If you don’t know where to go after you’ve worn out your John Coltrane discs, take a listen over here with tenor saxist Chris Alpiar. He leads a quartet with Pete Rende/p, Matt Pavolka/b and Bob Meyer/dr through a handful…
Month: April 2013
DIVINE! Sarah Vaughan: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection
The Sony Music Group is doing an impressive job cleaning out its attic and bringing some obscure material out for the world to see. Recently, they’ve put out box sets of Dexter Gordon, Weather Report, Woody Shaw, Duke Ellington and…
Kevin Eubanks: The Messenger
Guitarist Kevin Eubanks kicks it up a notch on his most recent release. He teams up with a hip cast of Bill Pierce/ts-ss, Duane and Robin Eubanks/brass, Rene Camacho/b and Marvin “Smitty” Smith, allowing the horns a lot of solo…
Molly Ringwald: Except…Sometimes
OK, let’s get all of the 80s movies and bad jokes out of the way at the very beginning. Yes, it’s THAT Molly Ringworm from the teen movies that permeate all our dna-Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles.…
HEAD BANGERS UNITE!!! Deep Purple: Live in Paris 1975
If you want to remember what it was like to listen to heavy metal when it was both heavy and metallic, here’s your dream come true. Remastered, restored and regressive, Deep Purple is caught at their absolute head bangiest here…
Al Thompson Jr: City Mainstream
Al Thompson Jr puts together an impressive session here in which he plays keyboards, piano, produces and even contributes vocals with an in sync team that ranges from quartet to septet. At its most bare bones with just Christ Herbert…
Pat Metheny: The Orchestron Project
A project as massive, and as massively successful, as Pat Metheny’s 2011 world debut of the Orchestron doesn’t die easily. Besides the original album and tour, Metheny has been including a “Mini-Orchestron” during his last couple solo and band tours. …
Dylan Ryan/Sand: Sky Bleached
Drummer Dylan Ryan forms his own band in order to deliver music that, in his own words, “had elements of Black Sabbath, the Cure Jaco-era Joni Mitchell, and free jazz.” Quite ambitious, to put it mildly. And in the format…
John Corbett: Leaving Nothin’ Behind
You probably will recognize the face of this guy from Sex and the City and from My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Never watched the former, but loved him as “Ian Meeeeeler” on the latter. He’s done a country album before,…
John Vanore & Abstract Truth: Culture
John Vanore is always guaranteed to put out a release that sounds fresh and challenging, yet still able to have something for you to hold on to. The trumpeter/composer leads a large ensemble here which he wants to serve more…