Alister Spence, Whirlpool | The Vinyl Anachronist
I just finished up my review of the Joseph Audio Pulsar2 Graphene loudspeakers yesterday, which will appear in early August, and Australian jazz composer Alister [...]
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Clemens Kuratle and Murmullo, Lies | The Vinyl Anachronist
This review of Swiss jazz drummer Clemens Kuratle‘s new album, Lies, marks the first Vinyl Anachronist entry in several weeks because of my recent move from New York [...]
Samoa Wilson and Jim Kweskin, I Just Want to Be Horizontal | The Vinyl Anachronist
Samoa Wilson reminds me a little of the Occaquan Inn in Virginia, one of my favorite restaurants in the world. The Occaquan Inn, which is located right on the bank of the [...]
Enrique Haneine, Unlayered | The Vinyl Anachronist
Sometimes great recordings fall through the cracks here at Vinyl Anachronist World Headquarters, and Enrique Haneine and his new album Unlayered was almost one of those [...]
BK Trio, Hit It | The Vinyl Anachronist
Thankfully, Hit It from the BK Trio sounds quite different from the seemingly countless jazz trio recordings coming out this spring. Much of that comes from guitarist [...]
Wayne Alpern, Standard Deviation | The Vinyl Anachronist
The contemporary jazz scene is almost evenly divided between original compositions and covers from the Great American Songbook. When something falls outside of those two [...]
dCS Legends: Al Schmitt and Steely Dan’s Aja | The Vinyl Anachronist
When I first read about the dCS Legends series, which celebrates Grammy-winning engineers, I was surprised at just how many of these classic recordings I own and how I have a [...]
3D Jazz Trio, I Love to See You Smile | The Vinyl Anachronist
I Love to See You Smile is indeed another piano trio recording in a season obviously focused on jazz trios. But this one is different. Oh, you might think, I always say that [...]
Jenny Davis, Rearranged | The Vinyl Anachronist
I must admit to a slight bias against jazz performers, arrangers and composers who try to write original songs that sound just like classics from the Great American Songbook. [...]
Brian Landrus, For Now | The Vinyl Anachronist
You have to be a heck of a jazz musician to assemble and lead a quartet that includes pianist Fred Hersch, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Billy Hart. But sax/clarinet/flute [...]
