In spite of apparent differences, folk and folk-inspired music from the roots to the avant-garde is characterised by certain common features – simple, square rhythms, extended repetition, simple ...
Bob Fernandez, a 100-year-old survivor of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, died shortly after deteriorating health prompted him to skip a trip to Hawaii to attend last week's remembrance ceremony ...
Back in the mid-70s I had a friend who attended the New England Conservatory, a school for future musicians of all ilks -- jazz, classical, guitar, sax, ...