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Jeff Berlin, Ben Sidran, Jeff Denson + Others: Five for the Road

Jeff Berlin, Ben Sidran, Jeff Denson + Others: Five for the Road

Jeff Berlin, Ben Sidran, Jeff Denson and others are part of the latest edition of Five for the Road, an occasional look at music that’s been in my car lately.

New Memphis Colorways – ‘It Is What It Isn’t’ (2021)

New Memphis Colorways – ‘It Is What It Isn’t’ (2021)

New Memphis Colorways’ ‘It Is What It Isn’t’ is a dazzling blend of – well, psychedelic groove music comes as close as anything else to defining it.

BLOAR [Sam Weinberg, Andrew Smiley, Henry Fraser + Jason Nazary] – ‘Another Candy Bar From G.I. Joe’ (2021)

BLOAR [Sam Weinberg, Andrew Smiley, Henry Fraser + Jason Nazary] – ‘Another Candy Bar From G.I. Joe’ (2021)

Reborn as a quartet, Sam Weinberg’s BLOAR is still making stimulating experimental jazz-rock that’s wild, acerbic and sometimes mathematical.

Tower of Power – ’50 Years of Funk and Soul: Live at the Fox Theater’ (2021)

Tower of Power – ’50 Years of Funk and Soul: Live at the Fox Theater’ (2021)

What’s cool today might become passé, but ’50 Years of Funk and Soul’ reminds us that Tower of Power never will be anything less than hip.

Henrik Cederblom – ‘Zobop’ (2020)

Henrik Cederblom – ‘Zobop’ (2020)

A melodic hybrid of Swedish folk/jazz-rock, Henrik Cederblom’s ‘Zobop’ serves as a much-needed musical life jacket.

Ed Roth – ‘Can’t Find My Way Home’ (2020)

Ed Roth – ‘Can’t Find My Way Home’ (2020)

Despite its title, this album finds Ed Roth completely at home while performing piano-focused updates of songs by Deep Purple, Lou Reed and Pink Floyd.

Miles Davis’ ‘Bitches Brew’ Broke Every Rule: ‘An Art Form Unto Itself’

Miles Davis’ ‘Bitches Brew’ Broke Every Rule: ‘An Art Form Unto Itself’

Miles Davis sideman Lenny White joined us to discuss recording the groundbreaking, genre-shattering ‘Bitches Brew,’ released 50 years ago this week.

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Bill Bruford’s Earthworks – ‘Heavenly Bodies: Expanded Collection’ (2019)

If this Bill Bruford compilation took an Ancestry DNA test, the results would point to an old Soft Machine song: It feels, it reels and it squeals.

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Udo Pannekeet – ‘Electric Regions’ (2019)

Udo Pannekeet’s wondrous ‘Electric Regions’ is rock; it’s jazz – and then it’s everything in between.

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Monkey House – ‘Friday’ (2019)

Can Don Breithaupt and Monkey House live up to the impossibly high standards set by 2016’s ‘Left’?