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Two for Tain!: Jeff "Tain" Watts - Family and Laura Kahle - Circular (2011)
It's been a couple of years since we last heard from pre-eminent jazz rhythmist Jeff “Tain" Watts, when his star-studded engagement Watts was introduced. This past April 19, Watts' own Dark Key Music label trotted out two new records, one by the thirty-year vet Watts, and the first one by an Australian-born pocket trumpet player by ...
Something Else! Featured Artist: Boz Scaggs
We all know Boz Scaggs, right? The guy from Silk Degrees, the 1976 smash that spawned hit single after hit single after hit single—the million-selling “Lowdown," “Lido Shuffle," “What Can I Say," “We're All Alone." The truth is, though, that it was the former Steve Miller sideman's seventh solo release, and Scaggs has continued issuing varied ...
One Track Mind: Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis, "Losing Hand" (2011)
Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis continue a stirringly offbeat musical dialogue begun with their 2008 release Two Men with the Blues, this time focusing on the music of Ray Charles. Here We Go Again, issued last month by Blue Note, also includes several turns by Norah Jones—not to mention some tasty asides by saxophonist Walter Blanding ...
One Track Mind: Pink Floyd, "On the Turning Away" (1988, Live)
By Tom Johnson Listening to Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound Of Thunder, I found myself perplexed at some of the lyrics to “On The Turning Away." Singer/guitarist David Gilmour states: Where the speechless unite In a silent accord I found myself wondering, “How would they know? How would the 'speechless' know to 'unite in a ...
Mort Weiss - Meets Bill Cunliffe (2011)
Clarinetist Mort Weiss, who turns 76 years young tomorrow, is ten years into a remarkable comeback after laying off working as a musician for four—that's right—four decades. Last year, both Mark Saleski and myself totally dug Weiss' solo clarinet opus, Raising The Bar. Making up for lost time, Weiss is now nine albums in his remarkable ...
Carla Bley and Her Remarkable Big Band - Appearing Nightly (2008)
by Mark Saleski There are two things that can be counted on when cracking open a new Carla Bley Big Band record: 1. many, many interesting and twisty passages of musical architecture and 2. volume. Oh yes, the horn section is enormous and it's powerful. I've made jokes about Bley's hair being shaped by the sheer ...
Forgotten Series: David Torn - Tripping Over God (1995)
by Tom Johnson David Torn's Tripping Over God is an album that has defied description since the day I bought it in 1995. With only a vague knowledge of the man as a member of David Sylvian's band for the Secrets Of The Beehive album, I happened upon a listening station at the local Tower Records ...
Third International, Featuring King Crimson's Ian McDonald - Beautiful Accident (2011)
This is a different kind of blues record, one with a joltingly modern menace. The Third International's Beautiful Accident brilliantly updates a time-weathered genre by focusing on texture as much as lyrical content. In fact, sometimes the words are simply enveloped by the rising rabble of crunchy R&B riffs, prog-rock influenced song structures and pounding rhythms. ...
Steely Dan Sunday: "Midnite Cruiser" (1972)
Posted by S. Victor Aaron Aside from the pre-Can't Buy A Thrill promo single “Dallas," here's the only Steely Dan song drummer Jim Hodder sang lead on. It wasn't the first and only time he took the lead mic on a recording, though: his prior band Bead Game make one record a couple of years earlier ...
Something Else! Featured Artist: The Isley Brothers
In a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career dating back to the early 1950s, the Isley Brothers stayed on the move—transforming themselves from gospel shouters to doo-woppers to early rock 'n' rollers to nasty funksters to lover-man balladeers. Of course, nowadays, you're more likely to hear their 1973 Top 10 hit “The Lady Pt. 1," ...
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