With a decade behind them and a focus on the path ahead, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey makes a clear statement with the appropriately titled, Walking With Giants. And they are indeed, as the jazz community can no longer deny that the three young men from Tulsa are bound to become respected jazzmen.
With his third EP Super D, in his recent trilogy following Speed Graphic and Sunny 16, the piano man braves a new gameface with this latest 5 song effort. Where the prior two five songers covered been there done that ground, Super D finds Folds reinventing his piano pop rock in the forms of punk anguish, disarming melodies and orchestrated rock.
As one of the world’s most recognized poets, Saul Williams has proven himself deft in the spoken word. With his self titled second album, Williams explores a new sound, one he’s proud to tag as “industrial punk hop.”
Rumor has it Wilco will be returning to the studio shortly, to capture the live energy from this six-man rotation on record. If the record is as festive as their Burlington performance, than Wilco is truly just a getting started, rather than just a ghost being born.
On his second album, The Clarence Greenwood Recordings, Cope takes a bite from Eminems’s alter ego playbook, mixing fact and fiction. But rather than a straight hip-hop record, Cope fuses rock, dub, reggae, and blues into an eclectic effort that, although sleepy and moody, proves patient and drawing.
Why even bother critiquing anything from the fingertips and voice of Ray Charles? Why find fault with a legend who, in the words of Johnny Mathis is
Alive In The Spirit World, the band
Obviously poetry comes naturally to Saul Williams, but on his second full length album, the self-titled Saul Williams, the poet turned songwriter attempts to bridge another gap – music and words.
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