Other - CD Reviews (539)
Guitarist Dom Minasi formed his group DDT a few years as a string trio of guitar, bass, and cello. Through this group, Minasi explored jazz along the paths la…
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Italian bassist Maurizio Rolli’s exceptional tribute to Jaco Pastorious "Moodswings," is followed-up by this recording, which unfortunately, suffers from a bit of anonymity…
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Ex-Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper has led an active and largely fruitful career via an assortment of group-based projects and solo outings. However, this CD co-featuring …
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Modern jazz guitar whiz, Dom Minasi has released his finest solo outing to date with this fantastically performed extravaganza. Sure, Minasi is known for his undeniably adv…
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Wide Angles is the latest CD release from veteran tenorist Michael Brecker. Like recent efforts by fellow Verve Records saxophonist Chris Potter, Brecker's CD…
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The Dowland Project’s Care-Charming Sleep is a unique brand of Third Stream music. Rather than the "usual" setting - that is, either a classical or jazz ensemble inc…
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This is the debut album of a New York ensemble, named Spooky Actions, that features the work of Anton Webern, an early twentieth century composer of serialist, or atonal, m…
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Don’t get this Sonny Boy Williamson mixed up with his more recent (and pugnacious) namesake Sonny Boy Williamson II, a.k.a. Rice Miller - this is the original, baby. This S…
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Every year during the holiday season, I look for new music to add to my holiday music collection. We only get to enjoy this music for a short time and then it is time to pu…
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It was about a year ago that the NorthernBlues Gospel Allstars album Saved was reviewed on these pages. That release made me aware of some fine voices …
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Fifty selections from Jay McShann and his Orchestra have been assembled in the two-disc collection "Jumpin’ The Blues" from England's Proper Records.Dating between 1941 …
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The Modern Jazz Quartet Complete Prestige & Pablo Recordings delivers four generous CDs totaling 54 tracks and a comprehensive explanation of their career on the two…
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The scope and breadth of Eric Clapton’s work transcends all timelines. He has reached a status that few have during the course of an enduring career. Eric Clapton…
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Could 2003 be The Year of the Blues? Or could this be the Year For Catchy Marketing Phrases? Whether or not the timing of this tidy sampler has anything to do with the Mart…
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More music for tres moderne jazz people who think they don’t/won’t dig "classical" music: Elliott Carter (b. 1908) is a giant of American notated music, carrying on and fur…
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They don’t teach it in school, but they oughta: Muddy Waters was and remains one of The Grand Daddies of American Music. As Charlie Parker (re)defined jazz and Elvis Presle…
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I dunno if they teach it in the schools these days, but The Blues were one of the cornerstones of American music. True, the Blues had a baby (after a dalliance with country…
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The Blues, a largely African-American musical form born in the American south, has undergone a number of necessary transformations in the century or so since its first appe…
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Kindle is Sandra Bazzarelli’s five-song statement of vocal diversity. Backed by a highly potent blues-rock attack courtesy of Ed Littman’s stinging guitar licks, she…
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This Norwegian piano-violin-trumpet-drums quartet pursues crossover classical/jazz iterations, amid a chamber-like aura. Pianist Christian Wallumrod directs the band thru f…
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