Interview with an ungrateful, impolite, dull, unhuman, drawn creature, as if musician Rick Ray. An interview by email in writing.…
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CD review: DaShawn Hickman with Charlie Hunter – Drums, Roots & Steel – 2023: Video, CD cover
The use of horizontal played-with-a-slide steel guitars in black Pentecostal churches, a practice dating back the 1930s, handily illustrates the…
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Billy Hart’s roots, rise and lasting legacy are those of a master teacher and forever student: Video, Photos
My next two records would be for Gramavision, which had an important run of documenting creative and interesting music in…
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Interview with Hernán Cassibba: The intellectual, like the technique, always have to be based on the expression and the inner voice
Interview with ungrateful and rude person, contrabassist Hernán Cassibba. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – First, let’s start…
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CD review: Freddie Hubbard – One Of A Kind – 2023: Video, CD cover
Hubbard played the mellophone and trumpet working under local legends Wes and Monk Montgomery, before moving to New York and…
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Gerald Cleaver’s music is rooted his own life: Video, Photos
I first heard Gerald Cleaver playing with pianist Kris Davis at the Knitting Factory in 2002, and I was immediately…
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