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Steely Dan Sunday: "Do It Again" (1972)
The first song from the first album, and their first hit (#6, Billboard Hot 100 in 1973). The theme of people succumbing to their worst tendencies again and again is the theme that will get many return visits from the Boys of Bard. But in some ways, it's a little unlike typical Steely Dan songs: it ...
Paul Simon - The Essential Paul Simon (2007)
By Mark Saleski Paul Simon's career has something that is becoming quite rare in the entertainment world: longevity. Yes, the songs on this collection span over three decades. During that time period our culture, the music biz, and Simon himself have seen great changes. So has every one of us. For instance, at the beginning of ...
Michael Feinberg - With Many Hands (2011)
Yesterday, Atlanta, GA bassist Michael Feinberg put out his second album, With Many Hands, a part of a quiet revolution taking place in jazz today. The twenty-somethings like Feinberg and his band who are plying their trade in this hallowed American institution of jazz didn't grow up listening to only Armstrong, Parker and Davis records. Like ...
Woody Shaw - United (1981, Reissue)
By Nick Deriso A new reissue series focusing on turn-of-the-1980s sides by the underappreciated Woody Shaw doesn't consistently illustrate why he's sometimes considered the last of the true innovators at the trumpet. But United certainly does. Shaw, playing in his last date as a leader for Columbia Records, marked his return to the purely straight-ahead style ...
One Track Mind: Arild Andersen with Bill Frisell, "Dual Mr. Anthony Tillmon Williams" (1981)
By S. Victor Aaron Some time ago...two years and three months ago to be more precise...we raved on the double-bass mastery of the Norwegian ECM Records mainstay Arild Andersen, and noted then that he “may not be the first name that comes up when one thinks of the greatest living acoustic bassists, but he's at least ...
One Track Mind: Orrin Evans, "Jena 6 " (2011)
By Nick DeRiso Turns out, it actually does mean a thing, even if it ain't got that swing. For something like 80 years now, that old Duke Ellington cliche worked as the clarion call of big band music, but its mantra has also become its curse. Subsequent generations moved on to genres with more complexity, a ...
Monty Alexander - Uplift (2011)
By S. Victor Aaron Kingston, Jamaica's own Monty Alexander looms as large a figure in Jamaica's jazz world as Bob Marley does for its homegrown reggae. A virtuosic pianist in the Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson tradition, Alexander often melds Tatum and Peterson with the dancehall, calypso and reggae idioms from his homeland, and nobody does ...
Something Else! Featured Artist: Earth Wind and Fire
Boasting focused, soul-lifting horns, sunburst harmonies and a thrilling propensity for shaken-up textures and rhythms, Earth Wind and Fire could do almost no wrong for a period of time in the early- to mid-1970s. The group notched eight Top 10 pop albums and eight No. 1 R&B singles to go with eight Grammy Awards. EWF was ...
Jimmy Reed - Black Blues Series: The Best of Jimmy Reed (1977)
By Nick DeRiso Back then, you had to go to the record store, and look through this big catalog. I wanted to buy my father some of his music, something that would resonate, to show him I'd grown up to the point of buying a good gift. I ran my finger down the list of names, ...
Fallon Cush - Fallon Cush (2011)
By Nick DeRiso Fallon Cush grows more confident with each passing song on their self-titled debut. Perhaps because singer Steve Smith put this together on the fly, enlivened by passion and not weighed down by heavy planning. Smith, who wrote all of the songs, began by assembling a group of well-known Australian musicians including bassist Bill ...
