Results for "The Who"

Graham Parker: The Up Escalator - 40th Anniversary Edition

by Doug Collette
August 16, 2020

It might well be an exercise in futility to find a more potent transitional album than Graham Parker's The Up Escalator. At least that's what The 40th Anniversary Edition suggests, and in no uncertain terms. Why else open the album with a track of deserved braggadocio titled “No Holding Back" or close it with that sentiment ...

Cry Babies: Cry Babies

by Chris M. Slawecki
August 8, 2020

History hasn't left behind many traces of Cry Babies--its 1969 debut has until now been extraordinarily difficult (and expensive) to find on vinyl--other than these sounds. Most musician credits only list first names except for organ player Sérgio Carvalho and producer Durval Ferreira, whose career also includes work with Eurmir Deodato and Sergio Mendes. Saxophonist Oberdan ...

Places in Space, in Time

by Chris M. Slawecki
July 17, 2020

Abraham Inc. Together We Stand Table Pounding Music 2019 “Ever since I formed Klezmer Madness! in the mid 1990's I've been exploring the possibilities of adding funk, jazz, and lately hip-hop influences to klezmer," explains David Krakauer, an expert clarinet voice in jazz, klezmer and classical ...

Meet Tom Kohn

by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
March 2, 2020

Like many of our Jazz Super Fans, Tom Kohn's passion for music started when he was a teen, with a job in a record store and a penchant for acquiring albums that would impress even the most dedicated adult collectors. He grew up into a music business day job but, after suffering a life-changing event, he ...

Roberto Bonati: Vesper and Silence

by John Kelman
February 17, 2020

Roberto Bonati may not be a name familiar to many jazz fans in North America, but at home in Italy and, increasingly, across Europe he has become a far more familiar face. Beyond inimitable talents as a double bassist, composer and conductor, Bonati has created a name both for himself and the northern Italian city of ...

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Booker T & the MG's: The Complete Stax Singles: Volume 1 (1962-1967)

by Doug Collette
December 29, 2019

There have been other, more wide-ranging collections of the music of Booker T & the MG's—the three-CD, sixty-five track Time Is Tight (Stax,1998) most prominently—but The Complete Stax Singles Volume 1 (1962-1967) is comprehensive on its own terms. As is Real Gone Music's custom, the label has gone to great lengths to make sure the vintage ...

King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King (50th Anniversary)

by John Kelman
October 27, 2019

The passage of time is often defined by both forward motion and a growing collection of memories past; it's also measured by significant milestones that are either realized at the time or in subsequent years. At a recent Royal/Celebration Package event prior to King Crimson's Théâtre St-Denis performance in Montréal, Canada, guitarist and only remaining group ...

Clarence Clemons: Who Do I think I am?

by Doug Collette
September 29, 2019

Clarence Clemons Who Do I Think I Am? MVD/Virgil Films 2019 It's difficult if not impossible to become enraptured watching the late Clarence Clemons' biopic/documentary Who Do I Think I Am? . But as with an autobiography Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales (Grand Central Publishing, 2009), that delivered ...

The Who With Special Guest Reignwolf at Jones Beach Theater

by Mike Perciaccante
September 28, 2019

The Who, With Special Guest Reignwolf The Northwell Health at Jones Beach TheaterMovin' On Tour Wantagh, NY September 15, 2019 What can be said or written about the Who, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey that hasn't already been put out into the world? Not a lot. So, to recap...the Who ...