Louisiana-based Gregg Martinez presents a soul-lifting blend of blues, swamp pop and soul, powered in no small way by his canny choice of cover tunes. You May Also Like: Shane Parish – ‘Repertoire’ (2024) Shane Parish – ‘Liverpool’ (2022) Tatsuya Nakatani + Shane Parish – ‘Interactivity’ (2020)
There’s not a whole lot of jazz performers who first started out recording in the 50s and are still doing so today, but as I listen to Cedar Walton’s latest The Bouncer, I’m a lot more apt to think how vibrant he still sounds than how long the 77 yearRead More
Finally, a Rush live album! Even for an old Rush fan like me, their live albums are beginning to seem a little redundant. You May Also Like: How Rush Finished at the Top of Their Game With ‘Clockwork Angels’ Every Copy of Rush’s ‘Roll the Bones’ Reveals Something New
That Sidony Box, a French trio, has chosen to explore jazz rock is anachronistically interesting enough. But they’re doing it without the musical GPS of a bass — something that allows guitarist Manuel Adnot, drummer Arthur Nancy and saxophonist Elie Dalibert to wander around these wide open spaces. What theyRead More
Christian McBride’s new duet with Sting, a smart and groove-filled take on 1985’s “Consider Me Gone,” shows again why the former Police frontman’s original synthesis of new wave and jazz seemed so interesting in the first place. You May Also Like: Sting – 57th and 9th (2016) The Police –Read More
Spock’s Beard’s neo-prog debut arrived at just the right time, as old-line legends in the genre like Yes and Genesis cratered out in the 1990s. You May Also Like: Neal Morse Did It All (Again) on ‘Songs from November’
When I listen to Rob Garcia’s new album The Drop And The Ocean, the same adjectives come to me as they did for his prior album, Perennial, which are “seductive,” “lyrical,” “well-conceived,” “well-designed,” and Garcia’s drumming being “sensitive” and “delicate.” What I’d probably could add to that is Garcia’s drummingRead More
Sung Jo leads a quartet on Dream that walks a fine line — pushing at the edges of the jazz envelope, yet still swinging like crazy. The result is an album that has both narrative logic and these splashes of new sounds. You May Also Like: Chris Potter – TheRead More
Christmas is inching closer and closer, and that means we’ll be soon be spinning the sounds of the season. Starring some of the greatest bands and individual artists of the so-called pop underground (but if you ask me, these folks should be the pop overground, as their irresistible songs areRead More
The year was 1966, and the Beach Boys were riding a wave of energy across the musical landscape of the times. The Hawthorne, California quintet’s sound was evolving into one of the most respected and unique in the industry You May Also Like: No related posts.
