Fans of Uk rock & move have tended to think about Mike Sheridan and his music group Mike Sheridan & the Nightriders like a footnote within the music’s background, as the music group that brought Roy Real wood into the saving studio for the very first time. They — and …

Along with his whimsical, melancholy music, Yann Tiersen has turned into a sought-after composer, not merely for his soundtrack function, however in his own right. Borrowing from French folk music, chanson, musette waltz, and road music, in addition to rock and roll, avant-garde, and traditional and minimalist affects, Tiersen’s deceptively …

Grammy-winning producer Tommy LiPuma’s credits consist of edges by Horace Sterling silver, George Benson (1976 Grammy Record of the entire year Breezin’, Weekend in L.A.), Eric Reed, Bob Adam, Al Jarreau (Shine, Turn to the Rainbow), Artwork Tatum, David Sanborn, Michael Franks, Diana Krall, Paul McCartney, Dave Mason, Mls Davis …

The Nashville Teens were among a brace of Uk acts competing for attention within the booming times of the first British Invasion and its own early purely British phenomenon, the Uk beat boom. These were recognized from a lot of the others by credit scoring a unforgettable and serious strike, …

Almost four decades after his death, the legacy of Albert Ayler is simply — various reed-biting aural contortionists bent in exploiting the saxophone’s propensity to make sounds that resemble a human scream. Many such players, struggling to play anything resembling a coherent melody, rely rather on the severe manifestations from …

The seeds of 1 of the very most highly regarded contemporary Irish rings were sown in 1996, when former Waterboy and Sharon Shannon bassist Trevor Hutchinson teamed up with guitarist Donogh Hennessy for the Scandinavian tour. From such small acorn beginnings have become mighty oaks. Back in Dublin, they drafted …

Among the strangest and best Dutch rings from the mid-’60s, Les Baroques always seemed from sync with real life. That they had a French name, a business lead vocalist with an certainly anglicized pseudonym (Gary O’Shannon, actual name Gerard Schoenaker), and performed R&B-tinged pop/rock and roll with unusual streaks of …

A lifelong individualist whose exclusive philosophy has frequently led to recordings that transcend commonly accepted tips and attitudes about music, trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith has dedicated his lifestyle to the idea and practice of creative improvisation. A cardinal person in the Association for the Advancement of Innovative …

While by no means earning the international renown afforded to co-workers like George Martin and Shel Talmy, Ron Richards towers one of the leading producers from the British Invasion period — though finest remembered for a protracted collaboration using the Hollies that yielded pop smashes including “He Ain’t Large (He’s …

Guitarist Jef Lee Johnson is well-known being a program musician, playing for everybody from pop superstars like Aretha Franklin and Billy Joel, to even jazz vocalists like Phyllis Hyman and Rachelle Ferrell, to fearless experimentalists like Ronald Shannon Jackson and McCoy Tyner. (He also has a middle-’80s stint because the …