Fusion jazz is a music form where there’s been very little out there truly fresh and new for a long while. Spectrum Road changes that.

It must be the time of year. It must be the heat. Or the humidity. Whatever the reason, I have a big hankering for some off-kilter music. Now that I think about it, I always have a hankering for that stuff. It’s just that sometimes the feeling goes from aRead More

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