Articles by: Mark Saleski

WTF?! Wednesdays: Peter Brotzmann and Nasheet Waits Duo at UMass Amherst (2005)

WTF?! Wednesdays: Peter Brotzmann and Nasheet Waits Duo at UMass Amherst (2005)

We were sitting about 70 feet away and the amount of sound coming from that man’s horn … unamplified … was kind of scary. I don’t know how he does it.

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Natalie Merchant – Natalie Merchant (2014)

Natalie Merchant offers an album full of distilled thoughts, easily the most intense collection of her solo career.

Sparks Fly On E Street: Bruce Springsteen, "Silver Palomino" (2005)

Sparks Fly On E Street: Bruce Springsteen, “Silver Palomino” (2005)

The idea of the human spirit is one of those charged concepts, with it meaning different things to different people. For some there’s an afterlife that we inhabit. For others, the spirit of those who have left the earth is less of a ghostly being and more of a setRead More

(Cross the) Heartland: Pat Metheny, "Estupenda Graca" (1981)

(Cross the) Heartland: Pat Metheny, “Estupenda Graca” (1981)