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Sean Nowell - Stockholm Swingin' (2011)
A blossoming career that started in Birmingham, Alabama recently had a stop all the way over in Stockholm, Sweden. For tenor saxophonist Sean Nowell's third album (all of which are on Posi-Tone Records, by the way), Nowell and drummer Joe Abba flew over to Sweden, joined Frederik Olsson (guitar), Leo Lindberg (piano), and Lars Ekman (bass), ...
Human Element - The Human Element (2011)
Easy comparisons arrive quickly as the new self-titled Abstract Logix debut release by Human Element spins, since the group has connections to the original pioneers who fused jazz and world music. In fact, this nascent supergroup includes ex-members of the Joe Zawinul, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Al Di Meola and Herbie Hancock bands. But Human Element's ...
Something Else! Interview: Zigaboo Modeliste, Co-Founder of the Meters
Joseph “Zigaboo" Modeliste, a funky furnace that once powered the Meters, has just released a tour-de-force project aptly titled New Life. It reestablishes, perhaps unsurprisingly, Modeliste's claim to co-ownership of the band's late 1960s/early 1970s string of R&B and rock hits—from “Cissy Strut" and “Fire on the Bayou," to supporting gigs with Lee Dorsey, LaBelle and ...
Dar Williams - The Beauty of the Rain (2003)
By Mark Saleski One day back in 1996, I was on my way to work and heard this terrific song ... about a kid playing in the backyard? Refusing to wear a shirt? Huh?! It's a girl? What the hell?! This turned out to be “When I Was A Boy" from Dar Williams' The Honestly Room. ...
Rich Halley Quartet - Requiem for a Pit Viper (2011)
Last year we introduced a really good avanteer to this site in Rich Halley, a lively and imaginative saxophonist and composer who would probably be more of a household name if he were in Chicago or New York instead of Portland, Oregon. Or played in a world-renowned venue like the Village Vanguard instead of Potter Valley, ...
Asylum Street Spankers - Mercurial (2004)
By Tom Johnson Spinning up Mercurial was like jumping in a time machine set for somewhere around 60-75 years ago. The Asylum Street Spankers bravely blazed their own trail far outside of mainstream music, offering pre-Charlie Parker swing jazz and jump-blues that once kept the flappers cavorting across dancefloors all night long. And they were churning ...
Marquis Hill - New Gospel (2011)
Taking in the first solo steps by a budding jazz talent is usually an excursion into a fresh new discovery. Most of time, these performances are polished and if there's originals, they can be surprisingly well developed. Maybe this shouldn't be all that surprising, because before a jazz musician makes that big step into leading a ...
One Track Mind: Paul McCartney and Wings, "Live and Let Die" (1973)
By Tom Johnson Let's look beyond the goofy flutes and whatnot—and the oddly aggressive nature of the song, because it's just so out of character for the nice man. Paul McCartney screwed up “Live And Let Die" in a huge way in my book because of a horrible grammar mistake. It's no wonder the song's so ...
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - How I Go (2011)
By Fred Phillips For a guy that once told me in an interview that he couldn't seem to make everyone happy with his mix of blues and rock, Kenny Wayne Shepherd has done pretty well for himself. Coming out of the gate as a 16-year-old kid schooled in the Stevie Ray Vaughan style of blues on ...
Billy Bang Quintet Featuring Frank Lowe - Above and Beyond (2007)
By Mark Saleski It can be a tough thing to witness an aging musician head toward (or past) the point of no return. For me, the worst example was Miles. Sure he played that concert with Quincy at Montreux but the power behind the man with the horn just wasn't there. There are counterexamples out there. ...
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