Two jazz vocalists and one percussionist turn out fine albums.
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Music Review: Billy J. Kramer – ‘I Won the Fight’
A remembrance of times past, sung with a voice of seasoned maturity.
Read More »Music Reviews: Andrea Balducci, Gaetano Partipilo, Alessandro Scala Quartet
Here are three albums that make it clear that if jazz is on its way to the emergency room in some places, in Italy it’s alive and well.
Read More »Music Review: War – ‘Evolutionary’
Unlike most bands from the classic rock era, War's style never quite went "out of style" the way, say, southern rock or progressive rock did. Funky is still funky.
Read More »Music Review: Swans – ‘To Be Kind’
The new Swans album employs a pop sensibility to its dark underground sound.
Read More »Music Review: Charlie Dennard – ‘From Brazil to New Orleans’
New Orleans and Brazil: turns out, in the right hands, they make for a happy marriage.
Read More »Music Review: Out Is Through – Alanis Morissette’s ‘So-Called Chaos’ Turns 10
Nine years after 'Jagged Little Pill,' Alanis Morissette could not be contained to the “alt angst” label. With her sixth LP, 'So-Called Chaos,' she continued her journey into her own womanhood.
Read More »Music Review: Theo Croker – ‘AfroPhysicist’
Good music is good music, no matter what you call it, and what you have on AfroPhysicist is good music.
Read More »Music Review: Rage to Love – Kim Wilde’s ‘Teases & Dares’ Turns 30
It was the year of Prince, the dawn of the 12” mix and rising dance-pop dolls when Wilde premiered her fourth LP, 'Teases & Dares' (MCA), in the fall of 1984.
Read More »Music Review: Hank Williams – ‘The Garden Spot Programs, 1950’
Four of Hank Williams Garden Spot programs, unheard for 64 years, will be released on May 19.
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