Founded by Meghan Stabile, Revive Music is a vision of mixing a wide ranging of modern and classic sounds palatable to both jazz and urban R&B ears. This collection includes an impressive roster of Jeff “Tain” Watts, Chris Potter, Jaleel…
Month: September 2015
LIKE A RHINESTONE COWBOY…Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me
Depending on your perspective on the existence of heaven and hell, this 105 minute documentary on Glenn Campbell will either completely depress you, or make you be glad that there is an afterlife. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, the gazillion selling…
WRIGHT MOVES…Lizz Wright: Freedom & Surrender, Terri Lyne Carrington: Mosaic Project-Love and Soul
Vocalist Lizz Wright is one of those artists who always seems just on the edge of breaking through to major recognition and appreciation, but never quite breaks the tape at the finish line. Maybe because the race isn’t over yet.…
Chick Corea & Bela Fleck: Two
Back in 2007, Chick Corea and Bela Fleck got together for a rich and rewarding duet album The Enchantment. Finally, a concert album of the collaboration is available, and it is even more intimate and engaging than the studio recording,…
NEVER SOUNDED BETTER…Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds of Fire
Audio Fidelity has re-issued the 1973 jazz-rock classic Birds of Fire by John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra on a limited edition 4.0 Quad SACD release. The sound quality is amazingly clear, and with ear plugs you feel like you’re caught in…
FRAMPTON’S STILL ALIVE! Peter Frampton: Premonition, When All The Pieces Fit, Now
If you were alive and semi-conscious in the 70s, odds are that you owned Frampton Comes Alive!, the quintessential rock album of the decade. It may have seemed that Peter Frampton disappeared after that disc, but he’s been alive and…
Jeff Lynne’s ELO: Live in Hyde Park
This dvd is an interesting collection for fans of the fusion band Electric Light Orchestra. Founding member Jeff Lynne, along with longtime associate Richard Tandy reunite with a band that includes Milton McDonald/g, Lee Pomeroy/b, Donavan Hepburn/dr, Marcus Byrne-Bernie Smith,…
****RINGER OF THE WEEK****Ventanas: Arrelumbre
This group, as well as the music they perform, is going to throw you for a loop. The individual members of the group Ventanas all come from Spain, but they mix backgrounds from Jewish Sephardism, flamenco, Macedonia, North Africa and…
Michael Kocour: Wherever You Go, There You Go
A solo piano album truly digs deep into the heart and soul of an artist; judging by this release, Michael Kocour has the heart of a lion. He plays both acoustic and Rhodes piano here and mixes them up with…
David Correa: New Moon
Guitarist David Correa delivers a suave and lithe session with clean lines and traditional world rhythms on this accessible and warm disc. He’s accompanited by Aaron Germain-Ruben Ramos-Marco Renteria/b, Surya Prakasha/dr, Johnny Sandoval/perc and a collection of cameo artists on…