Tag: jazz

Maceo Parker

Music Reviews

Roots and Grooves (Heads Up International). Review by Cindy Barrymore.

Mel Lewis and His Big Band

Screen Reviews

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.

Child Bite

Music Reviews

Gold Thriller (Joyful Noise). Review by Nora Richardson.

Monaural Masters

Minority Report

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.

Django Reinhardt in 1947

Minority Report

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.

Max Volume, Max Intensity

Minority Report

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 Glaciers

Music Reviews

The Moonlight Never Misses an Appointment (Eskimo Kiss). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Sten Hostfalt

Music Reviews

29 Pieces for the Microtonal Guitar (g-wOw). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Feathers

Music Reviews

Absolute Noon (Hometapes). Review by Aaron Shaul.

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Chapterhouse

Chapterhouse

Interviews

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.