If you haven’t noticed that you’re living in a golden age of recorded music, you are missing something. Never in world history has there been such easy access to a surfeit of sounds. Gobs of recordings of important music (some…
Month: June 2023
WHERE NO MUSIC HAS GONE BEFORE…Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra: Space Is The Place-Music From The Original Soundtrack
If you have never been on a Star Trek with Sun Ra and his musical space ship, this 2 cd/Blue Ray might be the place to start. What’s is in this boxed set is the actual 1974 film/documentary, the soundtrack…
Strunz & Farah Syncretic Strings
You know when guitarists Strunz and Farah have chops when guest Al Di Meola is relegated to the role of playing percussion! He’s in good company, with Luis Conte, Majeed Ghorbani and Diego Alvarez also banging away with drummers Paul…
Michael Bisio & Timothy Hill: Inside Voice/Outside Voice
Michael Bisio’s bass joins with Timothy Hill’s guitar and voice on a surprisingly wide range of moods and colors for two to share. The gents create a musical gallery of sorts, with minimalism on “Bridge” featuring Bisio’s lonely and lovely…
Ray Vega & Thomas Marriott East West Trumpet Summit: Coast to Coast
East coaster Ray Vega teams up with Left coast Thomas Marriott for a two trumpet front line and an A team rhythm section of Orrin Evans/p, Michel Glynn/b and fountain of youth drinker Roy McCurdy/dr. The two horns have an…
Jared Sims Helbender-The Resistance
So you want to be a rock and roll star? Jazz alto saxist Jared Sims puts together a band akin Miles Davis’ On The Corner, bringing rock and funk rhythms that mix the head banging of Led Zeppelin with the harmonics of…
WEST COAST WARM…The Pacific Jazz Group: The Pacific Jazz Group
Inspired by the 1950s West Cost sound of Shorty Rogers, Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan, the quartet of Dred Scott/p, Eric Crystal/ts, John Wiltala/b and Smith Dobson/dr take tunes from that era and give them a modern dose, as if they…
Kevin Harris & The Solultion: Jazz Gumbo
Kevin Harris, known for his work as actor, producer and vocal coach, shows here he can practice what he preaches with a street level album filled with Crescent City feel ad funk. He brings together a snapping team of Donald…
BEFORE ELLA AND BILLIE, THERE WAS…Ether Waters: Stormy Weather-All The Hits and More 1921-47
Before she devoted her life to Christ and became associated with The Billy Graham Crusade (as well as the movie Cabin In The Sky), Ethel Waters was arguably THE jazz vocalist, swinging more than the bluesy Bessie Smith and bolder than…
Beth Bombara: It All Goes Up
Modern minstrel tones are delivered by singer/songwriter Beth Bombara, playing various guitars and keyboards with Kit Hamon/b, Mike Schurk/dr, Sam Golden/g-key, Samuel Gregg/g-psg, Karl Kling/g and John Calvin Abney/key-g for ten originals. There’s a 70s folk feel to pieces like…