Jan 5, 2021 | Brooklyn Vegan, Gearbox Records - Results
Stream the jazz duo’s new live album, Escape the Flames “You can feel Binker and Moses feeding off each other and all the natural chemistry that they have, and when you hear audience members shout during one of Moses’ fiery drum solos, it’s...
Jan 4, 2021 | Chiminyo - Results, Paste
Highlighting Chiminyo’s I Am Panda (Gearbox) “The depth of this recording also comes from a stretch in Doyle’s life when he spent three months recuperating from a kidney operation.” | Read More at...
Dec 16, 2020 | Charles Tolliver - Results, Rolling Stone
6 paths through jazz in 2020: Charles Tolliver “Trumpeter Charles Tolliver linked up with fellow veterans Buster Williams and Lenny White on the commanding and classy Connect.” | Read More at Rolling...
Dec 10, 2020 | Gearbox Records - Results, Jazziz
Best Playing & Listening: Gearbox Gold “The Gearbox Automatic plug-and-play turntable has filled the gap in the portable turntable sector with its high-quality components, including its high-fidelity built-in valve phono stage.” | Read More at...
Dec 10, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, NPR
Hanging Tree Guitars listed in NPR’s book concierge Read More at...
Nov 23, 2020 | Bible & Tire - Results, NPR
A Lost Chapter Of Gospel, Saved From Extinction “The Last Shall Be First: The JCR Records Story, Vol. 1 aims to give a second life to some memorable performances that almost disappeared forever.” | Read More at...
Sep 24, 2020 | American Songwriter, Bible & Tire - Results
Rare, Rousing Gospel Is Rescued By Fat Possum Label Founder “The advance promotional material of this trip back to the 70s calls these 17 songs ‘unsung grooving Memphis sacred soul’; that’s succinct and on target.” | Read More at American...
Sep 17, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, No Depression
The Reading Room: Art, Music, and History Merge in Hanging Tree Guitars “North Carolinian Freeman Vines is one such luthier, though until now his story has been little known outside of his small patch of ground in eastern North Carolina.” | Read More at...
Sep 14, 2020 | Chiminyo - Results, Jazziz
Chiminyo featured in New Music Monday “Its latest single, “Breathin’” finds him unleashing expressive beats on his tech-heavy drum kit and showcasing a unique, transcendental sound.” | Read More at...
Sep 14, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, NPR
The Wood’s ‘Not Good, Not Bad, Not Ugly–Just Strange’ “A new book and museum exhibition celebrate the work of North Carolina luthier Freeman Vines.” | Read More at...
Sep 11, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, Premier Guitar
How a North Carolina luthier’s instruments unearthed a buried story of the American South “Luthier and musician Freeman Vines was 8 or 9 years old when his neighbor, an older white man named Oscar Hopper, introduced him to the guitar.” | Read More...
Sep 10, 2020 | American Songwriter, Hanging Tree Guitars - Results
Hanging Tree Guitars Delivers Important Insights About America’s Racial Divide “At a time when America is struggling mightily to address past and present racial injustices, his story couldn’t be more relevant.” | Read More at American...
Aug 26, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, Rolling Stone
Hanging Tree Guitars: See Artist Freeman Vines’ Haunting Creations “Freeman Vines, a North Carolina–based artist, guitar maker, and one-time blues musician, thought he’d seen it all: He’d worked for free on a white farm and served jail time for...
Aug 24, 2020 | Bible & Tire - Results, Brooklyn Vegan
70s Memphis gospel-soul ‘JCR Records Story’ comp coming “The Last Shall Be First: the JCR Records Story, Volume 1. is an upcoming compilation of raw 1970s Memphis gospel-soul coming out September 18 via Bible & Tire, the sacred soul music label started by...
Aug 20, 2020 | Bandcamp, Charles Tolliver - Results
Jazz Icon Reflects On His 50-Plus Years in Music “There’s no title track on the new album from Charles Tolliver—his first in over a decade. But its name—Connect—isn’t some ethereal abstraction: it’s an invitation.” | Read More at...
