Here’s a review of Joe Sample’s last album completed before his September 2014 death, the big band encounter ‘Children of the Sun.’

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A crystalline peak behind the scenes of Steely Dan’s studio gigs.

Collaborators from across his solo career talk about what McCartney has meant to them.

Five favorites from Eric Clapton’s career as a solo artist, and member of Cream and Derek and the Dominos.

Though he’s leading a group of fellow veterans from James Taylor’s touring band, Steve Gadd’s 10th solo album couldn’t have less to do with that easy-going singer-songwriter vibe — or any of Gadd’s countless other rock and pop dates. You May Also Like: Steve Gadd – 70 Strong (2015) TheRead More

I once read that the great acoustic bassist Ray Brown had appeared on more records than any other jazz sideman. If Will Lee doesn’t hold that distinction among electric bassists, than I’m at a loss as to who that might be. You May Also Like: Tom Tallitsch – Gratitude (2016)Read More

Like 461 Ocean Boulevard, but with better singing, Eric Clapton’s Old Sock is similarly thin on original songs, swerves into an amiable island-inflected vibe, and never gets too far outside of its super-mellow box. You May Also Like: Eric Clapton – Slowhand at 70 (2015) How Eric Clapton’s ‘Me andRead More

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncTcVKbmMFw&w=500&h=305] Tom Gates, perhaps best known for his pan work with the Beach Boys, is trying to do for the steel drum on Comfort Zone what Steve Turre did for the conch some two decades ago: Move it into the jazz mainstream. You May Also Like: Steve Gadd –Read More

Eric Clapton has certainly done a lot to make us forget his roots in the blues tradition, starting with his turn toward psychedelia in Cream — just a couple of years after a celebrated stint with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers You May Also Like: How Eric Clapton’s ‘Me and Mr. Johnson’Read More