Music
Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns, Bad Kids Club (Independent)
Before the critics and marketers started using the term rock ’n’ roll (the phrase itself goes back to the earliest days of vernacular music), what was rock ’n’ roll? Just […]
Ironing Board Sam, Super Spirit (Big Legal Mess)
The iconoclastic punks of Big Legal Mess music and producer/guitarist/blues mystic Jimbo Mathus are great music people to bring out the goods in the mysterious piano man Ironing Board Sam. […]
Jason Isbell
It’s been a great year for songwriter, singer and guitarist Jason Isbell. His recent record Something More Than Free hit number one on the folk, rock and country charts over […]
DRKWAV, The Purge (Royal Potato Family)
DRKWAV is an appropriate name for this trio of Skerik (Illuminasti Trio/Dead Kenny G’s, Garage A Trois) on saxophones, John Medeski (Medeski, Martin, and Wood/Either/Orchestra) on keyboards, and Adam Deitch […]
American Jazz Quintet, Gulf Coast Jazz: Volume 1 (V.S.O.P.)
Although countless amazing recordings came out of Cosimo Matassa‘s J&M Recording Studio in the 1950s, very little of it was New Orleans musicians playing modern jazz. By that measure, the […]
John Ellis & Double-Wide, Charm (Parade Light)
John Ellis & Double-Wide play serious music that does not take itself too seriously. The band makes its way over uncommon time signatures and modes to produce music that is […]
Long Sidewalks, Staffa (Breakfast4Dinner Records)
Long Sidewalks continues the collaborations between trombonists Jeb Bishop (of Chicago and North Carolina) and Jeff Albert (New Orleans). After Katrina and the Federal Flood, Albert recorded in Chicago with […]
Daria and the Hip Drops, Hipnotic (Independent)
The latest from Daria and the Hip Drops adds to their range while still keeping to varied, dancing grooves. Despite the band only having three pieces, they generate a lot […]
Greg Schatz, Everything That You Wanted (Hot Spazz Records)
Somewhere downriver of Esplanade, there’s a tavern where the troubadours of the unbalanced hang out, drink, gamble, and tell tales. This might be metaphorical, but it also might not. Luke […]
Dave Cappello & Jeff Albert, Duets 2014 (Breakfast for Dinner Records)
Most instances of percussion and horn duets make little music and a lot of noodling. Drummer/percussionist Dave Cappello and trombonist Jeff Albert’s addition to this type of recordings ranks more […]
