Album Reviews

Review: ‘Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet’

Free Jazz/Avant-Garde is at its most expressive when it presents itself as a collective experience. A singular unit that exists…

4 years ago

Traveling the Spaceways: Sun Ra Arkestra’s ‘Swirling’ and M’Lumbo and Jane Ira Bloom’s ‘Celestial Mechanics’

Sun Ra was born on the planet Saturn sometime presumably in the early 20th Century. Some historians mistake him for…

4 years ago

Review: Bootsy Collins’ ‘The Power of the One’

Far too often when people succeed in their field, it becomes far too easy for them to cling to that…

4 years ago

Review: Butcher Brown’s ‘#KingButch’

Here’s a tip for whoever is reading at the Richmond, Virginia Chamber of Commerce: when you produce your next showcase…

4 years ago

Review: Azymuth, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad’s ‘Azymuth JID 004′

In the field of astrodynamics, azimuth is essentially a way of navigating based on an established location, usually true North.…

4 years ago

Review: ‘Blue Note Re:imagined’

Blue Note has a more important discography than almost anyin the history of jazz, encompassing decades of some…

4 years ago

Review: Josh Johnson’s ‘Freedom Exercise’

One effective way to find new artists and music is through their works with others. A great example of this…

4 years ago

Review: Cat Toren’s Human Kind’s ‘Scintillating Beauty’

With a first track as striking as "Radiance In Veils", one immediately gets the sense that Cat Toren's Human Kind's…

4 years ago

Review: Bob James’ ‘Once Upon A Time: The Lost 1965 New York Studio Sessions’, Admas’ ‘Sons of Ethiopia’, and Takuya Kuroda’s ‘Fly Moon Die Soon’

Artists often produce some of their best work when given increased freedom over the creative process. In so doing, their…

4 years ago

Review: Jesse Fischer’s ‘Resilience’

As the world seems to descend into increasingly challenging times every day, society needs music more than ever to respond…

4 years ago