Those of you who have been reading my weekly No Depression columns over the years or following my daily Facebook posts hopefully view me as an observant musical news aggregator if not, perhaps, the occasional agitator. I usually spend an hour […]
As the summer touring season begins, less bands are in the studio recording new material. This causes a bit of a slowdown on the major crowdfunding sites. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything worth investing in. Just as direct […]
Why care? Miles Davis dwells at, and helped create, the thrusting root of many music vernaculars of the 20th century, from vintage bop with Bird, to purring like a breeze-cooled cat in Birth of the Cool, to kicking in the blues ‘n’ backbeat of workin’, […]
Michael Timmins sees the newest Cowboy Junkies album, Notes Falling Slow, as “a nice stepping stone to whatever our next recording project will be.” The four-disc Notes Falling Slow, released in October, follows 2012’s wonderful five-disc box set, The Nomad […]
This blog is a birthday remembrance, honoring — one month late to the day — the monumental jazz drummer and innovator Elvin Jones, who was born on September 9, 1927 in Pontiac, MI, and died May 18, 2004. His passing […]
We make icons of our heroes after the fact, but it’s always better to remember that they were flesh and blood, first and foremost. The San Francisco Jazz Center mounted an extraordinary tribute to the 50th anniversary of the release […]
