In the latest permutation of the adventurous L.A. jazz group SML, guitarist Gregory Ulhmann and saxophonist Josh Johnson are joined by bassist Sam Wilkes, for an album that both deepens and expands the SML project. Looking back to bebop and drifting through post-rock, with pit stops at Jaco Pastorius, Lyle Mays and the Beatles, Uhlmann/Johnson/Wilkes is unafraid to embrace the beautiful, even as it remains committed to experimentation and smooth radicalism.
PJ Harvey :: To Bring You My Love at 30
Harvey made To Bring You My Love at the age of 25. The album was her third full-length, and the first to explore a career-spanning collaborative partnership with Jon Parish. Other musicians contributed, notably Bad Seeds veteran Mick Harvey, drummer Jean-Marc Butty and Joe Gore, but the album takes it shape from the fluid interactions of Harvey and Parish, often both of them playing guitars at once.