Five Corners Quintet & Timo Lassy: Helsinki Jazz
adminby Marshall Bowden Listening to Five Corners Quintet instantly transports the listener back to a time when modern jazz was still hip and cool despite the advent of rock n’…
Read MoreDon’t Look Back: Watching Dylan Become A Rock Star
From April 30-May 10, 1965 Dylan toured Great Britain, a tour that was captured by documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker in his film Don’t Look Back (released in 1967).
Read MoreIn Ten Tracks: The Ramones
A selection of Ramones songs that have meaning to me and have stuck with me through the years, appearing frequently on mix tapes and playlists.
Read MoreQuotable Jazz Now Available in Kindle Edition
Jazz musicians are well known for having strong opinions and a major sense of humor. Quotable Jazz collects the best of these often funny, sometimes outrageous, always enlightening quotes.
Read MoreBob James/Three
Bob James’ album Three (his third on the CTI label, of course) completes a trifecta of records that influenced the development of the smooth jazz genre and also became major…
Read MoreCTI Records
Creed Taylor was a well-known and respected name in the jazz world long before he founded his famous CTI (Creed Taylor International) record label in the 1970s.
Read MoreWorkingman’s Dead and The Dark Cloud Ahead
by Marshall Bowden In honor of the 50th birthday of the Grateful Dead’s classic album Workingman’s Dead, the band dropped an exotic release a week before the obligatory 50th-anniversary package:…
Read More‘Apogee’ revisited
That one time Donald Fagan and Walter Becker got a good jazz record made and released by a major record label’s jazz department
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