We’ve long marvelled at Jano Rix’s ability to play drums and keyboards simultaneously with The Wood Brothers. Now we know that it’s all part of his DNA as his lookalike
The real attraction(s) of the Little Feat reissues in recent years have been the live recordings of the band at various stages of its career, and the four-compact-disc-plus package of The
There are times on Brandi Carlile’s new album, Returning to Myself, where she is comfortably easing into the material, and other times where one can almost sense the challenges of
The Jazz Detective, Zev Feldman, does not confine his unearthed treasures to Black Friday and April’s Record Store Day. He’s been busy this fall with several projects and now presents
When seeing the band Tortoise live, one needs to keep one’s eyes wide open and glued to the stage as the five members will change instruments in a nanosecond. It’s
Cohesive and fluid are not words one would associate with the wild, spontaneous collective Bright Dog Red (BDR). Yet, relative to their seven preceding albums (all on Ropeadope), the upstate
At some point, one might ask which veteran jazz musicians did not play in the “university of jazz” called Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. Familiar names abound through this
There were probably at least a few people who thought that NEA Jazz Master Charles Lloyd’s 2024 double LP The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow might be his last
Don Was is arguably music’s greatest multi-tasker. Who else has handled all these roles – producer, songwriter, recording artist, music supervisor, documentarian, musical director, radio host, multi-instrumentalist, and President of
Robert Finley has always wanted to do a gospel album, yet like his previous melding of blues, soul, R&B, and gospel, he’s not content to stick too closely to the
