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On the EP's opening track, the straight-ahead-rocker "Sellout", Hatfield displays more confidence than on her entire previous album, 1995's curiously sedated Only Everything. On that release, attempts to make her music harder often just made it sludgy. Here, the raw pop energy of her older releases...
Like the Pietasters horn section, the Slackers trumpet and saxophone lay down a steady beat and background ska tone. While shining on occasional solos, the musicianship of the Slackers is most apparent on a pair of superb instrumentals, "Cooking for Tommy" and "Tin Tin Deo," that mark the album's...
Live-Evil,also recorded in 1970, provides perhaps the best summing up of the albums in the series. The recording repeatedly switches from the polyrhythmic, intense jazz of the Fillmore albums to the stomping funk of the later releases. The sheer range of the album can be disconcerting, but the...
Bowie was aided tremendously by the sheer skill of his backing musicians. The band-in Bowie's opinion, his best band in over two decades-has now been playing long enough together to develop a real sense of coherence and musical unity. Particular highlights included Mike Garson's short, jazz...
Some may observe that these recordings represent a somewhat unrefined phase in Coltrane's career. In some instances the extended instrumentation seems a little distracting and unnecessary, and the interplay between Coltrane and Eric Dolphy is not always smooth. Not everyone may be able to bear with Coltrane on his...