Dave Howell

Reviews by Dave include:

CDs:

King Sunny Ade
Synchro Series

The Alexandria Kleztet
Close Enough for Klezmer

John McLean Allan & Stand Easy
Tainted

Aimee Allen
Dream

Alpcologne
Alpha

American Zen
Level 1

Dave Anderson & Mike Wingo
Conversations

Arabesque Music Ensemble
The Music of the Three Musketeers

Jeff Ball
The Shape of Light

Balval
Blizzard Boheme

Sam Barsh
I Forgot What You Taught Me

The Bauls of Bengal
The Bauls of Bengal

Keith Bear
Morning Star Whispered

Matt Belzer
Connections

Kristian Blak & Yggdrasil
Askur
Broytingar

Blue Stone
Breathe

Bonga
Kaxexe

Robert Branch
Courage to Be

Magic Brook
The Source: Two Hands, One Guitar

Uun Budiman & the Jugala Gamelan Orchestra
Banondari

Masha Campagne
Caminhos Cruzados (Crossroads)

The Carnivaleros
Lost in the Graveyard

Paul Carr
Just Noodlin'

Castles in Spain
Again

Cellar Funk
Down to the Bone

Stella Chiweshe
Double Check: Two Sides of Zimbabwe's Mbira Queen

Will Clipman
Pathfinder

Jessie Allen Cooper
Sound Travels

Shawn Costantino
Waltz for Anne

Doug Cox & Salil Bhatt, with Ramkumar Mishra
Slide to Freedom

Croft No. Five
Talk of the Future

Dafni
Charlie's Lonely Sunday

Danaj
Janicku nas, Janku

The Darbuki Kings
Doumtekastan
Lawrence of Suburbia

Henry Darragh
Tell Her for Me

Jenny Davis
Inside You

Mercan Dede
Su

Carlos del Junco
Blues Mongrel

Lois Deloatch
Closure

Carlo de Lorenzi
Four Seasons in One Recess

Sandy Dennison
Jazzed

Grant Dermody
Crossing That River

Deuter
Tibet: Nada Himalaya 2

Steve Dooks
Cocktails, Heartaches, & Cigars

Paul Dooley
Music from the Robert ap Huw Manuscript, Vol. I

Druzina
Tragare

Mark Dunn
Return to Peace: A Celtic Journey Through Central America

Big Joe Duskin
Big Joe Jumps Again: Cincinnati Blues Session

Ken Emerson
Hawaiian Tangos, Hulas & Blues

Ensemble Odila
Traditional Songs from a Georgian Village

Ensemble Pesnokhorki
Traditional Songs of Cossacks, Vol. 1

Rusty Evans & Ring of Fire
Burning Man

Pecolia Fitts
Lots of Little Goodies

Gan Bua
Live at Martyrs

Sara Gazarek
Return to You

Dobet Gnahore
Na Afriki

Chris Graham
After-Birth of Cool

Boris Grebenshikov
Russian Songwriter

Euge Groove
Just Feels Right

Marc Gunn
Soul of a Harper

Lennart Gybrant & Anders Norudde
Bondernas Underverk

Tianna Hall
Never Let Me Go

Harp 46
self-titled

Laura Harrison
Now Here

Glen Helgeson
Distant Borders Revisited

Mace Hibbard
Time Gone By

Mark Holdaway
Between the Light & the Dark

Dave Hole
The Live One

John L. Holmes y los amigos
The Holmes Stretch

Mark Hummel
Ain't Easy No More
Blowin' My Horn

James Hunter
People Gonna Talk

Imaginary Homeland
Jump for George

Brandur Jacobsen
A Wizard's Journey

Jiggernaut
Evolution

Sandy Kastel
This Time Around

KastningSiegfried
Scalar Fields

Sharon Katz & the Peace Train
Imbizo

Ken Kaufman
Rhythms of the World

Al Gromer Khan & Emin Corrado
Tantra Electronica

Craig King
Breakthrough

Tomas Kocko & Orchestr
Poplor

David Krakauer & Socalled with Klezmer Madness
Bubbemeises: Lies My Gramma Told Me

Kvonn
Hvonn

La Balteuband
La Balteuband

Karl Latham
Resonance

Lawrence Lebo
Don't Call Her Larry, Vol. 3: American Roots

Michael C. Lewis
Reflection

Dominique Lise
20 Years

Frank London & Lorin Sklamberg
tsuker-zis

Unni Lovlid
Rite

Mahanada
Taranta's Circles

Eyal Maoz
Hope & Destruction

Kazu Matsui
The Stone Monkey

The Maxwell Project
Jamaphonic

Giancarlo Mazzu & Luciano Troja
Seven Tales About Standards

Dave McCullough
Pharr

Andy McKee
The Gates of Gnomeria

Guy Mendilow
Live
Skyland

The Mercy Brothers
Strange Adventure

Metropolitan Klezmer
Live: Traveling Show

Jason Miles
Cozmopolitan

Maria Misgeld, Olaf Misgeld & Olle Lindvall
Margits Sanger

Shunsuke Mizuno
Slow Time

Modern Groove Syndicate
Vessel

Chieko Mori
Katyou Fuugetsu

Mr. Groove Band
Rocket 88: Tribute to Ike Turner

Mystefy
Me

Mohamed Naiem
Master of the Arabian Flute

Sarah Ndagire & Pedson Kasume
Traditional Music of the Bantu Women & Folktales of the Baganda Women from Uganda, Vol. 1

New Budapest Orpheum Society
Jewish Cabaret in Exile

New Harmony Indiana
Parlour Music

Chris Norman
Man with the Wooden Flute

The Optina Pustyn Male Choir of St. Petersburg
Orthodox Chants from Russia

Orientexpressen
An Unfinished Story

Paganus
Skogsrock

Paris Combo
Motifs

Joel Penner Sextet
The Church of the Little Black Dog

Mattias Perez Trio
mp3

Phishbacher
Infinity Ltd.

