I Love Fado
steve
August 2, 2020
It’s a curious thing. I can almost remember the very moment I got “into music”. My parents always had records playing on our Motorola cabinet
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The Best Commencement Speech Ever
steve
October 15, 2019
I’ve followed Victor Wooten‘s career for years, since he began working with the improbably banjo-based jazz fusion band, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. There are
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Smoking hot salsa: Anacaona
steve
July 28, 2019
Okay, I’m told that technically it’s more timba than salsa. Timba is a Cuban variant. Timba is identified by a few (debatably relevant) attributes like
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The GOASTT of Lennon
steve
July 25, 2019
I was a huge Beatles fan when I was a kid. It was mostly the Beatles who introduced me to music and Paul McCartney’s lyrical
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Daniel Casares, Master of the Flamenco Guitar
steve
July 14, 2018
saw Daniel Casares playing with one of my favorite acoustic bass players, Adam Ben Ezra, at Joe’s Pub in NYC in 2016. Both of them
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Since I AM a bass player…
steve
July 12, 2018
This is my favorite cover of Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass, by Kate Davis. It’s very cute, and so is she. And she’s also
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James Brown and Pavarotti
steve
June 18, 2018
This is one of the most unique duo performances I’ve heard: the king of the opera and The King. The concert took place in Modena, Italy in
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