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Viktor Krauss - Far from Enough (2004)
By Tom Johnson I spent most of the morning flipping between one disc and the next, restless for something that actually fit my mood. I just didn't want to, you know, as they say, deal and nothing particularly appealed to me. On days like this, I tend to gather up a pretty disparate grouping of artists ...
The Friday Morning Listen: Pat Metheny - Beyond the Missouri Sky (1997)
Vacation Part 3. OK, so I didn't win the lottery. I didn't buy a big house on the Maine coast. There was no affair with the real estate agent. But you could have probably guessed all of that. What came to pass did seem something like a fantasy but somehow ... it always does. Two weeks ...
Something Else! Featured Artist: Little River Band
Australia's Little River Band placed 11 songs in the Top 40 in the late 1970s and early 1980s, becoming one of the most successful acts to come from Down Under. Yet, somehow that note-perfect blending of sweeping vocals and polished musicianship—smooth, approachable, ear-wormy—never translated to critical applause. Weary of the rock snobbery, we decided—wait for it—that ...
Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011): An Appreciation
Musician and street poet Gil Scott-Heron, best known for “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," died today. Cause of death was not immediately known; he was 62. Scott-Heron started out at the dawn of the 1970s as a jazz-inclined R&B singer and spoken-word performer, a rapper years before the genre was formally invented. “The Revolution Will ...
The New Gary Burton Quartet - Common Ground (2011)
Vibraphonist Gary Burton's entire career as a musician has been about thinking outside the box and exploring new frontiers in jazz music. When he was only seventeen years old, his first recording date was with country and western guitar great Hank Garland making a (gasp!) jazz album (Jazz Winds From a New Direction (1961), and damned ...
One Track Mind: Michael Wolff on Songs with Cannonball Adderley, Warren Zevon, Others
On this special edition of Something Else! Reviews' One Track Mind, we hand the reins over to jazz pianist Michael Wolff. He shares insights into an Indian-inflected collaboration with Charlie Hunter, the lasting allures of funk classics like the Temptations “Papa Was a Rolling Stone," the friendship that grew from collaborating with Warren Zevon and what ...
Edith Wilson - He May Be Your Man ... but He Comes to See Me Sometimes (1973)
A pioneer as just the third African American woman to make a phonograph recording back in the 1920s, Edith Wilson later fell on hard times—and was reduced to appearing through the mid-'60s (and quite anonymously) in the first Aunt Jemima TV commercials. By the early 1970s, few remembered Wilson, an early star of black theater who ...
Something Else! Interview: Jazz Pianist Michael Wolff
Jazz pianist Michael Wolff—an endlessly engaging player whom the New York Times has praised for “near impeccable good taste, technical facility and lyrical inventiveness" —joins us for an SER Sitdown to discuss the lasting importance of his old boss Julian “Cannonball" Adderley, Nancy Wilson's way with a song, the world's weird attaction of Elvis Presley—oh, and ...
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Rocket Science (2011)
By Tom Johnson Sometimes old really is new again. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones existed as a trio for a handful of years after harmonica/pianist Howard Levy left, only to ask consistent fill-in saxophonist Jeff Coffin to join their ranks. Being a talented guy, he gets around, and when Dave Matthews Band saxophonist LeRoi Moore tragically ...
Starlicker - Double Demon (2011)
I don't know if it's a trend of not, but lately I've noticed a lot more unconventional trios in jazz. By “unconventional" I mean without the bassist, and the usual premise I've heard for doing this is to allow more freedom. Trying out uncommon configurations is an interesting and often stimulating tactic used to open up ...
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