Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt August 1, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Finally! Not sure why it took one of the most in-demand hired guns in New York City to debut as a leader at 52 (he’s only been at it since 22) but trumpeter/flugelhorn man/composer John Bailey is In Rea...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt July 25, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Gin, Chocolate & Bottle Rockets Somewhere between the Andrews Sisters of the 1940s and the Indigo Girls of the 1990s sits a Wisconsin trio whose self-released sophomore effort contains n...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt July 18, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Another Great Dead Guy e.s.t. live in London (Act) by The Esbjorn Svensson Trio is a great two-disc retrospective of Sweden’s biggest piano trio, active for 17 years. In 2006 alone, they pla...
11 Rant’n’Roll – Musikfest 2018 Mike Greenblatt July 11, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Here we go again, my favorite time of the year is right around the corner. The 35th Annual Musikfest will take place August 3-12, after Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue lights up the Beth...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt July 4, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Exotica You’ve probably never heard of any of the artists on the three-CD boxed set called Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights (The Numero Group) bu...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt June 27, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Return Of The Delta Lady Leon Russell wrote “Delta Lady” for his girlfriend Rita Coolidge, the beautiful Cherokee with the silky warm sensuous voice that captivated a generation. Coolidge, 7...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt June 20, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Hoboken Plumber For the past 30 years, Gene Turonis has been known around Hoboken as The Singing Plumber. He’d carry around his wrench by day and, as Gene D. Plumber, his guitar at night. ...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt June 13, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Metal From The Dark Side In the 1990s, Norwegian black metal pioneers Emperor stretched its genre perimeters in an effort to transcend its limited appeal. Vegard Sverre Tveitan, known as Ihsahn, almos...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt June 6, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Dylan Jazz Life Is Brief: The Music Of Bob Dylan (Green Mind Records), by Indianapolis-based guitarist Charlie Ballantine, proves that The Bard’s melodies are good enough to stand wi...
Rant’n’Roll – Into The Ark: Sophisticato AlternaPop Mike Greenblatt May 30, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll The haunting melodies, the unerring harmonies, the sophisticated compositions, Valencia (Blackwood Records), by the Welsh twenty-something duo, Into The Ark, is but an EP tease to what will surely be one...
