If there is any musician today who embodies the musical spirit of Robert Fripp, it must be his former King Crimson bandmate, Warr Guitarist Trey Gunn. You May Also Like: No related posts.

Taj Mahal, recording as part of the 30th annual John Lennon Tribute at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, finds the chest-bursting peril, the nakedly emotional plea, inside “Come Together” You May Also Like: Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ – Tajmo (2017)

Once again, the Colorado-based Gear Fab label pays a visit to the rock ‘n’ roll graveyard, and in the process unearths an album so ghastly obscure that even the members of the band behind the project have apparently vanished from the face of the planet. But what is known aboutRead More

This album is credited to Anthony Wilson and rightfully so, as this master guitarist/composer/arranger wrote the four-part “Seasons” suite and led a quartet of virtuosic plectrists to perform it before a live audience. You May Also Like: Anthony Wilson – ‘Collodion’ (2023) Jan Hammer – Seasons Pt. 1 (2018)

Erik Friedlander and Tom Cora are two legends of jazz cello, true pioneers and standouts as there are so few cellists with such an improvisational jazz bent and fewer still who regularly have gone for the jugular as those two. You May Also Like: George Crotty Trio – ‘Chronotope’ (2022)Read More

The Black Forest, perhaps unsurprisingly, features a walk through twilit, spooky woodlands. Thankfully, however, Swedish prog-rockers Agents of Mercy manage to sidestep the typical genre nemesis like, say, a dragon. You May Also Like: Hal Galper, feat. John Scofield – ‘Ivory Forest Redux’ (1979; 2022 reissue) Why Black Sabbath’s TonyRead More

I’ve heard people refer to “Night” as one of Born To Run‘s lesser songs, as well the album’s “mistake.” It’s certainly a lesser song in terms of its relative lack of fame as compared to other iconic entries You May Also Like: Reevaluating Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Wild, the Innocent andRead More

It’s pure coincidence that we reach this song about enticing young boys to go watch a porno flick shortly after a child molestation scandal broke open at Penn State University, and nothing about this topic is any laughing matter. But Becker and Fagen have long treated the topic of humanRead More

As the poignant, expressive piano voice behind both of Adele’s albums, Neil Cowley has a sound that seems immediately familiar. Yet he doesn’t simply rely on that famous association to push along Radio Silence. You May Also Like: No related posts.

When he left King Crimson in late 2003, the first question on most fan’s minds was, “What is next for Trey Gunn?” It took more than three years to get a definitive answer You May Also Like: No related posts.