Bobby McFerrin had the top recording on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart 35 years ago. Simple Pleasures was spending its second week as the #1 album Continue Reading
michael brecker
I took some time today to reflect on Michael Brecker, who died this day in 2007.
Here's a review I wrote of the Restless release by contemporary jazz legend Bob James in spring 1994. The album was released Feb. 8 of that year. Continue Reading
Seeing the gathering of living presidents at the George H.W. Bush funeral today made me think of the inauguration of Bill Clinton. That monster gathering of super-saxmen: Continue Reading
The nominees for the 50th Grammy Awards was announced yesterday. As always, it's interesting to see whom the Recording Academy has deemed worthy of music's highest award. Continue Reading
