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Lee Konitz, with Frank Wunsch - Insight (2011)
An interesting recording from a period in which Lee Konitz wasn't always all that interesting. The saxophonist appears on these dates, recorded between 1989-94, alone and with German pianist Frank Wunsch. Konitz completists will remember his 1990 Nabel recording S'Nice with Munsch's trio, a graceful if not all that interesting aside. Here, however, we find Konitz ...
Mike Keneally Band - Guitar Therapy Live (2006)
By Tom Johnson I can't even begin to pretend to be impartial here: Guitarist Mike Keneally is absolutely one of my all-time favorites. But that doesn't mean I'm going to steer you wrong: If I thought this wasn't an easily palatable platter of fine phonic fun, I would have little problem saying so. And that is ...
Branford Marsalis - Footsteps of Our Fathers (2002)
By Mark Saleski You've gotta love what Branford Marsalis is all about. In today's music industry, where creativity is mostly overlooked in favor of bottom-line issues, Branford made a break in advance of this album from his long-time record label (Columbia) to start Marsalis Music. I first heard about Marsalis Music during a lecture (presented by ...
One Track Mind: Joe Jackson Trio "Sunday Papers" (Live, 2011)
Most of the time, good timing is a matter of being lucky instead of being good. For Joe Jackson's very first album Look Sharp! (1979), he wrote and recorded a ditty “Sunday Papers," blasting the British tabloid press with lethal doses of sarcasm. He and his Rain trio (Graham Maby, bass; Dave Houghton, drums) included this ...
Rush - Roll the Bones (Audio Fidelity Remaster) (1991, 2011 Reissue)
By Tom Johnson I have owned four copies of this album—that is to say, three versions of it four times. The first time was the day it came out, September 3, 1991, bought shortly after a college class got out, and then I drove quickly to a friend's place where she put up with me giving ...
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. - The Rat Pack Live at the Sands (2001)
By Derrick Lord This is an act the Rat Pack—Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.—had down to a T and it really shows. A fun slice of musical history. Completely un-PC which is a much welcome change of pace. It was recorded in 1963. Funny how people seemed to have more of a sense of ...
Aram Bajakian - Aram Bajakian's Kef (2011)
Listening to the guitarist Aram Bajakian is lot like listening to Marc Ribot, and Aram follows much of Ribot's wildly divergent style that incorporates the vintage forms of swing, punk and rock and roll into a fresh and daring style. So it's fair to state that if you like Ribot, you're gonna like Bajakian, too. That's ...
Forgotten Series: David Sylvian - Gone to Earth (1986)
By Tom Johnson I have a sort of extra-sensory perception relegated solely to picking up the faint signals thrown off by the arrival of music I want in a music store at a specific location. Be it a brand new disc only available as an import or some equally hard-to-find domestically-released item, or even something I ...
Joey Calderazzo - Amanecer (2007)
By Mark Saleski The opening track of Joey Calderazzo's Amanecer, for once, gave the listener some insight into where the pianist was headed. “Midnight Voyager," which first appeared on Michael Brecker's Tales From The Hudson, is a complete reworking of the original. By “complete" I mean that I did not recognize the tune until nearing the ...
Something Else! Featured Artist: Supertramp
Supertramp was many things over its too-brief period of hitmaking—art-rockish proggers, post-Beatle popsters, kinda-classical rockers, memory-defining radio monoliths. There was much to love as they moved, over the course of the early-1970s to the early-1980s, from the esoteric to the very top of the charts—something perhaps hastened by the core group's relocation to the shiny sunscape ...
