Todd Manning, Author at Rock and Roll Globe

Electronic jazz Progressive Rock

ALBUMS: Revisiting A Far-Out Tony Williams Classic

September 5, 2022September 5, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments drums, Jazz, M.I.G. Music, Neu!, Patrick O’Hearn, Play or Die, Rush, Tom Grant, Tony Williams, Weather Report

Legendary jazz drummer’s 1980 trio LP emulates Rush, Neu!

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ALBUMS: King Garbage’s Ace In The Hole

May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments 2022, Heavy Metal Greasy Love, Ipecac Recordings, Jon Batiste, King Garbage, Leon Bridges, Mike Patton, SZA, the Weeknd

SZA/Jon Batiste/The Weeknd collaborators drop an R&B gem on Mike Patton’s Ipecac Recordings

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Phil Freeman Knows His Jazz

April 3, 2022April 3, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments 2022, Jazz, Phil Freeman, Ugly Beauty, Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century, Zer0 Books

The acclaimed music critic and impresario delivers the only book on jazz in the 21st Century that matters

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ALBUMS: Voivod’s Synchronized Anarchy

March 28, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments 2022, Century Media, Heavy Metal, Nothingface, Pink Floyd, Synchro Anarchy, Voivod

This late career masterpiece oozes with passion, meaning and tension

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Creative Jazz Titans Pay Homage to Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor

March 20, 2022March 20, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments Andrew Cyrille, Barry Altschul, Charlie Haden, Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, Enrique Rava, Graham Haynes, Jazz, Joe Fonda, Luciano Rosetti, Oliver Lake, pDon Cherry, William Parker

A pair of new TUM Records titles explore the artistry of two dearly departed legends

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ALBUMS: Four From Shipp

November 26, 2021November 26, 2021 Todd Manning 0 Comments Burning Ambulance, Codebreaker, ESP-DISK, Matthew Shipp, Reels, TAO Forms, Village Mothership William Parker, Whit Dickey

The master pianist defines jazz productivity with a quartet of essential new albums

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Thirsty and Miserable: Black Flag’s Damaged Turns 40

November 3, 2021April 3, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments 1981, Black Flag, Chuck Dukowski, Damaged, Greg Ginn, Henry Rollins, Robo

Looking back on the album that changed American hardcore forevermore

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The Sacred Trumpet of Wadada Leo Smith

September 6, 2021September 6, 2021 Todd Manning 0 Comments 2021, AACM, Bill Laswell, Free Jazz, Milford Graves, Sacred Ceremonies, Trumpet, TUM Records, Wadada Leo Smith

As the Chicago jazz great turns 80, two expansive new box sets honor his artistry

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ALBUMS: Attaining A Greater Understanding of Roy Brooks

July 15, 2021July 15, 2021 Todd Manning 0 Comments 2021, Carlos Garnett, Cecil McBee, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, Harold Mabern, Reel to Real, Roy Brooks, Understanding, Woody Shaw, Yusef Lateef

A scorching, previously unreleased 1970 live recording shines an overdue spotlight on the revered jazz drummer for such icons as Horace Silver and Charles Mingus

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ALBUMS: Unsane’s Journey Through The Past

May 4, 2021May 4, 2021 Todd Manning 0 Comments Bad Lieutenant, Brooklyn, Chris Spencer, Heavy Traffic, Improvised Munitions & Demo, Lamb Unlimited, Taxi Driver, Unsane

Brooklyn’s most brutal band rediscover their salad days with Improvised Munitions & Demo

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ALBUMS: Requiem For Caleb Scofield

April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 Todd Manning 0 Comments Aaron Turner, Caleb Scofield, Cave In, Neurosis, Old Man Gloom, Steve Brodsky, Zozobra, Zozoburn

The late, great Cave-In bassist’s two bands united at the 2019 Roadburn Festival, now available as a must-own live LP

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William Parker and the Tonal Universe

February 25, 2021February 26, 2021 Todd Manning 0 Comments 2021, AUM Fidelity, Cisco Bradley, Jazz, The Music of William Parker: Migration of Silence Into And Out Of The Tone World, Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker, William Parker

A new book and ambitious box set cements the legacy of New York City’s double bass kingpin

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