Jazz Articles about Stuart Bogie

About Stuart Bogie

Album Review

With the title of One Last Heist so closely juxtaposed with the album's cover image, the acerbic expression on Wesley Stace's face says it all. Or it might if this were not the same iconoclast who distinguished himself from the likes of Elvis Costello and Graham Parker back in the New Wave/punk heyday of the late Seventies. Then known under the assumed name of John Wesley Harding--a wink of the eye even there!--his all-too-often overly clever attitude even ...

Album Review

Amy Helm: What The Flood Leaves Behind

Read "What The Flood Leaves Behind" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
July 31, 2021

Amy Helm possesses all the inner direction, motivation and independence of her father, Levon, the drummer and vocalist for The Band. As evidence of those inherent character traits, she projects her personality with no traces of self-consciousness not only in her collaborations--Sisters of the Strawberry Moon's Solstice (New West Records, 2019), produced by the North Mississippi Allstars' Luther Dickinson-- but also her solo projects like What The Flood Leaves Behind. Her third effort to date is an elegant mix of ...