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Something Else! Interview: Steve Smith, of Journey and Vital Information
Drummer Steve Smith is in the midst of a flurry of activity in advance of the 30th anniversary of his jazz group Vital Information. The first VI album appeared in 1983, even as his tenure with the melodic rock band Journey reached its chart-topping zenith. Smith eventually left Journey to pursue jazz, his first true love, ...
Ella Fitzgerald - Love Letters from Ella (2007)
By Mark Saleski As record stores vanish, as more and more people get their music digitally, as the physical medium is phased out, well ... honestly, I don't know what the heck is going on out there. I do know that, just like everybody else, the major labels are trying to figure out how to navigate ...
Satoko Fujii - Eto, Watershed and Rafale (2011)
Our favorite avant gardist from Japan Satoko Fujii is at it again, releasing at once a new batch of records of distinct character. Each are performed by bands she formed whose members render her boundless musical vision within their own voices, ranging from the fifteen member Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York to two quartets with odd ...
One Track Mind: John McLaughlin, "Recovery" (2011)
Guitarist John McLaughlin, decades after his audacious late 1960s' stateside debut with Tony Williams and Miles Davis, has lost none of his power, virtuosity and vision—as evidenced by this furious scramble from the new double-disc Abstract Logix Live 2010, to be issued on July 19. The first to make any kind of coherent assimilation of the ...
Zigaboo Modeliste - New Life (2011)
New Life arrived amidst much anticipation of something in keeping with drummer Zigaboo Modeliste's mythically groovetastic tenure with the Meters. And, bless him, I got it. But that wasn't all. Take the title track. “New Life" doesn't mimic the expected grease-fire funk of his old band, so much as forceably combine New Orleans syncopations with a ...
One Track Mind: Larry Goldings, "In My Room" (2011)
Larry Goldings, the jazz organist and long-time James Taylor sideman, opens his second acoustic piano solo release with this update of “In My Room," a Beach Boys' 1963 pop masterpiece that's always had this shattering beauty. Originally beginning as a waltz-tempo ballad, “In My Room" becomes a vehicle for some sensitive new solos by Goldings, even ...
Nicole Mitchell - Awakening (2011)
Everybody digs Nicole Mitchell. They love her in sweet hometown Chicago and all the critics in New York love her, too. Heck, even we discerning types at SER have taken a shining to her. She's the consensus top flautist in the jazz world, she's got a new record out, Awakening, and there's no way I'm going ...
Tord Gustavsen - The Ground (2005)
By Mark Saleski Fans of pianist Bill Evans will probably bristle at the comparison here, but that was the first connection that popped into my head with The Ground. Well, go ahead and bristle away because label-mate Keith Jarrett and “new ager" Liz Story also came to mind. The term new age was wrapped in quotes ...
One Track Mind: Rebirth Brass Band, "Shrimp and Gumbo" (2011)
Rebirth Brass Band comes out hotter than a pistol on “Shrimp and Gumbo," another in the long line of lip-smacking New Orleans songs about food, yet there remains an underlying theme of musicianship. As with its original version, written by legendary Fats Domino producer Dave Bartholomew, the song bears little resemblance to any Bourbon Street cliche—instead ...
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (2003)
By Tom Johnson There are moments when bands turn a corner, where everything becomes a bit more tightened up, stronger, more prominent. Transatlanticism was that album for Death Cab For Cutie. The corner this album turned for them took them from simply being an indie band to being something to contend with and watch. There were ...
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