We tend to think of musicians who have been able to keep coming forth with creative, fresh ideas with nearly every attempt in the past tense. Mozart, Ellington, Miles, The Beatles are a few who can fit into that category but they are of long past eras. You May AlsoRead More
The Tedeschi Trucks Band features the most inspired husband-wife team in roots music since Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett.
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Imagine if in the mountainous region of Albania or southern Yugoslavia during the Communist ruled days of the 1970s, the sons of sheep herders clandestinely tuned in to rock radio from the other side of the Iron Curtain You May Also Like: Thinking Plague – Hoping Against Hope (2017)
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The keyboardist is a Mexican expatriate living in Prague, the drummer is an Argentinian expatriate living in Mexico, the acoustic bassist is a Mexican still in Mexico and the guitarist is a guy from New York. You May Also Like: Nate Lepine, “Hennies” from Quartet: Vortices (2016): Something Else! exclusiveRead More
Journeyman is sax specialist Brandon Wright’s second time out as a leader and for this go around he brought some of his cohorts in the Mingus Big Band in the studio with him You May Also Like: James Brandon Lewis Trio – No Filter (2016) James Brandon Lewis – ‘Transfiguration’Read More
One surefire way to know if your ears are trained to listen to European-derived music forms is to listen to microtonal music for even just a few seconds. If it strikes you as exotic and weird, then you are most attuned to Western style music You May Also Like: PhilippRead More
The L.A.-based quintet Jazz Punks’ thing is to create jarring music by mashing up classic songs of straight ahead jazz with diametrically opposed classic songs of rock. You May Also Like: Solitaire Miles – Jazztets with Willie Pickens (2018) Pearcy / Gratzmiller Jazz Quintet – ‘Over the Edge’ (2018) VectorRead More
About three years ago I received a CD called Real And Imagined by jazz pianist and composer Kait Dunton, which came out of nowhere and just blew me away. You May Also Like: Kait Dunton, “Summer Solstice” from ‘trioKAIT Live at the Blue Whale’ (2020): One Track Mind Kait Dunton,Read More
