Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt October 23, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Spiritual Sustenance The restorative power of music can make one whole again. Given the proper set and setting, with just the right artist, and just the right room, there’s a spirituality at work. When a hi...
Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt October 16, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Meet Ghalia She’s a total rock star, carrying around a hip flask of whiskey which she can be seen offering the listener on the cover of her down ‘n’ dirty Mississippi Blend (Ruf Records). If her 2017 Let Th...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt October 9, 2019 Albums, Rant 'N' Roll, Reviews Jazz Album Of The Year? Long Waves (Unit Records), by the Franco Ambrosetti Quintet, has it all. It has the legendary Jack DeJohnette on drums who interacts, pushes, pokes, and prods his bandmates into rhyt...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt August 21, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Bad-Ass Piano-Playing Hipster The 11 originals that constitute the free-flowing multi-genre solo piano of Baltimore hipster Lafayette Gilchrist’s self-released Dark Matter range from jazz, go-go, blues, pop...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt August 14, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Stranger Things One of the more entertaining aspects about the first two seasons of Stranger Things is the music. The soundtrack for season three is a mixed bag that interlocks into a mesmerizing 16-track w...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt July 30, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Alto Sax & Trombone with Good Vibes The sound of an alto sax/trombone frontline—with vibraphone underpinning instead of piano—hearkens back to an earlier era of classic Blue Note records and, indeed, th...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt July 24, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll The Guitar Is the Star Canadian guitarist Kevin Breit named his second Stony Plain Records solo album Stella Bella Strada, which loosely translates to “beautiful star of the road,” after his new guitar, spe...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt July 9, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll 2 Meet Me On Southern Avenue I’ll be on Southern Avenue for a while because I Keep On (Concord Records) playing this Memphis band’s second album. Their 2017 self-titled debut had me up nights dancing by mysel...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt July 3, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll 7-3 Mike Greenblatt’s Rant’n’Roll Advice From Waylon Somewhere between roots rock and no-frills hard-country, singer-songwriter Bryan Haraway grinds it out on this self-titled gem (Part Time Criminal Mus...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt June 19, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll The 2019 Blast Furnace Blues Festival is FREE This Year! Bethlehem, Pennsylvania—It’s always one of my favorite events of the year. This time it’s free. And all outdoors. The 2019 Blast Furnace Blues Festiv...
