Spiritual Jazz: From New Orleans to Coltrane and Beyond
adminby Marshall Bowden Spiritual jazz is generally a term that is applied to a sub-genre of jazz music from the 1960s and 1970s, but any jazz musicians have incorporated their…
Read MoreIn Ten Tracks: David Bowie
In Ten Tracks is a selection of tracks that have meaning to me and have stuck with me through the years, appearing frequently on mixtapes and playlists. Not necessarily stuff…
Read MoreThe Velvet Underground & Nico: An Appreciation
“Anyone should be able to play these songs, that’s what I like about them.” — Lou Reed— by Marshall Bowden The Velvet Underground & Nico is one of those debut…
Read MoreIn Ten Tracks: Elvis Costello
In Ten Tracks is a selection of tracks that have meaning to me and have stuck with me through the years, appearing frequently on mixtapes and playlists. Not necessarily stuff…
Read MoreBill Evans and Self-Confidence
Musicians must find their own style regardless of the prevailing musical flavor of the day.
Read MoreBill Evans/Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Writing about a recording such as Everybody Digs Bill Evans can seem like an exercise in futility. Even at this early point in his recording and performing career, Evans seems…
Read MoreBill Evans/Sunday at the Village Vanguard
The Bill Evans trio had been playing together for nearly two years by the time these dates for Sunday at the Village Vanguard were recorded, but the group was under-recorded…
Read MoreMusic festivals: how to get more women on stage (and it’s not just 50/50 quotas)
by Samantha Warren, University of Portsmouth By all accounts, Kylie Minogue was fabulous at Glastonbury this year. What she wasn’t though – contrary to promotional material – was a headline…
Read MoreJoao Gilberto, Father of Bossa Nova, dies
“The final flicker of the old flame” by Marshall Bowden The music world and cultural doyens of Brazil mourn the death of João Gilberto.
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