Mylene Pires
Mylene

Reggie Pittman & Loren Daniels Quartet
Point A to Point A

Terry Plumeri
Blue in Green

Postmodern Jazz, featuring Roy Ayers
Love Not Truth

Posmrtne Zkusenosti
Aither

Edward Powell
Spiritdance

Romica Puceanu & the Gore Brothers
Sounds from a Bygone Age, Vol. 2

Ramin Rahimi & Tapesh
Iranian Percussion

Ian Rapien
Spectrums

Rathkeltair
Everybody

Ravi
The Afro-Brazilian Project

Troy Roberts
Nu-Jive

Harvie S
Cocolamus Bridge

Felipe Salles
South American Suite

Monica Salmaso
Iaia

Samite
Embalasasa

SAVAE
La Noche Buena: Christmas Music of Colonial Latin America

Norman Savitt
Norman Savitt & Friends

Peter Scherr
Son of August

Stanley Schumacher & the Music Now Ensemble
Sound Textures

Marilyn Scott
Innocent of Nothing

Gene Segal
Hypnotic

Jan Seiden
Memory of Time

Jim Self
My America

The Seventh Triangle
TOWA

Rob Silvan
The Breathing of the World

Woody Simmons
Live at WVMR

Moira Smiley & VOCO
Blink

Kathryn Smith
With Every Breath I Take

Melvin Smith
Portrait

Willie "Big Eyes" Smith
Way Back

Sonate Calabresi
I Suoni del Pollino

Sylvain St-Amour
Cafe des Solitudes

String Planet
self-titled

Anders Svensson
Bara for Ros Skull

SwingBridge
The Early Years

Sandor Szabo & Kevin Kastning
Parallel Crossings

Talking Horns
Born to Be Horn

Tango Negro Trio
Tango Negro Trio

Taxi Chain
Smarten Up

Terre Differenti
Cities of Dreams

Eric Tingstad
Southwest

Tingstad & Rumbel
A Moment's Peace

Tonic
Vintage Vocals

Nestor Torres
Sin Palabras (Without Words)

Dan Treanor & African Wind
Mercy

Samson Trinh
Very Strange Night

Tuatara
The Loading Program

Ivan Tucakov & the Tambura Rasa
Viaje

Two Guitars
Bending Time

Paul Tynan
Radio Infrequency

Jeremy Udden
Plainville

various artists
Gamelan of Central Java I: Classical Gendings
Gamelan of Central Java II: Ceremonial Music
Gamelan of Central Java VIII: Court Music Treasures
Gamelan of Central Java IX: Songs of Wisdom & Love
Gamelan of Central Java X: Sindhen Trio
Gamelan of Central Java XI: Music of Remembrance
The Pulse of Brazil
Sound of the World

Andrew Vasquez
Togo

Johnny Whitehorse
Johnny Whitehorse

Robert WindPony
Moon Rider
Sky Blue

Bernard Woma, with Mark Stone & Kofi Ameyaw
In Concert

Andrea Wood
Dhyana

Les Yeux Noirs
tChorba

Bob Zander
Skyline to the Sea

Zemog el Gallo Bueno
Cama de le Conga

Alexander Zonjic
Seldom Blues


Books:

Bob Brunning
Blues: The British Connection

Peter Cannon
The Lovecraft Chronicles

Loren L. Coleman
By Temptations & By War

Jean Davison
The Ostrich Wakes: Struggles for Change in Highland Kenya

Bobby Delgado
Gangs, Prison, Parole & the Politics Behind Them

Dennis P. Eichhorn & J.R. Williams
The Legend of Wild Man Fischer

Todd & Jedd Hafer
Mischief from the Back Pew

T.C.F. Hopkins
Empires, Wars, & Battles

Faye Kellerman
Straight into Darkness

John Leake
Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer

John Richard Lindermuth
Schlussel's Woman

Susan Nagel
Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter

Elizabeth Pepin & Lewis Watts
Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era

Craig Rondinone
Ten Tales to Make Your Head Explode

Lee Sandlin
Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild

Bob Snider
On Songwriting

Phyllis Strupp
The Richest of Fare: Seeking Spiritual Security in the Sonoran Desert

Lawrence Sutin
Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick

Kent Thompson
The Man Who Said No: Reading Jacob Bailey, Loyalist

Michael E. Veal
Dub: Soundscapes & Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae


Concerts:

Celtic Classic '04

Tempest (Lief Sorbye): turning over a new Lief

Wolfstone (Stuart Eaglesham): a carving on the rock


Gardiner's Forbidden Knowledge: Secret Societies

Nick Pope, The Man Who Left the MOD: The UFO Phenomenon Unveiled

Redline America


Nassiri: world peace through music