Ziggy Marley didn’t have to ask the near-capacity crowd to read between the lines. There was no mistaking his intent. Marley and his nine-piece riddim machine played for unity, peace, and love. On this late September Thursday evening- more tropical than first blush of autumn- Marley bounded onstage at the portside, open-air venue. Warm, sticky […]
This two-disc compilation of Miles Davis sessions in 1955 overflows with the optimism of the moment. Throughout these Prestige recordings, done seven decades ago with the legendary Rudy Van Gelder at his New Jersey studio, there are myriad and palpable post-war, baby-booming bouquets of bop mirroring brilliantly what was blooming in the jazz clubs across […]
Much has changed since 2019, when an unsigned, unknown musician named Sierra Ferrell played two days of duo sets at the Nelsonville Music Festival and demonstrated to the lucky few gathered that big things were coming from the diminutive singer-songwriter with the gigantic, classic-country voice. Those things have arrived as Ferrell made clear on a […]
