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Neon Art, Volume 1

Label: Omnivore Recordings
Released: 2015
Track listing: Red Car; Blues for Blanche.

Article: Extended Analysis

With his walrus-like goatee, dark glasses and a fedora knocked back over a straggly haircut, Peter Case looks like the devoted road warrior and musical explorer that he is on the cover of the aptly-titled Hwy 62. And the recordings inside bear out the wisdom he's gained over the years as a songwriter and musician, these ...

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Les McCann: Invitation to Openness

Read "Invitation to Openness" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
March 6, 2015

It is a simple matter of acid-base stoichiometry like that learned in any quantitative chemical analysis or medicinal chemistry course. If one treats the acid element of Parliament Funkadelic's Maggot Brain (Westbound, 1971) with the sweet bass of Leroy Vinnegar, then infuse as with juniper with gin, with honey and morphine: Les McCann's monumental Invitation to ...

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Art Pepper: Neon Art, Volume 1

Read "Neon Art, Volume 1" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 12, 2015

This is not a new release. It is a sensible one. In 2012, Omnivore Records released Art Pepper: Neon Art, Volume 1 in colored vinyl, taking advantage of the current baby boomer infatuation with the inferior medium of our childhood. In the case of Pepper, the medium is not the message. This is music that demands ...

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Les McCann "Invitation To Openness" Reissued on Omnivore Recordings

January 20, 2015

Through the chart-topping 1969 song “Compared To What, “ Les McCann became known to thousands of people as an inspirational “soul-jazz" pianist and vocalist. Since its first release in 1972, Les McCann's Invitation To Openness album (Atlantic Records) has remained a landmark statement in free-form improvisation mixed with soulful grooves, featuring a 26-minute continuous track with ...

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Standards

By Lloyd Cole

Label: Omnivore Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: California Earthquake; Women’s Studies; Period Piece; Myrtle and Rose; No Truck; Blue Like Mars; Opposites Day; Silver Lake; It’s Late; Kids Today; Diminished Ex.

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This Is Lone Justice: The Vaught Tapes, 1983

By Lone Justice

Label: Omnivore Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Nothing Can Stop My Loving You ; Jackson ; Soap, Soup and Salvation ; The Grapes of Wrath ; Dustbowl Depression Time ; Rattlesnake Mama ; Vigilante ; Working Man’s Blues ; Cactus Rose ; When Love Comes Home to Stay ; Cottonbelt ; This World Is Not My Home.

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The Art of Obscurity

By Iain Matthews

Label: Omnivore Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Ghost Changes ; When I Was A Boy ; Music ; Time Zone Cowboy ; Ash in the Wind ; The Letter (1944); In Paradise ; Ode for Jackie Paris ; The Emperor’s New Clothes ; Pebbles in the Road ; The Sweet Hereafter ; Home (pt. 2).

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Jaco Pastorius: Modern American Music…Period! The Criteria Sessions

By Jaco Pastorius

Label: Omnivore Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Donna Lee; Balloon Song (12-Tone); Pans #1; Havona/Continuum; Opus Pocus (Pans #2); Time Lapse; Balloon Song (alternate); Time Lapse (alternate); Forgotten Love.

Article: Extended Analysis

Jaco Pastorius: Modern American Music…Period! The Criteria Sessions

by John Kelman
April 6, 2014

1976 was, for electric bassists, the year where everything changed. Jaco Pastorius hadn't quite emerged from nowhere, and the few prior recordings on which he could be found may have provided some hint of what was to come, but it was the quadruple punch of fellow legend-in-the-making Pat Metheny's leader debut Bright Size Life (ECM, 1976), ...