[rating=9.00] Kamasi Washington has not only taken the jazz world by storm. He’s moved well beyond it, bringing in a new generation of non-jazz lovers too. Heaven and Earth, the
[rating=7.00] Suffice it to say T. Hardy Morris arrives at this juncture in his career bearing some impressive credentials. A member of the band Dead Confederate and the indie supergroup
[rating=8.00] Jeffrey Foucault gives this one more breathing room, emerging from the beautiful, stark darkness of his previous release, the wonderful Salt As Wolves. This time out, with Blood Brothers
[rating=6.00] so sad so sexy, the fourth album by Swedish singer Lykke Li is another reinvention for an artist who has covered different sonic terrain on each album. Previous album
[rating=9.00] Gene Clark, the ill-fated troubadour, singer and songwriter, once at the helm of the Byrds and provider of further inspiration to legions of Americana warriors and wannabes that would
[rating=7.00] In the decades following the dissolution of The Smiths it seemed that Johnny Marr was content to sit on the sidelines, offering his immeasurable talent to other songwriters. The
[rating=8.00] Too often in this cruel music business the best musicians are under-recognized and/or underappreciated. Steve Dawson – master guitarist, songwriter, producer, and label head for Canada’s Black Hen Music
[rating=7.00] Here We Go Love, the first album in 36 years by Dave Wakeling and company (appropriately enough on their own Here We Go Records) isn’t all that dissimilar from
[rating=8.00] Buddy Guy’s partnership with producer and songwriter Tom Hambridge has made him quite successful, as we now find Guy in his eighth decade. And, according to Guy, one of
[rating=8.00] R+R = NOW is a collective, brought together by Robert Glasper as a genre-smashing outfit that speaks out not as much in a protest mode, but more about expressing
