Jazz
-
Nothing wrong with standing on shoulders if you do it with respect. London quartet Ruby Rushton is back with its fourth disc today. It is a near-flawless gem of a record. While it owes a heavy debt to Yusef Lateef, The Headhunters and Weather Report (by their own account), it does so with a carefully…
-
Respected guitarist David Torn is back, this time out with added electronics and live-looping. He’s joined on Sun of Goldfinger – his first for ECM since Only Sky in 2015 – by Tim Berne on a scorching alto saxophone and Ches Smith on drums and electronics. The album offers three new tracks, each of which…
-
Promising “big band free jazz, black metal, ‘70s car chase themes, noise rock, avant garde, jazz and lounge,” this sixth album from Richmond, Virginia’s RAIC is suitably titled. In all, 11 musicians join the core quintet. The album opens with a near-23-minute jam that sounds like a Tom Waits soundtrack circa 1992. Given that three…
-
The Best of 2018: A to C, D to G, H to K, L to M, O to S. Tenderlonious – The Shakedown Featuring The 22archestra Tensal – Graphical Bart Van Dongen & Richard Van Kruysdijk – One Two Three Four Five Various Artists – 1631 Recordings Box Set Various Artists – HH100 Various Artists – Infinite Loop Vol.…
-
The Best of 2018: A to C, D to G, H to K, L to M. Oberman Knocks – Trilate Shift Orcastratum: Orcastratum Daniela Orvin – Home Åke Parmerud – Grains (ph)authers – (ph)authers Ryan Porter – The Optimist Prairie – After The Flash Flood Michael Price – Tender Symmetry R.A.N. – Şeb-I Yelda Trevor Ransom – Spring…
-
The Best of 2018: A to C, D to G, H to K. Ingrid Laubrock – Contemporary Chaos Practices Karoline Leblanc/Ernesto Rodrigues/Nicolas Caloia – Autoschediasm Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch – Epoques Klara Lewis & Simon Fisher Turner – Care Mikael Lind – Strings And Clusters Jakob Lindhagen – Paces Tim Linghaus – Memory Sketches Listening Group – Listening Group…
The Moderns 