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Rant ‘N’ Roll: Funky, Jazzy, Bluesy Magic Mike Greenblatt Columns November 15, 2023 0Drummer-Composer Gregory Hutchinson steps away from his usual jazz purview to bring Da Bang to alarming life on his solo debut after playing with...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: October Finds Mike Greenblatt Columns October 11, 2023 0Ain’t nothin’ Lowdown Brown can’t do on his debut. Cat’s 70, kickin’ ass, playing the blues, struttin’ some soul, and with the...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Blues to the Bone Mike Greenblatt Columns September 11, 2023 0Why has it taken sixties Earth Mother Icon Tracy Nelson, 78, almost 11 years to make a new record? Her...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Lucky Seven (Records for You) Mike Greenblatt Columns August 21, 2023 0For his seventh album, Oregon pianist-composer Gordon Lee asks How Can It Be? (PJCE Records). Recorded during the darkest days of the pandemic, the...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Eight Eccentric Records to Discover Mike Greenblatt Columns July 31, 2023 0Kosmos, from Italy, redefine the age-old piano-bass-drums jazz trio wherein the piano is the key component. On their new Averno, equal...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Not Yet Buried Mike Greenblatt Columns June 30, 2023 0I’d rather listen to dead guys. Although you can’t go to see them in-concert (except for Michael Jackson and Elvis),...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Two Jazz Gems Mike Greenblatt Columns May 29, 2023 0There’s a uniqueness about Melissa Pipe that cannot be described in one mere column. Her Montreal sextet’s self-released debut recording, Of...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Svigals, Sosin, & The Klezmatics Mike Greenblatt Columns April 24, 2023 0On May 24, at the AMT Theater on West 45th Street in Manhattan, a restoration of a 1924 German silent film...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: ‘The Shards’ by Bret Easton Ellis Mike Greenblatt Columns March 29, 2023 0In 1985, the debut novel of Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero, was a stunning ‘hello’ to an obviously gifted writer with a flair...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Blues Rock & Synesthesia Mike Greenblatt Columns February 27, 2023 0The various pre-’63 artists of More Boss Black Rockers Volume #4: Koko Joe (Koko Mojo Record Stack, Ireland) keep this thing poppin’ with...