Jazz Articles about Traffic

The Last Great Traffic Jam

by Doug Collette
December 10, 2005

Traffic The Last Great Traffic Jam Epic Records 2005

Steve Winwood has enacted some compromises during the course of his forty-year career--remember Roll with It and the beer commercials?--but he's never done a thing to sully the name or image of Traffic. The almost-mythic English band founded with hornman Chris Wood and drummer/composer/vocalist Jim Capaldi had its roots in a free- wheeling eclectic taste in music and a similarly improvisational means of ...