The 70-minute feature documentary, Shanda (which means
Thirty minutes packed with elastic grooves and open ended spaces, tightly filled with the fiery driven keyboard work of Gwen Grimes played to precision.
The funk runs deep on the Motet
There’s just something magical about The Gorge Amphitheater. If you’ve been there, you know. You’ve experienced it. You’ve lived it. And you’ll remember it forever. If you haven
He may well be this country’s most famous living mandolinist any side of David Grisman. He is known in some circles as the “Mayor of Telluride” due to the fact that he has performed at 26 of the 27 Telluride Bluegrass Festivals. Some prefer to call him, simply, King Sammy. What ever you call him, you owe it to yourself to take a listen to his latest offering of foot-stomping bluegrass, King Of My World.
Otis Taylor spent almost twenty years outside the music business (1977-1995) as an antique salesman, but this record proves he is again where he belongs. Although not a groundbreaking blues album, Double V is an important statement by a man with a lot on his mind.
Charlotte Martin’s day will come. Her voice is too pure. Her piano playing is too chilling. Her songs are too damn catchy. Charlotte Martin is too good to
be opening a show in one of Portland’s smaller clubs. Her show would fit just as comfortably in front of thousands headlining Carnegie Hall.
Rashied Ali, who replaced Elvin Jones as John Coltrane
