Search results for "Stu Goldberg"

Stu Goldberg: Song Burst (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 11, 09

Any discussion of outstanding and important fusion or jazz keyboard players must include Stu Goldberg. He first came ...

Stu Goldberg: Montreal (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music February 11, 09

I often comment to any naysayer paying the least bit of attention that the greatest fusion musicians were great jazz ...

Stu Goldberg: New Love (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 10, 09

After his 1970s high-profile stints with Mahavishnu, Alphonse Mouzon, The One Truth Band and others, keyboardist and ...

Stu Goldberg: Morning Star (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 15, 08

Stu Goldberg is truly one of the most accomplished and imaginative piano players we have. At home composing straight-...

Stu Goldberg & Cassius Khan: Ragamala (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 12, 08

Within three months of meeting each other, pianist Stu Goldberg and tabla virtuoso Cassius Khan were in Goldberg's st...

Alphonse Mouzon: Virtue (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 11, 09

I hope MPS plans on continuing its CD reissue binge. As I write this, MPS has recently reissued for the first ti...

Alphonse Mouzon: Baker's Daughter (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 11, 09

It cannot be argued that Alphonse Mouzon was not among a handful of pioneering jazz-rock drummers. Trailblazing wise,...

Mahavishnu Orchestra: All in the Family (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music March 11, 09

"All in the Family" was the first cut on Mahavishnu's Inner Worlds. It was an auspicious introduction of John McLaugh...

Alphonse Mouzon: Nyctophobia (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music February 11, 09

There may be no Larry Coryell playing guitar on "Nyctophobia," but the tune would have fit just fine in Coryell's Ele...

Alphonse Mouzon: Poobli (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 11, 09

Drummer Alphonse Mouzon is a gifted multi-instrumentalist and sometimes movie actor who had a role in the Tom Hanks-p...

Mahavishnu Orchestra: In My Life (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music March 11, 09

As are the other vocal numbers on Inner Worlds, "In My Life" was a huge surprise. Its vocal sections are as close to ...

Mahavishnu Orchestra: Planetary Citizen (Rating: 81/100) posted in Music March 11, 09

One of the reasons the original Mahavishnu Orchestra broke up was because a couple of the players thought they should...

Mahavishnu Orchestra: Gita (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music March 11, 09

Expectations are a huge part of listening. That is why the vocal cuts on the Mahavishnu Orchestra's swansong album In...

Mahavishnu Orchestra: Lotus Feet (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 23, 08

"Lotus Feet" is noteworthy for several reasons. First, its overt Indian character indicates the tune was clearly writ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BODY PARTS FOR HALLOWEEN

A few months ago I was writing a Jazz.com review of Bireli LaGrene’s tune “Hips.” It started getting me think...

John McLaughlin: Desire and the Comforter (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music September 26, 08

"The Unknown Dissident" and "Desire and the Comforter" are the best two cuts from Electric Dreams. "Desire and the Co...

Wayne Shorter: Forbidden, Plan-iT! (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music December 08, 08

A year before I was born, the movie Forbidden Planet came out. I probably first saw it on television when I was 10 ye...

John McLaughlin: New York on My Mind (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music February 27, 08

This cut is the closest the original Mahavishnu Orchestra ever got to reconciliation. Five years after the band's acr...

Mahavishnu Orchestra: The Way of the Pilgrim (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 27, 08

McLaughlin, under financial pressures, reduced his 11-piece Mahavishnu Orchestra to a quartet in late 1975. Inner Wor...

John McLaughlin: Miles Davis (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music September 26, 08

"Miles Davis" is one of two songs on Electric Dreams meant to honor Miles. The other, "The Dark Prince," actually deb...

Weekend Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog March 20, 08

Jazz.com has published 157 reviews during the last three weeks – offering our site visitors the widest coverage of ja...

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