1. Poortown Scrub : This tune was written on my There And Back Again tour. A three month, 13,000 mile tour. I was about half-way through my tour when Zach Spiezer (My co-writer , friend and musical ...
You have to admire the ambition of saxophonist Llibert Fortuny. His third recording as leader sees him adding thirteen musicians to his electric quintet to create a big band which utilizes sound ...
EVEN if I hadn’t read Verdi Woodward’s book, I’d know something about him from his music. Art, by its very nature, tends to reveal who we are, and the notes soaring from his tenor sax constituted a ...
The name of an actual band, and starting next Tuesday, the name I will insist people call me in public. Synth-happy, Human League-y, these dudes kicked off Øya Festival day two, arriving in a chopper, ...
This was shaping up to be a banner year for Boston singer John Minnock. He had finished a new album, “A Different Riff: Minnock Sings Shire," that found him collaborating with noted film and theater ...
*On July 30, 2003, longtime Earth Wind and Fire saxophone player Don Myrick was shot and killed by a Santa Monica police officer who mistook a lighter he was holding for a weapon and fired a shot into ...
Contemporary jazz musician Kenny G is congratulating Kanye West on the release of the latter's ninth studio album, Jesus Is King—a record that features the two of them performing together. "So proud ...