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critic’s picks: the jazz at lincoln center orchestra with wynton marsalis...
There are five sterling minutes early into the “The Music of John Lewis,” a deeply satisfying new concert recording by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, where guest artist Jon Batiste gives the...
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critic’s pick: ray davies, “americana”
The notion of Ray Davies – headmaster of the Kinks for over three decades, the Lord Mayor of British pop when it began a global invasion in the 1960s – making an album titled “Americana” initially...
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critic’s pick: preservation hall jazz band, ‘so it is’
Give a blindfold listen to the first two tunes on “So It Is” and the act that comes to mind will likely not be the one making the music – the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, purveyor of the most vintage...
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chris stapleton’s round 2 ignites on ‘vol. 1’
chris stapleton. At the half-way point of his sublime sophomore album “From a Room: Volume 1,” Chris Stapleton attempts to rattle the cage of a relationship – in all likelihood, a marriage – long...
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critic’s pick: chick corea, ‘the musician’
Now this is what you call a birthday celebration. On a new triple CD/single Blu-Ray disc concert album “The Musician,” jazz colossus Chick Corea whittles down recordings from a nearly two month...
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critic’s pick: los straitjackets, ‘what’s so funny about peace, love and los...
Transforming the songs of a master pop composer into an arsenal of instrumentals might seem like career suicide, right? After all, Nick Lowe has been, for decades, one of rock music’s most cunning and...
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critic’s pick: the beatles, ‘sgt. pepper’s lonely hearts club band’...
“I think there’ll be another day singing it,” remarks Paul McCartney to John Lennon at the end of a very different take to the title tune of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” that sits at the...
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critic’s pick: roger waters, ‘is this the life we really want?’
“We cannot turn back the clock, cannot go back in time,” sings Rogers Waters near the midway point of “Is This the Life We Really Want?” True to form, the Pink Floyd co-pilot follows that somber...
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critic’s pick: jason isbell and the 400 unit, ‘the nashville sound’
In titling his newest album “The Nashville Sound,” Jason Isbell has presented us with a puzzler. The record, the first co-billed to his long running 400 Unit band in five years, has about as much in...
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critic’s pick: steve earle and the dukes, ‘so you wanna be an outlaw’
In a modest paraphrasing of the title tune from his newest album, Steve Earle confesses a casual truth one expects his own career taught him long ago. “If you wannabe an outlaw,” he sings with a drawl...
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