Archive for June 30th, 2013

Nick DeRiso’s Mid-Year Best Of 2013 (Live and Reissues): Ringo Starr, Otis Redding, ELO, Greg Lake

Nick DeRiso’s Mid-Year Best Of 2013 (Live and Reissues): Ringo Starr, Otis Redding, ELO, Greg Lake

The standard for making this list is that these projects — some lavish remastering jobs, others new live interpretations — illuminate corners of an artist’s work that we’d never noticed before. You May Also Like: Ringo Starr’s Y Not was elevated by a dark Paul McCartney duet: ‘That’s why he’sRead More

Hardin and York - 'The World's Smallest Big Band' (1970): Forgotten Series

Hardin and York – ‘The World’s Smallest Big Band’ (1970): Forgotten Series

Featuring ex-Spencer Davis Group members Eddie Hardin and Pete York, Hardin and York could be favorably compared to Traffic and Procol Harum.

Vinyl

Kim Kalman – At Last (2013)

Kim Kalman, whose grandfather was mid-century big band leader George Kindler, reconnects with the sounds and styles of that bygone era on At Last – and reanimates some shopworn classics along the way. You May Also Like: Kim Cypher – ‘Love Kim x’ (2019) Simon Phillips – Protocol 4 (2017)

Steely Dan Sunday, "Sign In Stranger [Live]" (1995)

Steely Dan Sunday, “Sign In Stranger [Live]” (1995)

<<< BACKWARD (“Kid Charlemagne [Live]”) ||| ONWARD (“Aja [Live]”) >>> *** STEELY DAN SUNDAY INDEX *** How do you follow-up an iconic rock, funk rave-up like “Kid Charlemagne”? You May Also Like: Steely Dan, “Kid Charlemagne” from ‘Northeast Corridor’ (2021): Steely Dan Sunday Steely Dan, “Reelin’ in the Years [Live]”Read More