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New Music Monday: Santana, Ryan Shaw, Pantera, Willie Nelson, Dizzy and Bird
Looks like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays. Time to dig into some new music, then!
Post Tagged with: "Jazz"
Choban Elektrik – Choban Elektrik (2012)
Imagine if in the mountainous region of Albania or southern Yugoslavia during the Communist ruled days of the 1970s, the sons of sheep herders clandestinely tuned in to rock radio from the other side of the Iron Curtain
Half Notes: Peter Brötzmann – The Brain of the Dog in Section (2008)
This is saxophonist Peter Brötzmann with cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, though it in no way sounded like Kenny G with Yo-Yo Ma. It was recorded in an “industrial urban warehouse district.” It’s on the Atavistic label (read: not easy listening).
The Quintet – Jazz at Massey Hall (1953; 2012 reissue)
To Canadians, as the new 2012 liner notes to this historic meeting of the jazz minds so rightly notes, Massey Hall is a building. To fans of this music worldwide, it’s something else
Brandon Wright – Journeyman (2012)
Journeyman is sax specialist Brandon Wright’s second time out as a leader and for this go around he brought some of his cohorts in the Mingus Big Band in the studio with him
One Track Mind: Vernon Reid on Spectrum Road, Living Colour and James ‘Blood’ Ulmer
Vernon Reid has a busy 2012 on tap, with a new jazz-rock collaboration as a part of Spectrum Road to be issued next month and then the latest project with the metal-funk band Living Colour.
Mort Weiss: There were big stars at this LA party, but I didn’t shine so brightly
Let’s set the scene: Actress Polly Bergen’s Malibu Beach house, 1965. The cast of participants includes Jack Lemmon and his wife Felicia Farr, Kirk Douglas, Jackie Gleason, Steve Allen and his wife Jayne Meadows
Something Else! Interview: Vernon Reid, of Spectrum Road and Living Colour
Founding Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid is playing a different tune these days – a hard-driving jazz-rock tune alongside an all-star cast of Jack Bruce, John Medeski and Cindy Blackman-Santana.
David Fiuczynski – Planet Microjam (2012)
One surefire way to know if your ears are trained to listen to European-derived music forms is to listen to microtonal music for even just a few seconds. If it strikes you as exotic and weird, then you are most attuned to Western style music
Half Notes: Bill Carrothers – Joy Spring (2010)
Pianist Carrothers revisits the music of trumpeter Clifford Brown. With bassist Drew Gress and the great Bill Stewart at the kit, they interpret Brown (and Brown-related) classics like “Daahoud,” “Gerkin For Perkin,” and of course, that iconic title track. “Joy Spring” is definitely the not-so-secret ingredient of this recording, and it’s such a fine interpretation. Carrothers stretches out the composition, [...]
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