“Try to suggest something else. Open new doors. Develop new concepts and new sonic experiences. Take risks! This is highly important for me, and yes, that’s right, I consider it a mission!” ~Blaise Caillet Continue reading Opening New Doors: The SKNAIL Interview
Blowing the status quo from its comfort zone with a voice as sweet and dark as shoo-fly pie . . . Continue reading THE PLANET WAS A DIFFERENT PLACE: The Giacomo Gates Interview
“Glasper’s social conscience makes him lean toward some expression of historical pain, and yet Covered seems to do so in such a sensitive and dignified way that the listener feels centred, balanced, and ready to be restored after all the insanity.” Continue reading Sometimes Creative Self-Indulgence Really Does Pay Off
The Mindful Bard: The Signal by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 40 2014-10-10 Album: The Signal Artist: Elizabeth Shepherd “I believe in God, as mother. She’s good to me and keeps me going. I’m aware of how dysfunctional and unjust our world is, and I feel the need to use my musical platform to try to bring some joy—something more beautiful and human than the dominant madness.” – Elizabeth Shepherd in an interview with Wanda Waterman, June 2013 I first heard of singer, pianist, and composer, Elizabeth Shepherd from her publicist just before her appearance at the … Continue reading Something More Beautiful and Human Than the Dominant Madness
Gregor’s Bed Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 37 2014-09-19 “Wrapped in a battered sheepskin jacket and peering though Coke-bottle-thick eyeglasses, Sartre lectured up and down the East Coast and was the subject of adoring articles in New York newspapers and magazines. ’One is free to act,’ he told reporters, ’but one must act to be free.’ Beboppers like Dizzy Gillespie and pianist Thelonious Monk picked up on him, appropriating the Left Bank café-intellectual style—the black beret, the horn-rimmed glasses, the wee goatee.” – Lewis MacAdams What is the “Avant-garde,” Really? (continued from here) The symbiosis was a … Continue reading The Fruitful Marriage of American Jazz and the Avant-garde, Part II
The Mindful Bard 