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The Friday Morning Listen: Patti Smith Group - Easter
By Mark Saleski I just finished reading Patti Smith's memoir of her life and connection with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. It was pretty inspiring stuff. Two wild kids (wild in their own way) whose happy collision in New York City turned into a lasting and productive friendship. Productive? Yeah, I don't mean this in the empty capitalist ...
Bizingas - Bizingas (2010)
By Mark Saleski See, I just knew I was going to like this album. About twenty seconds into the first listen and the whole “Is it jazz?/Is it rock?/What the hell is it?" issue popped up—almost always a recipe for a good time. Heck, I knew even before that because their name is so much fun ...
Pete Robbins - Silent Z Live (2010)
By Pico Jazz that's hard to categorize is usually the kind of jazz that's also hard to describe adequately with words but also the kind of jazz I prefer. And if it swings and grooves, so much the better. Alto saxophonist Pete Robbins' music has all those qualities and then some. We delighted in the unpredictable, ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa and Bunky Green - Apex (2010)
By Pico Maybe it hasn't been talked about that much, but in spite of all the advances in the mastery the instrument led by Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, the development and evolution of the jazz saxophone didn't end with those guys. Many of the sax players play a modern style that's more intricately articulated, cerebral, ...
Unsigned Treasures: Mark "Pocket" Goldberg - Off the Alleyway (2010)
By Nick DeRiso Mark “Pocket" Goldberg's Off the Alleyway, a rootsy Americana recording with the flickering neon-soul of a blues joint, stays well away from the beaten path. His sound is as eclectic as the country's rolling byways, bringing in low-country pedal steel, back-pew harmonizing, the nostalgic wheeze of an accordion, and crunchy late-night guitar growls. ...
Chandler Travis Philharmonic - Chandler Travis Philharmonic Blows! (2010)
By Mark Saleski When I was a little kid, we used to take vacations out on Cape Cod. Back then there was a target ship anchored out in the bay, the SS James Longstreet. There was something both creepy and majestic about that ship. Of course, the boy in me wanted to walk out there at ...
One Track Mind: Bob Dylan, "Not Dark yet" (1997)
By Nick DeRiso For me, “Not Dark Yet" is the best thing Bob Dylan has done in ages, this perfect enigma from a guy who's made a career of such sleights of hand. An edgy post-modern lament downshifted into quiet Civil War balladry, “Not Dark Yet," remains a riddle—and maybe that's the very definition of good ...
Black Dub, Featuring Danois Lanois - Black Dub (2010)
By Nick DeRiso Densely layered, with an elegant construction, Black Dub doesn't start out all that much differently from your average recording by uber-hip producer Daniel Lanois. Then something welcomely dangerous, almost feral, happens. Lanois—famous for his work with U2, Bob Dylan and Peter Gabriel, among others—is the first voice you hear, backed by the respected ...
Quickies: New Release Roundup 2010, Vol. 11 (Jazz-Only Edition)
An iconic prog rock guitarist takes on Jimmy Smith jazz and doesn't suck. Not even close. By Pico The last new release roundup of 2010 pivots back to jazz or jazz-like offerings I've managed to miss over the course of pursuing other records. They don't fit into the “Stacks" series because I only have them in ...
Guilty Pleasures: Rupert Holmes, "Escape (the Pina Colada Song)" (1979)
By Nick DeRiso Mark, late last week, said he didn't get the whole guilty-pleasure thing. Excuse me, as the ageless line in “Blazing Saddles" once went, while I whip this out: “Escape," a Rubert Holmes tripe that includes the helpful addendum (as if any fool, ahem, who knows all the words, cough, could forget): The Pina ...
