Other - CD Reviews (539)
Little Feat’s legendary and rousing live performance attributes shine gleamingly on this 2009 gem, featuring its 1977 show on German TV’s Rockplast series. Filmed…
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Based on vocal fragments by Renaissance composer Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474), this outing proves that virtually any combination of musical expressionism is possible, and…
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Between 1995 and 1998, in his time as a faculty member at Chicago's DePaul University, composer George Flynn wrote one work each to spotlight the school's three major en…
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Brandon Burrows is a talented young vocalist endowed with a confident soulful style. He delivers an impressive collection of songs on his new debut release entitled O…
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Germany reared Wigald Boning is a comedic actor and musician. Here, the artist constructs these rather amicable pieces upon a retro slant that skirt the fringes of loung…
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The Estonian album title "Muut," translates into myth, which largely typifies some of the existential space-rock developments heard throughout this live recording…
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Trumpeter, keyboardist and composer Jon Hassell continually defies any semblance of musical restrictions, besides his assertion of a "Fourth World" type of musicality. H…
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It's a no-frills gala featuring alt-rock, folk, and new-wave rock musicians and bands performing one to two pieces from their respective repertoires in studio environs s…
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This Norway-based avant-garde record label generally looms as a source of amazement. Its catalog features cutting-edge Scandinavian artistes and others, where free-jazz …
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A resident of France since 1991, Yugoslavian born and classically trained composer/instrumentalist Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer is a prominent artist who engages projects wit…
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Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Mariusz Duda is the lead singer for the progressive band Riverside and embarks with fellow Polish artists on this curiously in…
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New York based Canadian saxophonist and composer, Quinsin Nachoff, is one of the leading innovators of modern/neo-classical jazz music today. His last release, Magic…
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When she started out she was known simply as Lucinda, her repertoire consisting of traditional country blues stylistically she recalled the early years of Bonnie Raitt (…
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While the mid to late ‘60s psychedelic era was forming in the San Francisco Bay Area, Britain was undergoing a pop and Cultural Revolution via the London Free School and…
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The late jazz and rock music journalist Ralph J. Gleason is credited for highlighting the burgeoning the late ‘60s San Francisco psychedelic rock scene while also co-fou…
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Multi-instrumentalist Brian Carpenter formed this delightfully off-center band back in 2002 and enlists progressive jazz luminaries, saxophonist Briggan Krauss and tromb…
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Longtime cellist with the cutting-edge chamber ensemble Kronos Quartet, Joan Jeanrenaud developed these works over several years, as a result of experimentation and pers…
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Singer, songwriter, producer, guitarist, and saxophonist Van Morrison has been at the game a good long time. An Irish lad smitten with the American sounds imported to th…
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This self-produced release exemplifies the healthy state of independent jazz. With elements of world jazz, Latin jazz and straight ahead grooves, they defy easy categori…
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Saxophonist Brian Patneaude’s latest recording, As We Know It, features his long-standing quartet in which he leads. Brian Patneaude was born in 1974 in Schenec…
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