Archive for June 6th, 2011

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Jon Anderson – Survival and Other Stories (2011)

Too often, it was like Jon Anderson didn’t want to make a solo record that sounded too much like Yes. As interesting as these sideroads no doubt were, they gave few clues to how his own voice fit into the wider topography of the band. You May Also Like: TheRead More

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Half Notes: Leo Kottke – Great Big Boy/Peculiaroso (1991/1994, reissue)

by Mark Saleski I already owned 1991’s Great Big Boy, and it’s a fine one. The album was allowed to go out of print for the usual reasons (which I won’t waste our time on), only to reappear in a likeably presented two-fer in 2007 with Peculiaroso from 1994, whichRead More

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Dave Douglas – Moonshine (2007)

by Tom Johnson I really admire trumpeter Dave Douglas. Not only is he world-renowned as one of jazz’s best, he has taken the high and difficult road by setting out to create his own little sanctuary for musicians, a label in Greenleaf Music where they get treated fairly and whereRead More

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Half Notes: Carolyn Leonhart and Wayne Escoffery – Tides of Yesterday (2010)

by Mark Saleski Normally, I’m not a particularly skeptical person. But when I see things in album credits like “hair,” “makeup,” and “dresses,” it’s tough to not tighten up a little. The good news is that Leonhart and Escoffery can bring it. She has a voice that manages to seemRead More

Tim Berne, Jim Black, Nels Cline – The Veil (2011)

Tim Berne, Jim Black, Nels Cline – The Veil (2011)

Three of the larger figures in the downtown New York avant jazz scene – Jim Black, Nels Cline and Tim Berne – join forces.