And of course, it wouldn't be Listcember without a flood of recommendations. Gift guides. Critic’s Picks. Year-end bests. But often overlooked are the often overlooked! Here are nine terrific 2021...
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And of course, it wouldn't be Listcember without a flood of recommendations. Gift guides. Critic’s Picks. Year-end bests. But often overlooked are the often overlooked! Here are nine terrific 2021...
These are all posted on my Instagram @jazzandcoffee and the individual albums all have detailed reviews, but here are my top jazz and top not-jazz of 2021, each with "Webby" reviews. For those not...
Razzles. Candy, or gum?
Seriously though, ignore the rest of his YouTube channel. You gotta see this kid on Instagram—his videos are amazing. And see what people like Stewart Copeland are saying...
https://youtu.be/tlJGumOzO4k
Currently my favorite drummer out there. The kid is talented beyond belief.
A superb record with a lot of depth.
http://www.relisten.net has made the Archive pretty much an also-ran at this point.
Live/Dead=you never forget your first Dark Star. And it’s still a Top 20 version. But it’s not the apex predator of Dark Stars.
Glastonbury Fayre=Keith avoids playing the role of Pigpen, and becomes...
Cornell is an exceptional show, and yes—as tape trading grew as a hobby, it was one of the highest quality tapes in circulation, with just enough reverb to balance the cleanliness of the soundboard...
Your one-stop shop for Grateful Dead streaming in the best possible quality: https://relisten.net/ They also have an API so there are integrations for things like Sonos available here:...
Great news, superb promo vid and looking forward to hearing the new SKE in all its glory on July 11th!
All great titles mentioned so far... Ellis made a lot of great records!
The underlying tech of the blockchain is the important piece. Oversimplified example—if the “DNA” of a master recording: all of the songwriters, producers, performers etc...EVERYONE who is part of...
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Force Majeure by Dezron Douglas and Brandee Younger
I’ve gotten a bit obsessed with this record. Bass/harp duet, recorded in their Harlem apartment during lockdown. They’ve been...
This makes my day!
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Clarence Peters - Drum
Patrick Gauthier - Piano
Jean-Jacques Avenel - Bass
Steve Potts - Sax
Ridiculously rare private press spiritual jazz record that’s been high on my...
Dolores Umbridge.
Still lookin’ forward to that digital download!
As soon as you have a lossless digital download option, I’m in!
Among the myriad of live records they’ve released, I’ve always felt that Kenso Guki (the 25th Anniversary live record) stood perhaps a notch or two above the others. Fantastic recording, great...
Two enthusiastic thumbs up for Kurt Rosenwinkel’s latest ‘Angels Around’. Rosenwinkel is a guitarist who has released about 10 records since the mid 90s. This one is a trio date which will appeal to...
Pre-order up for an archival release from a rarely documented lineup of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers featuring:
Freddie Hubbard (Trumpet)
Nathan Davis (Tenor saxophone)
Jacki Byard (Piano)
Reggie...
Nubya Garcia’s latest:
https://youtu.be/ubxP9vNVDAQ
E.S.P.
Miles Smiles
Kind of Blue
Live at the Plugged Nickel
In a Silent Way
Umphrey’s McGee ruined this list. Or maybe Phil Collins. I dunno, it was dark.
There are a few options:
There’s JRiver: https://www.jriver.com/
There’s MusicBee which I believe is Windows-only https://getmusicbee.com/
Separately for tagging/organizing power, it’s hard to...
Can’t really go wrong with any of them. More in the pipeline too!
Kings of the Wyld. Swords, sorcery and rock & roll. https://www.amazon.com/Kings-Wyld-Band-Nicholas-Eames/dp/0316362476/
Been eagerly awaiting this one...their debut was GREAT! Don’t see anything on the Bandcamp page about availablility of physical media though they do reference both CD and LP in the description, but...
Three spins into Muriel Grossman’s newest ‘Reverence’ and she’s done it again. Her last one ‘Golden Rule’ was a love letter to spiritual jazz in a Coltrane kinda way. This one retains a bit of that...
Don’t know if he’s still got them, but Adam Holzman was selling CDs of The Fents first LP from his website.
Waiting for the vinyl to hit Bandcamp as the added benefit of portability via digital download is a great value add...this looks to be another terrific entry in the J:Jazz Masterclass series...
Latest in the J-Jazz Masterclass series and maybe my favorite so far:
https://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/animals-garden
Currently available across streaming/digital services so easy enough to...
One of the guys behind the J-Jazz compilations gave this such high marks I took a chance. Glad I did.
https://eatingstanding.bandcamp.com/album/did-you-tell-your-mother
Just upgraded my speakers to a pair of KEF LS50W. Pretty much thrilled across the board at how they sound, whether spinning vinyl (using Furutech GT40 preamp) or high res audio from my NAS or via...
