Tyran Grillo completes ECM Reviews site with 1330th disc review This is too remarkable not to report. Cast your eyes on ecmreviews.com With several years effort, a [...] 2015/05/28 /// 0 Comments
Marco Polo’s Film Music Discoveries Album review by Neil Hobkirk We all have favourite film music. Whether absorbed during a movie or savoured [...] 2015/04/09 /// 0 Comments
New Tricks Revisited: Deep Purple’s “Purpendicular” (reissue; HNE, 2014) Album review by Neil Hobkirk Purpendicular opens with a sound unfamiliar from previous Deep Purple albums: a [...] 2015/02/28 /// 0 Comments
Serene Footfalls: “La vie commence ici” by Marianne Trudel (Justin Time, 2014) Album review by Neil Hobkirk The three times I’ve seen Marianne Trudel perform in person, she’s radiated [...] 2014/12/31 /// 0 Comments
Ongoing Adventure: Ranee Lee’s “What’s Going On” (Justin Time, 2014) Album review by Neil Hobkirk Just a few seconds in, the strings are what strike you. They’re in fact the [...] 2014/11/17 /// 3 Comments
Celebrating 20 Years with Wilco It’s hard to think of a more prolific, yet low-key American band than Chicago’s alt-rock outfit [...] 2014/10/17 /// 0 Comments
Kingston Kong: “Bite My Blues” by Peter van Huffel’s Gorilla Mask (Clean Feed, 2014) Album review by Neil Hobkirk Raised in a city readily stigmatized as an alternate take—an other London [...] 2014/10/11 /// 1 Comment
More surprising vocal collaborations It’s a formula as old as Ella & Louis. Take two popular performers and put them together; if the [...] 2014/10/10 /// 1 Comment
Something Less: “Heaven & Earth” by Yes (Frontiers, 2014) Album review by Neil Hobkirk Well, the cover art’s nice. And the music’s nice too. Or rather, the [...] 2014/09/01 /// 0 Comments
Definitive Statement: Dee Daniels’ “State of the Art” (Criss Cross Jazz, 2013) Album review by Neil Hobkirk Dee Daniels should need no introduction. Unfortunately, she too often does. In a [...] 2014/08/02 /// 0 Comments