In this day and age, very few albums are truly lost. Some just get misplaced. Take Bay area jazz band Smoke’s 1973 album Everything, an album that should be universally acknowledged as a stone-cold classic of groove music and proto-acid jazz and yet seldom gets mentioned. A half-century later, it still sounds fresh. Spacey, funky and ambient in turn, Everything managed to anticipate so much of where twenty-first century jazz has recently wound up.
Category: Smoke
Benjamin Smoke :: The Jem Cohen Documentary
The talking head on CNN just used the term ‘polar vortex’ to describe the freezing temperatures presently gripping much of the continental US. Sounds like a CAN outtake, no? Anyway, […]
Smoke :: Heaven On A Popsicle Stick (Atlanta Series Continued)
“Without my guitar I would most likely have ended up in a cult wearing my brand new Nike high-tops waiting for UFOs” – Benjamin Prior to my buying into the […]