Album review by Neil Hobkirk Reviewing Yelena Eckemoff’s exquisite Everblue (2015) for Wall of Sound a few years ago, I considered it a compelling answer […]
Make It a Double: “I Long to See You” by Charles Lloyd & the Marvels (Blue Note, 2016)
Album review by Neil Hobkirk Remember those Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups TV ads from the ‘70s? Varied in their particulars, they shared one premise: a […]
Double Rainbow: Yelena Eckemoff Quartet, “Everblue” (L&H, 2015); Mike Nock/Laurence Pike, “Beginning and End of Knowing” (FWM, 2015)
Album review by Neil Hobkirk When is an ECM album not an ECM album? Two new releases from, respectively, Yelena Eckemoff and Mike Nock/Laurence Pike […]
Suites of Sorts: “Mira” by Arild Andersen with Tommy Smith and Paolo Vinaccia (ECM, 2014)
Album review by Neil Hobkirk I’m going to treat this album as though it fell into two distinct sections. For me it does. Two thirds […]