Joey Arias has been performing his entire life – singing, improv, cabaret, acting, drag… anything and everything to entertain an audience. Arias On Holiday was his debut solo record, though he’d been singing for ages – his band Purlie put out a 7″ on Capitol all the way back in 1973 and he famously accompanied […]
Category: Jazz
SoSaLa – “Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival and the Rathausplatz Bern” CD (2025)
I’m not sure why the Facebook algorithm decided to serve up a post from SoSaLa the other day. I don’t follow the artist (and had never heard of him before) nor the label (ditto), and I don’t have any particular interest in free jazz (trifecta). But some combination of ones and zeros decided I might […]
Kham Meslien – “Fantômes… Futurs” (2022)
One of the wonderful things about attending a music festival is being exposed to artists you would otherwise never come across. Sometimes this is an interesting diversion. Sometimes it’s fun. And every once in a while, if you’re really fortunate, you experience something… seminal. That’s what happened to me in the late afternoon in a […]