Photos by Irene Ypenburg Gypsy jazz guitarist extraordinaire Stephane Wrembel assembled an all-star group of musicians including Al Di Meola, Stochelo Rosenberg, Larry Keel, David Gastine, Ryan Montbleau, Thor Jensen, … Read more
This is a fond look back to the music of the Piedmont blues icons, harmonica ace Sonny Terry and acoustic guitarist Brownie McGhee. As Guy Davis says in the … Read more
Photos By Alisa B. Cherry By Lee Zimmerman “When we talk about surviving the ’70s, are we talking about the decade or a certain age?” That comment from John Hall, … Read more
Cabin fever played a role in the making of Light of a Strange Day, the immersive, richly textured debut album from Julia Easterlin’s new experimental folk project, Hite, that was birthed … Read more
Emerging from Suburban Los Angeles, the Moonsville Collective was chiseled out of wild hootenannies, jug band music circles and evenings passed in darkly-lit barrooms—a world where music is played just … Read more
Vocalist/saxophonist/songwriter Vanessa Collier has burst onto the blues scene quickly. She is nominated for a Blues Music Award this year in the Instrumentalist –Horn category. This is only her second … Read more
Listening to Coco Montoya’s wailing, hard-edged guitar blaze away, you’d never guess that Montoya played primarily as a drummer for the late Albert Collins. Stimulated by an Albert King performance … Read more
I recall seeing Ruthie Foster play, ten years ago or so, in front of 20-30 people on a makeshift stage outdoors at SXSW. Obviously, she’s pretty well known now. Three … Read more
At a time when ten songs and one half hour of music is often all an album offers, Billy Flynn weighs in with 17 songs and 70 minutes of music. … Read more
If only the walls of Seattle’s cozy old jazz venue The Penthouse could talk, they could go on for days about the greats who played there. The mind-blowing list includes … Read more
