Post Tagged with: "Something Else! Interview"

by / on May 25, 2011 at 9:08 am / in Jazz, Something Else! Interviews, Uncategorized

Something Else! Interview: Jazz pianist Michael Wolff

Jazz pianist Michael Wolff — an endlessly engaging player whom the New York Times has praised for “near impeccable good taste, technical facility and lyrical inventiveness” — joins us for an SER Sitdown

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by / on May 23, 2011 at 9:07 am / in Progressive rock, Rock Music, Something Else! Interviews, Uncategorized

Something Else! Interview: Christian prog-rocker Neal Morse

Neal Morse, former frontman for Spock’s Beard, joined us for an SER Sitdown in advance of today’s release of his long-awaited Testimony 2 on Radiant/Metal Blade Records

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by / on May 18, 2011 at 10:33 am / in Jazz, Something Else! Interviews, Uncategorized

Something Else! Interview: Jazz drumming legend Alphonse Mouzon

A seminal force in the berth of fusion, the versatile Alphonse Mouzon has played drums alongside of dizzying array of jazz greats. Even today, it’s no different.

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by / on May 11, 2011 at 11:07 am / in Rock Music, Something Else! Interviews, Uncategorized

Something Else! Interview: Steve Lukather, of Toto

Steve Lukather was gearing up for a summer tour in Europe when he got the news: Rare recognition had arrived for him, not just as a co-founder of the often-overlooked band Toto but — and this is rarer still — as a sideman.

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by / on May 4, 2011 at 8:41 am / in Rock Music, Something Else! Interviews, Uncategorized

Something Else! Interview: John Oates, of Hall and Oates

John Oates has always been more than the Other Guy in Hall and Oates. In fact, the mustachioed one co-wrote half of H&O’s six Billboard No. 1 songs, including “Out of Touch,” “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” and “Maneater.

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by / on April 27, 2011 at 8:27 am / in Rock Music, Something Else! Interviews, Uncategorized

Something Else! Interview: Bobby Whitlock, of Derek and the Dominoes

Keyboardist Bobby Whitlock reflects on Derek and the Dominoes’ Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, given a deluxe reissue Tuesday on its 40th anniversary

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by / on April 25, 2011 at 8:33 am / in Rock Music, Something Else! Interviews

Something Else! Interview: Roots rocker Sherman Ewing

Sherman Ewing’s Single Room Saloon arrived with a sound that is at once intuitive and raw, but somehow well-worn and familiar, too.

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by / on April 20, 2011 at 8:23 am / in Blues, Something Else! Interviews, Uncategorized

Something Else! Interview: Muddy Waters guitarist Bob Margolin

Boston-native Bob Margolin has spent his life around blues music’s most recognizable figures, famously working as a member of the late Muddy Waters’ band

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by / on April 13, 2011 at 7:49 am / in Progressive rock, Rock Music, Something Else! Interviews, Uncategorized

Something Else! Interview: Former Yes frontman Jon Anderson

After a difficult bout with respiratory problems, Jon Anderson has returned with a furious creativity, beginning with last year’s successful collaboration with fellow Yes alum Rick Wakeman. A forthcoming solo release, set for late spring, is to be part

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by / on April 6, 2011 at 6:21 am / in Jazz, Something Else! Interviews, Uncategorized

Something Else! Interview: Orrin Evans, jazz pianist, composer and bandleader

Orrin Evans arrived amidst a wave of new jazz performers in the early 1990s. Unlike many of those young lions, however, he managed to bob up from that era’s ultimately empty retro-conservatism.

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