(Telarc Blues, 2009)Otis Taylor is simply one of the very best and most adventurous blues practitioners of the day. There's no doubt that the man is a blues…
This one really took me by surprise. When award-winning chef Dale Miller opened his eponymous restaurant in downtown Albany last month, I wasn't figuring that…
(No label listed, 2009): There was an exquisite, slowly swirling sense of mystery that permeated Ashley Pond's 2007 debut, "Dala" on the Rev Records.On her…
I was watching "Cadillac Records" just the other day (surprisingly it was a whole lot better than it had any right to be), and I got jonesin' to hear the…
Last year at this time, Muldaur was forced to cancel his Caffe Lena performance, laid low by pneumonia. This time around he was slowed down by a bout of the…
(Emarcy, 2009):
Guitar great Scofield has built his long and illustrious career playing jazz with such legends as Miles Davis, Chet Baker and Charlie Mingus.…