One of us jazzers would have a house where you could jam all night long and we’d invite the guys over after the gig. I was playing with some of these cats and things would go on all night. And I started to get the feeling that, well, OK, they’re from New York, and they’re...
If someone brings out the best in you, you kind of don't want them to change sums up this upbeat fun song. I always wanted to write a song with a down-tuned low E-to-a-D string on my guitar. In Love Again slowjam/r&b/pop ...
An interview is presented with Jim Lucchese, chief executive officer of Echo Nest, a firm which develops application programming interfaces (APIs) which are used by mobile device application (app) developers. Lucchese discusses a deal between his firm and the record label Island Def Jam. He also...
We'd totally go for it. It felt like the modern version of letting people jam. There's an incredibly accurate video. There are webisodes on The Blakroc website, and the RZA day is chronological. It could be the producer/engineer's worst nightmare because it's such a free-for-all. Th...
it is a paradise for a jazz lover. There were a lot of musicians in my Brooklyn neighborhood and we were always having jam sessions. I would go to the clubs and hear the greats and meet them and try to get lessons from them. It was a fantastic experience and remains so today. I’...
magazine-editor friend (hey, Charlie!) who used to jam with Ry occasionally. He told me that the strings on Cooder’s many guitars are set so high off the neck that no one else could play them. If that’s the case, then Ry Cooder must have the strongest pair of hands on the ...
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I missed much music I’d have liked to have heard: Charles Turner and Uptown Swing, The Hot Sardines, the all-star Mona’s Hot Four jam, Terry Waldo. Altogether another wonderful, out-of-time Gotham Jazz Festival. On to 2025. Posted on April 30, 2024. | Tagged bix-biederbecke, ...
“Bad Luck Charm,”“Living Right Now”) with all the swagger and intensity of a veteran club act tearing through a sweaty set. Even the ballads mercifully avoid weepy nostalgia: “Get Along” is a loose-limbed acoustic jam, while “Let You Down” is a doom-laden epic and master class...