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One Track Mind: Ethan Keller "Fallen Idol" (2010)
By Pico “All eyes on the judges, who tabulate the score..." So where are we on this whole American Idol saga, anyway? I heard that Simon Cowell and Ellen Degeneres had vacated their judges' chairs (this was the first I've heard of Degeneres even being on the show). And Kara DioGuardi was fired. Just the other ...
Steve Turre - Delicious and Delightful (2010)
By Mark Saleski Odd instruments in jazz: pedal steel guitar, theremin, the Samchillian (You'll have to trust me on this one. Its “formal" name is the “Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeee." Don't believe me? Look it up), the harmonica, the human voice (if you're Shooby Taylor or Mike Patton), the saw blade. Some of these instruments ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
