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Garage A Trois - Always by Happy, but Stay Evil (2011)
By S. Victor Aaron In the twisted, sound-bending world of Garage Á Trois, it's well beyond finding that rare groove, it's about finding sounds that are even more fundamentally rare. About a year and a half ago, a new Garage Á Trois introduced a shifted lineup for their their third full-length album Power Patriot, as founding ...
Deep Cuts: Sting, "Island of Souls" (1991)
By Nick DeRiso “The Soul Cages," a Sting album about boyhood grief, remains this strangely powerful if demanding narrative, one with textured song structures and densely emotional themes. Its triumph comes right away, though, on the opener “Island of Souls"—a compellingly dark, perfectly conceived tale of a riveter's son whose dream of the open sea only ...
One Track Mind: John Oates, "Mississippi Mile" (2011)
You might expect that a tribute album to John Oates' youth would sound more like Gamble and Huff than the dusty Delta. After all, as the mustachioed one in Hall and Oates, he helped craft a canny update of the Philly soul sound that scored six No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, from “Rich ...
Forgotten Series: Kenny Garrett - Standard of Language (2003)
By Mark Saleski Interplay. Whether I'm taking in straight ahead, bebop-style jazz or more out-there stuff, it's all about listening: — Is the bassist just holding down the changes or is he conspiring with the drummer? — Is the pianist supporting the sax (and while I'm at it, everybody else!) in an interesting way or is ...
Tom Levin - Tooth and Claw (2011)
We find no uncluttered answers on Tom Levin's sumptuous, vaguely fatalistic Tooth and Claw. In fact, oftentimes the questions themselves for this former New Music Weekly Awards AC male artist of the year are almost unbearable. Levin faces them all with a hard-bitten, desolate fortitude, occasionally descending into this abandoned whiskey-barrel voice that recalls a youthful ...
Something Else! Interview: Former Yes Frontman Jon Anderson
By Nick DeRiso After a difficult bout with respiratory problems, Jon Anderson has returned with a furious creativity, beginning with last year's successful collaboration with fellow Yes alum Rick Wakeman. A forthcoming solo release, set for late spring, is to be part of a three-album cycle of songs—a rebirth both in the figurative and literal sense ...
DVD: Peter Gabriel - Growing up Live (2003)
By Tom Johnson Perhaps it was a reaction to claims by fans and detractors alike that Peter Gabriel's previous live offering, Secret World Live, was really more “live" than live, that Gabriel decided to both offer up untouched soundboard recordings of each show on his summer tour and to quickly release a live DVD documenting a ...
Darius Jones and Matthew Shipp - Cosmic Lieder (2011)
By S. Victor Aaron Going from unknown two years ago to co-leading a duet record with Matthew Shipp is a meteoric rise in the avant jazz world, much less any world, but that's just what alto saxophonist has accomplished in this short time frame. In the fall of 2009, Jones released his debut album, the critically ...
Billy Bang (1947-2011): An Appreciation
By S. Victor Aaron The jazz world suffered a significant loss Monday with the passing of violinist Billy Bang. Reportedly afflicted with lung cancer, Bang, born William Vincent Walker, was 63 years old. Given his stage name from friends as a youth, a name taken from a cartoon character, Bang's life was anything but comical. He ...
Paul Simon - So Beautiful or so What (2011)
By Nick DeRiso Paul Simon's new record, his first since 2006's dense Brian Eno-collaboration Surprise, is a career-spanning, sometimes duskily ruminative, quirk-splashed triumph—simultaneously bold in its constructions and timeless in its themes. There's a freedom, perhaps, that comes from going it alone: After 30 years with Warner Bros., Simon paid for the lengthy sessions that eventually ...
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