Andrey Henkin

Recording of July 2023: Rites of Percussion

Andrey Henkin Jun 17, 2023

Dave Lombardo: Rites of Percussion
Ipecac IPC-265 (Auditioned as LP). 2023. Lombardo, prod.; Lombardo, David A. Lombardo, John Golden, engs.
Performance ****½
Sonics ****½

Revinylized!

Revinylization #42: Two Blue Note Tone Poet Releases, Andrew Hill & Carmell Jones

Andrey Henkin May 30, 2023

Blue Note's Tone Poet audiophile vinyl reissue series, which has been written about frequently in these pages, was inaugurated in 2019 and has now reached 70+ releases, mostly reissues from the storied label's catalog with outliers from Pacific Jazz/World Pacific and United Artists and a couple of new issues thrown in. The Blue Note reissues have ranged from classics released in myriad editions since their initial LP run to music held back for years and sometimes put out only in Japan or only recently discovered and released on compact disc.

Music and Recording Reviews

Andrey's Picks: New Jazz from Lakecia Benjamin, Jim Self, The Necks

Andrey Henkin Mar 23, 2023

Lakecia Benjamin: Phoenix (Whirlwind Recordings); Jim Self: My America 2: Destinations (Basset Hound Music); and The Necks: Travel (Northern Spy Records).

My Back Pages

Spelunking Jazz Caverns

Andrey Henkin Jan 31, 2023

I never collected baseball cards, played Cops & Robbers, or was a Boy Scout. From the moment I heard the opening guitar riff of Blondie's "One Way or Another," at age 6, it was clear that music would be central to everything I was going to do. It was my first important big thing, and my last.