It must have been terrifying to be an artist in the Soviet Union during World War II. Classical composer Dmitri Shostakovich seems to have done the best he...
Tag - music history
I knew when I began looking for links to Bucky Pizzarelli that I would find tons of great jazz guitar. Though it is impossible to say so definitely without...
There are brilliant writers and performers who work within a genre and produce something that has one foot — or even a toe or two — outside it...
H/T: Walter W. Before I heard them, the name My Morning Jacket suggested a proper and correct group of gentlemen who sipped tea and perhaps indulged in some...
Leadbelly — Huddie Ledbetter — is a legend. The outlines are contradictory: Leadbelly was a murderer who sang kids songs and became a bedrock of...
Running into music written and performed by an individual — Lorde — who is the same age (to be precise, 15 days older) than my youngest child is an...
I didn’t liked Elton John when I was young. Youth defend their cultural choices aggressively, and I was into The Grateful Dead, Hot Tuna and that...
Brazilian music has a unique and simple beauty. Here is how singer Anna Salleh’s profile starts at her site: Singer/guitarist Anna Salleh (pronounced...
Red Norvo had to be good: Being called “Mr. Swing” in an era in which swing was king suggests a tremendous amount of respect (or an extraordinary...
The Roots are busy: They are a very successful hip-hop group and, at the same time, the house band for “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” I am not...
