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Graham Bond: Wading in Murky Waters

by Duncan Heining
July 18, 2013

Organist and saxophonist Graham Bond was the most important and influential musical pioneer to emerge from British jazz in the 1960s. High praise indeed, but in his case it is warranted. His legacy might be defined less by the music he recorded and more by the impact he had on subsequent generations of musicians. However, that ...

Article: Album Review

Eskelin - Alcorn - Formanek: Mirage

Read "Mirage" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 10, 2013

The Rolling Stones, Yes, and other prominent bands have incorporated the pedal steel guitar into the rock vernacular. Here, pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn extends this instrument beyond customary Americana or Country & Western formats and becomes the link between modern jazz champions, tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin and bassist Michael Formanek. She builds a bridge for ...

Article: Book Review

Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic

by Nenad Georgievski
June 29, 2013

Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock CriticJim DeRogatis352 PagesISBN: 0767905091Crown Publishing2000If anyone ever writes a history on rock criticism and music journalism, certain names--like Peter Guralnick, Greil Marcus, Simon Frith and especially Lester Bangs--will surely lead off ...

Article: Album Review

Jeff Williams: The Listener

Read "The Listener" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 12, 2013

It may be a poor-man's explanation, but here it goes: bebop begat hard bop begat the freer post-bop. Free jazz emerged among them. What next? Jeff Williams' The Listener. The greater freedom of post bop compared to its predecessor is given more freedom, but not so much that the music descends into the ravenous particles of ...

Article: Extended Analysis

U2: Achtung Baby 20th Anniversary edition

by Nenad Georgievski
April 20, 2013

Every once in a while, a record will appear that will change the way to which music is listened, which will expand concept of music and its essence and boundless potential. A record of such importance has the ability to disrupt and shake the space-time continuum of musical history, serving as a signpost to everything that ...

Article: Highly Opinionated

The Led Zeppelin Papers: Sacred Cows, Led Zeppelin and Does the Song Remain the Same?

by C. Michael Bailey
April 20, 2013

"Sacred cows make the tastiest cheeseburgers" --after Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989) I have always said of popular culture, that like a McDonald's cheeseburger, it is to be consumed but never considered. Much of music is nothing more than a reflection of popular culture and certainly falls beneath that grand proclamation. A good deal of hip ...

Article: Meet the Staff

Meet C. Michael Bailey

by AAJ Staff
April 30, 2013

I currently live in: Bryant, AR I joined All About Jazz in: 1997 What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? In 1997, the Internet was such a new place. I saw a fledgling request from one Michael Ricci asking for jazz articles for his new website, All About Jazz. ...

Article: Album Review

Boz Scaggs: Memphis

Read "Memphis" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
March 15, 2013

Boz Scaggs made a household name for himself with the ultra-slick Silk Degrees (Columbia, 1975), but he had already established a solo career for himself in the wake of departing The Steve Miller Band in 1968. Memphis further reaffirms the selective approach the vocalist, guitarist and songwriter has brought to his career in recent years, at ...

Article: Interview

John Beasley: Everyone Loves John

by Scott Mitchell
March 13, 2013

Keyboardist John Beasley (aka “The Bease" to friends and family) is a musician's musician and one of the busiest professionals in the game. His biography and list of credits are so broad and deep that they could fill an NFL playbook.If NASA or MIT were to invent a device that could measure creative and ...

Article: Book Review

Brad Tolinski: Light and Shade - Conversations with Jimmy Page

by Nenad Georgievski
March 2, 2013

Light and Shade--Conversations with Jimmy PageBrad Tolinski320 PagesISBN: 978-0307985712Crown Publishing2012Music and mythology have shared stories for at least as long as recorded history. Mythology has always been important to rock 'n' roll music since its early days, and within that guitarist Jimmy Page is ...