Category: Album Reviews – Archive

March 12, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

THE SILVER LINING (Columbia) 8/10 Tony Bennett occupies a unique place in music. Not only is he still singing at 89, he is generating some of his best work, and meanwhile is still considered sufficiently cool to hold appeal for four generations of listeners simultaneously. Of course his upper range…

March 7, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

High Energy Jazz From The Sydney Underground (michaelgordon.bandcamp.com) 8/10 You know that feeling when you are idly daydreaming on the tracks and suddenly find the Indian Pacific rushing at you? Of course you do. Pressing play on this album is like that. I don’t just mean it generates unstoppable momentum,…

March 2, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

Oscalypso (Skipstone) 9/10 Oscar Pettiford was not the first jazz bassist to take up the cello, but he played a crucial role in this super-expressive instrument finding a permanent home in jazz, even if the number of exponents remains absurdly small. Now Erik Friedlander, a truly extraordinary improvising cellist, plays…