Music
Maryland, Crossing and Blending (STEMRA)
Maryland vocalist Maria Neckham can sound like Flora Purim to Franz von Chossy’s Chick Corea, but she’s working on many other levels, from Bjork and Urszula Dudziak to Astrud Gilberto, […]
Idgy Vaughn, Origin Story (idgyvaughn.com)
“If I’d have treated you like crap, you’d have probably stayed,” muses Idgy Vaughn at the start of her arresting debut album. Unlike the run-of-the-mill self-pity mavens that populate the […]
John Mooney, Big Ol’ Fiya (LML)
“To get to heaven you got to go through hell,” notes John Mooney on Big Ol’ Fiya’s first song. One can almost hear all the bromides about this being his […]
The Radiators, Dreaming Out Loud (Croaker)
“In the future, live recordings will make attending a concert a matter of personal scholarship.” —Marshall McLuhan Law of the Fish, the Radiators’ 1986 debut on Epic Records, remains […]
Leslie Smith, Feel Me (Rough Cut)
Feel Me is Leslie Smith’s homecoming record after the singer/songwriter evacuated New Orleans last August. Parts of it are a shockingly bold departure from her most recent work, which concentrated […]
The Derek Trucks Band, Songlines (Columbia)
Rock history is decorated with the eviscerated careers of once promising young guitarists who crashed into the cul de sac of unsustainable ambition and greedy management. The “lucky” ones who […]
George Wein
Producer George Wein created the concept of the contemporary music festival more than a half century ago with the Newport Jazz Festival, but his crowning achievement came in 1970 when […]
