BEFORE THE DEMISE OF RECORD STORES, MUSIC FANS COULD ALWAYS RELY ON THE ‘COOL OLDER GUY’ WHO KNEW WHAT MUSIC YOU NEEDED TO LISTEN TO AND BUY. MY GUY WAS BOB CARLTON, ABOUT 5 YEARS OLDER THAN I, AND WHEN…
Category: Interviews
NEAL WEISS-WHALING CITY SOUNDS
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE MUSIC FANS TAKE FOR GRANTED IS THE FACT THAT THERE IS ACTUALLY RECORDED MUSIC FOR US TO LISTEN TO, EVALUATE AND APPRECIATE. THIS RECENT SERIES OF LOCKDOWNS DUE TO THE COVID 19 VIRUS AND…
KNOXVILLE IS SWINGING!
WHEN YOU THINK OF MECCAS FOR JAZZ, THE CITIES OF NEW YORK, CHICAGO AND NEW ORLEANS COME TO MIND FOR AMERICA, WITH LOS ANGELES A DISTANT FOURTH. HOWEVER, AFTER TRAVELING AROUND THE STATES, I HAVE LEARNED THAT THERE ARE POCKETS…
DAVID LIEBMAN’S EXPANSIONS
ONE OF THE TRUE GIANTS IN INTEGRATING AMERICAN JAZZ WITH INDIAN MUSIC HAS BEEN DAVID LIEBMAN. BACK IN THE LATE SIXTIES AND EARLY 70S, WHEN FUSION WAS JUST BEGINNING, LIEBMAN WAS ONE OF THE VERY FIRST TO MELD THE RICH…
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN-IS THAT SO?
FANS GUITAR LEGEND JOHN MCLAUGHLIN HAVE SEEN HIS MUSIC TAKEN THE FORMS OF PLUGGED IN ROCK AS WELL AS ACOUSTIC INDIAN TRADITIONAL TONES. HIS LATEST ALBUM, IS THAT SO?, IS A STEP IN A WHOLE NEW DIRECTION. WHILE STILL PLAYING…
ERIC JOHNSON: EJ-UP CLOSE, ANOTHER LOOK
BACK IN 2014, WE HAD AN INTERVIEW WITH GUITAR LEGEND ERIC JOHNSON, JUST AFTER HE RECORDED HIS LANDMARK SUMMIT MEETING WITH FELLOW GUITARIST MIKE STERN ON THE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION ECLECTIC. THAT TOUR WAS MANNA FROM HEAVEN FOR GUITAR FANS,…
JOE SATRIANI: THE MAN WHO TAUGHT THE MAN
“WHAT IS MORE FITTING…THAN TO BE TAUGHT BY THE MAN WHO TAUGHT THE MAN?” Andre Moreu Scaramouche MOST FANS OF THE GUITAR KNOW THAT JOE SATRIANI IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SIX STRINGERS AROUND. HE’S THE RARA ARVIS OF …
GEORGE WINSTON: A CAREER IN STRIDE
IF YOU GREW UP IN THE 1980s OR 90s, YOU EITHER HAD, OR KNEW SOMEONE WHO HAD, AN ALBUM BY PIANIST GEORGE WINSTON. AT A TIME WHEN ARTISTS WERE RACING TO SEE WHO HAD THE FASTEST CHOPS, WINSTON JUMPED OFF…
MIKE CLARK – BEAT, BOP AND FUNK TIME
ONE OF THE GREATEST OF THE LIVING BEBOP DRUMMERS, MIKE CLARK, WAS ACTUALLY AT THE FIRST SESSION FOR THE FIRST ELECTRONIC FUNK ALBUM BY HERBIE HANCOCK. SINCE THAT TIME, HE GOT A REPUTATION AS ONE OF THE BEST DRUMMERS OF…
SERGIO MENDES: BOSSA, BEBOP AND BRASIL ’66
IT HAS BEEN MY CONTENTION THAT IF IT WEREN’T FOR THE SENSUOUS SOUNDS OF SAMBA, JAZZ IN THE LATE 50S AND EARLY 60S WOULD HAVE DEVOLVED INTO MINDLESS NAVEL GAZING CACOPHONIES OF FREE JAZZ AND THE AVANT GARDE. THE SEDUCTIVE…