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Something Else! Interview: Jazz Guitarist Bill Frisell
We might be tempted to take for granted quietly impactful triumphs like guitarist Bill Frisell's forthcoming All We Are Saying, an Americana-infused tribute to John Lennon. After all, the prolific Frisell has made a career of deftly combining the distortion and verve of modern rock, the raw emotion of backwoods roots music and the sophisticated harmonics ...
Neil Young - Prairie Wind (2005)
By Mark Saleski No harm meant by this remark: I'd rather listen to John Mayer than Elliott Smith. So there, I've said it. Not to illustrate that I've got no indie cred. That I apparently have no taste in music. Not even to piss off the legions of Smith fans. No, that is not the point. ...
Charlie Apicella and Iron City - The Business (2011)
There's an irresistible swagger to old-fashioned, grease-popping soul jazz records, something so far removed in this hidebound era of button-down classicists. Everything about it—the left-hand blasts of organ, the scrappy guitar riffs, the flame-kissed sax retorts—just says: Party. Charlie Apicella and Iron City's The Business, newly issued by CArlo Records, is no different. From the initial ...
Vito Rezza and 5after4 - Rome in a Day (2011)
You might read the artist name and album title and think this is a record of Italian music but, no, not exactly. 5AFTER4 is a rock-jazz outfit out of Toronto led by its drummer, Vito Rezza, and though Rezza was born in Italy, he's been in Canada for so long that a recent whirlwind trip to ...
Tim Collins - Castles and Hilltops (2011)
As a musician, Collins is the complete package: performer, composer, bandleader. This we know from his 2007 debut Valcour, when he was largely introduced to the world as a vibraphonist with great range and inventiveness in the manner of Bobby Hutcherson. On that record, he led a sextet of equally hungry young players over a dynamic ...
Clear - Never Falling Again (2011)
With Never Falling Again, Clear explores the devastation left behind as relationships end—yet somehow comes away with a collection of songs that's startlingly beautiful. That's no easy feat. But the Canadian band's deft blending of pop, folk and jazz styles ensure that no matter how dark the subject matter, this album never falls into lonely crepuscular ...
Tangerine Dream - Live in America 1992 (2011)
Tangerine Dream—or as they were known, back when I was in school: The guys who did the weird music for the “Risky Business" soundtrack—had gotten significantly less weird by this point. Founding member Edgar Froese is the lone hold over from Tangerine Dream's 1971-77 whoa-man synthesizer-soundscape hey day, a period that also included keyboardist Peter Baumann ...
Gimme Five: The Pat Metheny Trio
By Mark Saleski Many artists, when asked to pick a favorite from their own discography, will lean toward their most recent release. Sure, I can see that. You work on new material, it's fresh and exiting, and right there in the front of your mind. I've wondered what Pat Metheny's response would be if he was ...
Lenny Kravitz - Black and White America (2011)
No major artist has or will ever claim to be more of a 1970s-styled musical chameleon than Lenny Kravitz, since his whole career has been about simulating the analog sounds and feel of that decade (and arguably, into the 1980s a bit). Black And White America signals a departure not in style by in themes. Here, ...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - The Race Riot Suite (2011)
The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey is a band that's clearly relished keeping people guessing—down to the fictional person in the band name—and while jazz has always been the starting point for their music, it's anyone's guess where the band would take it from one album to the next. We last visited JFJO more than three years ...
