Albatre, Cactus Truck + Dead Neanderthals – The New Wave of Dutch Heavy Jazz (2015)
If this terrific collaboration between Dutch jazz heavies is ‘The New Wave of Dutch Heavy Jazz,’ then let the waves roll over us.
Archive for April 18th, 2015
The Moody Blues’ John Lodge, “10,000 Light Years Ago” (2015): One Track Mind
John Lodge displays a welcome willingness to build a bridge to the future from a well-known foundation of the Moody Blues’ past.
Fleetwood Mac’s overlong Say You Will sorely missed Christine McVie
Christine McVie’s absence from ‘Say You Will,’ released this week in 2003, left Fleetwood Mac critically unbalanced. They could have used an editor, too.
Daryl Hall on how MTV ruined a huge Hall and Oates hit: ‘It was really, really frustrating’
Though they came of age in the singer-songwriter 1970s, Hall and Oates found their biggest successes in the video-obsessed decade that followed.
Sonny Landreth, “Bound by the Blues” (2015): One Track Mind
Sonny Landreth reminds us just how important the blues is, as both foundation and (maybe most importantly) as launching pad.
