The first jazz record released by the just-beginning ESP-Disk record company, ‘Spiritual Unity’ quickly put this tiny label on the map, as well as thrust Ayler to the forefront of the free jazz movement when it was released more than a year later. Even then, this record was well ahead of the frontier of jazz and remains so today.

Armed with an impressive pop vocabulary, Phonograph should have been huge.

Often overlooked, ‘Slang’ allowed the band to explore new musical territory and stretch its wings.

No one recreated psychedelia as authentically as Plasticland did in the 1980s.

It’s about more than mere individuals playing well, and this performance brings real meaning to the words “spiritual unity.”

A force in its day, the music of this seminal funk-jazz-rock combo remains very much potent today.

A rare alternate take Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ featuring violinist Stephane Grappelli finally appeared on an Immersion reissue of the 1975 album.

You want to know the Johnny Winter story? Listen to the blues stuff, and there’s a heaping helping of it here.

Ask anyone familiar with Lucinda Williams’ music and early on in their reply they’ll almost surely include mention of 1998’s Car Wheels On a Gravel Road, but Williams’ abilities as a singer and songwriter came to full bloom ten years before. You May Also Like: Lucinda Williams – The GhostsRead More

It’s damned near impossible to pick and choose only a handful of Paul Bley records as being the essential few, he’s been so prolific and readily moves from one idea to the next, constantly evolving along the way. You May Also Like: Paul Bley, Gary Peacock + Paul Motian –Read More