A crystalline peak behind the scenes of Steely Dan’s studio gigs.

Collaborators from across his solo career talk about what McCartney has meant to them.

Five favorites from Eric Clapton’s career as a solo artist, and member of Cream and Derek and the Dominos.

Though he’s leading a group of fellow veterans from James Taylor’s touring band, Steve Gadd’s 10th solo album couldn’t have less to do with that easy-going singer-songwriter vibe — or any of Gadd’s countless other rock and pop dates. You May Also Like: Steve Gadd, Peter Erskine, Jay Leonhart +Read More

I once read that the great acoustic bassist Ray Brown had appeared on more records than any other jazz sideman. If Will Lee doesn’t hold that distinction among electric bassists, than I’m at a loss as to who that might be. You May Also Like: Tom Tallitsch – Gratitude (2016)Read More

Like 461 Ocean Boulevard, but with better singing, Eric Clapton’s Old Sock is similarly thin on original songs, swerves into an amiable island-inflected vibe, and never gets too far outside of its super-mellow box. You May Also Like: ‘All Things Must Pass Away: Harrison, Clapton, and Other Assorted Love Songs’Read More

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncTcVKbmMFw&w=500&h=305] Tom Gates, perhaps best known for his pan work with the Beach Boys, is trying to do for the steel drum on Comfort Zone what Steve Turre did for the conch some two decades ago: Move it into the jazz mainstream. You May Also Like: The Chick CoreaRead More

Eric Clapton has certainly done a lot to make us forget his roots in the blues tradition, starting with his turn toward psychedelia in Cream — just a couple of years after a celebrated stint with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers You May Also Like: Eric Clapton, “Motherless Child” from ‘From theRead More

Most famous for her breakout late-1980s hit “What I Am” with the New Bohemians, Edie Brickell always had an uneasy relationship with fame.

Steve Gadd takes us inside mythical sessions with Paul Simon, Paul McCartney and Steely Dan.