Acid Jazz - CD Reviews (80)
One of the more prominent exponents of the Hammond B-3 organ, Dr. Lonnie Smith resets the groove quotient on his third album for Palmetto Records. He doesn’t reinvent th…
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Blue Plate Special is guitarist Will Bernard’s follow up to his 2008 Grammy-nominated Party Hats and his second recording for Palmetto Records. This disc features…
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Some groups do an excellent job of describing their sound, style, and very essence in their promo material. Some do a lousy job, the description turning out to be quite …
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State of Monc’s Clipperton Extended release might be a lot of things to a lot of people and I just might be one of those people. A lot is happening here from a …
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"Danceable Hardjazz." That’s how this interesting group with strong European roots and influences describes its music. After listening to Soul Integration, thei…
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Saxophonist Karl Denson provides more with a little less on this tight-knit trio date featuring guest artists chipping on various tracks. Known as a jazz-based groove me…
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Four80East is one of the so-called nouveau jazz bands that has emerged in an era where a smooth jazz wave has proliferated the sanctity of traditional jazz ideologies. S…
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The New York based acid/electronic jazz trio Big Tall Wish was formed in January, 2004 in New Orleans while guitarist Mike Barile and bassist Steve Armstrong were studen…
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Guildford’s Englishman Rupert Leighton has a way with making his piano dance, whether to digital bass and rhythmical programs or to lavish cymbal and horn formations. Hi…
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Multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and producer Michael Harwood, internationally known as Cruiserman, gives smooth funk and chillout grooves atoms of acid/electro…
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Some of the best jazz in music often comes from obscure artists from unknown origins with pluralistic ideas. But in the United States and beyond its Continental borders,…
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Jean Paul "Bluey" Maunick - founder, and the other members of Incognito have been leading figures in the U.K.’s club scene since the early 1980’s and since then have won ov…
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Back when he was growing up in Nigeria, Bukky Leo was spotted practicing his saxophone by the original Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen, who instantly invited Bukky into his …
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Mike Ladd is both a (literate) producer of cutting-edge (certainly not that "gangster" stuff, word-up yo) hip-hop and an MC, one whose aim is not to make a spectacle of him…
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With the motion picture DeLovely, there has been a definitive resurgence in the interest of the life and music of Cole Porter. Porter was one of the greatest song…
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Just imagine a trumpet, some kick-butt drums, electric guitar, organ, some violins, a DJ scratching to a hip-hop beat of about 94 bpms's, and you'll have an image in you…
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Whenever I get a new jazz CD of any kind to review, I usually have to be ready for something that can only come from the "intuitive creative spirit that comes from withi…
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Wolfgang Mitschke, a German living in Berlin, has imagined what it’s like to be Latin and living in New York, one supposes, from the suggestion of the title of his latest C…
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The sound--Sons of Armageddon states it is 'not' a metal band. They describe their sound as 'post-apocalyptic electro-jazz' for the pre-apocalyptic listener. This group …
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It’s a mistake to believe just because music has elements of improvisation, or even has large improvised sections within its structure, it can be called jazz. Certainly nob…
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