No movie where Steely Dan was commissioned to contribute a song for that movie’s soundtrack ever did well, not You’ve Got to Walk It Like You Talk It or You’ll Lose That Beat, not FM, and not even a movie directed by the great John Huston, Phobia. You May AlsoRead More

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Henry Threadgill is an improviser of the highest order, not because he can improvise on his saxophone or flute, but because he also impovises well with the structure of the song. That creates a unique kind disruption in his music You May Also Like: Henry Threadgill Zooid – ‘Poof’ (2021)Read More

Fleetwood Mac was only moderately successful during Bob Welch’s 1971-74 tenure, but he helped push them from blues toward a more melodic direction.

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With a new album release imminent, the productive, peaking pianist Orrin Evans again demands our attention with another bread-and-butter trio event, named Flip The Script. You May Also Like: Bill Evans – Time Remembered, The Life & Music of Bill Evans (2016, DVD)

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Lettuce is funk powerhouse of a supergroup, a rare supergroup where the group was formed before many of its members became “super” from other projects. You May Also Like: WRD (Robert Walter, Eddie Roberts, Adam Deitch) – ‘The Hit’ (2021) Takuya Kuroda – ‘Fly Moon Die Soon’ (2020)

Walter Becker and Donald Fagen dug “Sultans Of Swing” like the rest of us did when this first Dire Straits hit was making hay on the radio in 1979. It was beginning with this song where Mark Knopfler made fancy fingerpicking — by way of Chet Atkins — cool againRead More

Jazz plectrist Sebastian Noelle arrived in New York ten years ago and has found his place within the more advanced modern jazz corner of the scene. You May Also Like: Sebastian Noelle – Shelter (2016) Michael Gregory Jackson – ‘Frequency Equilibrium Koan’ (1977, issued 2021) Other Barry (George Colligan, EnzoRead More