Coachella – Woodstock on my Mind (Lana Del Rey, Arcade Fire, Jack DeJohnette)
Lana Del Rey – Lust For Life (2017) – B- She’s not a good singer and her songs all put the focus on her. Compound this over 70 minutes and […]
Category Archives: Jazz Fusion
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 […]
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 […]
