Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt January 22, 2020 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Hail The Cowgirls! From Patsy Cline, Rosie & Retta, Ella Mae Morse, Rosemary Clooney, and Peggy Lee to Pearl Bailey, The Teen Queens, Kay Martin, Georgia Gibbs and The Melody Maids, the 25 female singer... Read More...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt January 15, 2020 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll A Night At The Deer Head Inn Someday (Deer Head Records), by father-son team Skip and Dan Wilkins, is a love letter of sorts to the hallowed environs of Pennsylvania’s legendary Deer Head Inn. Built in the ... Read More...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N Roll Mike Greenblatt January 8, 2020 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Ow! Leave it to the “Jazz Detective” Zev Feldman to uncover this treasure trove of hard bebopping from two masters, Johnny Griffin and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, at the height of their powers in 1962, live from... Read More...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N Roll Mike Greenblatt January 1, 2020 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll One-on-One With Chris Jericho Recently, when I had the chance to talk to the lead singer of Fozzy, Chris Jericho, who also happens to be a professional wrestler, I jumped at it. Truth be told, I’ve spent a ... Read More...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N Roll Mike Greenblatt December 25, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Coolest Calendar Ever The Blues Images 2020 calendar not only has original artwork from the nineteen-twenties and thirties accompanying each month’s entry, and not only has dates no other calendar has—like ... Read More...
Spotlight–MARTIN BARRE IS THE NEW JETHRO TULL Mike Greenblatt December 18, 2019 Goings-On Since the split between front-man Ian Anderson and lead guitarist Martin Barre, both musicians have been steadily touring under an amorphous Jethro Tull banner. Barre, one of the most under-rated and over... Read More...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N Roll Mike Greenblatt December 18, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Glenn Alexander is a renaissance man. He runs the jazz department at Sarah Lawrence College. He’s played guitar with the biggest and the best including Levon Helm, Elvis Costello, and Allen Toussaint. He has t... Read More...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N Roll Mike Greenblatt December 11, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Not Your Father’s Big Band Listen Up! (Onyx Productions) is different from what you might expect of a big band. Sure, there’s five trumpets, four trombones, seven saxophones, two drummers, two bassists, key... Read More...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N Roll Mike Greenblatt December 4, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll A Man Named Fima Based in Brooklyn, Fima Chupakhin, after adding keyboards to the projects of others, has now self-released his Water debut and it’s positively stunning. Over and above what he does to Monk’... Read More...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt November 27, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Real Raw Rockabilly One In A Million (Rhythm Bomb Records), by Twisted Rod, is a compact punk take on fifties Southern rock ‘n’ roll, wherein the primitive/primal nascent roots of rockabilly are compounded ... Read More...
