Joel Roberts

Joel Roberts writes about all sorts of music from jazz to blues to nation for several online and printing publications including ABOUT Jazz, Jazz Right now, CD Now, no Major depression. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. Specialties: jazz, blues, alt.nation. Desert Isle Picks Kilometers Davis Sort of Blue (Columbia) John Coltrane A Like Supreme (Impulse!) John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (Impulse!) Louis Armstrong Let’s GET IT DONE (Greatest of the Verve Years) Dexter Gordon Proceed (Blue Notice) Randy Weston Spirits of Our Ancestors (Antilles) Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus (Prestige) Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy’s Gemstones (Verve) Expenses Evans Sunday in the Town Vanguard (OJC) Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto Getz/Gilberto (Verve) Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um (Columbia) Lee Morgan the Sidewinder (Blue Notice) Artwork Blakey as well as the Jazz Messengers Moanin’ (Blue Notice) Thelonious Monk Genius of Contemporary Music vols. 1 and 2 (Blue Notice) Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde (Columbia) Tom Waits Rainfall Dogs (Isle) Vehicle Morrison Astral Weeks (Warner Bros.) Hand-Picked 25 Years of Rounder Bluegrass (Rounder) Hillsides of House 25 Years of Folk Music on Rounder (Rounder) The Louvin Brothers Tragic Tunes of Existence (Capitol) Hank Williams 40 Greatest Strikes (Polygram) George Jones Greatest of Vol. 1 Hardcore Honky Tonk (Mercury) Bob Wills and His Tx Playboys Anthology (Rhino) Muddy Waters the Chess Package (Chess)