Album Reviews

Dave King: Indelicate

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Dave King's Indelicate is a welcome assault on your preconceptions about jazz. It is an album I've lived with since it's release in 2010 but still feel as though it were my first listen every time I put it on. Indelicate is a perpetual breath of fresh air and a must own for all serious fans of music.

Although Dave King is best know for his rhythmic work alongside The Bad Plus and Happy Apple, listeners of this album are now privy to both his piano playing and drumming – each recorded separate of each other and then combined in the studio. Considering the high level of virtuosity and obtuse rhythmic interactions between the piano and drums, this staggering feat is not one to be missed.

Dave King is a juggernaut of contemporary jazz, a conduit of sound, and an unrelenting badass. You dig?

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All Time Top 5

Songs to Listen To While Reading Jack Kerouac [by Beat Radio]

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All Time Top 5 is an extension of our feature for the Paper Crane Collective where we compile music lists on various subjects. Here on our main site, we outsource the work, and allow some of our favorite artists to create lists and commentary based on a topic we provide. Once we add in the music it magically becomes an artist-curated mixtape list. What more could you want?

We're very happy to kick off the All Time Top 5 feature with Brian Sendrowitz of the great band Beat Radio. Being a man of words and a lover of all things Kerouac, I knew Brian would be able to make a solid list of songs to listen to while reading Kerouac. He was all over it.

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Videos

Phineas Newborn Jr. – Lush Life

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The blogosphere has been on a serious dry spell of great Phineas Newborn Jr recordings, and I am here to change that. His rhythm was infallible, his sound was implacable, and his style was undeniable. Recently, I came across this video of a live performance of Lush Life which he featured on his album, A World of Piano!. 

His playing aside, I was also immediately enamored with the introductory turn of phrase in this video where he is described as performing "…the durable Billy Strayhorn melody…". What a wonderful setup to a beautiful performance. Please take a moment today and enjoy  the dulcet piano playing of Phineas Newborn Jr.

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Album Reviews

The Farewell Drifters – Echo Boom

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As Kyle wrote yesterday, today is a big day for music releases. One of those is the album Echo Boom by the Farewell Drifters from Nashville, TN. I dig it and think you should definitely consider getting your hands on this one if you're looking for some good music from some talented guys.

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New Releases

Epic Tuesday Release Day

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Tuesday, June 7, is shaping up to be an epic release day in the music world. Some of my most anticipated releases of the year are dropping tomorrow, and I'm as giddy as a schoolgirl. Step inside to see what I'll be picking up.

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Picture In A Frame

New Feature: Picture In A Frame

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I'm somewhat of a digital collector of totally random, music-related photographs. They can be of anybody at anytime but the presence of a certain aesthetic quality makes me eat pictures right up. So here's a new feature called Picture In A Frame (named after that Tom Waits tune) where I arbitrarily and inconsistently post awesome pictures I've found with very little background information. Cheers!

First up is a picture of Bob Dylan. On a wooden boat. Two of my favorite things combined.

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