Willie Jones III: Fallen Heroes (WJ3) ** [B+(*)] Rodney Jordan & Christian Fabian: Conversations (Spicerack) [B+(**)] Marcus Joseph: Beyond the Dome (Jazz Re:freshed) ** [B] Jü: III (RareNoise) * [B+(*)] Jonathan Kane and Dave Soldier: February Meets Soldier String Quartet...
Darius Jones: Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) 7 Steve Coleman and Five Elements: PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) 7 Amyl and the Sniffers: Cartoon Darkness (B2B/Virgin) 7 Main difference from the source lists is that I combined both two Allen Lowe volumes into one...
Second-generation Go-Betweens, three singer-songwriters (only one a direct descendant), Riley Jones making a big difference on this sophomore album. Also the production, which fleshes out guitar-bass-drums with violin-viola-trumpet. ** 35. Kyle: Light of Mine (Atlantic) Rapper Kyle Thomas...
Rickie Lee Jones: Pirates (1981, Warner Bros.): Second album, also went top-ten but the singles stiffed. She does manage to generate some swing on the title cut, but the credits she should have gotten more (rhythm from Victor Feldman, Russell Ferrante, Chuck Rainey, Steve Gadd; horn ...
Joe Newman: I Love My Woman [The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions] (1979 [2000], Black & Blue): The label usually waited until artists came to Paris, but they picked up this live set from London, with the trumpet player (and sometime singer) leading a quartet with Hank Jones (piano...
Emily Duff: Razor Blade Smile (2021, Mr. Mudshow Music): Singer-songwriter from New York, fourth album since 2017, surprised to find she doesn't have a Wikipedia page, also that producer Eric Ambel has both a personal one and a separate discography page (as well as the expected pages ...
Darius Jones: Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) 7 Steve Coleman and Five Elements: PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) 7 Amyl and the Sniffers: Cartoon Darkness (B2B/Virgin) 7 Main difference from the source lists is that I combined both two Allen Lowe volumes into one...