Features
Wednesday, December 8 2010
The Best Jazz of 2010
Jazz is working all the angles these days. Is there any other genre that has as much range -- from solo instruments to big bands, from instrumental to vocal, from European musicians to both North and South Americans, from truly pretty music to raucously avant-garde "noise"?
Wednesday, February 25 2009
Mirror Twins: Conversations with Nels and Alex Cline
Although their careers have some similarities, the twin composers and songwriters aren't as similar as it seems, covering everything from the monastic to the chaotic.
Tuesday, August 14 2007
A Desire to Make Sound: The Arrival of Creative Guitar God Nels Cline
The jazz guitarist -- with Wilco, his trios, or anyone else -- opens up a conversation about how to keep this music living.
Monday, December 11 2006
Best Jazz of 2006
Will Layman's list of the year's best jazz records, a hearty baker's dozen, includes iconoclasts, eccentrics, avant-gardists, and some downright swingers.
Reviews
Thursday, November 4 2010
Nels Cline: Dirty Baby
Just when I thought Nels Cline couldn't get any more challenging or confrontational, he goes and makes an album like this.
Wednesday, March 18 2009
Nels Cline: Coward / Alex Cline: Continuation
The drum-and-guitar playing brothers release simultaneous solo projects on the great West Coast jazz label.
Friday, December 15 2006
Nels Cline: New Monastery
Underground PoMo avant shenanigans put an extra shine on some timeless left-field jazz classics.
Wednesday, February 8 2006
Nels Cline/Wally Shoup/Chris Corsano: Immolation/Immersion
Those wanting to further explore Cline's music would do well to ease into things. For most, that means a disc like this probably ought to sit on the shelf for a while.
