Bob Dylan – Fallen Angels (2016) review
Bob Dylan - Fallen Angels (Columbia, 2016) With none of the arrangements on Fallen Angels being true to the originals, it would be easy to say that this...
Jenell Kesler
Various Artists – Day of the Dead (2016) review
Various Artists - Day of the Dead (4AD Records, 2016) These epic compilations, and usually for a good cause, have always managed to stumble me, often leaving me...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Et Cetera – Knirsch (1972)
On the album Knirsch [which means ‘crunch’ in German, and explains the album’s cover] Wolfgang Dauner sets out to complete some unfinished business, ideas that he’d been unable...
The Asteroid #4 – ‘An Amazing Dream’ (2006)
Nearly everyone wants to consider Asteroid #4 as part of the beautiful psychedelic haze of the '60s, locking them into being a backward looking band. Please, allow me...
Volta Sound – Gypsy Friends of the Sun (2013) review
Volta Sound - Gypsy Friends of the Sun (Picture in My Ear, 2013) Listen: https://pictureinmyearrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gypsy-friends-of-the-sun What The Volta Sound do, is like nothing anyone else does ... and that’s...
Knifeworld – The Unravelling (2014) review
What Knifeworld delivers here on The Unraveling is certainly not jazz, and it’s not rock, nor is it some sort of jazz or rock fusion, or even progressive...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Eddie Costa – Complete Studio Recordings [As Eddie Costa & Sal Salvador] (2005)
Eddie Costa: This is another set of recordings from an artist who died far too young, yet brought to the table a fine assortment of jazz concepts and...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Josh Berman – Old Idea (2009)
Ahhh, my dear friends with the sly eyes, the fast banter, tight gestures, and ever expanding minds... there’s an old saying that goes, “There’s nothing new under the...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Oscar Pettiford & Attila Zoller – The Legendary Oscar Pettiford Featuring Attilla Zoller (1959/1975)
Man-o-Man... there’s one sure way to know that you love a record, and that’s instantly wanting more as soon as it’s over. Case in point, this 1959 gem...
Rowland S. Howard – Pop Crimes (2009) review
Rowland S. Howard - Pop Crimes (Liberation Records, 2009) Passing away in 2009, Rowland S. Howard, like Ian Curtis of Joy Division, has left us with a darkly...