Big Takeover: Bad Brains’ Rock for Light at 40
Reflecting on the D.C. band’s unstoppable second album
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Author: Todd Manning
Easy Money: King Crimson’s Larks’ Tongues in Aspic at 50
Looking back on the band’s greatest album
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Shake Appeal: Iggy and the Stooges’ Raw Power at 50
Looking back on a half-century of a punk rock landmark
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The Top Ten Jazz Albums of 2022
Celebrating yet another year of supreme sonic innovation
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Celestial Terrestrial Commuters: Mahavishnu Orchestra’s Birds of Fire at 50
Looking back on a landmark album that blurred the lines between jazz and prog
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ALBUMS: Renowned Reedist Avram Fefer Returns With Juba Lee
His electrically charged quartet exceeds expectations on second LP
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ALBUMS: The Ramble of Doug Wamble
Ken Burns collaborator cools out at the crossroads of jazz and blues
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ALBUMS: William Parker’s Tones of Home
The excellent Universal Tonality calls back to the legendary free jazz leader’s early ’00s era
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Supper’s Ready: Foxtrot by Genesis Turns 50
Looking back at the prog greats’ breakthrough LP
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ALBUMS: Revisiting A Far-Out Tony Williams Classic
Legendary jazz drummer’s 1980 trio LP emulates Rush, Neu!
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ALBUMS: King Garbage’s Ace In The Hole
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
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
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
A pair of new TUM Records titles explore the artistry of two dearly departed legends
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ALBUMS: Four From Shipp
The master pianist defines jazz productivity with a quartet of essential new albums
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