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The Nels Cline Singers - Initiate (2010)
By PicoMultiple personality disorder is considered an affliction among the mentally disabled, but when it comes to the artistry of that unquenchable, multidimensional guitarist Nels Cline, it's the very thing that makes him such an unpredictably compelling musician. Each time I've audited a new record of his, like his celebration of the music of ...
The Stryker/Slagle Band - Keeper (2010)
By PicoIf you has happened to follow this site long enough, you know the drill: The Stryker/Slagle Band puts out a new record, I listen to said new record, then I write about how great it is. Keeper, the newest by the Stryker/Slagle Band that goes on sale tomorrow, offers me no reasons to ...
Quickies: New Release Roundup 2010, Vol. 3 (Jazz-Only Edition)
By PicoIt's catch up time again.In what is becoming a frequent tradition for me on Something Else, I'm taking a batch of CD's and doing pocket reviews on them, in order to get you all caught up on what's been getting the spins lately. Whereas the prior two release roundups (Vol. 1 ...
One Track Mind: Holdsworth/Pasqua/Haslip/Wackerman "Fred" (2010)
By PicoFusion guitar big dog Allan Holdsworth has been in a number of notable bands: The Soft Machine, Gong, UK, Level 42...but the brief, mid-seventies stint he had in Tony Williams' reconstituted Lifetime band have made up some of the fondest memories for him. About a decade ago, he honored his old boss and ...
Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert (1975)
By PicoIf blogs had been around in the late 70s or the 80s I wouldn't have thought for a second to write about Keith Jarrett's watershed album The Koln Concert, because every jazz enthusiast with a computer keyboard and a Blogger account would have already been flooding the internets with praise about this record. ...
Somethingelsetribute: Pianist Hank Jones
By Nick Deriso One of three jazz-legend siblings, Hank Jones was perhaps as unassuming as his brother Elvin (nine years younger, famously of the John Coltrane group) was the outsized extrovert. Feathery light, then concisely powerful at the piano, Hank concluded an intellectual, often overlooked eight-decade career on Sunday when he died at age ...
Deep Cuts: Pink Floyd, "One of My Turns" (1979)
By Nick Deriso All apologies to Roger Waters, who's dragging it back on the road for a series of 30th anniversary concert performances, but I was never all that into Pink Floyd's “The Wall."Too much talking, not enough -- you know -- music. While working out issues in dealing with a meteoric ...
One Track Mind: Mose Allison "My Brain" (2010)
By PicoOne of the most enduring singing piano players isn't Billy Joel or even Elton John. Mose Allison has been at it since Nat King Cole was dominating the charts and although he's slowed down a lot lately, the eighty-two year old was recently enticed back into the studio for the first time in ...
James Blood Ulmer - In and Out (2010)
By PicoPart Sonny Sharrock, part John Lee Hooker, James “Blood" Ulmer resides in his own unique space overlapping blues, whack jazz, straight jazz, rock, funk and a smattering of other forms. His ragged vocals and jagged guitar form a trademark weathered sound that's sometimes calm, usually stormy and always unpredictable. We at SE tend ...
30db - One Man Show (2010)
By PicoIf a measure of the talent of a band can be measured by the amount of meaningful side projects its members get involved with, then Umphrey's McGee is beginning to qualify as a very talented bunch. Last year, Jake Cinninger, Kris Meyers and Joel Cummins from my favorite jam-band in rock teamed up ...
