Archive for June 4th, 2011

by / on June 4, 2011 at 9:24 am / in Jazz, Uncategorized

Gonzalo Rubalcaba – Fe’ … Faith (2011)

Intense and beautiful, Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba’s new Fe’ … Faith, is this meditative wonder. Like the earth making its inevitable yearly circle, Rubalcaba returns time after time to themes and thoughts — but never approaches things exactly the same twice.

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by / on June 4, 2011 at 8:58 am / in One Track Mind

One Track Mind: The Jesus Lizard, "Mailman" (1996)

by Tom Johnson “Mailman” is singer David Yow’s tale of a woman being stalked by some creepy bastard who likes to send her little love notes through the mail.

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by / on June 4, 2011 at 8:31 am / in Rock Music

Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation – Mighty ReArranger (2005)

by Mark Saleski Back in Led Zeppelin‘s day, it was near to impossible to twist the radio dial (yeah, radios had dials back then … think of a radio dial as an ancient, manual hyperlink, without the Internet or computers or any of that stuff

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by / on June 4, 2011 at 7:44 am / in Half Notes

Half Notes: Dave King – Indelicate (2010)

by Mark Saleski A piano and drum ‘duo,’ all played by Dave King. Yes, the drummer for The Bad Plus not only has piano skills as well but also a big piles of ideas to play with. Grooves would of course be expected, as well as dissonance and stumbling rhythms (“Arts High Boogie,” “Highly Varnished Academic Realism”). There are moments [...]

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