When it comes to jazz singers, Nina Simone and Abbey Lincoln are often given short shrift. Both women, born in the 1930s, matured into their professional...
Filmmaker Clint Burkett has produced Painting the World With Music, a documentary about San Diego-based musician Steve White. White was a singer and songwriter who, until...
Music hangs heavy in the air like the sweetly acrid scent of kudzu on a hot and humid Georgia night. From across the Parkway Bar, the...
The jazz piano trio has been one of the great mainstays of jazz performance for decades. The first formation goes back to the mid-thirties, when pianist...
Would Gandhi Tweet? Would Martin Luther King have a Facebook page? Absolutely. Both men were masters at using every available medium to great effect. They understood...
“The angels have schedules to keep, so I won’t keep them waiting.” “Running Away,” Lukas Nelson It’s one o’clock in the afternoon. Lukas Nelson and his...
Reviewing a CD by Steam Powered Giraffe is a challenge. The 2009 debut disc Album One from the mime/steampunk/comedy/music group was a delightfully quirky mix of...
Ask my 12-year-old son: albums are big these days. The vinyl community, or VC to the cognoscenti, is doing brisk business. New 180-gram records are being...
When a veteran singer/songwriter like Bill Hartwell records a CD of his own music, the best description for the songs is probably “comfortable.” He has sung...
