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(Read Parts I, II, III, and IV of this series.) ?Standin at the crossroad, babe, risin sun goin down . . . I believe to my soul now, Poor Bob is sinkin down . . . Robert Johnson, ?Cross Road Blues? The most immediate interpretation of the crossroads metaphor is that it signifies the juncture… Read more »

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Read Parts I, II, and III of this series.) ?If you want to learn how to . . . make songs yourself, you take your guitar and you go to where a road crosses that way, where a crossroads is. Get there, be sure to get there just a little ?fore 12:00 that night so… Read more »

(Read Parts I and II of this series.) ??The desert is beautiful,? the little prince added. And that was true. I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams . . . ?What makes the desert beautiful,? said… Read more »

Album: Magnetic Ear, Aliens of Extraordinary Ability (2010) Musicians: Martin Krusche, Michael Watson, Wes Andersonn IV, Dan Oestreicher, Jason Jurzak, Paul Thibodeaux ?The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds?from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It’s changing the music, and for the better.? Billy Taylor Insatiable… Read more »

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Album:Amanda Martinez, Sola (2006). Musicians: Kevin Laliberte, guitar; Rosendo Leon Arocha Jr. ?Chendy,? percussion; Osvaldo Rodriguez, violin and keyboards; Alexander Brown, trumpet. Album: Amanda Martinez, Amor (2009) Musicians: Kevin Laliberte, guitar; Rosendo Leon Arocha Jr. ?Chendy,? percussion; Osvaldo Rodriguez, violin and keyboards; Alexander Brown, trumpet; Kevin Fox, cello; Robi Botos, piano; and Tom Szczesniak, accordion…. Read more »

?The blues is at the root of all the music I grew up loving . . . At the root of the blues is Africa, and at the root of the African root of the blues is Mali.? Markus James (Read Part I of this series here.) It would be easy to hypothesize that the… Read more »