Jazz Articles about Dave Mason

About Dave Mason

Book Review

Dave Mason: Only You Know And I Know

by Doug Collette
September 14, 2024

Only You Know And I Know Dave Mason with Chris Epting 272 Pages ISBN: #979-8218380175 DTM Entertainment 2024 To declare Dave Mason the Zelig of contemporary rock and roll might be accurate, but only to a certain degree. His many and varied associations with figures of note--Traffic, Eric Clapton's Derek and the Dominos, Jimi Hendrix and Fleetwood Mac, not to mention the woefully under-appreciated Delaney & Bonnie and Friends--understates the man's own considerable ...

Album Review

Dave Mason: Alone Together Again

Read "Alone Together Again" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
November 28, 2020

At the time of its release in July of 1970, Dave Mason's debut solo album, Alone Together (Blue Thumb Records, 1970), was the proverbial perfect storm, a flash-point of both creative art and commerce that remains a singular object of fascination in the annals of contemporary rock. Produced by label co-founder Tommy LiPuma, in conjunction with the erstwhile early member of Traffic (who assumed all such duties himself on the 2020 sequel), an estimable roster of guest musicians participated, including ...

Live Review

Dave Mason's Traffic Jam at The Paramount

by Mike Perciaccante
August 2, 2015

Dave Mason's Traffic Jam The Paramount Huntington, NY July 25, 2015 Dave Mason has seen and done it all. He, along with Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi, co-founded Traffic. He was a member (although briefly) of both Delaney, Bonnie & Friends and Fleetwood Mac, served as a temporary second guitarist in Eric Clapton's Derek & the Dominos and participated in the recording of George Harrison's All Things Must Pass (Apple Records, 1970). In 1971 he ...