Sly & Robbie
Drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare are one of the most prolific and widely recorded rhythm sections in music history. For over 40 years, they’ve been heard on records by virtually every...
View ArticleBA Podcast 62: Muriel Grossmann
Support Burning Ambulance on Patreon • Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Episode 61 of the Burning Ambulance Podcast features an interview with saxophonist Muriel Grossmann. Links to listen:...
View ArticleThe Tone World: Part 1
Bassist William Parker has a fairly epic box out this week. Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World is a 10CD set, with each disc featuring a different ensemble, most of which do not...
View ArticleThe Tone World: Part 4
Bassist William Parker has a fairly epic box out this week. Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World is a 10CD set, with each disc featuring a different ensemble, many of which do not...
View ArticleNew Orbit @ 20
When pianist Matthew Shipp, who turned 60 in December 2020, released New Orbit in early 2001, he was embarking on an intriguing new phase in his career. He had signed with the Thirsty Ear label as...
View ArticleThe Runners-Up: Eddie Palmieri
The Runners-Up is a monthly column, which we first tried in 2013, wherein we will analyze an album that isn’t the consensus first choice or most canonical title by a given artist, but is one worthy of...
View ArticleInsect Inside
Insect Inside is a pretty good punning band name for a band that doesn’t even speak English as their first language. This trio are from Zlatoust, Russia and their debut album, The First Shining of New...
View ArticleStarGazer
Black metal needs more fretless bass. This is the immediate takeaway from Psychic Secretions, the fourth album from Australian prog-metal act StarGazer. Actually, that’s not fair, because black metal...
View ArticleThumbscrew
Thumbscrew is the collaborative trio of guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Tomas Fujiwara. They have been working together as a unit since roughly 2011, releasing their...
View ArticleThat Depends @20
Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber are one of the most amazing musical ensembles America has ever produced. Their catalog is a synthesis of virtually every strain of African-American music, plus modern...
View ArticleBA Podcast 63: Joe Chambers
Support Burning Ambulance on Patreon • Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Episode 63 of the Burning Ambulance Podcast features an interview with drummer, pianist, and vibraphonist Joe Chambers....
View ArticleRob Zombie
In the liner notes to Big Black‘s posthumous live album Pigpile, guitarist/singer Steve Albini wrote, “Lyrics seemed a necessity, so we had them, but the subject matter was an extension of our...
View ArticleBheki Mseleku
Pianist Bheki Mseleku was a crucial figure in South African jazz, even if his name doesn’t ring out like that of Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim, or Chris McGregor. Born in Durban in...
View ArticleRence
The Sono Luminus label has been documenting the work of Icelandic composers and performers on exquisitely produced CDs (some of which also include Blu-Ray audio) for several years now. In 2019, I had...
View ArticleScalp Wounds
Hey, it’s a track premiere! Longtime BA favorites, Dutch sax-drums duo Dead Neanderthals, are releasing a new EP this week. It’s a return to their grindcore-jazz roots, a 12-track, nine-minute 7″...
View ArticleThe Crown
The Swedish metal band The Crown have been around for 30 years, more or less. For the first eight of those years, they were known as Crown of Thorns, and made two albums under that name, The Burning...
View ArticleThe Shell Game @ 20
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, saxophonist Tim Berne had led the bands Bloodcount and Caos Totale, as well as other groups featuring a pool of players like Bill Frisell, Hank Roberts, Tom Rainey,...
View ArticleString Noise
The duo String Noise consists of two violinists, Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris, who are also married. They’ve been around for a decade, since making their performance debut at Ostrava Days in...
View ArticleThe Runners-Up: Billy Cobham
The Runners-Up is a monthly column, wherein we will analyze an album that isn’t the consensus first choice or most canonical title by a given artist, but is one worthy of more attention than it’s...
View ArticleBA Podcast 64: Pi Recordings
Support Burning Ambulance on Patreon • Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Episode 63 of the Burning Ambulance Podcast features an interview with Seth Rosner and Yulun Wang of Pi Recordings....
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