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Domina Catrina Lee - Songs from the Breastbone Drum (2010)
By Pico Ever since the music business as we know it first came into existence, there have always been musicians for whose need for artistic purity and/or just out of financial necessity has made them into “do it yourself" musicians, producing homemade music for a limited audience. More accurately, a portion of that audience who actually ...
Unsigned Treasures: Christina Gaudet - Solid (2010)
By Nick Deriso For all of her wandering, Allen Toussaint remains this touchstone for New Orleans-born vocalist Christina Gaudet. But Gaudet doesn't let her lasting affinity for a hometown soul legend pigeonhole her wider ambitions on Solid, though it's subtitled “Featuring new songs by Allen Toussaint." She's particularly adept at engrossing Cocteau Twins-inspired dream pop, an ...
Listen Up! Previews: Paul McCartney and Wings, "A Trip to Lagos" (2010)
Here's a free download of “A Trip To Lagos," part of a new re-release package for Paul McCartney and Wings' 1973 smash “Band on the Run," set for Nov. 2. McCartney personally supervised all aspects of this new reissue, with remastering work was done at ...
The Friday Morning Listen: Rosanne Cash - The List (2009)
By Mark Saleski For many years, I was very comfortable with the statement: “I hate country music." It was easy to say because there was so much evidence all around: Garth Brooks, Toby Keith, Faith Jill and all of that—it was really just pop music with belt buckles, boots, and big hats. I guess I was ...
Rich Halley Quartet - Live at the Penofin Jazz Festival (2010)
By Pico Since the fifties, many a jazz musician have made records of their live gigs at festivals. Some of the largest and most enduring ones have been a favorite location for cutting a record: Newport, Montreaux, Monterrey, North Sea and so on. And then there's the Penofin Jazz Festival in Potter Valley, California. Nestled in ...
One Track Mind: Gail Jhonson, "Do Something Else" (2010)
By Nick Deriso It's no surprise that a performer who got her start working with funny funkster Morris Day settles into a lightly swinging keyboard groove from the first on “Do Something Else." Why do anything else? After all, Gail Jhonson wrote the book on neo-soul piano. Literally: her published works include Funk Keyboards and Dictionary ...
KJ Denhert - Album No. 9 (2010)
By Mark Saleski You look at the song listing and see “Alfie," “Pennies From Heaven," “Shadow Of Your Smile," and..."Smoke On The Water“? What? Did I read that right? Yes, and singer-guitarist KJ Denhert is not foolin' around. Well, except for when she is. Denhert refers to her music as “Urban Folk ...
One Track Mind: Mary Halvorson "Sea Seizure (No. 19)" (2010)
By Pico I don't pay a great deal of attention to what other jazz critics say about records as I probably should; chalk it up to laziness, I suppose. But even my lazy ass couldn't help but notice all the interest in media circles buzzing around guitarist Mary Halvorson's record released earlier this month, Saturn Sings. ...
DVD: Jimi Hendrix - The Guitar Hero (2010)
By Nick Deriso “The Guitar Hero" moves away from the tabloid side of the Jimi Hendrix myth, instead delving into the American guitarist's sweeping impact on rock music and the instrument. That makes director Jon Brewer's film not so much a biography, per se, as it is tone-poem love letter to Hendrix's muse, and how it ...
Henry Threadgill - This Brings Us To, Volume II (2010)
By Pico About this time last year Henry Threadgill ended a eight year hiatus from the recording studio and released This Brings Us To, Vol. 1. It was very well received, and made almost everyone's year-end “best of" jazz albums for 2009, including ours. On one day short of a year since that release, Threadgill and ...
