May 4th, 2023
Olivia Jean Summons A Raving Ghost The Detroit garage rocker delivers her heaviest offering to dateBy: Dylan Peggin
Olivia Jean is a jack of all trades. When a demo of Olivia Jean’s material found its way into Jack White’s hands in 2009, she relocated to Nashville and joined Third Man Records’ (founded by White) stable of artists. After carving her way as a session musician for the likes of Wanda Jackson and Karen Elson, in 2010 Olivia became the lead vocalist/guitarist/primary songwriter of the all-female garage goth band The Black Belles. The material that didn’t quite fit the... Read More
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"Tár"- Music From and Inspired By The Motion Picture Hildur Guðnadóttir and Todd Field assemble an interesting sonic companion to their 2022 arthouse sensationBy: Michael Johnson
Back in 2014 when I was an undergraduate student at the Manhattan School of Music, I remember the Jazz department in a perpetual uproar over the release of the film Whiplash. It seems every Jazz musician I knew had something to say about that movie, from praise to condemnation, from astonishment at what it got right, to a laundry list of everything it got wrong (it didn’t help that supposedly the fictional “Schaefer Conservatory” was based on our own institution).... Read More
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Craft Announces Next Group of OJC Reissues cut AAA from original master tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and pressed at RTIBy: Tracking Angle
Los Angeles, CA (May 2, 2023) – Craft Recordings announces the second batch of Original Jazz Classics seriesreissues—all of which are essential additions to any jazz fan’s collection: Mal Waldron Sextet’s Mal/2, Yusef Lateef’s Eastern Sounds, as well as a pair of landmark recordings from the Bill Evans Trio, Waltz for Debby and Sunday at the Village Vanguard. Delivering the highest-quality listening experience, each album boasts lacquers cut from the original tapes... Read More
Comments: 0May 3rd, 2023
Harold Vick's Blue Note Session Leader Debut And Finale with Blue Mitchell, Grant Green, John Patton and Ben DixonBy: Michael Fremer
Why saxophonist Harold Vick's Blue Note debut as bandleader was also his last, isn't clear. It certainly couldn't have been because the session was a musical disappointment. Far from it! Maybe it's because the date produced an album closer to the hard charging warm up for an r&b review than what Blue Note was typically releasing in 1963. Vick had played with all here but trumpeter Blue Mitchell and all had played in or skirted the r&b... Read More
Comments: 2May 3rd, 2023
POMP and CIRCUMSTANCE: Music Fit for Kings and Queens PART 2: CEREMONIAL and OCCASIONAL MUSIC A Survey of British Royal Music from Henry Purcell to Michael TippettBy: Mark Ward
Part 2 - Ceremonial and Occasional MusicBeyond the Coronation, I turn now to music written for other Royal ceremonial occasions (like funerals) and special occasions. I begin with more 20th Century music.Britten: Gloriana and Tippett: Suite for the Birthday of Prince CharlesMichael Tippett (l.) and Benjamin BrittenWe turn now to the two most prominent British composers of the generation after Walton, Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976) and Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998),... Read More
Comments: 1May 3rd, 2023
POMP and CIRCUMSTANCE: Music Fit for Kings and Queens PART 1: CORONATION MUSIC A Survey of British Royal Music from Henry Purcell to Michael TippettBy: Mark Ward
Part 1: Coronation MusicWith the Coronation of King Charles III nearly upon us, the British monarchy is preparing to "put on a show” the likes of which only those who were around for Elizabeth II’s Coronation in 1953 will have seen before. Royal weddings are all very well, but the Coronation ceremony is on a whole other level of pomp and circumstance, to borrow the title of Elgar’s five glorious marches celebrating King and Empire. And music will play a major... Read More
Comments: 4May 1st, 2023
Oasis Vinyl Reissues From Sony Japan: Any Good? a sonic history of the biggest rock 'n' roll albums of the 90sBy: Malachi Lui
Is rock ’n’ roll about the music, or getting thrown off a ferry? Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher probably never settled that argument (and likely never will), but Oasis’ legacy surrounds the music first and foremost, rock n roll antics and sibling rivalry second. While their rise represented a dated sense of 90s populist optimism, the tunes live on; nothing will desecrate the legacy of Noel's songwriting and Liam's distinctive voice on the first three albums.
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