"Colosseum's 1969 debut album is a notably pioneering endeavor in its combination of British blues-rock with British jazz-rock, even if the writing and singing aren't as impressive as the confident playing. Graham Bond and some of the horn-augmented...

"There has been understandable confusion for decades about the overlap and the differences between Colosseum's second U.K. album and their second U.S. album. Their second U.K. LP was titled Valentyne Suite; their second U.S. album, however, was not only given a different title, The Grass Is Greener, but featured a substantially different track listing, with only four of the eight tracks overlapping with Valentyne Suite (although the version of "The Grass Is Greener" on the U.S. release has a guitar...

After the dissolution of the original Colosseum, drummer Jon Hiseman enlisted vocalist Mike Starrs, guitarist Gary Moore, keyboardist Don Airey & bassist John Mole. This was the 1st of 3 albums that they would release. The vocal bits are very labored...

“Reissue of this 2000 album! All the songs on the debut by this German act breathe the atmosphere of heavy groove rock.”

“A DOUBLE-CD LIVE SET from the awesome stoner band from Germany.”

“Great as always. Super live band. I've seen Colour Haze at least 5 times live and they've always been world class! ... it IS time for a new LP.”

Colour Haze are a great, mostly instrumental, German guitar/bass/drums psychedelic trio. This is a reissue of the group's long out of print first album, originally released in 2001. The sound here is rawer and more guitar-y psychedelic than later, but...

“The second volume of Colour Haze live material was recorded during the band's legendary 2007 concerts on the island of Sardinia.”

“And Colour haze can play live! Their studio albums are great, but this live album is superb, as is the previous volume.
A quality recording of how well Colour Haze play live. A solid testament to their continued development. All CH fans will love this recording.”

“11th studio album from these progressive stalwarts of the German Stoner rock scene—Colour Haze play often subtle and epic psychedelic rock music that slowly evolves into soaring riffs of hallucinatory stoner metal with a bone-shaking rumble of drone-crunch beauty. At times the tempo flows with a dreamy & delicate near-jazz wonder; other times the guitars roar with the power of thundering elephants. References to the unique & funky psychedelic blues/rock of Jimi Hendrix fly through the space between your...

"In the early 1970s pianist and composer Adegoke Steve Colson and vocalist Iqua Colson were both members of The Association for Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), the radical home of jazz music in Chicago, and spiritual home of the Art Ensemble...

“Two of her most sought after albums: Huntington Ashram Monastery and World Galaxy. Swirling celestial harp glissandi, manic organ flourishes, modal grooves & more!”

“This remastered two-fer combines Alice Coltrane's 1969 release Huntington Ashram Monastery with World Galaxy from 1972. Originally, these LPs were released separately on Impulse. Both sets are spiritual in nature, with the first three cuts on H.A.M. combining the majestically meditative harp of Coltrane with Ron Carter on bass and...

Alice Coltrane – harp, piano, percussion
Jimmy Garrison – bass
Cecil McBee – bass
Pharoah Sanders – sax
Archie Shepp – sax
Kumar Kramer – harmonium
Tulsi Reynolds – tambura
Ed Blackwell – drums
Clifford Jarvis – drums

“Alice Coltrane's "The Carnegie Hall Concert" is a previously unreleased recording of a historic 1971 concert. The original multi-track recording was commissioned by Impulse but wasn't released at the time.”

“Had this review been writ

A iconic mid 60s John Coltrane album that deserves every singe gram of eminence it has gained in 55 years and counting. If you don't own it, this is a must. Period.

"One of the most important records ever made, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme was his pinnacle studio outing, that at once compiled all of the innovations from his past, spoke to the current of deep spirituality that liberated him from addictions to drugs and alcohol, and glimpsed at the future innovations of his final two and a half...

“You don't have to be a jazz fan at all to adore this (I'm not); if you're into Mission of Burma, The Stooges, or any other music that pins the intensity level to 10 and leaves it there, you have to give this a try. Your life may change, too.”-Eric Van

When I was a kid, trying to teach myself about ‘avant garde music’, one of the things I did was check out the local library.
The Wheaton Library had a number of ‘modern’ recordings (vinyl records – this was 1971-1972) that I checked out...

