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.

Sunday, January 29, 2017

Young Voices & Young Veterans Telling Stories

My interest in " The Twilight Fall ", the first full album from saxophonist, composer, lyricist, and conductor Chelsea McBride...

Monday, January 23, 2017

Storytellers in Song

Pianist and composer Noah Hadiu did not make his first recording as a leader until he reached his late 30s. That debut - " Slipstr...

Friday, January 20, 2017

Presidents, Protests, & Music

In my lifetime, there have been 17 Inauguration Days plus two swearings-in (one after the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the other a...

Monday, January 9, 2017

Nat Hentoff

wsj.com It's is tough to take when one of your "heroes" passes, tougher when you admired the person from afar and never re...

Sunday, January 8, 2017

Positively Posi-Tone January '17

Pianist and composer Art Hirahara , born and raised in the Bay Area of San Francisco, has worked with vocalists Freddie Cole and Stacey Ke...

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Catching Up In The New Year (Pt 2)

Composer, arranger, conductor, guitarist, and leader of the Jazz Composers Alliance , Darrell Katz has been living in Boston, MA, since t...

Monday, January 2, 2017

Catching Up In The New Year (pt 1)

2017 is upon us but I can't let a number of the CDs I received in 2016 to go unnoticed and unreviewed (by me). Over the next week, I...

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