ERIC JOHNSON IS A HOUSEHOLD NAME AMONG ROCK ENTHUSIASTS. HE’S ONE OF THE FEW GUITARISTS WHO’S MADE A LIVING PERFORMING THAT RARE GENRE OF ‘ROCK INSTRUMENTALS,’ WITH HIS SONG “CLIFFS OF DOVER” A BONA FIDE HIT. RECENTLY, KEEPING WITH THE…
Month: April 2015
CHARLIE HADEN: SPIRTUALS AND SWING
(the following is an interview/article I did with Charlie Haden just a few months before his untimely death last year) There is one thing we all learn about life as we get older: we make certain plans in our…
THIS SIDE OF TERELL STAFFORD
Astaire and Rogers. Martin and Lewis. Tracy and Hepburn. Magic and Kareem. Certain people were just pre-destined to be together. So it was with the symbiotic team of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, who worked so closely together, that most…