Results for "Mike Jacobs"

Jon Cleary And The Absolute Monster Gentlemen: Go To The Mardi Gras

by Mike Jacobs
March 4, 2025

What better way to celebrate Fat Tuesday than with one of the reigning champion purveyors of that jazz/blues/funk gumbo the Crescent City is noted for. And even though it may be startling to learn that Mr. Cleary is a British expatriate, no one need check his papers. As this tune illustrates, his complete assimilation of the ...

Fractal Sextet: Sky Full Of Hope

by Mike Jacobs
February 21, 2025

Calling Stephan Thelen's music an extension of the Swiss Minimalist movement may have once seemed appropriate. However, in the years since his band Sonar and Fractal Guitar projects have come to the fore, that characterization has increasingly become inadequate. Proximity, influence, and linkages exist but Thelen's copious activities in the last decade show such a deepening ...

Looking Back

By Allan Hirt

Label: Megahirtz
Released: 2024
Track listing: Cute; Well You Needn't; Lullabye Baby; Pretzel Logic; Linus and Lucy; Song for My Father; Pure Imagination; Red; Nostalgia; Mr. Roboto; Times Like These; Impressions/So What; The Looking Back Suite Part I: And So It Goes; The Looking Back Suite Part II: Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel); The Looking Back Suite Part III: Turn the Lights Back On; The Looking Back Suite Part IV: And So It Goes (Reprise); The Looking Back Suite Part V: Souvenir

Chemical Clock: Donut Cat

by Mike Jacobs
November 14, 2024

Dhafer Youssef: 39th Gulay (To Istanbul)

by Mike Jacobs
November 13, 2024

Dhafer Youssef's live tour de force, “39th Gulay (to Istanbul)" vibrates with the electrifying hallmarks the oud master's work is known for: beautifully odd matrices spun with harmonic and instrumental eclecticism with participation from a wide variety of A-listers. Featured here are Kristjian Randalu on piano, Eivind Aarset on electric guitar, Phil Donkin on upright bass, ...

Souvik Dutta: 20 Years of Abstract Logix

by Mike Jacobs
September 27, 2024

If you are a music lover, you may already know the name Souvik (pronounced show-vik) Dutta. Over the last 20 years, he has taken his Abstract Logix enterprise from a pre-YouTube streaming platform to a music retail website to a niche imprint to a respected independent label boasting a top-tier roster that includes the likes of ...

Román: La Pulpa

by Mike Jacobs
September 22, 2024

Mats/Morgan Band: Paltsug

by Mike Jacobs
September 21, 2024

Nate Smith Kinfolk: Retold

by Mike Jacobs
August 24, 2024

Paul Wertico Trio: The Underground

by Mike Jacobs
August 23, 2024

After vacating the drum chair in the seminal Pat Metheny Group, drummer Paul Wertico's next move was to release Don't Be Scared Anymore (Premonition Records, 2000) with Chicago-based cohorts John Moulder and Eric Hochberg. The resulting album was a far cry from his work in the PMG stylistically, but nonetheless inspiring, as the turgid, slow grind ...