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Santana: Festival
by Jeff Winbush
SantanaFestivalColumbia Records1977 The year 1977 was another period of transition for guitarist Carlos Santana. He was going into the studio to craft a follow-up to Amigos, the highly successful 1976 return to Top 10 Billboard status after abandoning a four-year immersion in jazz fusion. During that phase, ...
Steely Dan: Aja
by Craig M. Cortello
Steely Dan Aja MCA 1977 In the movie Mr. Holland's Opus, Richard Dreyfuss, playing a high school music director, recounts his childhood memory of first hearing a John Coltrane album. He recalls how he hated the music, but couldn't stop listening to it. He played the album over and over ...
Isaac Hayes: Shaft
by Trevor MacLaren
Isaac HayesShaftStax Records1971 “Who's that black private dick who's a sex machine with all the chicks? Shaft! Damn right!... The opening lines to Isaac Hayes' score for the seminal 1971 movie, Shaft, sound like a camp put-on today--but in the early '70s ...
James Taylor Quartet's The First Sixty Four Minutes
by Trevor MacLaren
James Taylor Quartet The First Sixty Four Minutes Re-elect The President/Acid Jazz 1988 Though virtually unknown in North America, the James Taylor Quartet has been a cult phenomenon in the UK for the past twenty years. The group began by revitalizing the great soul jazz of Blue Note's ...
Antony and The Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now
by Trevor MacLaren
Antony and The Johnsons I Am a Bird Now Secretly Canadian 2005 This column rarely examines new music, but I am a Bird Now, released in February of 2005, is a notable exception. The record and its composer have been slowly building a cult following in the alternative ...
Black Flag: Family Man & The Process of Weeding Out
by Trevor MacLaren
Black Flag Family Man SST 1984 & Black Flag The Process of Weeding Out SST 1985 It is hard to convince many jazz fans that the most influential hardcore punk band of all time created some of the ...
The Tony Williams Lifetime: Emergency!
by Trevor MacLaren
The Tony Williams Lifetime Emergency! Polydor 1969 A few months back I came across a great book written on the last forty years of jazz, Howard Mandel's Future Jazz. The book covered a lot of stylistic ground, including avant-garde, fusion, and free. It basically touched on ...
Pharoah Sanders: Karma
by Trevor MacLaren
Pharoah Sanders Karma Impulse! 1969 John Coltrane left behind a legacy of experimental and extremely spiritual work whose timeless quality still reverberates today. After his untimely death many poseurs came out to stake their claim as the next Coltrane. Many tried and many failed. Then in 1969 a ...
Blood Sweat & Tears: Child is Father to the Man
by Trevor MacLaren
Blood Sweat & Tears Child is Father to the Man Columbia 1968 Most people remember Blood Sweat & Tears as the incarnation led by the gravel-voiced white blues of David Clayton-Thomas. During his tenure as leader, the hits “Spinning Wheel," “And When I Die," and “Hi-De-Ho" helped to bring pop/rock/jazz ...
George Benson: The Other Side of Abbey Road
by Trevor MacLaren
George Benson The Other Side of Abbey Road A&M 1969 I have to admit I have never been a huge fan of George Benson. I respect the man because he is an amazing guitarist with an extraordinary original technique. Yet his chosen sound and genre limits what could ...
