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, March 31, 2011

Such Sweet Music

For me, any recording with a cover drawn by Bill Griffith ("Zippy The Pinhead") has started off on the right foot. It's also...

Marcus Shelby Marches On

One of my favorite recordings of this year is " Soul of The Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." by the Marcus S...

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Powerful Sounds

Captain Black Big Band (Posi-Tone Records) - Positive comments have been swirling for several years about this large aggregation. Founded ...

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Mr. Pelt's Trumpet Sounds the Charge +The Music Friends Make

There are those jazz fans for whom the the mid-to-late 1960s was the period for jazz. Blue Note Records was nearing the end of a decade wh...

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Bands Big and Small

40 Acres and a Burro - Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ZOHO) -Composer/arranger/pianist O'Farrill leads this ...

Monday, March 21, 2011

The Tenor Man Cometh + Quiet Music with Power

Firehouse 12 , 45 Crown Street in New Haven, had a triumphant beginning to its Spring '11 season last week (3/18) with the Adam Rogers T...

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Masters At Work and Play

Reveille - Kermit Driscoll (19/8) - Bassist/composer Driscoll, mostly recovered from the Lyme Disease that laid him low several years...

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