Johnny Winter Goes in Depth on ‘Roots,’ Woodstock and His Breakthrough Moment
Johnny Winter joined us for a discussion on his terrific 2011 album, his biggest successes and biggest regrets – and why he always got in a fight in Dallas.
Archive for October 3rd, 2011
Half Notes: Ted Rosenthal Trio – Out Of This World (2011)
A mainstream jazz pianist leading a trio through a set of tunes out of the Great American Songbook doesn’t signal that the record is going to set the jazz world on fire with a cutting edge material and indeed, Out Of This World by the Ted Rosenthal Trio doesn’t deliverRead More
Half Notes: Jason Kao Hwang and Edge – Crossroads Unseen (2011)
Composer Jason Kao Hwang, performing on both violin and viola, starts with a foundation of chamber jazz, and then blows it up. Hwang (Reggie Workman, Anthony Braxton, Henry Threadgill) is just as apt to set off an explosion of emotive, Eastern-themed motifs (as on the title track from Crossroads Unseen,Read More
Sparks Fly On E Street: Bruce Springsteen, “Wild Billy’s Circus Story” (1973)
There is a contingent of “fans” out there who label this song the “mistake” of The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle. Since I think of the record as one of rock’s perfect albums, I must disagree. You May Also Like: Reevaluating Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Wild, the InnocentRead More
