Tom Wilkes, who created some of the most memorable images of my youth, died June 28 in the high desert east of Los Angeles at age 69 of a heart attack. I learned of it today, reading his New York Times obituary. For years his artwork adorned album covers and poster art, one of the [...]
I’m certain I’ve posted this video a number of times elsewhere; I suppose I hope it will find someone who appreciates it as much as I do. These are consummate professional musicians playing a brilliant jazz tune before an appreciative crowd in Montreaux and enjoying themselves as they do. In my book, music doesn’t get [...]
Sometimes the world needs a little vampish, expressive, drama queen music. No one fits the bill as articulately and as melodically as singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shara Worden. If dream pop can ever be called good, this is an instance.
Paul McCartney, in what is either a brilliant marketing ploy or a relentless search for the glory days of his youth, played a set on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Building yesterday to an audience of thousands of surprised New Yorkers. The 20-plus-minute concert was “reminiscent of the live set The Beatles played on [...]
In years past, whenever any permutation or combination of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young was mentioned in a conversation, I would somewhat apologetically admit that I not only appreciated their skills as musicians and liked much of what they had done, but I had also performed several of their songs. This was usually met by [...]