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Modern Love

Label: BBE Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Life on Mars? (Miguel Atwood-Ferguson); Sound and Vision (Healdo Negro); Soul Love (Jeff Parker and the New Breed); Lady Grinning Soul (Kit Sebastian); Panic in Detroit (Sessa); The Man Who Sold the World (The Hics); Right (Kruangbin); Silly Boy Blue (Nia Andrews); Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family (Foxtrott); Move On (L'Rain); Modern Love (Jonah Mutono); Where Are We Now (Bullion); Tnght (Eddie Chacon & John Carroll Kirby); Golden Years (Léa Sen); Fantastic Voyage (Meshell Ndegeocello); Space Oddity (We Are KING); "Heroes" (Matthew Tavares).

Various Artists: Modern Love

by Geno Thackara
July 4, 2021

Strangely, but perhaps inevitably, the strength of Modern Love is also the thing which makes it suited to niche appreciation more than widespread appeal. Mostly leaning away from the obvious pop and rock of David Bowie's catalogue, this tribute from the BBE Music label focuses on his cuts rooted in soul, R&B, jazz and blues (and ...

Various artists: Alligator Records: 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin’ Music

by Jim Trageser
June 18, 2021

Maybe this half-century commemoration of the jny: Chicago-based, blues-focused label should have been titled, “The Last of the Independents." Almost alone of the mid-major labels that formerly thrived in the 1980s and '90s by specializing in non-mainstream styles of music, Alligator has managed to navigate stunning changes in the music business--from the vinyl of ...

Various Artists: Impulse Records: Music, Message & The Moment

by Chris May
May 24, 2021

Those of us for whom Impulse has been as important a part of our cultural lives as Blue Note, perhaps even a more important one, will not be satisfied until the label reissues its entire catalogue on remastered CDs and audiophile vinyl. In the meantime, it would be churlish to do anything other than applaud such ...

A Quasi-Centennial Mingus Festivus: The Charles Mingus Songbook, Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 8, 2021

We continue our focus on the compositions of Charles Mingus, on the eve of what would have been his 99th birthday. Today's jazz would sound very different if Mingus had not been around and for this show we focus on his best renditions of his most beautiful compositions.PlaylistBen Allison Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted ...

A Quasi-Centennial Mingus Festivus: The Charles Mingus Songbook, Part 1

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 4, 2021

Charles Mingus would have turned 99 years old on 22 April 2021. So with a year ahead of his centennial celebration we've decided to focus this edition of Mondo Jazz on Mingus as a composer, featuring some of the best renditions of his most memorable compositions.Happy listening!PlaylistBen Allison Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. ...

Various Artists: The Harry Smith B-Sides

by Jakob Baekgaard
February 28, 2021

An anthology of music is a mirror of the world. It says something about a specific time, a place, a genre, a label, or the life story of an artist. But in a few rare cases, an anthology can also help shape a musical landscape. In that sense, it becomes a musical map that not only ...

Various Artists: Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History of the World's Music

by Jakob Baekgaard
February 25, 2021

Every audio medium has its champions from CD oldies to tape hipsters and lossless purists, but those who like to play big discs with a needle instead of a laser should not be lumped into such a vulgar category as vinyl revivalists. It's both a question of material and size, and true afficionados prefer the fragile ...

Various Artists: New Orleans Mambo: Cuba to NOLA

by Chris M. Slawecki
January 20, 2021

The distance between New Orleans (Louisiana, USA) and Havana (Cuba) is almost exactly 670 miles, about a two-hour flight. But it takes only one listen to Putumayo Records' anthology New Orleans Mambo: Cuba to NOLA to bridge the distance between the two. With such a wide and colorful net to cast, assembling this collection ...