Various artists
While Motown was getting a lot of well-deserved glory for its soul music successes in the 1960s and ’70s, Stax was in the trenches...
Charles Mingus
Legacy churns out many reissues from Columbia, RCA, and smaller, “swallowed-up” labels.
Occasionally, greatness surfaces, such as Tijuana Moods by Charles Mingus and the compilation...
Ben Folds
Humorous pianist-popster Ben Folds became critical darling when he broke out in the early 1990s with his trio, appropriately and oddly named the Ben...
Vijay Iyer & Fieldwork
The hype surrounding jazz pianist Vijay Iyer is frighteningly reminiscent of the ocean of ink that greeted the arrival of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and...
Maynard Ferguson
Maynard Ferguson’s career spanned nearly six decades, from the late 1940s until his death last year, during which he had star turns as a...
Nels Cline, Alex Cline
Guitarist Nels Cline makes music in a mind-boggling variety of contexts: from relatively mainstream artsy roots-rock with Wilco, to experimental skronk-skree in variously sized...
Johnny Cash & Assorted Guests
One of the best things about the newly released DVD The Best Of The Johnny Cash TV Show: 1969-1971 is the reminder, if we...
The Hands
What can $500 in production money buy you nowadays? Well, for elitists, it can get you about an hour in a quality studio.
But...
Rupert Wates
Dear Life is another of those seriously sincere "arty" albums that respond to the times we live in, perhaps trying to make sense of...
Wilco
Wilco has quite a stormy past, beginning with their tumultuous birth from the ashes of Uncle Tupelo about 10 years ago.
Since then, through...
