Friday 04 July 2008
Two-Faced Friday View Playlist
Listening back over the last week, and forward to what’s on The Daily Planet next week.
Listening back over the last week, and forward to what’s on The Daily Planet next week.
Seraphic Light, Saxophone Summit’s new CD, is dedicated to their former member, the late Michael Brecker, replaced by Ravi Coltrane, and focusses on the beautiful spiritual ballads of Ravi’s father, John Coltrane’s later period.
Dr. John, the voice of New Orleans, has found another meaning in his hometown’s party-town monicker, The City That Care Forgot, the title of his angry and straightforward album that firmly points the blame for Katrina and its aftermath on corporate greed and government collusion.
On Mic Conway’s National Junk Band’s new CD, Corporate Chook, mindless consumerism, amoral corporations and ageing hack musicians are all targets for the group’s jug band hilarity.
Julien Wilson’s trio’s live CD trio - live is full of the warmth and grace that we’ve come to expect of this unusual trio of tenor sax, nylon string guitar and piano accordion.