Willie Nelson, Rodney Crowell, George Strait, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff and more pay tribute to Billy Joe Shaver on New West Records’ Live Forever.
Truth and Honesty by NEA Jazz master, saxophonist Dave Liebman, is the third installment of the four-part Renewal Series from Newvelle Records. Liebman, who plays the soprano saxophone on all compositions, leads a drumless trio featuring guitarist Ben Monder (The Bad Plus, Maria Schneider Orchestra) and progressive bassist John Hébert, who is also a bandleader.
The Mother Hips are using the time leading up to the January 27, 2023 release of their new record, When We Disappear, to hit the road and deliver live music
Guitarist Bill Frisell, on his third recording for Blue Note, expands the quiet, explorative music he delivered on 2020’s Valentine through a much different instrumental configuration
Blank Canvas is the fourth album from composer and vocalist Sarah Elizabeth Charles and her band SCOPE. This one comes via Chief Xian Atunde Adjuah’s (aka Christian Scott) Stretch Music label in partnership with Ropeadope. It’s her first release since 2017’s Free of Form, also on the same label.
Andrew Browning and The 9 Pound Hammers features members from places as varied as Oklahoma and Moscow (Russia, not Idaho) but calls Los Angeles home. The band began as a
Taking the drum seat of the late Alan White, for Jay Schellen, Yes has been like coming home as the band celebrates 50 years of Close To The Edge.
Bastards of Soul’s story is one filled with triumph, redemption, but unfortunately, mostly tragedy. As they release the last recordings that were completed shortly before the sudden passing of frontman
Half a century after its original release, the Grateful Dead’s Europe ’72 (released 11/5/72) remains a seminal inclusion in its discography. The nearly two hours of live recordings accurately capture the iconic band at a crucial juncture of its career, well into one of, if not the most, significant transitional phase of its thirty-year history.
The Pacific Northwest experienced something of a heat wave late last week when TK & the Holy Know-Nothings blew through the region on their short “Go North” swing. After a
