Here’s a video clip of the opening credit from “Goldfinger,” the latest film being profiled by Bullz-Eye.com in its look back at all the James Bond films. John Barry had proven himself far ...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2012/11/01/the-brassy-opening-bars-of-goldfinger/
Muskrat Ramble from Louis Armstrong with some bathing beauties from the 1920s in the background.
https://www.esdmusic.com/2012/07/15/muskrat-ramble-from-louis-armstrong/
stars: RIYL: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Harry Connick Jr. The first family of New Orleans jazz gathered for a special concert last year at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and thank g...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/12/15/the-marsalis-family-music-redeems/
The 2010 Austin City Limits Music Festival continued to make the three-day event's case as one of the best festivals on the planet. It went off with nary a hitch, and in fact, this year's edition...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/10/21/austin-city-limits-music-festival-october-8-10-2010-austin-tx/
Bitches Brew (album): RIYL: Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Return to Forever Bitches Brew (beer): RIYL: Dogfish Head Raison D’etre, Rogue Dead Guy Ale, Tröegs Flying Mouflan Miles Davis...
RIYL: The Beatles, G Love & Special Sauce There is a reason why so many artists have taken a whack at the Beatles’ catalog – it quite literally has something for everyone, which is why everyo...
RIYL: Santana’s Shaman and Supernatural, Anoushka Shankar’s Breathing Underwater, WOMAD label artists On the surface, one might conclude that Herbie Hancock’s current release, The Imagi...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/07/12/herbie-hancock-the-imagine-project/
RIYL: Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers Band, Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses The Derek Trucks Band is finally giving way to the overdue and inevitable Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi Band (the pa...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/07/12/the-derek-trucks-band-roadsongs/
Strange. I thought that the closer we got to summer, the more awesome mp3s I’d have for all y’all. Instead, it appears the opposite is happening. Like I said, strange. The Chap – We Work in...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/06/09/me-myself-and-ipod-060910/
RIYL: Massive Attack, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown Red flags go up whenever musical artists describe their music as having “no rules” – as Bibi Tanga does on his MySpace page. Tanga must kn...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/06/04/bibi-tanga-and-the-selenites-dunya/
The last in our five-part series , where the festival puts the 'jazz' in Jazzfest. DELFAYO MARSALIS & THE UPTOWN JAZZ ORCHESTRA, WWOZ JAZZ TENT I was the first one up after obtaining maybe five h...
Part three in our five-part series , where Greg Schwartz literally pulls a triple shift, finishing the night shortly before the sun came up. Don't let the number of entires fool you. One of these...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/05/13/jazzfest-2010-recap-part-iv/
Part three in our five-part series , where a gaggle of Hall of Famers step in to replace another Hall of Famer. Most of my comrades decided to take this day off, since Friday seemed to present pe...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/05/12/jazzfest-2010-recap-part-iii/
The second of our five-part series , Greg Schwartz spends five days in New Orleans, absorbing more music than one thought humanly possible, grinning ear to ear the entire time. IVAN NEVILLE'S DUM...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/05/12/jazzfest-2010-recap-part-ii/
At 8:00 it was over to the Auditorium Shores stage on beautiful Town Lake, which annually hosts a series of free shows during SXSW. The headliner here was LA’s Ozomatli, who entertained a huge ...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/03/25/sxsw-2010-quick-hits-day-2-ozomatli/
RIYL: Hank Crawford, David “Fathead” Newman, Kirk Whalum David Sanborn has used his recent move to Decca as an excuse to renew his focus on the music that inspired him as a kid: Only Everythi...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/01/29/david-sanborn-only-everything/
RIYL: The Jazz Crusaders, George Duke, Joe Sample Jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis shows no sign of slowing down. Now in his mid-70s, Lewis not only continues to be active in the jazz world, he keeps wr...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2009/12/02/ramsey-lewis-songs-from-the-heart-ramsey-plays-ramsey/
RIYL: Fusion jazz, jambands, Bernie Worrell, Galactic If you are sick of the state of the music business, if you need some new music that sounds truly new, if FM radio bores you to tears and even...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2009/12/02/medeski-martin-and-wood-radiolarians-the-evolutionary-set/
RIYL: Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, Janis Ian It seems but a blink of the eye when in reality it’s been three decades since Rickie Lee Jones scored her breakthrough hit, “Chuck E.’s In Love,�...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2009/11/04/rickie-lee-jones-balm-in-gilead/
RIYL: Red Garland, Sonny Rollins, Gene Ammons If you’re looking for the soul-stirring genius of John Coltrane’s peak years, you’re not going to find it anywhere on Prestige’s five-disc bo...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2009/10/23/john-coltrane-side-steps/