Various Artists – Dis Cover – Donna Regina As Recorded By (2015) review
Various Artists – Dis Cover – Donna Regina As Recorded By (Karaoke Kalk, 2015) With this, their twelfth album, Donna Regina [Günther and Regina Janssen] continue to evolve...
Jenell Kesler
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Charles Mingus – ‘The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady’ (1963)
I probably shouldn’t be reviewing any Jazz for awhile, as I just laid down some remarks concerning Bitches Brew, and now it seems that everything is overshadowed by...
Steve Wynn – Sketches in Spain (2014) review
Steve Wynn - Sketches in Spain (Omnivore Records, 2014) Steve Wynn, late of the legendary band Dream Syndicate, and currently, seeming to be all things to all people,...
Wilco – Star Wars (2015) review
Wilco - Star Wars (dBpm Records, 2015) Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n36fehFSiA Wilco have been a standup band for far longer than I care to remember, releasing consistently good product, though with...
The See See – Fountayne Mountain (2012) review
The See See - Fountayne Mountain (The Great Pop Supplement, 2012) Hailing from London of all places and not America ... The See See have refined and distilled...
Isotope 217° – The Unstable Molecule (1997) review
Isotope 217° - The Unstable Molecule (Thrill Jockey, 1997) Beginning as a side project for Rob Mazurek, and incorporating the likes of the legendary Jeff Parker, along with...
Messer Chups – Surf Riders From The Swamp Lagoon (2011) review
Messer Chups - Surf Riders From The Swamp Lagoon (2011) Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmVx6tE7ijQ On Surf Riders From The Swamp Lagoon, Messer Chups, who hale from the land locked republic of...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Pete La Roca – Basra (1965)
What a sincerely fun piece of work this is ... from the onset, there is a nice heavy bottom created by the piano and bass, evoking an intensely...
Föllakzoid – ‘Föllakzoid’ (2009)
Föllakzoid are nearly unparalleled in the hypnotic lysergic drenched neo-psychedelic experience. The band do several things that other bands traveling this course fail to achieve, first there is...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Cannonball Adderley – Somethin’ Else (1958)
Perhaps I’ve watched too many movies, because I pictured my adventure into the world of Jazz as being more cerebral, more intellectual and more scholarly ... but, to...