Chris Robinson's Music & Culture Blog
I've been thinning out my L.P. collection of late, and this little beauty came up as a candidate for the great purge of 2018. I ended up deciding to part with it because it's not in great shape, the music is just kind of so so, and the cover isn't quite cheesy enough. The music …
Continue reading This Album is Brought to You By Colonialism!
A few weeks back I was lucky enough to find a Pepper Adams LP for a buck at my local record store. It's pretty solid. After I put it on the felt I read the liner notes, written by Fred Goodman, who wrote for Cash Box magazine, which I had never heard of. Then in …
Continue reading That time Fred Goodman likened the bari sax to the fat girl at the school dance
"There is no music without order---if that music comes from a man's innards. But that order is not necessarily related to any single criterion of what order should be as imposed from the outside. Whether that criterion is the song form or what some critic thinks jazz should be. This is not a question, then, …
Hey all, it's been more than a hot minute since I've been blogging. Most of this is due to the fact that I've been working on my book manuscript. But now that it's temporarily out of my hands, I'm going to get back to this site. I had some domain and web hosting issues, so …
So after getting a few things for the S.O.'s birthday last week on Amazon I got sent a free $1 mp3 credit. When I get one I scour Amazon for digital albums that, because they only have one long track, are 99 cents. Not every album with one track is 99 cents, but many are. …
Continue reading Pharoah Sanders’ Black Unity for Less than a Buck!
In Simulacra and Simulation Jean Baudrillard notes how humans like to stockpile their past as a way to remember it. Perhaps one of the finest examples of this are the various year end poll, best of lists, recaps, summaries etc. This year NPR Music hosted the annual jazz critics poll that Francis Davis has been …
In case you missed it, here's what me and my man Lucas spun on our weekly jazz show on KJHK last week. Chicago Jazz Orchestra, "What A Little Moonlight Can Do," from Burstin' Out Joe Lovano, "Fort Worth" Charles Mingus, "Tijuana Giftshop," from Tijuana Moods Andrew Hill, "Noon Tide," from Passing Ships Charles Lloyd/Jason Moran, …
