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Something Else! Featured Artist: Rush
By Something Else Reviews When most think of Rush, it's their instrumental virtuosity, especially that of drummer Neil Peart, that comes to mind first. Or the love or hate vocals of Geddy Lee. Other times it's Peart's second role as lyricist for the band that garners attention, and it's another love or hate area of focus. ...
A "Yo Miles!" (Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith) Two-Fer! - Shinjuku and Lightning (2010)
By S. Victor Aaron Since very early on we've eagerly pounced on records that re-image that dense, impenetrable period of Miles Davis between about 1969 and 1975 when he first defined fusion jazz and then kept redefining it again and again. This is music that doesn't come easily to most people; they must go to it, ...
Bobby Selvaggio - Grass Roots Movement (2011)
By S. Victor Aaron For a serious post-bop performer to take a leap into Grooveland, it can often be a risky bet. Will they be able to keep their artistic integrity? Will they even care? A couple of years ago, alto saxophonist Bobby Selvaggio made his second album (his first for the Arabesque Recordings label), leading ...
Ginger Baker - Horses and Trees (1986, Reissue)
By Nick DeRiso Fusion in the most complete sense of the word, Ginger Baker's all-too-brief Horses & Trees melds jazz, funk, world music, electronica, reggae, hip-hop and something noiser still. Issued in 1986 on the New York-based art-dance label Celluloid label, this angular, deeply challenging effort was produced by Bill Laswell, who also appears on bass. ...
Forgotten Series: Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (1985)
By Nick DeRiso Known now (unfortunately) for its jokey songs—that headband-couture video-hit “Money for Nothing," the silly baseball-park ditty “Walk of Life"—Dire Strait's Brothers in Arms wouldn't perhaps seem like a top candidate for inclusion in the Something Else's Forgotten Series. Except that elsewhere on the album, when they weren't “playing guitar on the MTV," Dire ...
After Midnight - Live at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee (2011)
By Nick DeRiso Clarinetist Roger Campbell has turned an enduring passion for swing legend Benny Goodman into a sizzling six-piece jazz project called After Midnight. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that a new live effort finds him slithering his way through “Memories of You," legendarily performed by Rosemary Clooney with Goodman in the mid-1950s. That's Campbell ...
Aaron Neville - I Know I've Been Changed (2010)
By Nick DeRiso With a voice that's axiomatically compared with winged messengers from God, Aaron Neville's gospel records ought to form the cornerstone of his resume, right? Instead, the New Orleans singing legend's two previous attempts felt too forced, like being dragged into church. Not this one. Neville, paired with producer Joe Henry (Elvis Costello; Rodney ...
From the Stacks: Pico's 2011 Stacks, Volume 2
By S. Victor Aaron When I first started the Stacks series last year, I had two formatting rules about it: each artist was to be allotted one paragraph each and there must be at least six albums examined. I'm bending both rules this time, as only five new releases will get a look, and the single ...
One Track Mind: Billy Joel, "Prelude/Angry Young Man" (1976)
By S. Victor Aaron So yesterday I read that Billy Joel has written an autobiography that he plans to publish June 14, called The Book Of Joel, and the book's editor promised that “there is a lot in this book that he has never revealed before." (Ex-Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar's memoirs, incidentally, arrive on March ...
The Friday Morning Listen: Van Halen - Van Halen (1978)
By Mark Saleski There was an article out this past week by Steven Hyden at the Onion A.V. website entitled How long does it take to “get" an album? Interesting stuff. I'm not sure I agree with the whole “professional critic" vs. “regular person" deal, but I can see Mr. Hyden's point when he wonders about ...
