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Aimee Mann - One More Drifter in the Snow (2006)
I am now going to indulge in a little misty-eyed gaze into the crystal ball: Til Tuesday's album Voices Carry came out in 1985. I was living in an apartment in southern New Hampshire. What I remember about “Voices Carry," the song, is that it played several times a day (if not at least once per ...
Shows I'll Never Forget: Frank Sinatra, Sept. 30, 1994
Frank Sinatra would have been 97 last Monday. His mystery still lingers with me, as does the memory of a concert—one of Sinatra's last—when he recaptured all of that complexity. Sinatra was both a pawn to his past and the king of it, a guy who shadowboxed on stage, and told off-color jokes, but was still ...
Jon Anderson/Rick Wakeman - The Living Tree in Concert, Part One (2011)
Anyone expecting the cosmic prog-rock journeys of this duo's work as members of Yes must have been a little disappointed—and not just with the spare instrumentation. More striking than the lean, guitar-free musical structures was how intimate, even grounded this concert performance was. If anything, though, this album speaks to both the individual trials and the ...
Geri Allen - A Child is Born (2011)
Whereas Geri Allen's solo piano debut for Motema, 2010's Flying Toward the Sound, focused on musical inspirations Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner and Cecil Taylor, the follow up travels in more personal circles. A Child Is Born, featuring both traditional and original Christmas music, focuses on the intimacies of family, of faith and of caring. Allen, who ...
Raoul Bjorkenheim, Bill Laswell and Morgan Agren - Blixt (2011)
Sounding something like neo-prog meets outjazz, the music of Raoul Bjorkenheim, Bill Laswell and Morgan Agren is just as interesting for what it does as what it doesn't do. For all of the joys of their ear-melting inferno “Black Whole," the opening cut on Blixt, this power trio is also more than capable of downshifting into ...
Jack DeJohnette - :rarum Xii: Selected Recordings (2004)
There are many possible 'correct' answers to the question “What makes a jazz drummer interesting?" Groove? Yes. Chops? Maybe. For me, it all boils down to musicality. Some drummers are able to move their instrument beyond the timekeeping role to take on a more primary responsibility in the music-making process. They don't just help to support ...
Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero - Rodrigo Y Gabriela (2007)
There was a time when I was pretty consumed with, and you could make an argument that it could be considered “obsessed with," Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft legion—the California Guitar Trio, the League of Crafty Guitarists, and various smaller splinter groups. There was something about the shared skills of the many guitarists balancing complex pieces of ...
King Crimson - The Power to Believe (2003)
The problem any incarnation of this band has faced is getting King Crimson's music heard by more than its legion of die-hard fans. The appeal of the music is more in the power of the mathematical precision with which Crimson's members undertake each piece, and as such, is generally geared toward people who prefer to “listen" ...
Tony Bennett - The Classic Christmas Album (2011)
Tony Bennett's warm, inviting delivery would seem perfectly suited to seasonal music—and it is. You can hear the very best of his Christmas projects, from a seminal 1968 Yuletide release to this burst of holly-jolly projects in the 2000s, on this terrific new compilation. Classic features five tracks from '68's Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album, ...
On Second Thought: The Beatles - Love (2006)
It seems any “new" Beatles material is going to be greeted with the same reaction from die-hard fans: mostly derision, because whatever it is will surely be either leftover material parading as new or rehashes in the form of best-ofs. And then there was Love, the odd concoction that straddled the middle ground between the two, ...
