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Roscoe Mitchell – Sound [Re-release]
Roscoe Mitchell – Sound Delmark DE 4408 (2018) Fifty years after Sound was first released on Delmark Records (Delmark 408), not only has music changed, our ear has changed. Music is not a universal language, as well intended but poorly informed authors like to say. The musical ear is a historical and social construct that…
Volcano Radar ft. Paquito D’Rivera – Paquito Libre
Volcano Radar ft. Paquito D’Rivera – Paquito Libre Delmark DE 5028 “Paquito D’Rivera is both as free and as embedded as can be with Volcano Radar, the explosive, expansive, radiant electro-acoustic ensemble, co-led by multi-instrumentalist Elbio Barilari and guitarist/synthesist Julia A. Miller. Keyboardist Darwin Noguera, bassist Rollo Radford and drummer Ernie Adams collaborate in the…
Syl Johnson – Back In The Game
Syl Johnson – Back In The Game Delmark 674 In 1993, a 57-year-old Syl Johnson made a long overdue return to the studio with Back in the Game, his first album since the early ’80s. Various rappers (including the Geto Boys, Hammer, and the Wu-Tang Clan) had been sampling Johnson’s classic 1960s and ’70s recordings,…
Brad Goode – Shock Of The New
Brad Goode – Shock Of The New Delmark DD 440 Compact Disc (2009) Expertly played mainstream and hard bop from emerging Chicago trumpeter Brad Goode. This ’89 release also served to highlight other worthy area players, such as saxophonist Lin Halliday, pianist Jodie Christian, bassist Dennis Carroll and drummer Jeff Stitely, along with saxophonist Ed…
Lurrie Bell & The Bell Dynasty – Tribute To Carey Bell
Lurrie Bell & The Bell Dynasty – Tribute To Carey Bell Delmark 855 With special guests Charlie Musselwhite & Billy Branch! It’s almost 50 years since blues harp-master Carey Bell released his debut album on Delmark Records. Carey’s children followed him into blues and performed with him often while growing up. Lurrie’s debut recording was…
Geof Bradfield – Yes, and… Music for Nine Improvisors
Geof Bradfield – Yes, and… Music for Nine Improvisors Delmark DE 5027 Chicago saxophonist/composer Geof Bradfield’s Delmark Records debut brings together nine individual and vital artists from the Chicago and New York jazz scenes in Bradfield’s new multi-movement work Yes, and…Music for Nine Improvisers. Howard Reich wrote in the Chicago Tribune of the premier, “The…
Breezy Rodio – Sometimes The Blues Got Me
Breezy Rodio – Sometimes The Blues Got Me Delmark DE 853 Sometimes The Blues Got Me is Breezy Rodio’s debut album for Delmark Records. A review of Breezy’s self-produced 2015 release So Close To It said “Breezy Rodio absolutely smokes through this highly enjoyable mix of originals and covers. He has it all; the voice,…
Rockwell Avenue Blues Band – Back To Chicago
Rockwell Avenue Blues Band – Back To Chicago Delmark 854 Featuring Tad Robinson, Steve Freund, & Ken Saydak The members of the Rockwell Avenue Blues Band have each achieved successes achieved over long parallel careers, but there was some unfinished business to attend to. Longtime bonds, which sometimes elude conscious recognition, drew them to Delmark’s…
