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Surinder Sandhu: Cycles and Stories
by Walter Kolosky
Surinder Sandhu’s new release, Cycles and Stories, is far removed in scope from his previous outing, the profoundly powerful Saurang Orchestra, featuring members from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and a myriad of Eastern and Western players. The new recording features just five players and some guests, though East meets West is the continued theme. In this ...
The Nat Janoff Group: Looking Through
by Walter Kolosky
The Nat Janoff Group Looking Through NATJ 1999 Better late then never. I have some vague recollection of being contacted by Mr. Nat Janoff several years ago by phone and being asked to review this CD. For one reason or another, it never happened. Upon my favorable view ...
Nat Janoff and Jake Schwartz: Live
by Walter Kolosky
A lot of professional guitar players are going to listen to this live album and determine they must abruptly change career paths. The playing is that good. There are truly only a handful of jazz players who can claim a unique voice on acoustic guitar. John Scofield once said that is why he doesn’t play it. ...
String Theory: 25 Years of John McLaughlin at The Montreux Jazz Festival
by Walter Kolosky
Weighing in at more than 3 pounds, including a very esoteric 50-page hardcover booklet, the John McLaughlin: The Montreux Concerts box set is one magnificent mess. Hours upon hours of music provide ample evidence that McLaughlin’s guitar playing should be used to gauge the tensile strength of various string types and his compositions need to be ...
Front Page: Front Page
by Walter Kolosky
Available for the first time in the U.S. as a non-import, Front Page offers some hot playing from three stellar jazz-fusion icons. Recorded in 2000, the group of the same name features God’s fusion drummer of choice Dennis Chambers, child prodigy turned prodigious guitar God Biréli Lagrène and enigmatic bassist Dominique DiPiazza , who literally turned ...
Gongzilla: East Village Sessions
by Walter Kolosky
I remember very clearly checking out the band Gongzilla’s progenitor, Gong, many years ago during the heyday of the fusion movement. The artsy European album covers and sophisticated surnames listed on the jackets offered much promise. However, that band never quite cleared the hurdles, and so through its various and sundry incarnations over the years, I ...
John McLaughlin: Thieves and Poets
by Walter Kolosky
Thieves and Poets is the latest offering from guitarist John McLaughlin. Similar in concept to two of his previous albums, The Mediterranean Concerto and Time Remembered, but different in execution, Thieves and Poets is well worth the ten year wait McLaughlin fans have endured to hear the piece recorded. In one form or another, McLaughlin's three-part ...
A Conversation with John McLaughlin
by Walter Kolosky
Trying to classify guitarist and composer John McLaughlin's music is like trying to grab a handful of mercury. McLaughlin himself is fond of pointing out that words can't describe music anyway. Music must be experienced. For over forty years McLaughlin's compositions and unparalleled guitar playing have helped us experience blues, rock, jazz, jazz-rock fusion, Indian ragas ...
The New Obligation Of The Jazz Critic
by Walter Kolosky
Jazz critics are supposed to like jazz. Yet, some of the most pseudo-intellectual and vitriolic music reviews in print are turned in by jazz writers. The current truth of the matter is that with every nose-lowering review, these writers are helping to hasten the demise of jazz as a commercially viable product. These critics, and they ...
Surinder Sandhu: Saurang Orchestra
by Walter Kolosky
Surinder Sandhu’s Saurang Orchestra is one of the most refreshing and exciting recordings this reviewer has heard in years. Sandhu excels on the sarangi, an ancient Northern Indian instrument that has very few practitioners due to its extremely difficult facilities. In fact, in India there are only three Masters left teaching its tradition. Sandhu has decided ...
