Various Artists: A GRP Christmas Collection (1988)
Don’t you just hate the holidays? Don’t answer that. If anything this time of the year teaches us is that we need…
December 24, 2019
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Year: 2019
85 records
Masatsugu Shinozaki (篠崎正嗣): A Roar Of The Tiger (1992)
Winter heat from an unlikely source. Perhaps I’m showing my bias as a violinist, but I have to share another of my…
December 20, 2019
Steve Kindler: Automatic Writing (1985)
Let’s do things in reverse. Let’s revisit the work of violinist Steve Kindler. Perhaps better known for his work with John McLaughlin…
December 18, 2019
Yukie Nishimura (西村由紀江): L’espoir (～レスポワール～) (1989)
I told you things were going to get real here. Let’s get intimate. Let’s get closer to the work of Yukie Nishimura.…
December 13, 2019
Carla Bley (with Steve Swallow): Night-glo (1985)
I’ll be completely honest. Lately, it’s been getting harder to carve out time to write for this blog. After a long moment…
December 11, 2019
Mix: 35. Japanese Healing Music
Certain things aren’t lost on me. Whenever I look at my time slot at LYL Radio I feel a sense of responsibility.…
December 6, 2019
Mix: 34. Akira Inoue Special II (Guest Mix by Francis Heaney)
Note: Guest, Francis Heaney, rejoins us to share the second part of his mix series covering Japan’s incomparable Akira Inoue. This time…
November 28, 2019
Lucio Battisti: Anima Latina (1974)
Albums as unique as Lucio Battisti’s Anima Latina are rarely the product of one person’s/band single vision. It’s easy to forget how…
November 26, 2019
Shiho Yabuki (矢吹紫帆): New Meditation (1990)
Let’s hope this post posits something with clarity. You see, yours truly, has been mightily under the weather this week and propping…
November 22, 2019
Kip Hanrahan: Days And Nights Of Blue Luck Inverted (1987)
American Clavé. What a name. Kip Hanrahan is one of those musicians that deserves, mightily, to be a large household name, but…
November 19, 2019
Syun (旬): Landscapes (1994)
Sometimes certain albums force you to ponder just how the heck that certain something was created. Syun’s Landscapes speaks of using fractal…
November 15, 2019
Mark Nauseef: Wun-Wun (1984)
Is it jazz? That’s a repetitive refrain that I’ve been proposing lately to this blog. Native New Yorker, Mark Nauseef’s Wun-Wun is…
November 12, 2019