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One Track Mind: Sun Ra, "It's After the End of the World" (1972)
By Mark Saleski Like mystery novels, poetry, or any other form of art, music has a lot of uses. We're sad and pull out those old Son House records. Happy? How about some Speaking In Tongues-era Talking Heads? Is romance in the air? Perhaps some Diana Krall? Naughty? I'd go for Cassandra Wilson. Some people put ...
Forgotten Series: Led Zeppelin, "Presence" (1976)
By Nick Deriso Led Zeppelin wasn't always this thundering, then nimble, amalgamation. The band's first album had, on its surface, only a copycat kind of appeal. Recorded over just 30 hours, these songs were presented in the same way Zeppelin would have done them on stage at the time—half rendition, half sweaty tribute. They were, as ...
Jandek - Chair Beside a Window (1982)
This story travels a bizarre triangle from Portland, Maine to San Diego, California to Houston, Texas. To be honest, there's nothing particularly exciting about either the story or the music, but it illustrates just how big the world of art is...and that there are plenty of ways to discover something new. So it was maybe ten ...
James Moody - 4B (2010)
By Pico Like the proverbial fine wine, James Moody only gets mellower and better with age. A seasoned saxophone and flute veteran who was in Dizzy Gillespie's original big band of the later 1940's and most famously the author of everyone's favorite vocalese jazz tune “Moody's Mood For Love," (with the lyrics later added by Eddie ...
One Track Mind: Miles Davis with Mike Stern, "Fat Time" (1981)
By Pico Like many of the greatest American musicians, Miles Davis has had a comeback—-he's had four or five of them, actually—-but only one where he came back from not playing at all. It was also his least successful one in the short run. The 1975-1981 retirement was a period where Miles watched a lot of ...
Erik Friedlander - Alchemy (2010)
By Pico Earlier this week, Erik Friedlander released his 12th album, in his fiftieth year on earth. Those facts may not be so important to you, but the music that marks both events just might. Especially if you like the army of sounds, both familiar and strange, that Friedlander wrests from a cello. Alchemy, as he ...
Ted Hearne - Katrina Ballads (2010)
By Mark Saleski In the late 1970's, Chanel, Inc. took a bold step in advertising for their flagship fragrance, Chanel No. 5. Employing a cool bland of arthouse elan and surreal literary images, the campaign set a new standard for advertising creativity. The Ridley Scott-directed “Share the Fantasy" ad—"I am made of blue sky and golden ...
Crowded House - Intriguer (2010)
By Nick Deriso Crowded House, beginning with their engaging breakthrough 1987 hit “Don't Dream It's Over," were shot through with a complexity, and a melancholy, that belied their own supposed goals of becoming pop stars. Yet, in the wake of the 2005 suicide of drummer and co-founder Paul Hester, never have they had so much to ...
Deep Cuts: Elton John, "Come Down in Time" (1970)
By Nick DerisoThis song, taken from a brilliant album called “Tumbleweed Connection," is the reason why you have to hate Elton John's last period.John is never in half light any more—never so patient, so bravely remote, so note perfect. Back then, he put out piano music, with an active and jazzy rhythm ...
Michael Dease - Grace (2010)
By PicoCurtis Fuller, one of the greatest living trombone players of all time declared “I predict that Michael Dease will become one of the world's great trombone masters." And when you hear Dease's fluid, lush style, it's not hard to see the young phenom as the legitimate successor to Fuller.Yet, Dease, who ...
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