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, February 27, 2017

Ensembles Small & Large (Pt 2) + Acoustic Solo

When times are busy, uncertain, even a bit scary, music serves as both an antidote to depression and and a kick in the butt. Here are three ...

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Muhal, the AACM, & Middletown

For those of us who came off musical age in the 1960s and believed that John Coltrane and Miles Davis were the twin giants of jazz, the pe...

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Immigrants Songs

In this heightened time of insecurity about immigration in the United States, we often forget why people risk their lives to come here. Whet...

Monday, February 6, 2017

Ensembles Big & Small (Pt 1

Thelonious Sphere Monk , pianist, composer, and leader, died in 1982 at the age of 64 after a long career that began near the birth of beb...

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

CD Release Party & Noted Tenor in Old Lyme

It was 49 weeks ago (give-or-take) that saxophonist Mike Casey (alto and tenor) brought his Trio to The Side Door Jazz Club in Old Lyme...

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...

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