Photo: Raj Naik by Pico Millions of people know him as an affable, guitar-wielding long-time bandleader of the most popular late night show in television history. Now that Kevin Eubanks has left his eighteen year stint as Jay Leno’s musician sidekick on The Tonight Show, it’s time to become acquainted with the Kevin Eubanks that’s been around for nearly twice [...]
by S. Victor Aron As I write this, two very talented bands from Italy specializing in the jazz of the whack variety are traversing the fruited plains looking to collect fans from the USA. The trio Neo and the quartet Tribraco are criss-crossing the country from August 23 to October 6, covering 37 cities, including Chicago, Philly, New York, Houston, [...]
by Pico Like many of the greatest American musicians, Miles Davis has had a comeback—he’s had four or five of them, actually—but only one where he came back from not playing at all. It was also his least successful one in the short run. The 1975-1981 retirement was a period where Miles watched a lot of TV, and just not [...]
by Pico Miles Davis is takin’ it to the streets. In late spring of 1972, Davis broke a two year hiatus from the studio to act upon his most daring idea of his 45 year recording history: to create music that finally is completely absent of any jazz aesthetic and replace it with “street” sensibilities. An idea to jettison most [...]
by Nick DeRiso Perhaps best remembered in jazz circles for his melodic work on the fretless (notably as a member of the Pat Metheny Group from 1977-80), bassist Mark Egan’s earliest influences couldn’t have been more far afield. A former student of Jaco Pastorius at the University of Miami, Egan wanted to emulate Bernard Odum from the classic James Brown [...]
by S. Victor Aaron This installment of Quickies takes a glance at three new offerings from HighNote Records. HighNote Reocrds, in case you didn’t know, has been around since 1996, a creation of former Muse Records founder and Prestige Records exec Joe Fields. As a longtime veteran of the whole jazz record biz, Fields had been able to stock his [...]
by Pico Hybrids are all the rage these days; you see Toyota Priuses and Honda Insights filling up our roadways as recent gas price hikes has engendered a greater focus on fuel efficiency. There’s was recently another cool new hybrid unveiled, but this isn’t a hybrid of gas and electric power. It’s a hybrid of two bands with heavy reputations [...]
by Pico Miles Davis is takin’ it to the streets. In late spring of 1972, Davis broke a two year hiatus from the studio to act upon his most daring idea of his 45 year recording history: to create music that finally is completely absent of any jazz aesthetic and replace it with “street” sensibilities. An idea to jettison most [...]
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