Step Tempest

Creative music should challenge us, make us think and move us forward. Music can make one's life better and fuller, one of life's greatest pleasures.

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Thanksgiving 2024

Step Tempest was born in December of 2009 in the wake of my weekly arts column, "See! Hear!" , published by the Hartford Courant...

Monday, September 30, 2024

Rush Hours, Part 1 - Nonet & Octet

Lots of music yet so little time –– here begins a series of shorter reviews of the more exciting releases of the past several months. Comm...

Thursday, August 8, 2024

Family, Friends, Dancing, and Singing (Large Ensembles)

In a perfect musical world, pianist, composer, bandleader, and label owner Orrin Evans would be a bonafide superstar. Think about it – th...

Saturday, August 3, 2024

See the Light

There was a long time in the recorded history of Black American Music, especially Improvised Music, that records labels big and small put ...

Monday, July 29, 2024

In The Presence of Creativity, Beauty, and Joy

(By way of apology, read on.) Christopher Zuar , composer and arranger, released his second album as a leader, " Exuberance " (To...

Friday, July 26, 2024

April is the Coolest Sound

Photo: Desmond White Every once in a while, you receive a recording and you say "how have I missed this artist? – surely this is not ...

Monday, July 22, 2024

Voice and Piano, Heart and Soul

Nothing I love more than being surprised by an artist I am not familiar with. The latest example is below. When I received the new album by...

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Richard B. Kamins

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