Arabic Jazz Artists and their Contributions in Arabic Jazz Fusion
In late 2008, the Kuwaiti born musician Kamal Musallam and his band performed at the Oriental Jazz event in Abu Dhabi alongside noted musician Volker Schlott. At the event, Schlott played alto-saxophone and Musallam switched between electric guitar and oud.
After the event Musallam, pictured here, recounted his experience.
Broadway Bob: Dylan at the Beacon Theatre, New York, 2014
The Beacon Theatre is one of my favorite music venues in New York City. Opened just after the Crash of 1929, the Beacon is a wonder of fantastical Manhattan Modernism, its golden interior with gigantic Greek goddesses, and murals redolent of Arabian nights, still sounding with echoes of the Jazz
Best of 2014: Hurray for the Riff Raff - "Small Town Heroes"
There was a time, before Hurray for the Riff Raff had built anything close to a national audience, when frontwoman Alynda Lee Segarra and longtime fiddler/drummer Yosi Perlstein would hop trains, busk on street corners, crash with scruffy, activist punk kids, and perform at an annual queer and trans
Goodnight Texas - Uncle John Farquhar
The San Francisco-based quartet Goodnight Texas have taken the idea of “retro music” a quantum leap further. Their sophomore album Uncle John Farquhar, released in August of 2014, is set up as a scrapbook of tales from the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.
The album's 13 songs
Sunny Sweeney: You Had to Go and Prove Yourself
Sunny Sweeney is grinning, leaning across the conference table at her publicist’s Music Row office to display an image on her phone. She’s pulled up her website and navigated to a particular T-shirt she sells as merch. “There it is,” she declares. The photo shows a black
To Live Is to Fly - Remembering Townes Van Zandt
Days, up and down they come
Like rain on a conga drum
Forget most, remember some
But don’t turn none away
Everything is not enough
Nothing is too much to bear
Where you been is good and gone
All you keep is the getting there
To live is to