This enjoyable and engaging album, guitarist Lee Jones’s second as a leader, aims to throw some much-needed wrinkles in to the smoothness of...

This surprising stroll through the Great American Songbook comes courtesy of pianist and two-time Grammy award winner Bob James and seven-st...

While Dave Grusin has crafted many a musically memorable soundtrack, highlights of which probably include The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (196...

While the news today has been full of the deaths of Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian, 83 (a curiously interesting musician in his own ri...

Somehow abstract art became popular among the American suburban culture of the late ‘50s and early ‘60s. For proof, watch any episode of Mad...

The musical path of Canadian guitarist Jamie Ruben is surely the story of the road less traveled. Rather than gigging regularly in some urba...

Cincinnati based guitarist Wilbert Longmire has long had a curious career as a legend throughout northern Ohio and as an occasional headline...

I spend a lot of time watching and listening to James Bond, always returning to certain favorites. Despite a series overflowing with interes...

Bet you’d never guess that the first musician I ever obsessed over – really obsessed over - was Elton John. My earliest memories of Elton in...

It was 50 years ago this year that ABC Records, having recent success with such pop acts as Paul Anka, Buddy Holly and others, decided to cr...