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Vincent Poag - Circling Back (2011)
He sings something like Bob Dylan, plays guitar something like Mark Knopfler, but doesn't fall into easy mimicry of either. Credit a long journey to get here, as Vincent Poag took some time away from his dream of becoming a singer-songwriter for the straight life and starting a family. Now older, wiser and possessing a complexity ...
Keb Mo - The Reflection (2011)
Keb Mo isn't that kid playing the old blues on the old steel guitar anymore. Instead he often comes off on his new album The Reflection like a pillowy-smooth 1970s-era singer-songwriter—though guys like that, of course, never sounded this honey-smoked and warm. Leaving aside Keb Mo's earliest work, this shouldn't come a deep surprise. He has ...
Something Else! Sneak Peek: Lindsey Buckingham, "Seeds We Sow" (2011)
"Seeds We Sow," the title track to Lindsey Buckingham's sixth solo album, due on Sept. 6, is a darkly introspective triumph—as mysterious and challenging as anything in his often mysterious and challenging career. Sounding a little grayer, a little quieter, this isn't the gruffly sexual Buckingham of “Big Love," or the angry backtalker of “Go Your ...
Ben Tyree/BT3 - Re:vision (2010)
A couple of years back while covering a record by the whack jazz-funk-rock big band Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber I picked out Living Colour's Vernon Reid's contributions to the collective, but he wasn't the only guitarist on there. Ben Tyree was also on that record. Like Reid, Tyree doesn't settle for the middle of the ...
Jan Garbarek - In Praise of Dreams (2004)
By Mark Saleski Immediately recognizable saxophone voices: Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane. To this list we must add Jan Garbarek. Every musician brings something unique to the aural world. A way of phrasing. Romanticism of melody. Cryptic storytelling with chords. Energy. Shocking bursts of seeming anti-logic. Tone. Tone. In the jazz/instrumental music realm, tone is it. The ...
Something Else! Featured Artist: Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin's image, dating back to the band's debauched 1970s heyday, has grown so outsized that it sometimes obscures, well, the music. After all, that was time when—as Rolling Stone's Stephen Davis famously wrote in a late-period Zep review—you could “give an Englishman 50,000 watts, a chartered jet, a little cocaine and some groupies and he ...
Various Artists - Music Inside: A Collaboration Dedicated to Waylon Jennings (2011)
By Fred Phillips Ah, the tribute album. It started out as a good idea—current artists getting together to salute a classic artist that had a major influence on them. But, then, it spiraled out of control. All of a sudden, everyone had a tribute. In the metal and hard rock world, small record labels sprang up ...
Augusto Pirodda, with Paul Motian and Gary Peacock - No Comment (2011)
Pianist Augusto Pirodda, on his fifth long player, plays with the melodic, insinuating sensitivity that belies his brief recording career. In fact, No Comment, put to tape in 2009 but just out on the German label Jazzwerkstatt, is often off-handedly bold in that way. The opener, “It Begins Like This," is actually the initial soundcheck performed ...
Something Else! Sneak Peek: Warren Wolf, "427 Mass Ave." (2011)
Vibraphonist Warren Wolf is very, very talented, something he might have been aware of when he titled a past release Incredible Jazz Vibes, with a cover which looks conspicuously like Wes Montgomery's for The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery. But even if Wolf might think he's incredible, so what: bass master Christian McBride has thought ...
Quintus McCormick - Put It on Me! (2011)
Quintus McCormick doesn't quibble with genre on this new project from Delmark Records. Instead, he sings with a remarkable facility, at once bright and sweet then hard and accusatory, sounding at times like some after-midnight deep bluesman and then like a spit-shined mainstream soulster—and moving, along the way, well outside of any neat modern-day pre-packaging. Put ...
