Musical Hoaxes
adminTaking a look at some historic releases that turned out to be fakes, but still produced outstanding music: Jurgen Muller, Ursula Bogner, and the East German ‘Kosmischer Laufer project.’
Read MorePeter Baumann/Romance 76
Peter Baumann is known primarily as a member of Tangerine Dream from 1971-1977 (except for a brief hiatus in 1975, when he was replaced for some live performances by Michael…
Read MoreMusic With 58 Musicians/ECM
by Marshall Bowden This article has a couple of familiar angles to regular readers: ECM Records and Compilations. To be specific, the ECM compilation Music With 58 Musicians, Volume One,…
Read MoreSt. Vincent: Daddy’s Home
by Marshall Bowden St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) comes out with an album, alluding to it being influenced by her father’s record collection (late sixties, early to mid seventies) and…
Read MoreSteve Mandel & The Roots’ Squeeze Tribute Album
Tribute albums are such a mixed bag. They can be fantastic, but for every I’m Your Fan is a collection that has maybe one or two standout tracks and the…
Read MoreIn Ten Tracks: The Band
A selection of songs by The Band that have meaning to me and have stuck with me through the years, appearing frequently on mix tapes and playlists.
Read MoreMal Waldron in Europe, 1969-73
Returning from a medical catastrophe, Mal Waldron played his own individualistic piano style that led him to Europe, where he recorded for ECM Records and played with burgeoning German hippie-synth…
Read MoreChick Corea’s Musical Universe
Reviewing Corea’s formidable discography, one is struck by the sheer diversity and boundless energy of his musical imagination. Includes a six-hour Spotify playlist of Corea highlights.
Read More32 Records: The House That Compilations Built
Joel Dorn built 32 Records into one of jazz’s bestselling labels in the 1980s. And he did it with compilations.
Read MoreMichael Fonfara, Lou Reed, and the Everyman Band
Reading about the recent passing of Michael Fonfara made me revisit the records Lou Reed made with Fonfara and with Reed’s backing band from 1974-1980. This became a transitional period…
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