Fewer artists are as busy as guitarist/vocalist John Pizzarelli. Besides his constant touring to support his latest release (With A Song In My Heart), he still has time to do his radio program with his wife Jessica Molasky and moonlight…
Category: Interviews
OTIS BROWN III: THE THOUGHT OF OTIS BROWN III
ONE OF THE FIRST RULES AN ARTIST LEARNS IS TO CREATE WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT. A WRITER CAN DO A BOOK ABOUT HIS ENVIRONMENT, BUT WHAT ABOUT A MUSICIAN? SOME, LIKE SINATRA SING MATERIAL FROM THEIR YOUTH, WHILE OTHERS CREATE…
OLD MAN SONNY KEEPS ON ROLLINS ALONG
YOU HAVE A NEW CD: DO YOU EVER LISTEN TO YOUR OLD RECORDINGS? No! No! I don’t like listening to myself, so I do as little of it as possible. There were (concert) cuts that a private collector had,…
ROBBEN FORD: Bringing it Back Home
What type of music reflects pure Americana? It’s hard to beat the blues, or jazzy blues. Guitarist Robben Ford has carved out a career dedicated to celebrating the best of music which is truly American. His latest, Nashville, is as…
BUDDY GUY AND THE REAL BOSS OF THE BLUES
Blues legend Buddy Guy has influenced just about every blue-eyed soul guitarist of the past 40 years. Rock musicians ranging from Eric Clapton to John Mayer have been living endorsements of the Chicago Blues style that has been passed from…
ERIN DAVIS-MILES AHEAD
WHEN AN ARTIST DIES, WHO KEEPS THE LEGACY GOING? SCAREY STORIES ABOUND CONCERNING THE WAY THAT MUSIC AND IMAGES OF ARTISTS FROM ELVIS TO HENDRIX HAD BEEN HANDLED. LIKE ANY DUTIFUL OFFSPRING OF A PRINCE, ERIN DAVIS (ALONG WITH HIS…
HARVEY MASON: THE CHAMELEON
GUARANTEED: IF YOU HAVE EVEN A HALF DECENT ALBUM COLLECTION THAT INCLUDES MUSIC FROM THE 70’S-80’S, DRUMMER HARVEY MASON IS IN YOUR HOUSE. THE MOST IN-DEMAND DRUMMER OF OUR GENERATION, HE’S ON COUNTLESS JAZZ AND POP ALBUMS AND HAS AN…
MARCUS MILLER’S REDEMPTION
Very few artists have had the range of a career as Marcus Miller. Producing and performing with popular artists as divergent as Miles Davis, David Sanborn and Luther Vandross, Miller gave an added boost to each of his employer’s careers…
ERIC REED: A MONK’S MOOD
ONCE YOU BECOME ADEPT AT YOUR TRADE, YOUR NEXT STEP IS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO BEST USE IT. PIANIST ERIC REED, ONE OF THE MOST VERSATILE MUSICIANS AROUND, HAS BEEN WITH BANDS RANGING FROM WYNTON MARSALIS AS WELL AS…
LARRY CARLTON: SIX STRINGS OF FAITH
You probably may not even know it, but odds are in your favor that you have the guitar sounds of Larry Carlton somewhere in your ipod or cd/album collection. Since the 1970s when he first came onto the music scene,…