By all accounts Big Mama Thornton was a force of nature. Her talent and striking personality took her all around the United States in her twenties and thirties and later to many places around the world. John Norris in Coda magazine wrote of her: Her voice is gutsy, earthy and coarse, but at the same…
Big Thief s music, rooted in the songs of Adrianne Lenker, paints in vivid tones the process of harnessing pain, loss, and love, while simultaneously letting go, looking into your own eyes through someone else s, and being okay with the inevitability of death, says Adrianne. Masterpiece, Big Thief s debut album, is filled with…
December 2001, Maida Vale: Bill Callahan’s “Smog” perform with demonstrative zeal for their British witness at the BBC, shimmering and hissing with a Lynchian vibe of U.S. darkness in the invariable shadows of the fallen towers. Callahan & band (Jessica Billey, Mike Saenz and Jim White) cover Stevie Nicks, Lou Reed and Smog with grey,…
Further Conversations with Myself, released on the Verve label in 1967, was Bill Evans sequel to his 1963 Grammy Award LP Conversations with Myself. As on that initial album, here all the pieces are unaccompanied solos with piano overdubs. On Further, however, he plays just two pianos instead of the three he had previously employed….
One of the two most important associations in the early development of the incredible talent of Bill Evans was undoubtedly his nine-month 1958 stay with the Miles Davis Sextet that also included John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley. The other was the year-and-a-half span in which Scott LaFaro was the bassist in Bill s newly-formed trio…
Bill Henderson – Bill Henderson With The Oscar Peterson Trio (Verve By Request Series) [180g LP] Bill Henderson may not have been a household name among jazz singers, but this 1963 release raises a valid point that maybe he should have been. Of course, taking on this mix of standards with the Oscar Peterson Trio…
Charlie Parker s first album with a string section landed in 1950, ten years after his debut recordings. Although the overtly lush arrangements of Charlie Parker with Strings were Parker s idea, the record must ve been something of a relief to producer Norman Granz, especially when the sides went on to become Bird s…
Limited eco-mix yellow colored vinyl. Billie Eilish s third studio album, HIT ME HARD AND SOFT , released via Darkroom Interscope Records is her most daring body of work to date, a diverse yet cohesive collection of songs – ideally listened to in it s entirety from beginning to end – does exactly as the…
High-definition premium 180gm vinyl pressing of this classic Jazz album. Jazz Wax Records. 2010. 1 Trav lin Light (Johnny Mercer-Jimmy Mundy-Trummy Young) 3:10 2 I Must Have That Man! (Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields) 3:06 3 Some Other Spring (Arthur Herzog Jr.-Irene Kitchings) 3:39 4 Lady Sings the Blues (Herbie Nichols-Billie Holiday) 3:46 5 Strange Fruit (Lewis Allan) 3:04 6 God Bless the…
Limited 180gm brown colored vinyl LP pressing. 1 Strange Fruit 2 Yesterdays 3 Fine and Mellow 4 I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues 5 How Am I to Know? 6 My Old Flame 7 I ll Get By 8 I Cover the Waterfront 9 I ll Be Seeing You 10 I m Yours 11 Embraceable You 12 As Time Goes By 13 He s Funny That Way…
“Mata leao” means “lion killer” in Portuguese, an appropriate title for this beast of an album, Biohazard’s first as a trio. In this case less is more; with a sound blending so many ingredients (hardcore, rap, metal), the increased focus brought on by the streamlined line-up just hardens the tip of the jackhammer. Produced by…