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R.I.P. Bobby Hebb: Pat Martino - "Sunny" (1972)
By Pico Yesterday, singer/songwriter Bobby Hebb passed away at age 72 after losing a battle with lung cancer. Maybe the name isn't familiar to you, but his #2 hit song from 1966 “Sunny" should be. Aside from his original version, it was covered by Cher, Georgie Fame and Stanley Turrentine before the year was ...
Gamelan Madu Sari - Hive (2010)
By Mark SaleskiWhat do you think of when encountering the words “world music"? Squeaky vocals in unknown languages? Lots of drums? Brightly colored CD covers on display near the checkout at Starbucks? It's a sad fact that the way music is marketed has forced many kinds of music into more “manageable" categories, “world music" ...
One Track Mind: Gary Moore "Enough of the Blues" (2001)
By PicoThere's plenty of blues rock guitar gunslingers out there who only understand the blues as filtered by the likes of Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. Irish six string specialist Gary Moore has gone much further back than those guys to get his knowledge of the blues form, and it comes out on his ...
One Track Mind: Lou Donaldson "Peepin'" (1967)
By PicoOne of my favorite funk-jazz albums of all time isn't by a crossover act like the Crusaders or Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, but by a living giant of a jazz alto sax blower. I'm talking about Lou Donaldson. Starting out as a very good Charlie Parker disciple leading bebop sessions on par ...
Incognito - Transatlantic RPM (2010)
By PicoLast week, that venerable soul-jazz outfit out of London Incognito released a new disc Transatlantic RPM, an occasion we marked with a couple of streams to songs to tracks on that record (click here to listen to the streams of “Lowdown" and “Gotta"). Now, it's time to delve into this platter, but first, ...
Jim Rotondi - 1000 Rainbows (2010)
By PicoIt must have been quite a journey for a life that started out in the wide open ranges of Montana and ended up in the hustle and bustle of the New York jazz scene, but trumpet player Jim Rotondi got there with an assist from the late, great trumpet player Clifford Brown. Playing ...
Wynton Marsalis, "The Magic Hour" (2004)
By Nick Deriso“The Magic Hour" by Louisiana-born trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was that sweetest of swinging homecomings--like time spent laughing with old friends on a front porch. We have Marsalis returning finally to small-band work--where he once sparked the kind of mainstream interest in a jazz trumpeter enjoyed long ago by the likes of Louis ...
The Friday Morning Listen: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (1988)
By Mark SaleskiI've written about this before, the mystery of “Why do I like this?" The discussions that are apt to be generated can be enlightening. If you start at the very restrictive end of the scale, there's the idea that beauty has some sort of objective element, supposedly making evaluation a simple exercise. ...
Paul McCartney: From Wings to the West Wing
Tonight's “Paul McCartney: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in Performance at the White House"--premiering at 8 p.m., and then repeating all week on PBS stations--had us digging through the stacks, looking for favorites from throughout his career. (Click through the titles for complete reviews.)GOOD EVENING NEW YORK CITY (2009): There ...
Billy Bang - Prayer for Peace (2010)
By PicoIt's not that hard to discern the message behind the title of Billy Bang's brand new album Prayer For Peace. And just in case you're not sure, Bang clarifies beyond all doubt in the liner notes:We do not need war, any kind of war, especially within our homes, our families, our ...