"Unknown until 2004 and unheard until now, these recordings by the John Coltrane Quartet are, as Sonny Rollins says in the liner notes, like finding a new room in the Great Pyramid. Featuring the Classic Quartet - John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones - and recorded at the end of a two-week run at Birdland, the music on this album represents one of the most influential groups in music history both performing in a musical style it had perfected and reaching in new, exploratory...

“For the 1962 European tour John Coltrane led his quartet to new heights. This set includes an extremely rare recording of Autumn Leaves, a ferocious version of Impressions and two of his iconic covers - The Inchworm and My Favorite Things - the latter played to the point of destruction.
This is the group responsible for twenty of modern jazz's seminal recordings from 1961's Live at the Village Vanguard to 1965's Sun Ship. Two years clear of his last tour with Miles Davis and just 5 years shy of his..

“Trane's two blazing performances at Newport in 1963 and 1965 have now been reissued onto one bargain CD! The 1963 performance, even though it featured Roy Haynes on drums instead of regular Elvin Jones, has long been counted among Coltrane's most fiery performances; it appears here with an unreleased extended version of Impressions. Jones is back behind the kit for the 1965 performance, which consists of just two tracks, One Down, One Up and My Favorite Things. Transforming music from a great artist.”

This expanded version of this classic Impulse releases features one of the last appearances by the classic Coltrane quartet, as well as the great 1965 Archie Shepp unit featuring Barre Phillips, Joe Chambers, Bobby Hutcherson!
This version includes about 30’ more music than appeared on the original lp release and gives you about 15’ more from each of the two bandleaders.

Excellent release by Ravi (sax) and band; Luis Perdomo-piano, Drew Gress-bass, EJ Strickland-drums.
Is he his father reincarnated? Is he breaking ground the same way his father did? The answer to both of these questions is no, but he is a fine player and this is a fine, contemporary jazz album; nicely recorded and superbly played with a lot of passion.

"On his fourth studio effort, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane charts a softly expansive, reverently adventurous course that by no means shatters...

"The ambition and invention on Time Distort Nine shows a band continuing to expand its horizons. Songs such as the seismic "Hypogeous" give clues that the destination is both earthly and alien: a post-transcendental reconfiguration of Self, Space and...

“Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and French maverick Pascal Comelade relive The Velvet Underground -- a non-nostalgic reinvention of a musical legacy that takes an influential past into the future.
For the world premiere of his latest book Linger On: The Velvet Underground -- published by Eva and Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace Library -- Catalan music journalist Ignacio Julià wanted to relive the New York band's original dynamics, that creative friction between an American noise-guitar player and poet...

A simultaneously wonderful and exceedingly frustrating release, this collects some of the earliest and quite rare work by Pascal Comelade in his electronic music days, before he bacame the 'master' of toy piano and toy instruments. While it's great to ...

This latest release from the unique rock minimalist has tracks recorded over the last few years with a large number of different collaborators on each track.
Overall, it’s pretty obviously him, but much of this is more rock (with drums, even) – even if REDUCTIONIST rock – than I expected.

Unique music from a unique musician. Comelade is a French/Catalan musician who started in electronic music but for over 30 years has specialized in a personalized music that usually features toy instruments. Using simple tools, he always seems to be...

A unique and fairly singular talent with his own distinctive playful-yet-serious sound!

"Le Rocanrolorama Abrégé is a clear perspective on Pascal Comelade's musical universe; it can be considered an ultimate "best of" and a radical introduction to this chaotic and uncompromising instrumental music. Rocanrolorama Abrégé (abbreviated "rockandrolorama", in English) is the short version of the complete works and reworks of Pascal Comelade, published at the end of 2016 as a six-CD box set, in a...

"Two listens and I became hooked on Common Ground, a clever fusion duo consisting of saxophonist Chris Farr from Philadelphia and guitarist Erik Sayles of Connecticut. This is the pair's second release, and it also features monster drummer Dennis Chamb...