Album Reviews

Soweto Kinch

A Life in the Day of B19: Tales of the Tower Block.

2007-03-23

Charlie Parkeresque saxophone player, Soweto’s second album is part one of a two part concept release. The album is creative mesh of jazz and hip hop with story narratives over base lines and broken melodies at the end of most numbers. Tracks like Mission, Adrian’s Ballad, Marcus’s Crisis and A Friendly Game of Basketball hold the listener in a lull of Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins style nostalgia. Opposing this are Hip Hop joints with beats lying somewhere in the vane of Aesop Rock such as Love Gamble, Ridez, So!, and Who Knows?. An interesting experiment and a tall order; a Jazz/Hip-Hop fusion concept album is a task I’m looking forward to Soweto completing this upcoming spring.

all reviews | all jazz reviews

More reviews tagged #Jazz

reviewed 02/2008
THE MATT SAVAGE TRIO
Hot Ticket
reviewed 05/2007
Various Blue Note Artists
Somethin’ New
reviewed 09/2007
THE DYNAMITES FEATURING CHARLES WALKER
KABOOM
reviewed 07/2008
VARIOUS
Rumble In the Great Lakes (Best of the Detroit Jazz Fest 2007)
reviewed 06/2016
Little Charlie And Organ Grinder Swing
Skronky Tonk
reviewed 02/2005
Bryan Vargas & ¡Ya Esta!
Afro Latino Soul

Compiled by the WYCE Journalism Club

The opinions expressed in these reviews are those of the individual volunteers that submitted the article and do not necessarily reflect the views of WYCE or GRCMC; nor its staff, donors, or affiliates.