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…
Author: George W. Harris
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…
***RINGER OF THE WEEK***Brigitte Zarie: Make Room For Me
How suspicious can a guy get? I get this disc with a picture of an attractive vocalist pouring out over her dress on the cover, and immediately think, “Here we go again; another piece of eye candy bored with her life who wants…
INTRIGUING SOUNDS MELDING TOGETHER-Jussi Reijonen: Un
If this is a debut, then it’s kind of scary where Jussi Reijonen and his career may end up on the trajectory. This Finnish composer/musician plays oud, guitar and fretless guitar in a variety of formats and moods, ranging from…
Pete Escovedo: Live From Stern Grove Festival
Delivering some of the hottest Latin jazz since before California started getting rid of its smog, timbales master Pete Escovedo shows on this San Francisco concert from Jully 22, 2012 that he’s still got the hot blood. Leading a fiery…
SOUNDTRACKS!! Bye Bye Birdie; Original Movie Recording, Chaplin: The Musical Original Broadway Cast Recording
Why are some shows hits, and others misses? Is it the music? Not by these two accounts! The movie and stage production of Bye Bye Birdie have entered into the pantheon of essential American musicals. This movie soundtrack included the…