MetalJazz
Words About Music by Greg Burk and Friends
August 14, 2008
Best of MetalJazz: the “jazz”
A vacationing Greg Burk posts links to some of his jazz writings from the year and a half since he started MetalJazz.com in early 2007. Let’s not talk about what jazz really is.
August 7, 2008
Best of MetalJazz: the metal.
While Greg Burk is on vacation, doing the things only Greg Burk can do, he invites you to take a look at some of the things he’s written about heavy metal since MetalJazz.com reared its horns a year and a half ago. Not all of it sucked.
August 1, 2008
Record reviews: Motley Crue, Edgar Winter, Mike Keneally, Derrick Gardner.
Find the secret link among these four records and then tell me, cuz hell if I know.
Johnny Griffin, 1928-1988
Johnny Griffin played the speed-metal version of tenor sax.
July 25, 2008
Record review: Augustus Pablo box.
Scratch Perry is a kook; King Tubby was a geek; Bob Marley was pop; Burning Spear is a bore, if only cuz he got old. Though the enormous 1970s achievements of each (especially Spear) deserve full respect, only one man can consistently waft you into the abstract spiritual smokestream of Jamaican roots reggae, and that is Augustus Pablo.
July 22, 2008
Record review: Black Sabbath, “The Rules of Hell” (Rhino box)
It’s a gift box, dude, done with care. No new material, but looks good, sounds good. Here’s the consumer report.