Featured Artist: The Wood Brothers CD Title: Ways Not To Lose Year: 2006 Record Label: Blue Note Style: Various Jazz Styles Review: “Hallelujah/well I just woke up from a dream/so far away…” On Ways Not to Lose, the debut album by The Wood Brothers, one can’t help but find their spirit uplifted, awoken from a … Continue reading
Featured Book: Steve Lacy : Conversations Author: Jason Weiss Publisher: Duke University Press Year Published: 2006 Type: Other Pages: 256 pages Review: “Another Reason I’ve read a lot about painters and what not is because a lot of the writing about jazz is not good enough,” Steve Lacy says in Conversations, edited by Jason Weiss. … Continue reading
Featured Artist: Kenichi Tsunoda Big Band CD Title: for J.G. Year: 2005 Record Label: Sea Breeze Records Style: Big Band / Swing Review: For J.G is the Kenichi Tsunoda Big Band. Its name humbly sits in the corridors from those in the past, “for Jazz Giants” and gives a blasting ode to Dizzy Gillespie, Duke … Continue reading
Featured Artist: Jay McShann CD Title: Hootie Blues Year: 2006 Record Label: Stony Plain Records Style: Traditional / New Orleans Musicians: Jay McShann (piano, vocal), Jim Galloway (tenor, soprano sax), Rosemary Galloway (acoustic bass), Don Vickery (drums). Review: Jay McShann’s Hootie Blues contains mostly fast playing piano — more ‘Hootie Jazz’ than anything. “Yes Sir … Continue reading
Featured Book: Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock ‘n’ Roll Author: Rick Coleman Publisher: Da Capo Press Year Published: 2006 Type: Biography Format / Pages: / 301 pages Review: He is not Elvis Presley or Buddy Holly, but is indeed a rock ‘n’ roll legend. Fats Domino has sold over 100 … Continue reading
Featured Artist: Bernard Allison CD Title: Energized – Live in Europe Year: Reissued in 2006 – Originally Released in 2005 Record Label: Ruf Records Style: Blues Musicians: Bernard Allison (guitars, vocals), Mike Vlahakis (keyboards), Jason Wilber (bass), Andrew Thoma (drums). Review: Bernard Allison offers everything on Energized, a Ruf Record recorded live at the Musa … Continue reading
Featured Artist: Antone’s House of the Blues CD Title: Antone’s House of the Blues Year: 2006 Record Label: Koch Vision Style: Blues Review: “We weren’t a club or promoters, we were blues fanatics.” Clifford Antone remarks about his legendary blues club of the same name in the documentary Antone’s House of Blues. Despite his own … Continue reading
