Category: Ringer of the Week

This seems to be the Year of the Guitar Duet Album! Here, we’ve got the summit meeting of Kevin Eubanks and Stanley Jordan, which bodes and delivers quite well. Because their styles are so different, you can easily delineate between…

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Am I being hyperbolic by comparing guitarist Dewa Budjana to Pat Metheny? Hey, I’m not the one who hired Ben Williams/b and Antonio Sanchez/dr to the session! This guy is known in Bali for his rock band GIGVI, but here…

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I don’t know where executive producer George Klabin finds these hidden treasures, but whatever his contacts are, all I can say is “keep him on retainer!” Stuff by Coltrane, Lloyd, Hubbard, Evans and Montgomery have been just some of the…

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The closest thing this ingenious idea of 6 clarinets getting together sans rhythm (and NOT a capella as the liner notes state. “A capella” means “no instruments” or literally “like church”…your lesson for the day) was back in the 80s…

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You know an album is not only creative, but brilliantly so when your first thought is “Why hadn’t anyone come up with this idea before?” Well, pianist Alex Conde did; he took the songbook of Thelonious Monk, and gave it…

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Trumpeter Eddie Henderson has been around for decades, first making a name for himself with Herbie Hancocks Mwandishi band before putting out some hip albums of his own. Here, he makes a good case for proving the point that he’s…

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Let’s be honest: after listening once to last year’s release of John Coltrane’s famed last recorded concert where he yells and shouts, you’re going to file the download or cd away and never listen to it again. Not so with…

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Not since violinist Niccolo Paganini woke the world up during the turn of the 19th Century has a set of Caprices been so wonderfully stimulating. This time around, it’s Hamilton De Holanda, the maestro of the 10 string mandolin who…

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Whoa! Where’d THIS guy come from?!? FINALLY, A REPLACEMENT FOR MICHAEL BUBBLES. Not that I’m prejudiced or anything, it’s just that HE’S A POSER, and this guy, Johnny Summers, is the antithesis of the overslick overstyled and over sanitized male…

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Yes, Jack Bruce recently departed from this earth, but the decision to make this 2 dvd set a ROTW had no sentimental value to it. Filmed in two  gigs on stage from November 1993 in Cologne, this is a wide…

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