Smokin' in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse 1966 Captured on Two

extra concepts morph into hallucina- EXTRA tory dreamscapes. Exotic and ethereal, Summers’ guitar is sublime throughout. – OJ Lake excels on guitar, bass, and WYNTON KELLY TRIO WITH vocals – it’s always wonderful WES MONTGOMERY to hear his ballads “From the Be- Smokin’ In Seattle: Live At ginning” and “C’est La Vie.” – PP The Penthouse 1966 Captured on two nights in JAMES ELKINGTON 1966 at the Penthouse Jazz Wintres Woma FOREIGNER Club in Seattle, Montgomery English-born, Chicago-based 40 swings with a fury with bassist Elkington joins guitarists Steve It’s fun to trash Foreigner, Ron McClure, drummer Jimmy Gunn and Glenn Jones in but you have to hand it to Cobb, and piano legend Wynton offering a refreshing take on CHUCK BERRY leader Mick Jones – the guy Kelly. Wes plays with finesse acoustic-based music. Elking- Chuck could write a six-string hook and authority through 10 cuts ton’s playing – based in Ameri- It was to be Berry’s 90th with laser-guided precision. including “Oelo,” “West Coast can Primitive and traditional folk birthday present to the world, This 40-track box has all the Blues,” and “What’s New.” – OJ forms – is warm and inviting. but he died just before its rockin’ hits: “Hot Blooded,” But what helps this album release. The album rocks in “Double Vision,” and “Jukebox truly hit its mark is his pleasing classic Chuck style, blending Hero,” along with new and rare baritone (think Mark Kozelek) double-stop riffs with R&B tracks. Sure, Jones was no and tastefully minimal accompa- soul and some more intro- flash on guitar, but his studio niment (piano, light percussion, spective numbers. – MD tone was massive and fierce. background vocals). – KJ Gotta give him his due. – PP HONEYMOON DISEASE Electric Eel This Swedish band captures the sound of ’70s hard rock with aplomb, mixing equal parts AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, and KEVIN EUBANKS Kiss. Guitarists Jenna and DELICATE STEVE East West Time Line JOHN OATES Acid ably hold down the This Is Steve To some, Eubanks will always Change of Seasons frontline with riffs and leads, Songwriter and multi- be the former “Tonight Show” Daryl Hall’s bud tells his story as you can hear in the single instrumentalist Steve Marion band leader, but as past releases from the backstreets of Philly “Higher.” Following their 2015’ leads his bands through a and his newest prove, he’s a to the world’s stages and all the The Transcendence, Electric wide-ranging array of song monster jazz guitarist who is a hit records along the way. He’s Eel brings more long-hair- styles, from surf and ’70s pop fine player and composer. This as solid writer as he is guitarist thrash-guitar joy. – PP to African rhythms and hard- one features five of his composi- and tells many a great story of charging modern rock. His third tions and five standards. He and the duo’s rise to fame. – MD album is inspired and fun, pure the band shine on pretty much ear candy with plenty of catchy every cut. Recommended. – JH guitar riffs as floss. – MD JESSI COLTER The Psalms THE BLACKFOOT GYPSIES Jessie Colter has been To The Top deeply religious since before ANDY SUMMERS Nashville’s Blackfoot Gypsies her days as part of the Outlaw EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER Triboluminescence meld retro American blues- movement with husband Way- Once Upon a Time in Summers defines the based rock through a psyche- lon Jennings. In the ’90s, when South America word “triboluminescence” as delic ’60s British lens. Brash, guitarist Lenny Kaye helped ELP mounted several reunion “creating light from dark.” In its energetic, and severely rockin’, Waylon write his autobiogra- tours in the ’90s and this service, he composes layers singer-guitarist Matthew Paige phy, he heard her singing the three-CD set captures gigs in of ambient textures, loops, exudes the qualities of an Psalms at the piano, improvis- Chile and Argentina. It’s not and otherworldly sounds as uninhibited hillbilly with fierce ing melodies. He captured essential prog, but there are a basis for guitar improvisa- pentatonic know-how and ex- 12 Psalms on record, adding enjoyable performances, includ- tion. Thematic arrangements troverted frontman appeal. Har- spare minimalist accompani- ing underrated later work like and guitar-triggered sound monica stylist Ollie Dogg is the ment including his guitar and “Touch And Go,” “Black Moon,” effects give way to the textural lynch pin to this earthy occasional pedal steel. – RK and “Pirates.” The late Greg eerie and the random, as jazz but diverse ensemble. – OJ September 2017 115 VINTAGE GUITAR.

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