Jazz Odyssey

"prog rock is again being hailed for restoring art to modern rock, allowing innovative musicianship to be revered instead of reviled."
Renée Graham of The Boston Globe takes a look at the perceived prog rock revival in this article. Perhaps a return to prog rock as a legitimately respected and commercially viable musical genre would [...]

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"It’s wildly, glorious excessive, indulging the prog-rock impulses that are simply too ecstatic for rock to leave behind." — John Pareles @ the New York Times offers his take on the new Mars Volta album.
"…the result is a homogeneous shitheap of stream-of-consciousness turgidity." Sam Ubl over at Pitchfork has a slightly different viewpoint than [...]

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My colleagues who don’t appreciate my prog rock proclivities are advised to stop reading this post now and go back to fawning over the Bright Eyes album. This post is of interest to those colleagues who’ve requested to see a bit more about the music near and dear to my heart, and also for [...]

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A tip of the hat to the just released Hatwise Choice compilation which is a stellar collection of previously unreleased rare and live tracks by Canterbury legends Hatfield & the North.
Hatfield & the North recorded 2 superb albums for Virgin in their 3 years as a band and toured Europe relentlessly. With [...]

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I highly recommend downloading this live recording of the Hellborg, Lane and Sipe Trio. Bassist Jonas Hellborg, guitarist Shawn Lane, and Drummer Jeff Sipe (aka Apt. Q258) first started playing together in 1995. They toured pretty relentlessly through June of 1997 before splitting. They have released four albums as a trio, all of which are [...]

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Happy Birthday…my blog enters the world today

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