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Blue Room: The 1979 VARA Studio Sessions in Holland (Jazz Detective). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Blue Room: The 1979 VARA Studio Sessions in Holland (Jazz Detective). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
A Brand-New Shade of Blue (Omnivore). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
From Memphis to New Orleans - Songs From Robin Hood Lane (Bar/ None). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
The Best of Chet Baker (Riverside). Review by Matthew Moyer.
The Definitive Chick Corea on Stretch and Concord (Stretch Records, Concord Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Know What I Mean? (Riverside). Review by Carl F Gauze.
In New York (Riverside, Concord Music). Review by Carl F Gauze.
It wasn’t all Bach and hypochondria in the life of mercurial pianist Glenn Gould. Shelton Hull finds this new biography awash in details of the great musician’s love life and other psychological insights.
Cheekbone Hollows (Pop. 1/2 Life) (Gypsy Eyes Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Shelton Hull gives us a peek into his personal playlist, busting at the seams with rap supervillains and jazz legends.
Triumph of Time (ObliqSound). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
A thousand kisses deep (Columbia). Review by Ben Varkentine.
Trumpet Evolution (Crescent Moon / Columbia). Review by Stein Haukland.
Live at Birdland (Telarc). Review by Chad Perman.
Erik Truffaz at La Maison Francaise in Washington, DC on April 29, 2002. Concert review by Bill Campbell.
Boulevard: New Version - The Complete Series (F Communications). Review by Kiran Aditham.
Steve Stav offers his personal musical recipe for love, culling from various music genres and eras, to get your Valentine’s Day headed in the right direction. What, no Barry White?
Night Sessions (Columbia). Review by Sean Slone.
When (Warp). Review by Marcel Feldmar.
The Art of the Ballad (Prestige). Review by James Mann
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar). Review by Peter Lindblad.
This week, Christopher Long goes “gaga” over discovering an ’80s treasure: an OG vinyl copy of Spring Session M, the timeless 1982 classic from Missing Persons — for just six bucks!
Both bold experiment and colossal failure in the 1960s, Esperanto language art house horror film Incubus returns with pre-_Star Trek_ William Shatner to claim a perhaps more serious audience.
You Can’t Tell Me I’m Not What I Used To Be (North & Left Records). Review by Randy Radic.
In this latest installment of his weekly series, Christopher Long is betrayed by his longtime GF when she swipes his copy of Loretta Lynn’s Greatest Hits Vol. II right out from under his nose while rummaging through a south Florida junk store.