Jeff Williams on Ant Trip Ceremony’s ‘24 Hours’, Stan Getz and Lookout Farm
Jeff Williams recalls the making of Ant Trip Ceremony’s ‘24 Hours’, the jazz musicians he met as a child, and his years with Stan Getz and Lookout Farm....
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Roger Knott | ‘Gateway Songs’ and the Nashville Recordings | Interview
Roger Knott discusses his new album ‘Gateway Songs’, revisiting material from his Lifeblud days, working with Nashville musicians, and the recordings he hopes to release next. Some of...
Tamio Shiraishi on Fushitsusha, Tokyo’s Minor and Playing Saxophone in New York Subway Stations
Shiraishi recalls his early performances with Keiji Haino, the unusual way he acquired his first saxophone, and why he prefers playing in deserted subway stations. Born in Japan...
Burnt Hills: ‘My Home, My Jam, My Concept’ | Jackson Wingate Interview
Jackson Wingate has been making music in and around Albany since the mid-1980s. He played in Hunger Artists and Hunters of Gracchus before becoming co-owner of ERL Records,...
Cyrus Faryar Interview | From Greensleeves to The Modern Folk Quartet
Cyrus Faryar’s story runs from Tehran and wartime England to Waikiki, the Modern Folk Quartet, Fred Neil, Monterey Pop and the Los Angeles music scene of the 1960s....
Allen Wyler on Neurosurgery, AI and the ‘Deadly Odds’ Series
Allen Wyler came to fiction after a long career in neurosurgery. He treated epilepsy, worked directly with the electrical activity of the brain, helped develop the neuroscience programme...
“Liverpool’s Loudest Band” | Caliban and the Early ’70s Heavy Underground
Caliban came together in Ormskirk in 1971, after Liverpool had moved beyond the first Merseybeat years and harder music was filling its clubs. Guitarist Keith Hubbard had already...
Chika Asamoto Interview | From Art Pepper to Jeff Mills
Chika Asamoto did not set out to become a musician. A part-time job at a Los Angeles jazz club changed that. She was a Japanese student in the...
Wilderspool Interview | From Astrud and Frog to ‘As All The Stars Begin To Fade…’
Wilderspool’s debut album, ‘As All The Stars Begin To Fade…’, grew out of an attempt to reunite Astrud, the Warrington band in which brothers Paul “Trip” Ryan and...
“We Were Comedians, but We Were Serious”: The Fugs and Chuck Smith’s ‘Fugs Film!’
Ken Weaver remembers the Fugs’ early shows, Chuck Smith explains how he pieced together ‘Fugs Film!’, and Ed Sanders takes us back to the Lower East Side of...