Reviews

Firefly Festival, Pt. 2

By Saturday at Firefly, one of the largest festivals on the East Coast , nearly 100,000 people purposefully streamed down shut-down highways and across closed bridges. I drove some 15 … Read more

Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow

Time has forever been Carla Bley‘s steady companion and creative muse. Composing and playing from a avant/classical/jazz outlook, time has allowed her ideas to stretch beyond time signatures and musical … Read more

Bill Evans

It’s become almost a cliché to talk about music without boundaries. Nonetheless there may not be a better living example of this than saxophonist Bill Evans. Consider his amazing career … Read more

C.W. Stoneking

Sounding like a lost field recording on a shellac 78 or a secret mid-50s Sun Records session, Gon’ Boogaloo has an undeniably antiquated spirit yet it absolutely jumps with so … Read more

Firefly Festival, Pt. 1

One of the largest festivals on the East Coast and the US, Firefly takes over the tiny capital of Dover, Delaware (also tiny, and the first state), and interjects nearly … Read more

James Taylor

  On June 22, five-time Grammy award-winner James Taylor showered the people of Austin with his music and lyrics for nearly three hours and two encores. At 69 years old, … Read more

The Struts

The first 40 or 50 seconds of the opening, title cut, with its repetitive riff and cheap-sounding rhymes gave me the queasy feeling that I was about to suffer through … Read more

Paul Simon

“Voice” means very different things, depending on whether it refers to a vocalist or to a writer, but Paul Simon, a leader in both categories for over 50 years, certainly … Read more