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.

Monday, May 29, 2023

Good Friends, Great Music

Photo: Laura Desberg Vocalist and composer Gretchen Parlato first met guitarist and composer Lionel Loueke in 2001 while both were studyin...

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Love, Loss, Living Sounds

I've been aware of saxophonist and composer Michael Blake since the mid-1990s when, along with bassist Ben Allison, pianist Frank Ki...

Sunday, May 21, 2023

Large Ensembles and Real Life (Part 1)

Brazilian native (Sao Paulo), saxophonist, composer, and arranger Felipe Salles came to the United States in 1995. Since then, he has wor...

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

A Life in the Day

Photo: Emra Islek Hard to believe that it's been five years since Rudy Royston debuted his Flatbed Buggy quintet, the ensemble that in...

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Listening to The Brothers

Photo: Shervin Lainez The Le Boeuf Brothers , Pascal (piano, compositions) and Remy (alto and tenor saxophones, compositions), first ca...

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

To Listen is to Wonder, To Dream

Photo: Dave Stapleton Ben Wendel , born in British Columbia, raised in Los Angeles, and now living in Brooklyn NY, is a multi-faceted musi...

Monday, April 17, 2023

Sounds Abound

Photo: Antonio Narvaez To the left is a photo of pianist and vocalist Champian Fulton in her natural habitat; that is, playing her infectio...

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