Brian Bromberg: The Albums That Shaped My Career
Bassist Brian Bromberg joins Ross Boissoneau to discuss career-turning LPs from Miles Davis and Return to Forever, and what he’s listening to now.
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Return to Forever’s Surprise ‘Returns’ Smartly Focused on the Past
‘Return to Forever: Returns’ arrived 10 years ago today as a reminder of everything we loved about this cosmic, muscular and damned funky band.
Lenny White – Live from 97 (2013)
The truth is, both of the late-1990s Lenny White-led solo releases that preceded the Japanese concert featured here needed a little scuffing up, and this group happily obliges. You May Also Like: Sue Foley – ‘Pinky’s Blues’ (2021) Ellen Foley Talks ‘Bat Out of Hell,’ Ian Hunter and ‘Fighting Words’:Read More
Nick DeRiso’s Half-Year List of Top Albums for 2012: Live and Reissues
For the musical Indiana Joneses amongst us, 2012 has already yielded a number of artifacts for the ages — and we’re but half way done. There were rare live recordings unearthed from the likes of jazz giant Bill Evans, and the hitmaking Philadelphia International Records stable of the O’Jays, MFSB,Read More
Return to Forever – The Mothership Returns (2012)
Return to Forever, as Lenny White proudly told me, was a “jazz quartet on steroids” — with all of the muscular virtuosity and boisterous flourishes implied. Enter violinist Jean-Luc Ponty You May Also Like: Return to Forever’s Surprise ‘Returns’ Smartly Focused on the Past How ‘Stanley Clarke Band Featuring Hiromi’Read More
Stanley Clarke, bass-playing jazz legend: Something Else! Interview
Stanley Clarke joins us to discuss how he became the first bassist to headline tours and craft gold-selling solo projects.
Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten – Thunder (2008)
I know what you’re thinking – three basses … another Spinal Tap opus? Nope, sorry. If it’s not Spinal Tap, then next to the drum solo, the bass solo is just about the most reviled thing at concerts You May Also Like: Four Jacks and a Jill, “Master Jack” (1968):Read More
Lenny White on ‘Vulcan Worlds,’ ‘Bitches Brew,’ ‘Sofistifunk,’ and Others: Gimme Five
Lenny White, drummer with fusion-rock pioneers Return to Forever, joins us to discuss a handful of key tracks from across his career.
Lenny White, of Return to Forever: Something Else! Interview
Lenny White’s life away from Return to Forever, a band he’s played with off and on since the early 1970s, has remained as hectic as it is varied.
One Track Mind: Al Di Meola, "Strawberry Fields" (2011)
by Nick DeRiso Jazz guitarist Al Di Meola, the former teen prodigy in Return to Forever, accomplishes an uncommon thing here, making something out of a cover attempt at the Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever.” You May Also Like: ‘Danny Says: A Documentary on the Life and Times of Danny Fields’Read More
