Just back from a short European tour, French-born guitarist/composer Stephane Wrembel and His Band bring their jaw-dropping live show back to the U.S this fall. Winding up and down the east coast, Wrembel’s tour will return to Philadelphia, PA and Baltimore, MD before heading south to Charlotte, NC and Atlanta, GA, among several other stops. The complete list of confirmed tour dates is included below.

On November 13, independent Blix Street Records will release THE BEST OF EVA CASSIDY, a compilation of the music of the versatile, much-missed vocalist praised for her emotional range and interpretive skills.  Proof of both qualities abounds on the collection, which gathers 19 performances from the Washington, D.C.-based Cassidy’s previous albums and adds a previously unissued version of her popular “You Take My Breath Away.”  THE BEST OF EVA CASSIDY arrives on the eve of what would have been the sin

I despise the term “jamband” – wait - let me take that back – I dislike the word “jamband” when trying to describe a genre of music.  This hasn’t always been the case.  In the early 90’s, I was into Phish, the Grateful Dead and Widespread Panic, and these bands, while vastly different, did kind of fit into the jamband genre, with psychedelic extended guitar throw-downs, driving drumbeats and improvational aspects not fo

Free Magic. Isn’t that what jazz-fusion is? Using a launch pad of some familiar melody, rhythmic riff, or instrumentation, and building it forward and outward until it gets really weird. That’s what Miles Davis realized about jazz music in the late 60s, that it was the root of all American music, and with that in mind any so-called style could be integrated into the so-called genre of jazz.