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Gregg Rolie - Five Days EP (2011)
By Nick DeRiso Gregg Rolie, a founding member of Santana and then Journey, is probably best remembered as a tiny speck playing keyboards in sold-out arenas. That makes the intimate, deeply introspective new EP Five Days, recorded live with just piano and vocals, a revelation. Rolie offers a couple of originals, reexamines two of his most ...
One Track Mind: A Fragile Tomorrow, "I Just Never Said Enough" (2010)
By Nick DeRiso A Fragile Tomorrow builds out from the country-rock synthesis of pathfinders like the Band and the Byrds, starting with the new-wave attitude and propulsive rhythms of descendent bands like R.E.M. and the dBs. But there's something else, lodged in amidst the brailing mandolin and stamping beat, this heartfelt gravitas. Turns out, this South ...
Bones and Tones - Bones and Tones (2011)
By S. Victor Aaron A marimba, a vibraphone, a stand-up bass, percussion and a little kora. A little bit of American jazz, a dash of Caribbean and a side of African folk music, but not quite like any of the three. How sweet the sound. That's the kind of sound coming from this one-of-kind quartet Tones ...
The Friday Morning Listen: Christine Hayward - Live at E.F. Lane (2009)
By Mark Saleski In the past handful of years, I have jettisoned a few distractions: namely, sports and television, which are sort of related. Rounding out the list is politics. I have decided that, because my thoughts on “the right thing to do" are so far outside of the mainstream, it's just not worth bothering with ...
Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson - Ella and Oscar (1975, Reissue)
By Nick DeRiso Though not the hoped-for third-act triumph, Ella and Oscar still has its enduring charms. See, Oscar Peterson, a hard-banging piano genius as bluesy as he was inventive, should have made the perfect foil for Ella Fitzgerald on this stripped-down date, set for reissue on March 15 by Concord. It seems that too much ...
Many Arms - Missing Time
By S. Victor Aaron One of Frank Zappa's latter day live documents is called Make A Jazz Noise Here. Anyone who's followed Zappa knows that while Zappa rarely really played jazz as we tend to think of jazz, a lot of his music adopted the exacting, open-ended construction of jazz, especially avant-garde jazz. When you peel ...
The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh (2011)
By Mark Saleski In the recent Southern Music issue of the Oxford American, musician John Engle speaks of “The Vastness," the idea that the world's store of knowledge is so vast that “if you tried to take it all on at once it would crush you." It's true. And there are many points of entry. These ...
Matthew Shipp - Art of the Improviser (2011)
By Mark Saleski The music of jazz composer/pianist Matthew Shipp isn't fairly described as “avant-garde," mostly because to a great many people, that categorization can be read as “I don't understand this music, can we please leave now?" This wouldn't be fair to Shipp because over the course of his career, he has spent a lot ...
Delfeayo Marsalis - Sweet Thunder (2011)
By Nick DeRiso For all of the many wonders of Duke Ellington's Such Sweet Thunder, the 1957 ode to the writings of William Shakespeare left plenty of room to tinker. Many of the compositions, which explored literary familiars from Othello to Hamlet, were but brief bursts of sound. That opens the door for an interesting reimaging ...
Must Hear TV: Prime-Time Themes That Still ... Rock!
By Something Else Reviews There are TV themes you remember. “All In The Family," with its way-back talk of President Hoover and LaSalle cars. Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams cooing together, “What would we do, baby, without us?" Bars where everybody knows your name. Fat Albert and the Junkyard Band's familiar “hey, hey, hey!" Then, there ...
