September 12, 2024 This post also appears in MusicFestNews.com. Oteil Burbridge has always had a joyful stage presence. A barefoot warrior with an ebullient smile tethered to those bubbling six strings. The ground breaking, consciousness lifting, mind splitting Dead & Co. Sphere residency is done. The face paint is off, and the bassist is on […]
August 2-4, 2024 The Newport Jazz festival is truly the granddaddy of them all as it celebrated its 70th year. It is steeped in the tradition of giants while holding the ears from Gen Alpha on up like no other jazz festival I’ve experienced. The opportunity to shoot the Newport Folk Festival the weekend before […]
July 26-28, 2024 Well, Newport Folk hit its Medicare age a little before me, but NFF 65 has all the vigor of its youth. Songs are still sung as resistance, but they may take the shape of Killer Mike and De La Soul, the Grateful Drag of Bertha or Billy Bragg and his Woody by […]
June 15-16, 2024 Before the Father’s Day weekend crowd filled in for Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival (curated by Herbie Hancock and Kamasi Washington and produced by the L.A. Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl), jazz lovers could step into the second annual Jazz Village Experience in the shaded and spacious Kagan Patio. The Jazz Village Experience […]
June 7, 2024 This post also appears in MusicFestNews.com. The pairing of Little Feat to open for the Tedeschi Trucks Band on their current “Deuces Wild” tour is pure musical manna. Both bands have adventurous guitar driven soul and blues foundations and are deeply etched into the roots music landscape. Both are musically fearless, and […]
Well, I haven’t mused and reflected here for some years, having my coverage for other sources do that for me. And while grateful to share my coverage again with No Depression, who continues to be incredibly supportive of music focused photojournalism, I wanted to go deeper with my coverage than their space allows, and so […]
April 4, 2024 This post also appears in MusicFestNews.com Barely a third of the way into his 32-song, nearly three-and-a-half hour performance at the KIA Forum, Bruce Springsteen attempted to unfurl a rather unusual song request. The song, “Jole Blon” (French for “pretty blond”) goes back almost a century, and the Boss has never […]
February 2, 2024 This post also appears in MusicFestNews. Consider my Third Mind officially blown. While I’ve covered Dave Alvin for many, many years, when the first Third Mind album dropped in 2020, it was a revelation. Those six tracks were a deep dive into untethered musical spaces I sure as hell didn’t see […]
January 17, 2024 This post also appears in MusicFestNews.com. To collect is to “bring or gather together”. When it comes to the Jim Irsay Collection it is truly a gathering, together. Mr. Irsay the billionaire Indianapolis Colts owner has a huge rock and roll heart. His collection is far more than the treasured objects […]
It was a classic July evening in L.A. as I rolled my camera case the mile or so up to the Greek Theatre from Los Feliz Boulevard. I was excited to be covering one of Neil Young’s two shows at the Greek as part of a brief West Coast solo tour announced just a few […]