Verve By Request Cooks Up Tasty 180g 1LP Reissue of Mel Brown’s 1967 Impulse Records Debut Album Chicken Fat, Pressed by Third Man Records
Mel Brown’s Chicken Fat was something of an anomaly for pioneering jazz label Impulse Records in 1967, with perhaps its closest of-era relatives being Shirley Scott’s swinging, organ-driven, bluesy soul-jazz releases. Neither pure jazz nor rock, this album of funky-slinky, bluesy guitar workouts was hyped on the album cover as “An Impulse Discovery,” which is at least partially true. The liner notes reveal Brown was not quite the label’s “discovery,” per se:
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Janis Ian Sheds Some Inner Light on Following Her Analog Roots When Mastering New Music for Vinyl
Andrew Bird Seeks to Resolve His Ever-Changing Moods on Quite the Intriguing 180g 1LP Treatise, Inside Problems
[MM prefaces: This is the first installment in a new series of album reviews we’ll be doing here on AP wherein we catch up on LP releases we weren’t able to cover when they initially came out in the not-so-distant past, but are indeed ones we feel are worthy of note.]
To what extent can you judge an album by its cover? The outside of Andrew Bird’s mid-2022 studio LP Inside Problems reflects what’s happening inside musically — and perhaps personally — to some degree.
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The Post-Modern Psychedelic/Progressive Sound Is Alive and Well on Dungen’s Stunning En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog LP
In these times where some very popular music is often dominated by obvious and lazy sampling, cold-hearted digital production techniques, and a certain musical sameness, I sometimes wish I could curl up in a pod and time travel to a parallel universe where the golden era of tube-overdriven, amplified psychedelic music of 1966-1973 never quite ended. [Testify!—MM] That is kind of how I felt the first time I heard the music from Sweden’s proud champions of independently made progressive/psychedelic rock & roll, Dungen (pronounced Doon-yen).
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Pioneering Saxophonist Benny Carter’s 1958 Jazz Giant Album Walks Tall on All-Analog 180g Bernie Grundman-Remastered LP From Craft Recordings
In the annals of jazz history, one artist who often gets overlooked was one of the early architects of the saxophone sound — and of jazz music itself, for that matter — dating back to the 1920s when he was arranging for Fletcher Henderson. Aficionados certainly know Benny Carter’s name, but for a younger generation of music enthusiasts — or simply those new to exploring jazz — he often seems to get passed over.
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