August 2023 Rock/Pop Record Reviews
Metallica: 72 Seasons; Joy Oladokun: Proof of Life; Mike Gordon: Flying Games.
Music and Recording Reviews
August 2023 Classical Record Reviews
Shostakovich: Symphonies 6, 15, London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda, cond.
July 2023 Jazz Record Reviews
Sasha Matson: Molto Molto; Dan Rosenboom: Polarity; Billy Childs: The Winds of Change; Taj Mahal: Savoy
July 2023 Rock/Pop Record Reviews
Natalie Merchant: Keep Your Courage; The Hold Steady: The Price of Progress.
July 2023 Classical Record Reviews
Danish String Quartet: Prism V: Beethoven, Webern, Bach; Mahler: Symphony No.9, Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä; Protean Quartet: Haydn, String Quartet Op.33 No.6; Almeida Mota, String Quartet Op.7 No.1; Beethoven, String Quartet Op.18 No.1
June 2023 Jazz Record Reviews
Ingrid Laubrock: The Last Quiet Place; Wayne Escoffery: Like Minds; Tony Kadleck Big Band: Sides.
June 2023 Rock/Pop Record Reviews
Laurie Styvers: Gemini Girl: The Complete Hush Recordings; A Certain Ratio: 1982; The Wood Brothers: Heart Is the Hero; The Damned: Darkadelic; Stephen Stills: Live at Berkeley 1971.
June 2023 Classical Record Reviews
Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs; Final Scene from Capriccio; Mahler: Symphony 2 (Resurrection); Various composers: Maria Mater Meretrix; Prokofiev: Symphony No.5.
May 2023 Jazz Record Reviews
Bobo Stenson Trio: Sphere; Kirsten Edkins: Shapes and Sound; Franco Ambrosetti: Nora; Walter Smith III: return to casual.
May 2023 Classical Record Reviews
Alexander Melnikov: Fantasie: 7 Composers, 7 Keyboards; Nielsen: Symphonies 2 (The Four Temperaments) & 6 (Sinfonia semplice); Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major (cadenzas by Jörg Widmann); Fragment from Violin Concerto in C Major; R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra & Debussy: Jeux.