Theo Croker – Escape Velocity
You really have to beat people over the head with it, huh? The few publications that reviewed this pulled all the stops: constant mentions of Theo Croker’s lineage to Doc […]
Category Archives: Jazz Fusion
Happy Anniversary: Ornette Coleman – Dancing in Your Head
This year marks the 40th-year anniversaries of a lot of big punk releases, including debuts by the Sex Pistols, Clash, Talking Heads and what I’ve always thought to be the […]
Donald Byrd – Ethiopian Knights / Black Byrd
Not much to say about this one: two good if overlong grooves sandwiching a well-intending but ultimately unnecessary cover of Pachelbel’s “Canon in D Major”; “The Emperor” has a really […]
Various Artists – Psychedelic Jazz & Soul From the Atlantic & Warner Vaults
1. Title’s misleading: there’s hardly any soul to be found here at all, ‘cept for Black Heat’s “Check It All Out,” which is marred by some really trite lyrics. 2. […]
2015 Catch-Up – Blur, Kneebody & Daedelus, Future
Blur – The Magic Whip Well-produced garbage, and their worst album since their debut. Predictably, it got lukewarm reviews by publications because they mostly stick to mid-tempo, keyboard-driven art rock […]
Miles Davis – The Complete On the Corner Sessions
For casual Miles Davis fans wary about getting something called “The Complete [Album] Sessions” because it’s $200 for a physical copy and/or 640 MB of hard-drive space: get it. And […]
Charles Mingus – Three or Four Shades of Blues
The multipartite “Three or Four Shades of Blues” and upbeat “Nobody Knows” are the best songs here because eccentricity is Charles Mingus’ forte and electricity (as in electric guitars) – […]
