by Kev Rowland | Aug 13, 2023 | Reviews
This quartet was put together by vibraphonist Eldad Tarmu along with alto saxophonist Adam Hutcheson, bassist Sam Bevan, and drummer Cengiz Baysal, and in his tenth album as band leader or co-leader Tarmu shows why he is one of the most highly regarded players in his...
by Kev Rowland | Aug 13, 2023 | Reviews
Five of the six songs on this album are improvisations from the trio of Dave Anderson (bass), Tom Chute (drums and percussion) and Dave Easley (pedal steel guitar, guitar, vocals), with the last being a song by Easley where Kass Krebs joins on additional vocals....
by Kev Rowland | Aug 13, 2023 | Reviews
Here we have a deluxe reissue of Behemoth’s second album, 1996’s ‘Grom’. Following on from a series of demo tapes, with 1994’s ‘…From the Pagan Vastlands’ being widely acclaimed, they released their debut, ‘Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)’ in 1995, with a...
by Kev Rowland | Aug 13, 2023 | Reviews
In 1971 Emmett Finley released his only album. Possibly it would have had a greater fanfare if his old mate Jimi Hendrix had joined the sessions as he had promised, but Jimi went to London, and Emmett soon decided this was not the path for him. The following year he...
by Kev Rowland | Aug 13, 2023 | Reviews
Much music is designed to simply entertain, some to get across a message of some type, while some albums are designed to make us think, and this very much falls into the last territory. Fella Cederbaum, the daughter of holocaust survivors, is a poet, musician,...
by Kev Rowland | Aug 13, 2023 | Reviews
Here we have the ninth album from Maria Jacobs, an American jazz vocalist, Christian singer songwriter and author, born of Syrian, Lebanese and Armenian descent. She is the Adjunct Professor of Applied Vocal Jazz at Kent State University, and this was recorded mostly...