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How Living Colour’s Smart, Tough Debut Album Emerged From Happenstance

How Living Colour’s Smart, Tough Debut Album Emerged From Happenstance

Guitarist Vernon Reid joined Something Else! to discuss Living Colour’s strikingly inventive debut ‘Vivid,’ which arrived 35 years ago today.

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Steve Jenkins and the Coaxial Flutter – Steve Jenkins and the Coaxial Flutter (2013)

Steve Jenkins may be a bassist, but he’s seemed to have learned a lot from guitarists with which he’s worked, like, say, Vernon Reid and David Fiuczynski, in how to craft music around his chosen instrument and his style of playing it. You May Also Like: Invisible Bird [Scott Amendola,Read More

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Gimme Five: Guitarist Bill Frisell’s collaborations outside of jazz

Bill Frisell’s appearance last Saturday with Marianne Faithfull at Paris’ New Morning club was another reminder of the jazz guitarist’s often underrated affinity for pop and rock music. You May Also Like: Living Colour, “Come On” from Shade (2017): One Track Mind How Living Colour’s Smart, Tough Debut Album EmergedRead More

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Best of May 2012: Reader picks include King Crimson, Squackett, Styx – but no Beatles