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Pharoah Sanders: Karma
by Trevor MacLaren
Pharoah Sanders Karma Impulse! 1969 John Coltrane left behind a legacy of experimental and extremely spiritual work whose timeless quality still reverberates today. After his untimely death many poseurs came out to stake their claim as the next Coltrane. Many tried and many failed. Then in 1969 a ...
Blood Sweat & Tears: Child is Father to the Man
by Trevor MacLaren
Blood Sweat & Tears Child is Father to the Man Columbia 1968 Most people remember Blood Sweat & Tears as the incarnation led by the gravel-voiced white blues of David Clayton-Thomas. During his tenure as leader, the hits “Spinning Wheel," “And When I Die," and “Hi-De-Ho" helped to bring pop/rock/jazz ...
George Benson: The Other Side of Abbey Road
by Trevor MacLaren
George Benson The Other Side of Abbey Road A&M 1969 I have to admit I have never been a huge fan of George Benson. I respect the man because he is an amazing guitarist with an extraordinary original technique. Yet his chosen sound and genre limits what could ...
Dominic Duval and Joe McPhee: Rules of Engagement Vol.2
by Trevor MacLaren
Rules of Engagement Vol. 2 is the first recording by this duo in roughly five years. Though they often play together, it is still a rare treat to get a collaborative disc out of them. Dominic Duval makes a great choice for his second volume in the Rules of Engagement series by choosing a familiar player ...
Many Axes: 2 Many Axes
by Trevor MacLaren
Many Axes is the brainchild of Susan Rawcliffe, who makes ceramic flutes based on centuries-old instruments. After learning the instruments she creates, Rawcliffe jams with wind player Scott Wilkinson and percussionist Brad Dutz, who make up the rest of the trio. This music is an adventure, if nothing else. The players create a variety of sounds ...
Patty Waters: Sings
by Trevor MacLaren
Patty Waters Sings ESP-Disk 1965 Independent labels like Bernard Stollmann's ESP-Disk lacked sufficient funds to lend much of a push behind their roster. Because of this fact, much of the label's talent has been neglected or left to a cult following. It seems hard to believe today--with a ...
Escalator Over The Hill
by Trevor MacLaren
The late '60s and early '70s played a great role in the development of youth culture and politics, but it was also a heady age for jazz, where the great changes of funk, rock, and counterculture seeped into improvised music and changed it forever. Not only were the established movers and shakers of jazz creating a ...
Sonny Sharrock: Ask the Ages
by Trevor MacLaren
Sonny SharrockAsk the AgesAxiom1991 Although Charlie Christian introduced the electric guitar to jazz in 1939, everyone playing the instrument in jazz kept his sound and ideas embodied in their playing until the late '60s. During this period the instrument became a vital part of the emerging fusion ...
Pharoah Sanders: Pharoah
by Trevor MacLaren
With Bernard Stollman opening up the ESP vaults, jazz fans find themselves privy to some of jazz's most interesting and eclectic recordings remastered for the first time. Among the initial remasters is one of ESP's first releases, Pharoah's First, recorded in 1964. This record has always been a thorn in the discography of saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. ...
James Chance and the Contortions: Buy
by Trevor MacLaren
James Chance and the Contortions Buy (a/k/a Buy The Contortions) ZE 1979 Since the 1960s jazz has played an important part in the deconstruction of western music. Jazz has lent its ideologies to a variety of new musical forms that have grown into some of the most interesting ...
