Return to Forever, as Lenny White proudly told me, was a “jazz quartet on steroids” — with all of the muscular virtuosity and boisterous flourishes implied. Enter violinist Jean-Luc Ponty You May Also Like: Return to Forever’s Surprise ‘Returns’ Smartly Focused on the Past How ‘Stanley Clarke Band Featuring Hiromi’Read More
There might not be a more accurate title for a Mike Stern album than the one coming out next week. You May Also Like: Mike Stern – Trip (2017) Mike Stern and Jeff Lorber Fusion – ‘Eleven’ (2019)
The British expat residing in Oslo Roy Powell is a Hammond B-3 specialist who prefers not to get stuck in tradition. You May Also Like: Mumpbeak – Tooth (2017)
Don Cherry was making world music before the genre had its own spot at the record stores, and that focus on new sounds always gives his albums a fizzy atmosphere of discovery You May Also Like: No related posts.
When guitarist and sonic sculptor Eraldo Bernocchi (Harold Budd, Bill Laswell, Nils Petter Molvaer, Obake) got together with Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin to form a band, or perhaps I should say, project, they did away with constraints You May Also Like: No related posts.
A collaboration between jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Matt Chamberlain, it must have seemed pretty straight-forward upon first inspection: Frisell doing his Americana-tinged jazz guitar thing and Chamberlain laying down grooves behind him. But look at the names listed with them on the cover and you quickly began toRead More
Progressive music simply dominated the Top 10 for May 2012, as readers celebrated new music (and interviews!) from Squackett, UK, Asia and Spectrum Road. Items featuring Chris Squire, Steve Hackett, John Wetton and Spectrum Road’s Vernon Reid took up an amazing six spots. Wetton’s return to UK and Asia, theRead More
Like another Cuban product Aruán Ortiz, Manuel Valera is a gifted piano player who is able to reconcile the rhythmically based Afro-Cuban jazz of his homeland with the harmonically complex modern jazz of New York. You May Also Like: Roberto Occhipinti – Stabilimento (2017) Aruan Ortiz, with Andrew Cyrille +Read More
Fusion jazz is a music form where there’s been very little out there truly fresh and new for a long while. Spectrum Road changes that.
Steve Smith, like Paul McCartney, has a solo career that’s way more extensive than the higher profile rock band he belonged to for a relatively short period of time, but he’ll always be known as that Journey drummer You May Also Like: Steve Smith: The Albums That Shaped My CareerRead More
