alaska-based group, now featuring ...
Charlie Hunter Trio: Live at The Magic Bag
by Mark Sabbatini
This being America, we'll blame guitarist Charlie Hunter's talent and generosity. The person who labored to make this recording is merely the victim of unfair competition. Hunter is among a handful of top-tier jazz musicians who allows audience taping of his shows for distribution and even goes a step further by offering three albums' ...
Weirdomusic.com: Free Albums Glorifying the Distortions of Musical History
by Mark Sabbatini
Somebody should post a personality test at this site, where people assess themselves based on which albums they consider “weird and “normal. Old-time jam sessions by King Richard's Fluegel Knights (by which they mean caveman-era)? The latest from Pastor McPurvis' Weekly MP3 Talent Show (a high school marimba band)? Hearing the theme from ...
Polish Jazz Network: 102 Free MP3s
by Mark Sabbatini
Jazz didn't exactly get off to a good start in Poland. Society rejected it as “jungle music. Critics and even the musicians said little originality existed in performances. One of its few commercial successes came from a band using it as a road show jingle to sell American “Indian motorcycles. But the ...
Das Vibenbass: Live at Tost in Seattle
by Mark Sabbatini
As the ESPN maniacs put it, “That's a top 10 nominee. The debut live concert download by the Das Vibenbass quartet is a marvel of modernistic jazz that, frankly, is a pain in der arsch to review since decent writers avoid clichés like “riveting “breathtaking and “astonishing. But since new postings are still mostly ...
Hanging Chads: Live At Theo's
by Mark Sabbatini
One of the few things most people agree on after the 2000 election is “Hanging Chads is a great name for a band. Dave Barry lists it among his continuous suggestions such as “Low-Flow Toilets. Somebody at a Web site called Tuba City is one of many expressing interest. A new Illinois instrumental metal ...
John Petrucci: Suspended Animation
by Mark Sabbatini
Shredding and art tend to be mutually exclusive by nature, since too many chord crunchers refuse to let the music be more important than they are. It often doesn't help when a member of a well-known group undertakes a solo project, since standing out becomes even more urgent. John Petrucci avoids the land mines ...
Jazz Age Songs: 372 Free Recordings from the 1890s to 1930s
by Mark Sabbatini
The songs are cheesy, the sound quality is terrible and the files are in a format requiring extra effort to play. And it's something anyone calling themselves a jazz fan ought to know about. The value of the Jazz Age Songs web site needs no explanation beyond the facts: 372 free songs recorded between ...
Exposing the Cover Story Behind the Classics
by Mark Sabbatini
There's no better support for the argument critics are woefully ignorant of the music they review than their treatment of the classics in lockstep. Reading carbon copy raves about Miles Davis' model mastery on Kind Of Blue or Bill Evans lyrical trio interplay on Waltz For Debby must make many people wonder if those ...
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