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Reissue CDs Weekly: Charles Mingus @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 | reviews, news & interviews Reissue CDs Weekly: Charles Mingus @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 Reissue CDs Weekly: Charles Mingus @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 Live recordings where the jazz great wouldn’t ‘tone down his performance to meet the audience’s tastes’ by Kieron TylerSunday, 10 January 2021 George Adams (left) and Charles Mingus on stage, Bremen, 9 July 1975Sunnyside Communications, Inc. Two of the four CDs in this set are of a live performance taped on 16 April 1964. The other pair of discs were recorded on 9 July 1975. ...

Why You Need To Hear Monty Alexander’s Love You Madly HomeAudiophile News, Audiophile, Audiophile MusicWhy You Need To Hear Monty Alexander’s Love You Madly 29 On the last Record Store Day event of 2020, several fascinating archival jazz releases were issued which I previewed (click here to read that). In that article I promised I would explore the releases there in greater depth, two of which I have done so far (click here for Resonance Records’ Bill Evans Live at Ronnie Scott’s and here for Jazz Dispensary’s Orange Sunset). Of the three titles from Resonance ...

Share The Vinyl Vault presents some mid-70s fusion with a European twist when we’ll listen to a 1975 album from violinist Michal Urbaniak entitled “Fusion III.” Urbaniak, who hails from Poland, immigrated to the U.S. in 1973 and quickly joined the New York fusion scene. “Fusion III” features performances from several of Urbaniak’s compatriots as well as a number of highly regarded American musicians. For instance, both John Abercrombie and Larry Coryell each play a number of prominent guitar solos. The rhythm section locks down a solid and often funky foundation with Alp...

One-time pop star and acclaimed Mixmag columnist the Secret DJ continues to chronicle the last 30-plus years of dance music’s evolution as a superstar DJ before it all went pear-shaped. Yet Book Two is not a direct follow-up to the biographical The Secret DJ: From Ibiza To the Norfolk Broads. Rather, they take a more anthropological approach, recounting the purity of a youth movement falling prey to gentrification and filthy lucre. “No one in publishing would have the balls to touch this book with a bargepole,” the Secret DJ said in a statement on the Velocity website. “It takes co...