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Miles Davis: Previously Unreleased 1980s Recordings
by Chris May
Miles DavisPerfect Way: The Miles Davis Anthology: The Warner Bros. YearsWarner Jazz2010 The composer John Cage related a funny story about an encounter with trumpeter Miles Davis. It happened at a US airport sometime in the mid 1980s. Cage was travelling with the choreographer Merce Cunningham, and the ...
Harmonica Master Charlie Musselwhite Celebrates New Release with a Performance in Philadelphia
Harmonicist/vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Charlie Musselwhite celebrates his return to Alligator Records with his new CD, The Well, and a live performance at the World Music Cafe on Wednesday, September 15, 2010. The album is an authentic slice of Charlie's deep blues roots with musical flavors from Mississippi to Chicago to California, including help on one song from legendary ...
Tom Jones: Praise and Blame
by C. Michael Bailey
In his brilliant alternate reality novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union (HarperCollins, 2007), Michael Chabon has a fellow Jewish detective tell plot-protagonist Meyer Landsman that, “it's a strange time to be a Jew." Apparently, it is a strange time to be a Christian also. In what time would it not be strange that 1960s Welsh sex symbol ...
Wilson & Moore: Side by Side
by Craig M. Cortello
Chip Wilson is best known in and around New Orleans as the former guitar luthier who extracts supreme sounds from the instrument he once made a living producing. Jesse Moore is a versatile performer equally at ease on stage in music clubs and theaters, on television, or on film. Side by Side, the debut album by ...
Charlie Musselwhite Returns to "The Well" on August 24
Charlie Musselwhite will release his new CD, The Well (Alligator Records) on August 24. A groundbreaking recording artist since the 1960s, Musselwhite continues to create trailblazing music while remaining firmly rooted in the blues. His worldly-wise vocals, rich, melodic harmonica playing and deep country blues guitar work flawlessly accompany his often autobiographical and always memorable original ...
Susan Tedeschi: Dreams and Legends
by Alan Bryson
A string of Grammy-nominated albums, along with a critically acclaimed and commercially successful DVD of her appearance on the American television program Austin City Limits, have helped to establish Susan Tedeschi as one of today's premiere blues artists. On top of that, she's performed in front of millions of music lovers by headlining numerous festivals and ...
Wadada Leo Smith: A Vital Life Force
by Lyn Horton
“To teach and create and not expect or demand anything in return."--Wadada Leo Smith, quoted in an article printed in The Houston Chronicle, November 4, 2006 On the nine-by-eleven inch cover of the February, 2010, issue of Wire magazine is a full-page photo of trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Only the upper half of his body is ...
B. B. King in Denver
by Geoff Anderson
B. B. King Buell Theater Denver, CO April 19, 2010 B. B. King is the last of the authentic Delta bluesmen. That group includes legends like Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. King is the real deal. He was born in the Delta ...
Andre Matos: Fantasies Realized
by William Carey
There is no doubt that André Matos has chops to burn. Placed firmly in the tradition of John Abercrombie and Pat Martino, with a bit of Sonny Sharrock at moments, a lot of Berklee (College of Music) influence is readily apparent, but with a bit of headiness that also reflects the guitarist's time at the New ...
Neil Cowley: A Rock and Roll Take on Jazz
by Bruce Lindsay
It's not an observation based on hard evidence, but the jazz world seems to be more awash with piano trios than it has been for many years. Whether it's a whim of fashion, a response to economic recession, a reaction to the over-digitization of music technology, or something else entirely, is far from clear. But there ...
