Several weeks after attending an embarrassingly inept concert featuring Guy, K-Ci & JoJo, El DeBarge and Doug E. Fresh at Municipal Auditorium, I cued up Jodeci’s comeback album with great trepidation.
Against all odds, The Past, The Present, The Future is amazing. The sex songs are sexy and the love songs are dreamy. The new effort is clearly superior to the band’s 1991 debut album.
Instead of jeering when K-Ci and JoJo spoke about a forthcoming Jodeci reunion during their outing at Municipal Auditorium, I should have applauded.
Here’s a video for ”Every Moment”.
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Hearing David Lindley in a concert hall setting was a nice change of pace. I reviewed his concert at Johnson County Community College.
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I contributed a Local Listen segment about Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys to KCUR’s Up To Date.
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GlassField’s The Answer’s In the Pit of Your Stomach is RIYL: Fleet Foxes, Missouri indie-folk, Iron & Wine.
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Stik Figa and Leonard Dstroy have a video for ”More Or Less”.
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Loyal readers of There Stands the Glass will recall that I fell head over heels for José James’ No Beginning No End. The smooth, innovative project was my fifth favorite album of 2013. James’ followup album was a funky mess. Aside from the rendition of “Strange Fruit” that closes the recording, the new Yesterday I Had the Blues: The Music of Billie is as straightforward as a Tony Bennett album. I can’t imagine anyone not liking it. Yet I doubt I’ll ever love it.
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I’m worried for myself. I was repeatedly moved to the brink of tears as I listened to Valentina Lisitsa’s solo piano album Plays Philip Glass.
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Donny McCaslin’s fascinating electro-jazz album Fast Future is RIYL: the Pat Metheny Group, 2015, Nile Rodgers.
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Hilary Hahn’s new Mozart set is nice.
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After viewing their ”What’s In my Bag” segment, I want to hang out with the Decemberists.
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Danya Stephens’ Reminiscent is uneventful. RIYL: Walter Smith III, Blue Note blowing sessions, Ravi Coltrane.
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I can’t stand Ben Goldberg’s Orphic Machine, but I suspect a few There Stands the Glass readers will adore the hybrid of jazz and art-rock. RIYL: Bjork, intellectuals, Becca Stevens. Here’s an EPK.
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Pending the availability of cheap flights, I might attend the Free Press Summer Festival in Houston. The lineup that includes R. Kelly, Slim Thug, Pentagram, Yung Lean, Mastodon, Z-Ro, Chance the Rapper, Sturgill Simpson, Lecrae, Charles Bradley, Bun-B, Diarrhea Planet, Ilovemakonnen and Paul Wall is calling my name.
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I didn’t have high expectations for Kaleo’s set at the Tank Room last Thursday but I didn’t expect generic blues-rock from the Icelandic band. It’s not the worst show I’ve seen in 2015, but it’s certainly among the most disappointing.
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As I was appreciating the Norwegian tubist Daniel Herskedal’s excellent Slow Eastbound Train, a resident jazz-hater suggested that he admired the sound and asked “what kind of music is this?” I didn’t have a good answer. I suppose it’s contemporary Nordic classical music.
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I freely admit that Sufjan Stevens’s Carrie & Lowell is quite good. RIYL: Iron & Wine, hushed indie folk, Alexi Murdoch.
(Original image by There Stands the Glass.)
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