Jazz fusion legend Joe Zawinul died September 11 of Markel cell carcinoma, a form of skin cancer. He was a member of Weather Report and worked with Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, and Dinah Washington. He was 75.
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The irreplaceable jazz drummer Max Roach died in his sleep August 15. Roach played with Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Parker. He was one of the creators of bebop and a determined civil rights activist. […]
Warren Zevon and Townes Van Zandt are subjects of new biographies, but they had more in common than that. Both came from families with money. Music eventually took over everything that mattered to them. Both enjoyed high esteem among fellow […]
Along with pianist Floyd Cramer and guitarist Chet Atkins, tenor saxophonist Boots Randolph helped define Nashville as the home of a no-nonsense, casual yet superhuman approach to music-making that still holds today, although in inflated form. As a session man, […]
“When will those Johnny Cash TV shows become available?” has probably been the question raised with me most often in my role as video columnist here. We have, at last, something of an answer in the new compilation The Best […]
“Back in Seattle, the sun is setting over the Sunset and Tractor Taverns on Ballard Avenue, over Puget Sound and the ferryboats motoring to the islands, over the Olympic mountains silhouetted in the western sky. It’s been an unforgettable nine […]
Mandy Moore: Not to worry, no features on Britney or Paris planned When I first started to read No Depression it was what Rolling Stone was to me in the ’60s. I realize the music business and music tastes are […]
LONG LIVE LOUVIN: Country icon Charlie Louvin celebrated his 80th birthday July 7 with a set of energetic, entertaining, funny and moving Nashville shows — at the new Louvin Brothers Museum near the Grand Ole Opry House, on the Saturday […]
“My mother used to read me absurdist plays as bedtime stories,” Carolyn Mark reveals, trudging along the sidewalks of her Victoria, B.C., neighborhood. She fires off a staccato “Ha!”, one of her many different laughs, but she isn’t kidding. Other […]
We came upon the remarkable Bruce Turner and his vintage camera at Washington Pass in the North Cascades of Washington state this summer. Others were snapping digital photos of his 1892 London-made Thornton-Pickard camera before rushing back to their cars. […]
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