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Canned Heat, Featuring Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Live at Montreux 1973 (2011)
Canned Heat, the doomed boogie-blues revivalists, only made a lone appearance at the legendary Montreux Jazz Festival. Yet they still managed some star-crossed magic. By 1973, co-frontman Alan “Blind Owl" Wilson had already tragically passed, an overdose victim at just 27. Stepping in, however, with Bob “The Bear" Hite and the rest of his Delta-rocking brethren ...
Charles Lloyd - Jumping the Creek (2005)
By Mark Saleski Listeners come to jazz from many directions. They may have a natural attraction to it. Jazz may have been the predominant music playing on their parents' home stereo (though that kind of situation has been known to drive a person in the opposite direction). They may even have played an instrument at a ...
Skip Heller - Homegoing (2002)
By Mark Saleski Artists deserving wider recognition. You see this kind of thing all the time in music polls. And do they ever gain wider recognition? Not usually. Mostly because they're maybe a little too esoteric, too interesting for the mainstream public. I know that's playing kinda fast and loose with musical stereotypes ... and heck, ...
Mike Zito - Greyhound (2011)
Mike Zito's new release Greyhound moves with impressive force between acoustic story songs, and these grinding, hellhound-chased blues-rock numbers. You have the title track, a grifter's road song. Traveling with only the things he can carry, Zito's character has a fascination he just can't shake for whatever is just over that next rise. Then, “Motel Blues" ...
Woody Witt - Pots and Kettles (2011)
If you're a jazz fan in the Houston, Texas, area, you've surely heard of saxophonist Woody Witt. A tireless music educator around town, the manager and artistic director of one of Houston's few jazz clubs, and a recording artist in his own right, Witt has a long list of credentials that could easily make up an ...
Untempered Ensemble - Untempered Ensemble (2011)
Bill Cole, a multicultural multi-instrumentalist, is one of the guys at the top of the hierarchy in the improvised music scene, having been at it in earnest since at least the late 70s. Earlier this year I marveled at his mastery of Eastern reed instruments in his one-on-one with violinist Billy Bang, in what proved to ...
David S. Ware - Live in the World (2005)
By Mark Saleski There's this notion in the world of sculpture that the artist is merely freeing the shape locked within the raw source material. This always seemed like a great way to describe the mystery of a particular piece of abstract art. The artist begins with a big chunk of rock and starts to chisel, ...
Forgotten Series: Nellie McKay - Get Away from Me (2004)
By Tom Johnson This spunky singer, 19 years old at the time, was a lot smarter and had a much more mature ear than her age indicated. Incorporating everything from saccharine Bacharachian melodies to husky jazz to edgy hip-hop, it might have seemed that Get Away From Me was all over the map sonically. But Nellie ...
Jim Snidero - Interface (2011)
You'd think that a guy who possess impeccable tone and technique on the alto sax, has starred in the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra and the Mingus Big Band, has led solid straight ahead records of his own for almost 25 years would be a household name in jazz circles. Jim Snidero isn't, but that's no fault ...
Something Else! Featured Artist: Genesis
Believe it or not, Phil Collins was once just a member of this group called Genesis. Back then, before Collins turned Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks into his backing band, Genesis had begun its musical life as a witty, sometimes quite theatrical prog-rock project. The twin departures, however, of Peter Gabriel and then Steve Hackett led ...
