It’s about more than mere individuals playing well, and this performance brings real meaning to the words “spiritual unity.”

A force in its day, the music of this seminal funk-jazz-rock combo remains very much potent today.

A rare alternate take Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ featuring violinist Stephane Grappelli finally appeared on an Immersion reissue of the 1975 album.

You want to know the Johnny Winter story? Listen to the blues stuff, and there’s a heaping helping of it here.

Ask anyone familiar with Lucinda Williams’ music and early on in their reply they’ll almost surely include mention of 1998’s Car Wheels On a Gravel Road, but Williams’ abilities as a singer and songwriter came to full bloom ten years before. You May Also Like: Lucinda Williams – The GhostsRead More

It’s damned near impossible to pick and choose only a handful of Paul Bley records as being the essential few, he’s been so prolific and readily moves from one idea to the next, constantly evolving along the way. You May Also Like: Paul Bley, Gary Peacock + Paul Motian –Read More

The story of Quartets, the new ECM box set covering five of Charles Lloyd’s albums, isn’t a sweeping career retrospective; it would take at least twenty discs to sufficiently do that for this tenor saxophonist whose become a lion in jazz over a fifty year span. Instead, this is aboutRead More

By the time Paul Motian had passed away in November of 2011, he had established a legacy that reaches far beyond a couple of historical evenings at the Village Vanguard in late June of 1961. But becoming known as something much more than Bill Evans’ drummer within arguably jazz’s greatestRead More

Even today, more than a decade after discovering Eva Cassidy, listening to her music always brings me an unshakable tinge of melancholy that accompanies the joy and wonderment from hearing her unbelievably perfect voice. You May Also Like: Spirit – The Best of Spirit (1973): On Second Thought Charlie CarterRead More