“Bending Bridges,” reveals Mary Halvorson, “is a title I came up with in a semi-conscious state”, the same as how most of the titles in her songs come about. You May Also Like: Mary Halvorson Octet – Away With You (2016) Mary Halvorson – ‘Cloudward’ (2024)

Australian Phillip Michael Vasiliades shows a stirring command of the power and joy of 1970s pop and rock on Crashed Dreamed Boomed, and he does it without ever sounding derivative. You May Also Like: Linda and Richard Thompson, “The Great Valerio” (1974): One Track Mind

Anyone who has heard Mary Halvorson perform even just once has likely caught her trademark move: the sudden burst of notes quavering, akin to hitting the whammy bar but with a little more nuance. You May Also Like: Illegal Crowns [Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson, Taylor Ho Bynum + Benoît Delbecq]Read More

The last week of April 2012 brings us yet another stack of platters that matter — this time from the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Eddie Gomez, Norah Jones and Rufus Wainwright. You May Also Like: Norah Jones – ‘Pick Me Up Off the Floor’; Puss N Boots – ‘Sister’ (2020)Read More

If somebody told me, before a 1996 concert, that Phil Collins was going to be performing “Los Endos” — the closing track from 1976’s A Trick of the Tail, Genesis’ first project after Peter Gabriel’s departure — I would have been thrilled. You May Also Like: No related posts.

Always an impressive technician, Gomez has an identifiably soulful sound — sometimes from the very first plucking of his bass. That has carried him through an impressive array of settings You May Also Like: Bill Evans – Another Time: The Hilversum Concert (2017)

At first blush, Norah Jones’ new Danger Mouse-produced effort sounds like post-modern mood music. But there’s something else going on here.

For their third album, the offbeat experimental jazz-rock trio Ergo brought in a few guest performers to shake things up a bit. You May Also Like: Mary Halvorson – ‘Cloudward’ (2024) Mary Halvorson and Sylvie Courvoisier – Crop Circles (2017)

Alex “Apolo” Ayala marries modern jazz ideas with Latin-inspired rhythms, connecting the ideas with a blend of spry originals and brilliantly reworked classics. Not that it seemed that way at first. You May Also Like: Pagliuca-Mena Sextet – El Templo de Las Ideas (2018) Arema Arega – ‘The Red Soundtracks’Read More

Robert Earl “Kool” Bell and his fun R&B band Kool and the Gang are nearly midway through their gig as an opening act for the reconstituted Van Halen — and, in many ways, things are going just as expected You May Also Like: No related posts.