Tag Archives: jazz

Boban Marković Orkestar’s Boban i Marko

Posted on 23rd November 2017 by Robert

There seems to be, in the Gypsy tradition of Serbian music, an affinity for Western jazz. This does not mean that the music performed by the Boban Marković Orkestar is jazz, but simply that jazz wanders in and feels very … Continue reading →

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Christian Jormin 3’s Sol Salutis

Posted on 2nd September 2017 by Robert

The Christian Jormin 3 is a jazz trio based in Sweden, comprised of Christian Jormin, piano and percussion; Mattias Gröroos, bass; and Magnus Boqvist, drums. Sol Salutis is, indeed, jazz, and sometimes subject to that cold intellectualism that I often … Continue reading →

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Vieux Farka Touré

Posted on 23rd March 2017 by Robert

There were, in the middle of the last century, over 1,000 languages spoken in Africa, grouped into four large families, not counting creoles and pidgins (estimates have actually ranged as high as 3,000 altogether). This does actually have something to … Continue reading →

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Kristian Blak’s Ravnating/Concerto Grotto og Drangar/Klæmint

Posted on 17th January 2017 by Robert

To be perfectly honest, I hadn’t expected to like the music of Kristian Blak. It does fall, to a large extent, under the rubric “new age,” although much more in the progressive jazz camp than my most favored artists from … Continue reading →

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Red Clay Ramblers’ It Ain’t Right

Posted on 29th July 2016 by Gary Whitehouse

The Red Clay Ramblers have been playing what’s now known as “new old-time” music since the early 1970s, and it’s entirely possible that they invented the genre, or at least played a part in its birth. They’ve put out more … Continue reading →

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Allen Lowe’s American Pop from Minstrel to Mojo: On Record 1893 to 1957

Posted on 29th April 2016 by Diverse Voices

Brendan Foreman penned this review. Reading Allen Lowe’s book American Pop from Minstrel to Mojo: On Record 1893 to 1957, I found myself agreeing with the late Tupac Shakur’s vision of the afterlife. Heaven would simply be a large night club filled … Continue reading →

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Kenny Wheeler’s Songs for Quintet

Posted on 15th January 2015 by Gary Whitehouse

This quintet album represents the last ensemble sessions the American expat flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler played, and it’s a quietly powerful date. I was unfamiliar with Wheeler before hearing this elegiac ECM release, and it’s my loss. I hope to go … Continue reading →

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Hubert Laws’ In The Beginning

Posted on 19th July 2011 by Gary Whitehouse

Hubert Laws’ In The Beginning is one of my favorite albums of all time, and has been since I first bought the double-LP set in 1976. I feel honored and a little intimidated to have the privilege of reviewing the … Continue reading →

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Paul Balmer’s Stephane Grappelli: A Life in the Jazz Century

Posted on 1st April 2004 by Gary Whitehouse

Stephane Grappelli was one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, and one of the most loved. This sterling film project shows why. Grappelli was born in 1908 in the village of Montmartre, now a section of Paris. … Continue reading →

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