Richard Guba: Songs for Stuffed Animals (2024)

Richard Guba: Songs for Stuffed Animals (2024)

Richard Guba (alto, tenor, and soprano saxophones) has brought together an eight-piece outfit to record his debut as bandleader with Ken Zimmerman (acoustic piano and Ensoniq ESQ 1 digital wave synthesizer), David Mueller (electric bass), James Burcky (drums), and...

Matt Panayides Trio: With Eyes Closed (2024)

Matt Panayides Trio: With Eyes Closed (2024)

On this album guitarist Matt Panayides is joined by bassist Steve LaSpina and drummer Anthony Pinciotti, and they take on eight songs by six jazz composers (including two apiece by Cedar Walton and Wayne Shorter) plus reinvented versions of three standards. There is...

Manic Abraxas: Skinformation (2024)

Manic Abraxas: Skinformation (2024)

I knew absolutely nothing about this band when I agreed to review them, just that I thought that artwork was cool and interesting so why not? From the wooded realms of Northern Maine, Manic Abraxas comprise drummer Tom Bennett, bassist/vocalist/synth player Justin...

Jason Kao Hwang: Soliloquies (2024)

Jason Kao Hwang: Soliloquies (2024)

The subtitle of this album is ‘Unaccompanied Pizzicato Violin Improvisations’, which tells you exactly what this album is about. Recorded in two days at the beginning of 2024, here we find Hwang in a studio plucking his violin and going where the muse takes him....

Blair Dunlop: Out Of The Rain (2024)

Blair Dunlop: Out Of The Rain (2024)

Although I have reviewed countless albums from his father, Ashley ‘The Guv’nor’ Hutchings as well as others featuring his mother, Judy Dunlop, this is the first time I have reviewed an album by Blair himself. Given the importance of his parents in the folk rock scene,...

Thin Lizzy: 1976 (2024)

Thin Lizzy: 1976 (2024)

1976 was the year when Thin Lizzy started to find their feet. After the initial wanderings as a trio with Eric Bell, Phil Lynott and Brian Downey had settled on the deal guitar attack of Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson, and while they were certainly not the first to...

Sullvation: The Beginning of the End (2023)

Sullvation: The Beginning of the End (2023)

Sullvation is a solo project by bassist Brent Sullivan, who here also provides keyboards and guitar. He has been in the scene for a long time, co-founded legendary underground bands Slauter Xstroyes, Winter Kill, and Mindwarp Chamber and felt it was time to do...

The Folk Implosion: Walk Thru Me (2024)

The Folk Implosion: Walk Thru Me (2024)

I really ought to read press releases more carefully before downloading albums as I saw the name of this band and just thought they were a folk act, which is not exactly the case. The band were originally formed in 1989 when John Davis sent a tape to Lou Barlow (Deep...

Doug MacDonald: Santa Monica Session (2024)

Doug MacDonald: Santa Monica Session (2024)

Doug provided a quick follow-up to ‘Live at The Rancho Mirage Library’ with this album which finds him working with different musicians in a slightly different style. This time around, his arrangements have taken five veteran standards and three of his originals into...

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