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Otis Spann Is The Blues / Lightnin’ in New York (Candid Records). Review by James Mann.
Otis Spann Is The Blues / Lightnin’ in New York (Candid Records). Review by James Mann.
Rosa Parks: Pure Love. An Oratorio of Seven Songs (TUM Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Jazz at Massey Hall (Original Jazz Classics/Debut). Review by James Mann.
Raga Bop Trio (Abstract Logix). Review by Shelton Hull.
Shelton Hull finds there is much to learn in this collection of conversations with the enigmatic and innovative trumpeter, not nearly as reticient with interviewers as legend has it.
Shelton Hull makes a case for Mel Lewis, an underrated and subtle jazz drummer, who is finally starting to get his reissue due - including this excellent concert dvd from 1986.
Shelton Hull is awed by Mosaic’s exhaustive new Max Roach box set, and how it lovingly excavates and elevates the drumming titan’s dizzying 1950s output to its proper place amongst the greats.
San Francisco Debut, Unfinished Symphony (Kufala Recordings). Review by Shelton Hull.
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Random Acts of Happiness (Summerfold). Review by Eric J. Iannelli.
Bird’s Best Bop on Verve (Verve). Review by Bill Campbell.
So What / Love Letters (Eighty Eight’s (Columbia)). Review by Eric J. Iannelli.
So What / Love Letters (Eighty Eight’s (Columbia)). Review by Eric J. Iannelli.
Mad 6 | Friendship (Eighty-Eight’s). Review by Eric J. Iannelli. |
A.J. Croce celebrates the 50th anniversary of his father, Jim Croce’s, three ground breaking albums, with a nationwide tour of Croce Plays Croce.
High Above Harlesden 1978 - 2023 from On-U Sound collects 60 dub and reggae tracks from Creation Rebel, an astounding set of musicians.
Gerta O. Egy’s beautifully drawn fungi almost eclipse their fairyland habitats in her Mushroom Daydream Coloring Book.
One of the last of the classic wuxia swordplay films stands as a fitting coda to the grand period of the genre. Phil Bailey reviews a new Blu-ray release of the 1975 film The Valiant Ones.
The Complete Friends of Old-Time Music Concert (Smithsonian Folkways Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Smash Mouth takes us back to The Brady Bunch circa 1973, with “Sunshine Day,” featuring Barry Williams, the original Greg Brady.
Not everyone can be excited by blocks spinning on a screen, but if you are, Ian Koss recommends you pay attention to Best of Five.
The final two films in the bonkers Hong Kong action comedy series The Inspector Wears Skirts hit Blu-ray from 88 Films.
A pair of early “girls with guns” action films from superstars Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock have arrived from 88 Films.