by Pico As the seventies turned into the eighties, crossover jazz was rapidly morphing into what’s now known as “smooth” jazz (I once heard it described as “sprout” jazz, as in, the music preferred by “those who like that kind of music also like bean sprouts on their cheeseburgers,” but that’s for another discussion). Whatever you call it, one of [...]
by S. Victor Aaron Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue is widely proclaimed to be the best jazz album of all time. To me, such a declaration seems to downplay so many other jazz records that are phenomenal and hugely influential in their own ways. If I were able to take only one Miles album–much less any jazz album—to that mythical [...]
NICK DERISO: Best to fasten your seltbelts, and put your trays in the upright position. “Git It” is a frenetic, fun-filled journey, this breathless moment of in-concert glory that comes and goes so fast that it remains sadly emblematic of the meteoric rise of Beau Jocque himself. During the last decade, Beau became the high-octane face of a new style [...]
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