SEED Ensemble ‘Driftglass’ https://seedensemble.bandcamp.com/album/driftglass
https://youtu.be/Q0NRu4poYSA
Depends on the class of the device. Class 1 are the most powerful and can operate up to 100m (330ft), Class 2 (the most common kind for computer peripherals, headphones and other personal...
There’s an adapter made by SHG for devices like CD Walkmans that fit into the 1/8” headphone jack that provides Bluetooth capability if such a thing interests you. About $10.
Wireless headphones...
Fragile are a lot of fun and their guitarist Koichi Yabori is a terrific player. He’s got a number of solo CDs that are also excellent. He released one last year that I unfortunately missed out...
https://youtu.be/7ow-PrBqgcc
Knockout. This record is relentlessly kicking my ass. It’s a futuristic big band romp in modal/spiritual territories with a swing *SO* mighty, you’d best be sitting...
That’s right...radio pays SONGWRITERS but in the US/China/Iran/North Korea, radio gives PERFORMERS a big NOTHING. And they are fighting hard to keep it that way. So for all the bitching about how...
Seriously, it doesn’t. Never has. Satellite and interactive radio (like Pandora) is a different story but regular old terrestrial AM/FM radio has never, ever, ever, ever paid performance royalties....
Bands never received revenue from radio play. Not fifty years ago, not today. Radio doesn’t pay performance royalties in the United States. Only songwriters received royalties from radio play....
If you’re going to go digital on these, HDTracks has 96/24 in FLAC/WAV/AIFF/ALAC (Apple Lossless) of the “box” for $34.98 and there’s a 15% coupon for first time purchasers. They also run discounts...
For those who dig the modal/spiritual/kozmigroov sound, 180 Proof records has released the insanely hard-to-find Sphere ‘Inside Ourselves’ originally on Detroit’s Strata Records (no relation to...
The 5 Rendell/Carr Quintet albums are great, with ‘Shades of Blue’ and ‘Dusk Fire’ in particular being standouts. Also, don’t miss Spedding’s work on Frank Ricotti’s ‘Our Point of View’ which is a...
Coming in a few weeks is Volume 2 of the J-Jazz compilation on BBE (Barely Breaking Even) Records:
https://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/j-jazz-volume-2-deep-modern-jazz-from-japan-1969-1983
Volume 1...
The American is Dr. Brenner from Season 1. Who says that scene occurs chronologically AFTER the events of Season 3?
Been awhile since their last one ‘The Second Mechanism’ which I really liked. Happy to see the band is still together!
https://diagonal.bandcamp.com/album/arc
John, please see my reply where I give the context in which I’m using to describe the BEHAVIOR of those acting like “Luddites” which I’ll repeat here: “a person opposed to using a new technology or...
Luddite as in “a person opposed to new technology or way of working”, yes..in the context of the original post which referenced being made to feel like a bad person for using Spotify. Spotify is a...
Don’t let the luddites get you down. Streaming is here, it’s not going anywhere and there’s nothing wrong with using it. It works for plenty of artists and fans. Besides, it pays artists WAY better...
What I’d suggest tracking down is the Esoteric 3-CD edition of ‘Cook’. ‘Cook’ itself still sounds like...itself. It was never a great recording. But the two bonus CDs contain a 1974 show from Central...
The usual reports of the good and the bad. There was nothing with enough gravitational pull to get me up early or even at the opening bell, so I wandered over to a small local haunt which—as...
I figured the original cover art is long ago lost so they’re using scans of the CD art blown up to LP size...how does the 2018 vinyl issue sound? I’ve been mulling the possible purchase since I saw...
It was Jason Flom who first signed P Tree to a major label (Lava, distributed by Atlantic). It was also Jason Flom who signed GVF to Lava, distributed by Universal.
#coincidence
Zbigniew Namylowski ‘Lola’ A modal masterpiece with high caliber musicianship, this one’s both obscure & FANTASTIC. The first Polish jazz album to make its way past the Iron Curtain in 1964, this...
Charles Tolliver’s ‘Music Inc.’ and ‘Impact’ (both on Strata East). Both are available in the Mosaic Tolliver Big Band collection which has a bonus disc of an unreleased big band performance from...
That Gilgamesh LP was in the very first package I ever got from Wayside Music circa 1987. I bought it not knowing a thing about it, but there was something about the way it was described in the...
Anyone interested in exploring the cultural/sociological/economical/technological aspects of the...”thoughts” presented in this thread may want to read a pair of good books that have come out in the...