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DVD: Michael McDonald - This Christmas (2010)
By Nick DeRiso The Doobie Brothers' ex-frontman sneaks in a few of his former band's more popular tunes during a new Eagle Rock Entertainment DVD, “This Christmas: Live in Chicago." Thankfully, though, Michael McDonald leaves behind the treacly synth-soaked production values of those old records. I'd often wondered what it would have been like if McDonald ...
The Friday Morning Listen: Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
By Mark Saleski Last year, after a couple of trips to the hardware store, it appeared that we had enough hooks to decorate our Christmas tree. True to form, shortly after stocking up we managed to find the “lost" hooks and now have enough to hang stuff on a tree suitable for Rockefeller Center. Also last ...
Emory Quinn - See You at the Next Light (2010)
By Nick DeRiso Emory Quinn doesn't quibble about genre. Heck, this happy-go-lucky San Antonio, Texas-based band can't even stick to one instrument, with its principal members merrily switching from one to another. That makes for a nice metaphor on See You At The Next Light, an album of restless musical ambition and jangly, country-fried delights. The ...
The Best of 2010, Part 4: Mainstream and Modern Jazz
Many relative newcomers like Sarah Wilson have brought a breath of fresh air to jazz this year. By Pico When scanning the landscape of jazz records from 2010, one thing is clear: there's an awful lot of very skilled and talented jazz musicians out there today, and I would argue that there are more of those ...
Maya Beiser - Provenance
By Mark Saleski It's amazing to look back at the Golden Age of Spain (9th to 15th century) with modern eyes. In this era, the idea of multiculturalism has become loaded with political import (both good and bad), making it tough to accept the idea of so many diverse cultures working together as anything more than ...
The Ramblers - Getting There (2010)
By Mark Saleski I'm trying to remember when it was. It was definitely during a pop music fad that involved a lot of synthesizers and other electrical accouterments. Maybe it was the New Wave era...or maybe when The Prodigy hit it big. All I know is that I caught this interview with a musician who was ...
Brian Setzer Orchestra - Christmas Comes Alive (2010)
By Nick DeRiso Brian Setzer, an unjustly unheralded guitarist, has this knack for connecting with the redux zeitgeist. In the 1980s, it was rockabilly. In the last decade, big-band jump blues. More recently, Setzer has used that template for a series of popular holiday-themed albums. For me, though, these studio efforts have been more admirable than ...
Non-Jazz Favorites for 2010
By Mark Saleski Sometimes, a writer can feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of releases that come along during the year. Look at those piles of CDs! It's a fraction of what shows up on my desk over a 12-month timespan. As I said in my list of Jazz Favorites for 2010, my ears considered the ...
Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep (2010)
By Mark Saleski On paper it looks like a mess. A mess that has been done before. For lyrical source material, take a bunch of words written by a cast of poets both famous and not. Set the poetry to music. Then, record the songs with a huge assortment of musicians, again both famous and not. ...
The Friday Morning Listen: Pink Martini - Joy to the World (2010)
By Mark Saleski It's that time of year again. The time when you're afraid to go into that store, afraid to watch the television, afraid to turn on the radio—for fear of hearing “Jingle Bell Rock." Or “The Christmas Song." Or “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer." Take your pick, because everybody seems to have ...
