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Gimme Five: Rock Classics That You Don't Have to Love
By Nick Deriso Spend enough time around rock music—or, at least, rock critics—and you'll be convinced that any number of Seminal Works, Forgotten Gems and Timeless Standards are must-have items for your record collection. Even if they turn out to be, you know, retreads dressed up as brilliant pop redux (Gene Clark's post-Byrds catalogue, most of ...
Black Country Communion - Black Country Communion (2010)
By Pico When I heard at the beginning of this year that Joe Bonamassa had formed a supergroup with some other heavy hitters and that these guys were in the studio making a record, I gotta admit, I was pretty excited. Bonamassa has pretty much reached the pinnacle and done it all as a solo blues-rock ...
Abraham Inc - Tweet Tweet
By Mark Saleski Often when something is unexpected, it ends up being that much more rewarding. You know: surprises! I remember back in 1994 when Brandford Marsalis put together his jazz/funk/hip-hop group Buckshot LeFonque. The debut album was a giant pile of unexpected. So much so that some folks didn't seem to know what to make ...
Blue Cranes - Observatories (2010)
By Pico Although we don't really cover indie rock on our little corner of the blogzine world, I'm often intrigued by musicians who approach jazz from the indie angle. They don't swing and they usually don't try to dazzle with labored technique. Most times the compositions aren't these tedious, multi-sectioned pieces with the intricacies of classical ...
The Friday Morning Listen: Taylor Ho Bynum, Forbes Graham - The Middle Picture/Echoes (2007)
By Mark Saleski In our society, it seems like there's a constant battle between idealism and cynicism. A person will take a stand on a particular issue, and no matter how quietly they do it, there is always an opposing force with the can of hot tar at the ready. It's a phenomenon that contributes to ...
Erik Friedlander - Fifty: 50 Miniatures for Improvising Quintet (2010)
By Pico Cello virtuoso Erik Friedlander must have found a second wind at 50 years old because yesterday he released his second album of all new material as many months. The album, incidentally, is called Fifty: 50 Miniatures For Improvising Quintet and in Friedlander's typically atypical fashion, it introduces a concept he hadn't tried on any ...
David Bixler and Arturo O'Farrill - The Auction Project (2010)
By Mark Saleski Over the years, there have been a lot of musical hybrids that have surprised our ears by revealing hidden commonalities in melded musical genres. For instance, I'm fairly certain that my only exposure to hip-hop back before the mid-1980's was with Sugar Hill's “Rapper's Delight," and Blondie's “Rapture." The idea of Run-D.M.C. teaming ...
Charles Lloyd - Mirror (2010)
By Pico Two years is not a long time between albums, and Charles Lloyd has maintained a steady output of an album every couple of years and sometimes every year since hooking up with ECM Records in the late 80s. It's impressive when keeping in mind that Lloyd has been making records since 1965 and even ...
One Track Mind: Shorty Rogers and His Giants, "Martians Go Home" (1955)
By Nick Deriso A canny mixture of an old-school swinging style with the then-new cool sound, even if its name sounds like a goof. Shorty Rogers, who'd first garnered attention as part of bands led by Woody Herman (both the first and second Herds) and then Stan Kenton, had a way of confounding expectations. Born Milton ...
William Parker - I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield (2010)
By Pico When we last visited the music of the brilliant bassist and composer William Parker three years ago, he was putting his poetry to his music on Corn Meal Dance. Yesterday, he introduced a new album that again revolves around poetry but this time it's based on the poetic music of Curtis Mayfield. I Plan ...
