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Traffic was a British rock band formed in 1967, known for their unique blend of rock, folk, jazz, and psychedelic music. The band's original lineup consisted of Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood, and Dave Mason.
Steve Winwood, a multi-talented musician, was the centerpiece of the band, contributing vocals, keyboards, and guitar. Jim Capaldi was the drummer and also provided vocals and songwriting alongside Winwood. Chris Wood played flute, saxophone, and other woodwind instruments, adding a distinctive element to Traffic's sound. Dave Mason was a guitarist and vocalist who left and rejoined the band several times over the years.
Dave Mason: Only You Know And I Know
by Doug Collette
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 ...
Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon
by Doug Collette
Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon Joel Selvin 288 Pages ISBN: #978-1635768992 Diversion Books2024 In keeping with the title of Drums & Demons, Joel Selvin's account of The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon is a schizophrenic piece of work. A seasoned journalist who's distinguished himself with ...
Blood Sweat & Tears: What The Hell Happened to Blood Sweat & Tears?
by Doug Collette
The title of this release might rightfully be applied at various junctures of Blood Sweat & Tears' career, but for the purposes of this project, it's particularly apropos to the group's State Department-sponsored tour of 1970 behind the Iron Curtain. Innuendo about this band's hip cachet or lack thereof arising from this jaunt--the main premise of ...
Dave Mason: Alone Together Again
by Doug Collette
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 Ed Palermo Big Band Flaunts the Union Jack with The Great Un-American Songbook Vol. 3: Run for Your Life
While pundits and experts debate whether the United States of America has entered an age of decline as a world power, New York saxophonist, composer, arranger, bandleader and inveterate troublemaker Ed Palermo makes an incontrovertible case for un-American ascendance. With The Great Un-American Songbook Volume 3: Run for your Life, slated for release on guitarist/vocalist Bruce ...
A Lousy Day in Harlem is a great day for jazz with The Ed Palermo Big Band! Available now!
A Lousy Day in Harlem is a great day for jazz with The Ed Palermo Big Band, as the band known for reinventing the music of Frank Zappa turns its attention to a riveting program of Monk, Coltrane, Ellington, and hard-swinging originals, confirming Ed Palermo’s place in jazz’s top ranks of contemporary big band arrangers. In a ...
Soft Machine: Hidden Details
by Chris M. Slawecki
Hidden Details celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Soft Machine's 1968 eponymous debut, a seismic event in the British psychedelic, jazz and rock music landscapes that still reverbates as the Canterbury scene/sound. This anniversary studio celebration also brought about Soft Machine's first tour of North America since 1974, with several 2018 shows featuring Gary Husband as guest ...
Big Bands, Orchestras and Soft Machines
by Chris M. Slawecki
Randy Brecker & NDR Bigband Rocks Piloo Records & Productions LLC 2019 The easiest answer isn't always the best answer, but sometimes it is. So it's both easy and proper to point out that trumpet and flugelhorn master, composer, and bandleader Randy Brecker was kind enough ...
The Vintage Years 1970 - 1991
by John Kelman
There are bands that manage to carve out a place for themselves in the music world that lasts for decades; there are others who, while having created a name for themselves during their peak years and, while they continue to tour and, even, make the occasional studio album, are invariably best remembered for their seminal early ...
