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Santana: Festival
by Jeff Winbush
SantanaFestivalColumbia Records1977 The year 1977 was another period of transition for guitarist Carlos Santana. He was going into the studio to craft a follow-up to Amigos, the highly successful 1976 return to Top 10 Billboard status after abandoning a four-year immersion in jazz fusion. During that phase, ...
Jazzhole: Poet's Walk
by Jeff Winbush
If you lock two people in a room and play a musical selection for both, one person may tap his or her toes, strum an imaginary air guitar or sing along. He might even get up and dance. The other person may nod off in total boredom, squirm uncomfortably in his chair, look at his watch, ...
Wayman Tisdale: Way Up!
by Jeff Winbush
When a rookie, no matter how fierce his reputation was in college, hits the hardwood floor of the National Basketball Association, he's got to step up his game or he's going to get his head handed to him by the older pros who aren't impressed by flashy moves and big egos.For twelve seasons in ...
Andy Snitzer: Some Quiet Place
by Jeff Winbush
The art of listening to music depends as much upon when you listen to it as what type of music you hear. Sitting in a church while the choir sings is probably not the best time to expect to hear Metallica's “Enter Sandman" or Gwen Stefani's “Hollaback Girl," to name two examples from popular music. However, ...
Sunlightsquare: Urban Sessions
by Jeff Winbush
Every few years jazz seems to develop a new sub-genre. If smooth jazz wasn't smooth enough it's spawned a evil twin: “chill." What makes it chill is that the songs are locked into one long groove with little to no soloing or improvisation.Chill is for those people who feel smooth jazz is too raucous, ...
Nancy Wilson: Turned To Blue
by Jeff Winbush
One of the hardest things for a fan to do is watch a premier athlete or entertainer begin to falter and show the first signs that age has begun to compromise their talent. It was saddening to watch Muhammad Ali unable to fend off Larry Holmes. It was troubling to watch the great Michael Jordan being ...
Nick Colionne: Keepin' It Cool
by Jeff Winbush
Nick Colionne sounds like a lot of guys. You'll hear a bit of George Benson here and a snatch of Wes Montgomery there, Jonathan Butler or Earl Klugh somewhere else. But that doesn't mean Colionne isn't original. It's just obvious that his style of playing has been influenced by other guitar greats.Colionne has been ...
Yellowjackets: Twenty Five
by Jeff Winbush
For some veteran bands, a live album can be a way to buy time until the next studio release. For the Yellowjackets, Twenty Five offerns an opportunity to celebrate 25 years of growth, change and development. Following the addition of Bob Mintzer on tenor saxophone in 1990, the band's evolution from smooth jazz to serious contemporary ...
