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The Jigsaw Seen - Winterland (2011)
By Beverly Paterson According to the calendar, winter is just around the corner. To some people that means gloomy skies, the holiday blahs, frostbite and catching colds, while to other people it means mugs of steaming hot chocolate, relaxing by the cozy fireside, beautiful snow capped scenarios and holiday cheer. No matter how you view or ...
Something Else! Interview: Billy Sherwood, Formerly of Yes
Billy Sherwood has had a busy year—producing the new solo album by former King Crimson/UK/Asia singer John Wetton, co-leading the terrific third release from Circa and then issuing his own well-conceived solo recording. He is, of course, best known for trying to sew together the frayed scraps of that ever-evolving prog-rock amalgam Yes in the 1990s, ...
Peter Gabriel - New Blood (2011)
By Tom Johnson Somewhere out there, music fans cower in fear. The day has come again: Peter Gabriel returns with yet another album of orchestral covers! But fear not. This time he's covering his own songs. Luckily on New Blood the results are far, far more pleasing to long-time fans than his previous effort, last year's ...
Forgotten Series: Groundtruther - Latitude (2004)
By Mark Saleski Drummer Bobby Previte and bassist Charlie Hunter got together to record some completely improvised music. The twist was that they rotated in a different third player for each recording in the trilogy entitled “Latitude, Longitude, Attitude." The project was named Groundtruther. For the first installment, the third member was saxophonist Greg Osby. This ...
Darius Jones Trio - Big Gurl (Smell My Dream) (2011)
Darius Jones might be the fastest rising star in the whack jazz world or at least, the fastest rising alto saxophonist within that realm.Man'ish Boy (A Raw And Beautiful Thing)) and a great, primal punk jazz album last year with Little Women, Jones solidified his position among the current crop of improvised music heavies earlier this ...
Popa Chubby - Back to New York City (2011)
This is a script-flipped blues rock, with a plugged-in emphasis on the rock part. Back to New York City, in many ways, is as loud as it is brash—a thundering restatement of Popa Chubby's outsized persona and even outer-sized personality. But peel away the scalding licks, and the stomping rhythms, and the braying vocals, and you ...
Gordon Grdina, Gary Peacock and Paul Motian - Think Like the Waves (2006)
By Mark Saleski In his essay, “Listening To Music," composer John Cage offers a possible definition of music and a framework for its evaluation: “I have talked with several musicians who have seriously claimed that music is not made of sound, but rather of the relationships of the sounds, and that in order to appreciate it ...
Laura Ainsworth - Keep It to Yourself (2011)
Dallas, Texas-based Laura Ainsworth, though performing last-century throwback cocktail jazz, may have stumbled into a zeitgeist-defining moment with the opening title track here. Whether she knew it or not back in the recording studio, Ainsworth's delicious tale of revenge exacted on a serial philanderer is perfectly of the moment in this period of celebrity male misdeed ...
Something Else! Interview: Jazz Legend Chico Hamilton
Jazz legend Chico Hamilton celebrated turning 90 last month—how else?—but issuing another album. With Revelation, the NEA Jazz Master's 60th project, Hamilton continues to build on a remarkable recording career dating back to 1941. That's included stints drumming with Lionel Hampton, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Lester Young, Nat “King" Cole, T-Bone Walker, Gerry Mulligan—and, over a ...
David Paul Mesler, with Tony Rondolone - Moonsongs (2011)
ianist David Paul Mesler and saxophonist Tony Rondolone offer 13 takes on a theme during the appropriately titled Moonsongs, an album perfectly suited for twilight. Each of the tunes here, familiar though they may be, is approached with a thoughtful restraint—resulting in an album that is bold in its conception, yet often touchingly poignant in its ...
