Joe Livoti
Greetings From Galaxy X. Review by Carl F Gauze.
Greetings From Galaxy X. Review by Carl F Gauze.
Roots and Grooves (Heads Up International). Review by Cindy Barrymore.
Surfin’ USSR (Ipecac). Review by Rose Petralia.
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.
Gold Thriller (Joyful Noise). Review by Nora Richardson.
Sangrou (007). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Bemun (Double Moon). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Charles Mingus stood tall as an oak tree and played an upright bass made of the blackest ebony. Maybe not, but Shelton hull provides proof why the man remains a legend to this day.
Breaking and Entering: Music From the Film (V2). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Shelton Hull looks back at the works of Django on electric guitar, along the way wondering why this material hasn’t been collected in a boxed set and what Charlie Parker would have thought of it.
Shelton Hull is smitten with the absolute excellence of a newly-reissued live set of music recorded in Tokyo, circa 1963, from the underrated Jezebel of Jazz.
Juvenilia (Grout Enterprises, Inc). Review by Carl F Gauze.
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.
The Moonlight Never Misses an Appointment (Eskimo Kiss). Review by Carl F Gauze.
The Wind At Four To Fly (Diamond Riggs). Review by Carl F Gauze.
29 Pieces for the Microtonal Guitar (g-wOw). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Absolute Noon (Hometapes). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Mean Things Happen in this Land (Ropeadope). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Spider Monkey. Review by Carl F Gauze.
Electropolis (Innova). Review by Carl F Gauze.
With the thirty-fifth anniversary of debut album Whirlpool, UK shoegaze outfit Chapterhouse is back together again and touring the US as part of Slide Away Music Festival.
The Englert theater hosted Little Feat as they embark on their Last Farewell Tour.
Meiko Kaji’s katana is sharp and looking for revenge in Wandering Ginza Butterfly and its sequel, She Cat Gambler, a stylish pair of early ’70s action films.