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Maddeningly Unintuitive Japanese Software
by Patrick Burnette
The robots are coming! The robots are coming! And they're after our jobs—as lounge singers. Skynet would not be amused. But we kind of are—at least, Mike says his first encounter with a vocaloid will be ever imprinted upon his brain. Don't worry—this episode isn't all about our electronic replacements qua masters. We look at music ...
Mandatory Merriment
by Patrick Burnette
It's that holiday season once again, and Santa Mike insists we cover a slate of season-appropriate releases. Are they jazz appropriate as well? Not really, but two are jazz adjacent and one at least features an ex-Messenger, so there's that. There's also, er, Swamp Dogg. Pop matters travels from Sufjan Stephens to late eighties England to ...
Better Than Ya Think
by Patrick Burnette
Ron Carter is one of the most recorded bassists in the world and anchored the second of Miles Davis' “great quintets" so he ain't no slouch. His leader work, however, isn't always given the respect it deserves. Exactly how much respect, you ask? Just sit down and listen to the bastards sift out that question as ...
Mikey Likes It!
by Patrick Burnette
Some people accuse critics of being subjective, but when discussing music there's always one Platonic fact you can point to above and beyond the shifting tides of fashion and trend: does Mikey like it? In this case, yes, yes he does. He likes all four of this episode's albums. Pat, on the other hand? Still a ...
A Tribute to Someone
by Patrick Burnette
Sometimes “tribute" can be a dirty word in jazz—a sign a project's only justification is a well-known name—a warning that reverence may have trumped inspiration on a record. But it doesn't have to be that way. This episode, the Bastards look at four 2022 releases that each celebrate a towering figure from jazz's past without getting ...
Who's Your Wadaddy?
by Patrick Burnette
From time to time the bastards do a show devoted to one artist, and this time, happenstance leads us to feted and prolific “out" trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. His career stretches back to the seventies and he's worked with a murderer's row of avant-garde musicians, but we're focusing on more recent work with him as a ...
Summer Tree Ain't No Summer Breeze
by Patrick Burnette
It's the shock of the new as the boys take on three 2022 releases that stretch our heads in various directions, including a solo guitar outing, a visit to a mythical cave, and a trumpet excursion that goes to even stranger places. After that, a chill-out album from Blue Note is a welcome change of pace ...
21 to 40
by Patrick Burnette
Two fifty is as good an artificial milestone as any, so the boys decide it's time for a GOAT episode. First they wrestle a top-twenty artist list into shape, arguing that there's so much consensus out there little work remains to be done and still taking an hour doing it. Then it's on to the tricky ...
Duck, You Plucker!
by Patrick Burnette
It's an episode years in the making when Mike is finally able to track down guitarist, composer, and raconteur Duck Baker. We discovered Duck through his solo recording of Herbie Nichols' tunes, but Mike finds out that Duck has collaborated with such luminaries as John Zorn, Roswell Rudd, and Eugene Chadbourne while keeping up a stream ...
Elan Mehler: There Is A Dance
by Patrick Burnette
David Bowie's album The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (RCA, 1972) includes instructions on the back: “To Be Played At Maximum Volume." Had pianist Elan Mehler's new trio effort, There is a Dance, followed suit, the slogan would be something like “To Be Played Only on Rainy Afternoons." There is ...
