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Matt Schofield - Anything but Time (2011)
Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Alvin Lee, Robin Trower and the late Gary Moore... all part of British blues guitar legacy. But try to name someone who came of age after the 1960s and belongs in that company? Matt Schofield may be the one who should be the first mentioned. Named a top ten British blues guitarist ...
Something Else! Interview: Lenny White, of Return to Forever
Fusion jazz drummer Lenny White is prepping for a reunion with the newly expanded Return to Forever, which will make 32 stops in the U.S. beginning in Pittsburgh on Aug. 7. The newest members are former Mahavishnu Orchestra violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and guitarist Frank Gambale. But White's life away from a band he's played with off ...
Neil Young and the International Harvesters - A Treasure (2011)
Time to rethink Neil Young and the 1980s. A Treasure, featuring live songs from a 1984-85 tour with a group of Nashville pros, is the sixth release in Young's ongoing Archives Performance Series—and it shines a spotlight on an often overlooked period between 1979's Rust Never Sleeps and Freedom a decade later. Young tinkered, and sometimes ...
Vicious World - Plays the Music of Rufus Wainwright (2011)
Originally named for a Rufus Wainwright song, it was perhaps inevitable that Vicious World would eventually devote an entire album to this underrated contemporary singer-songwriter. That doesn't make the prospect any less daunting, considering the sharp turns and blind alleys associated with Wainwright's deeply idiosyncratic style. But Vicious World, a septet co-led by saxophonist Aaron Irwin ...
Eric Hofbauer and the Infrared Band - Level (2011)
Boston-based guitarist Eric Hofbauer penned the liner notes to his new album out today, Level, beginning it with the testimony that “the music on Level ... explores the human condition using sound to tell stories." He then goes on to explain that the album “offers nine mythology-themed pieces about duality in the universe and in life—two ...
Gerald Wilson Orchestra - Legacy (2011)
He's conducting an all-star band, featuring the likes of Antonio Hart, Luis Bonilla, Renee Rosnes, Lewis Nash and Peter Washington. Yet the star of the show on Gerald Wilson's brilliant new release remains his adopted hometown of Chicago. Legacy, due on Tuesday from Mack Avenue Records, actually opens with five ingeniously performed ensemble pieces, each boasting ...
Elvis Costello and the Imposters - The Delivery Man (2004)
By Tom Johnson Somehow, nearly thirty years into his career, Elvis Costello managed to turn out one of his best albums ever. Costello is anything but afraid to take a chance. Some may argue that he's too willing to do so, leaping from one style to another, often leaving the less adventurous listeners in the lurch ...
Aaron Goldberg and Guillermo Klein - Bienestan (2011)
When pianist Aaron Goldberg set out to do this record, he wanted to mix things up with the compositions and arrangement, and so he called in Argentinian composer, arranger and fellow pianist Guillermo Klein to take the lead in those departments. Klein, who is fast getting a reputation of being a sort of Gil Evans of ...
Burning Gums - Burning Gums (2011)
A stylistic tour de force, this self-titled trio effort manages to take in many of jazz music's most notable influences, even tosses in a dash of Pacific island flavor, but it never falls into the rote imitative traps of so many of today's more traditionalist recordings. That's a credit to Burning Gums' executive producer Ron Jackson, ...
Clarence Clemons (1942-2011): An Appreciation
ate last night, I saw the email light blinking on my phone. A single new message had come in from one of my writer cohorts. The subject line read “Blood Brothers" ... and I knew. By the time you read this, thousands of obits will have already been published. The Clarence Clemons' story is well known ...
