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Eric Vloeimans, Will Holshouser: Two for the Road
by Vic Albani
Registrato dal vivo nel corso di un tour di concerti in Olanda nel 2021, Two for the Road è il secondo album del duo formato da Eric Vloeimans e Will Holshouser capace di mostrare forse più che nel primo lavoro, Eric & Will, la capacità di scrittura espressiva, improvvisazione virtuosa e la vasta territorialità di influenze ...
I Am a Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100
by Pedro Keul
Doc Watson died in 2012 but his influence on American music was undeniable. Master of flatpicking--the technique of striking the strings of a guitar with a pick (also called a plectrum) held between the thumb and one or two fingers--Watson released nearly 30 albums; solo and with relatives (The Watson Family) and numerous bluegrass and blues ...
Karl Berger, Max Johnson, Billy Mintz: Sketches
by Mike Jurkovic
An exquisitely palatable sense of dance permeates the gregarious music bassist Max Johnson brings to the fore on Sketches, the second of two heady 2022 releases. Whereas the first, Orbit of Sound (Unbroken Sounds), teams him up with the rule-elusive sax and flute of Anna Weber and drummer Michael Sarin, Sketches presents a slightly more straight ...
Eric Vloeimans & Will Holshouser: Two For The Road-
by Pierre Giroux
The trumpet and the accordion may seem like an incompatible musical combination, and perhaps that may be so, except in the hands of Dutch trumpeter Eric Vloeimans and American accordionist Will Holshouser. Their dynamic and demonstrative interaction is on full display in this live concert recorded during a tour of the Netherlands in 2021 and is ...
The Archive of Contemporary Music
by Karl Ackermann
In Lower Manhattan, sits a musical gold mine. It's the motherlode of recorded music though the small, brightly colored sign above a grey steel door provides only a cryptic clue. The dusty window display of rare 78 RPM records, broken into erratic pie charts serves as a vestige of the past and a cautionary tale about ...
Beppe Gambetta al Six Bars Jails, Firenze
by Neri Pollastri
Six Bars Jails Firenze 12.12.2013 Presentato in apertura dagli organizzatori della rassegna come il più grande flatpicker al mondo, è tornato in scena al Six Bars Jails Beppe Gambetta: vi era già stato nel 2007, in occasione del primo anno di attività di questo meritorio club di appassionati della ...
Take Five With Mike Davis
by Mike Davis
Meet Mike Davis:Mike Davis has lived several distinct musical lives. He has been a student, a serious student of performance and of theory and of composition and of art. He has been a gig warrior, playing multiple shows in multiple styles on different instruments at different venues with different bands on the same day ...
John Hartford: Aereo Plain/Morning Bugle: The Complete Warner Brothers Recordings
by Skip Heller
This 1971 album was to the emerging newgrass movement approximately was Bill Evans' Village Vanguard recordings were to jazz piano trios: the flexible blueprint for the genre. Evans and singer/multi-instrumentalist John Hartford both successfully found ways to dissolve the “soloist and his enablers" tyranny, working instead towards the integrated ensemble as the musical engine.
Philadelphia Folk Festival: Schwenksville, PA, August 18-21, 2011
by Wade Luquet
Philadelphia Folk FestivalSchwenksville, PAAugust 18-21, 2011In 1962, when folklorist and DJ Gene Shay took to the stage of the first Philadelphia Folk Festival in front of 700 folk enthusiasts to introduce Pete Seeger, he had no idea that 50 years later, at the age of seventy-five, he would take the stage again. ...
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