David Friesen’s music always sounds like the soundtrack for waterfalls. There is an environmental sensibility that evokes rushing waters, gentle breezes, hurricanes and lightning. Yet he has never...
“The Beast That Shouted Love” He was vast, he contained multitudes. He hated being called a science-fiction writer even though he was acknowledged as one of the great...
Woody Shaw - The Moontrane (Muse Records, 1975) Originally released on Muse Records in 1975. The version of this album on the Mosaic box set Woody Shaw: The...
In four years he built a world Between Venus and Neptune Planets of love and the sea Stoned from the sun Lighting its pastel colors The lightning comes...
“We Hear You’re Leaving, That’s OK…” Walter Carl Becker 1950-2017 Steely Dan. Frank Zappa once famously referred to them as “downer surrealism”. I never got that. They weren’t...
Joanne Brackeen - Aft (Timeless/Muse 1979) Joanne Brackeen – Piano Clint Houston – Acoustic Bass Ryo Kawasaki – Guitar 1. Haiti B 2. Charlotte’s...
I first discovered Earl Scruggs as a wee lad in the 70s. One night I came across a TV show I’d never before seen called “Austin City Limits”....
Wayne Kramer and The Lexington Arts Ensemble - Lexington (Industrial Amusement, 2014) Wayne Kramer – Guitar, Producer Dr. Charles Moore - Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Arranger Ralph “Buzzy” Jones –...
Paul Lorin Kantner 1941-2016 Tonight, All-News radio announced his death with a 30-second blurb which referenced two hit songs from the Summer of Love (that...
Heads of State - Search for Peace (Smoke Sessions Records, 2015) Gary Bartz - Saxophones Larry Willis- piano Buster Williams - bass Al Foster - drums “Supergroups” are...