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.

Friday, February 25, 2022

Telling Her Stories In the Time of Pandemic

Photo: Kimberley M. Wang It's been over a decade since pianist and composer Marta Sánchez came to the United States from her native S...

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

From Outside to Inside

Pianist, composer, and musical lightning rod Cecil Taylor left New York City in 1970 to spend several years in academia. Taylor was in t...

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Short, Sweet, & Hot!

When I first started collecting 45 rpm "singles" back in the 1960s, every once in a while, one of my favorite artists would drop a...

Saturday, February 5, 2022

Trios of Threes plus A Four (Feb '22)

Saxophonist, composer, and educator Adam Larson , born in Normal, IL, now lives and works in Kansas City at the University of Missouri/KC....

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Book & Music

Phil Freeman , the editor and producer of the web zine " Burning Ambulance " as well as the label of the same name, started writ...

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Tributes & Remembrances with Masterful Interactions

One of the great joys of listening to creative music is how many of the artists that came of age in the 1960s and 70s are still with us an...

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Sixteen Strings Attached

Over the past decade+, pianist Fred Hersch has released solo piano records, several duo sessions as well as a number of trio albums plus a ...

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