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Yes - Fly from Here (2011)
This album is, in many ways, better than it has any right to be. Yes had already tried a project with Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes—and without Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman—in 1980, and the resulting project Drama turned into an guitar-focused curio. The group went back to the drawing board, adding Trevor Rabin as Steve ...
One Track Mind: Fleet Foxes, "The Shrine/an Argument" (2011)
By Mark Saleski Do things in music always have to go smoothly? Does it bother you when your expectations are upset? I've always enjoyed it when a song takes an unexpected left turn. Two great examples are John Zorn's version of the “The James Bond Theme" (from Naked City) where, right in the middle of a ...
Anne Mette Iversen Quartet - The Milo Songs (2011)
When I think of all the members of the young, exciting roster that the fledgling Brooklyn Jazz Underground Jazz Records has in its ranks, one of the first names I think of is Anne Mette Iversen. She is a serious talent at both acoustic bass and compositions. OK, so there might be a few dozen bass ...
Pat Metheny and Ornette Coleman - Song X (1986; Reissue)
By Mark Saleski Sorta like Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, Pat Metheny and Ornette Coleman's Song X has long been a strange attractor for all sorts of hyperbole, rumor-mongering and dismissal. Yeah, Song X was nothing but a slap in Geffen's face (despite it being Pat's first release on that label) or ... it's the best ...
Michael Franks - Time Together (2011)
You don't see me cover a lot of jazz vocalist or smooth jazz records, so you may wonder what is up with this piece about a record from smooth jazz's premier vocalist, Michael Franks? When I informed our own Mark Saleski my intention to cover Franks his reaction was to disgusted “ewwwww!" but that didn't faze ...
One Track Mind: Frank Sinatra and Count Basie, "The Best is yet to Come" (1964)
The crashing brilliance of “The Best Is Yet To Come," courtesy of Frank Sinatra and the Count Basie band, came to mind on this, the fifth anniversary of Something Else! Reviews. The site has evolved through a couple of iterations into the daily digest you see today and, in many ways, it feels like we're just ...
Jacky Terrasson - Mirror (2007)
By Mark Saleski How many times have you heard somebody say that they were never able to get into jazz because “I don't understand it?" Maybe you are that person? Well, I want to let you in on a little secret: There is no right answer. Yes, you read that right. It's very much like those ...
Terence Blanchard - Malcolm X: The Original Motion Picture Score (1991)
If, during the opening strains of your DVD copy of “Malcolm X," you stop eating popcorn mid-munch, that's just fine with trumpeter Terence Blanchard. His original score for the 1991 Spike Lee film was designed to be anything but background music. Melancholy then snap-bean jazz and then jack-boot ominous, his score can only be described as ...
Jerry Granelli Trio - Let Go (2011)
verytime I've examined a Jerry Granelli record, like Song I Thought I Heard Buddy Sing or News From The Street, I've marveled at how a guy who drummed for all those Charlie Brown children's TV specials with Vince Guaraldi ended up being such a creative risktaker as a leader. At the same time, I think it's ...
Forgotten Series: Tin Machine - Live: Oy Vey, Baby (1992)
By Tom Johnson I think Tin Machine was unfairly dismissed. Consisting of two studio albums and this live disc, and featuring David Bowie and guitar-genius Reeves Gabrels (who would accompany Bowie in his solo works through the 1990s), Tin Machine's output was slammed for being woefully out of touch at the time they were released. Too ...
