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Duke Robillard - Low Down and Tore up (2011)
Blues records used to routinely sound like this: Loose and fun, almost anarchic in their pursuit of nothing more than good-time joy and real-time emotion. Duke Robillard, co-founder of Roomful of Blues and former member of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, breathes new life into the concept on Low Down and Tore Up, to be issued today on ...
Florencia Ruiz - Luz de la Noche (2011)
Occasionally I'll come across a record that sounds very pleasing to me and then realize that the music falls outside my usual areas of interest. Like, for instance, this new one by Florencia Ruiz that I've been listening to a lot in the last few days. Luz de la Noche is the name of her album, ...
Forgotten Series: Matthew Shipp - Nu Bop (2003)
By Tom Johnson Jazz has been in a kind of holding pattern since the mid-1970s, when even Miles Davis declared the genre dead. Many exciting artists have arrived since then and have begun pushing boundaries and incorporating new sounds, but unfortunately what remains noticeable of jazz recently is relegated to the soulless flagellating of adult-contemporary pablum ...
Joey Baron - Tongue in Groove (2004)
By Tom Johnson Drummer Joey Baron's Baron down, featuring Steve Swell on trombone and Ellery Eskelin on tenor sax comes across like the mischievous little brother to John Zorn's Masada. More than that, the only way to adequately describe the sound of Barondown is to compare it to big brother Masada, but only if Masada got ...
Avishai Cohen - After the Big Rain (2007)
Reviewers sometimes get too caught up playing the label game: jazz, pop, world (ah, the ambiguous catch-all label), rock, ambient. Whenever a writer struggles with material that lacks a definite musical anchor, I am reminded of the transformation seen through Miles Davis' electric years. Squeaky horns, abusive guitars, fuzzed-out keyboards, all woven together with constantly shifting, ...
William Parker - Luc's Lantern (2005)
By Mark Saleski Digital. It's just got to be digital—ones 'n zeros. Forget that old-fashioned analog stuff. That's for old fogies. If you want to be with it, current, where it's at, up to date, in the know, down with it ... your activity must be presented in bits (for those who are suffering from extreme ...
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith (1936-2011): An Appreciation
Willie “Big Eyes" Smith, a former sideman with Muddy Waters who became a Grammy-winning performer in his own right, has died. A new message on his Web site reads: “We are deeply saddened to report that Willie “Big Eyes" Smith passed away early the morning of September 16, 2011 at his home in Chicago from a ...
Ken Fowser/Behn Gillece - Duotone (2011)
Last year we investigated a strong post-bop excursion by the potent, up-and-coming partnership of tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser and vibraphonist Behn Gillece. Little Echo (2010) swung like mad and put into sharp focus the tight rapport of Fowser and Gillece that is at the center of their post-bop achievements. Continuing what seems to becoming tradition for ...
Sammy Figueroa and His Latin Jazz Explosion - Urban Nature (2011)
Rock fans know him for his work with David Bowie and the Average White Band, jazz fans from moments alongside Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins (they're on tour now), soul and pop fans from turns with Chaka Khan and Mariah Carey. But Sammy Figueroa's real passion, this record makes clear is Latin jazz. A move from ...
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James (1970; 2011 Audio Fidelity Remaster)
Recorded in the waning days of the 60's, James Taylor's second album became one of a handful of albums that defined the pop and rock landscape in the immediate wake of the Beatles' breakup. Sweet Baby James needs no introduction to just about anyone over the age of 45, but over four decades later, the album ...
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