Piety Street

As a leader, guitarist, and composer John Scofield has made many different kinds of records over the course of his long career, as well as played on dozens more as a sideman to people like Miles Davis and Charles Mingus, to mention just two. His last offering, and his first for Emarcy, was This Means That, an adventurous blend of straight-ahead blowing and funk-oriented numbers that worked beautifully and yielded a slew of critical acclaim. Piety Street is a different story altogether. Scofield has assembled a crack band of more roots and groove-oriented sidemen to cut his version of a gospel album..

Few stars of the '60s reinvented themselves as successfully as Marianne Faithfull. Coaxed into a singing career by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham in 1964, she had a big hit in both Britain and the U.S. with her debut single, the Jagger/Richards composition "As Tears Go By" (which prefaced the Stones' own version by a full year)…

Jeff Albert's Instigation Quartet - The Tree on the Mound (2013) {RogueArt ‎ROG-0046 rec 2011}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 299 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 125 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 14 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2013 RogueArt ‎| ROG-0046
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Trombone

Trombonist Jeff Albert's Instigation Quartet, comprised of saxophonist Kidd Jordan, double bassist Joshua Abrams, and drummer Hamid Drake, play a superb studio session, starting and ending with two works by Fred Anderson. “The musicians have dug irrigation canals into society and the universe, overflowing with their energy.”

John Medeski's Mad Skillet - Mad Skillet (2018) {Indirecto}
FLAC (tracks) - 16bit/44.1kHz - Digital Download (qobuz.com) -> 342 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 137 Mb | Cover | 5% repair rar
© 2018 Indirecto Records
Jazz / Groove / Blues / Psychedelic Rock

Mad Skillet is John Medeski’s new band with Grammy nominated guitarist/bandleader Will Bernard (Medicine Hat, Party Hats), New Orleans native sousaphone player Kirk Joseph (Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Backyard Groove), and drummer Terence Higgins (Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Ani DiFranco), also a New Orleans native. This is their debut album!

On A Moment’s Peace, his followup to 2009’s gospel-drenched Piety Street, Scofield and his all-star crew of pianist/organist Larry Goldings, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Brian Blade luxuriate in ballads associated with such legendary interpreters of song as Billie Holiday, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone and John Coltrane.