eMusic Archives: November 2010
Various Artists, Christmas wit…
Miss Butch is perhaps better known as Peggy Scott-Adams, who, as Peggy Sc… more »
Various Artists, Blues, Mistle…
Santa checks out the Gulf Coast on this mid-'90s compilation comprised mo… more »
Various Artists, An Austin Rhy…
First released in 1983, this album catches the Austin blues boom in its e… more »
Various Artists, The Alligator…
The premier blues label of the post-blues era mixes Christmas themes up n… more »
Etta James, 12 Songs of Christ…
Who would ever have guessed that a Christmas album — and a Christma… more »
Charles Brown, Cool Christmas …
The undisputed king of Christmas R&B, Brown revisits several of the songs… more »
The Kronos Quartet, Early Musi…
The Kronos Quartet is named for the Greek god of time, and Early Music le… more »
The Kronos Quartet, Astor Piaz…
Everyone knows what a tango is: a stiff-backed, bent-knee glide, a dance … more »
The Kronos Quartet, Night Pray…
To a Cold War generation reared to believe that only official arts could … more »
The Kronos Quartet, Tan Dun: G…
It was inevitable that the Kronos Quartet, with its aesthetic of global e… more »
The Kronos Quartet, Caravan…
The Kronos Quartet's trajectory is a reproach to musical purists everywhe… more »
The Kronos Quartet, Wijtold Lu…
From time to time, the Kronos Quartet has released a one-piece recording,… more »
The Kronos Quartet, At the Gra…
No composer left a broader, deeper, more inescapable, or more troubling l… more »
The Kronos Quartet, Alfred Sch…
Long confined within the Soviet Union by a cantankerous musical bureaucra… more »
The Kronos Quartet, Alban Berg…
Alban Berg was the most outwardly impassioned member of Vienna's modernis… more »
The Kronos Quartet, Harry Part…
The history of American music is replete with ornery composers who object… more »
The Kronos Quartet, Osvaldo Go…
The composer Osvaldo Golijov, an Argentina-born son of Russian Jews and l… more »
The Kronos Quartet, Morton Fel…
Harrington describes lovingly the experience of learning about plucking a… more »
The Kronos Quartet, Terry Rile…
Terry Riley's In C, from 1964, is the scriptural text of the minimalist m… more »
The Kronos Quartet, Short Stor…
John Zorn's "Cat o' Nine Tails" buzzes with a manic, practically psychoti… more »
The Kronos Quartet, Kronos Qua…
The Kronos Quartet had already been in existence for more than a dozen ye… more »
The Kronos Quartet, White Man …
From the beginning, the members of Kronos Quartet were listening to music… more »
The Kronos Quartet, Black Ange…
In 1973, David Harrington was still an aimless artist-type with a vague s… more »
Icon: John Coltrane
No jazz musician inspires flattering imitators and devoted listeners like… more »