Ken Micallef has covered music for all the usual suspects, including DownBeat, Electronic Musician, the Grammies, and Rolling Stone. His first book, Classic Rock Drummers (Hal Leonard), is currently in reprint status while he manages his family’s cotton farm down south and ponders the future of the vinyl LP and tube amplification.
Bassist Chris Morrissey’s sophomore effort is approachably left-of-… more »
On OYE!! Live in Puerto Rico, alto saxophonist, composer and MacArthur Fo… more »
Joe Lovano’s output is voluminous and encompasses an array of jazz … more »
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred le… more »
This inspired meeting between adventurous keyboardist Caine and gale-forc… more »
In Dave Grohl’s world, if you want to direct a movie about a defunc… more »
Fifty years ago, United Artists released Duke Ellington’s Money Jun… more »
One gets the impression that Chicago vocalist/piano player/poet Patricia … more »
It’s hard to imagine any musician holding a listener’s attent… more »
Recorded at tiny home studios throughout New York City, Donald Fagen… more »
Over the course of 20 albums as a leader, trumpeter Dave Douglas has reco… more »
After 30 years of shared recordings – seven duet albums, four of th… more »
New Orleans native Christian Scott has often shown a penchant for pushing… more »
As a teenager, Pat Metheny spent warm summer nights playing guitar with a… more »
Freedom from stylistic constraints has never been an easy thing for Pat M… more »
When the allure of sweaty bodies and momentary hedonism beckons, it's… more »
Thievery Corporation's Eric Hilton and Rob Garza began their career s… more »
The missing link between free jazz and Gamelan drumming, drummer/leader S… more »
Cedar Walton is one of the last great jazz pianists of the hard bop era. … more »
He provided the simmering Afrobeat pulse to Fela Kuti‘s innovative … more »
As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »
