music

So today I want to acknowledge the birthday of one of my favorite guitarists, James Blood Ulmer, who celebrates his 82nd birthday today (Feb 8th). My first introduction to his work was this masterpiece, an album called “Odyssey“, which I was lucky enough to pick up on vinyl. Fun fact – I bought this album…

So back in 2007-08, I hosted a radio show on KCSB with my long lost friend Rob Wallace called “The Friday Riff”, which ran for almost two years before life got in the way (as it tends to do). Recently, I was able to restore the website for said radio show in all of its…

So sad today news as it’s being reported that composer and pianist David Ornette Cherry has passed away while on tour in Europe. He passed away the morning after performing with Kahil El’Zabar and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble in London on a tour honoring the work of his father Don Cherry.