Saxophone Colossus

Sonny Rollins Keep doing your best! Practice your craft and continue to learn. If you stay focused you have a chance to be very good, and maybe even great. Such words of encouragement are usually spoken to young musicians in order to inspire them to continue hard work. Practice is the toughest part of musicianshipRead More

Another Road to Hip Hop

Aubrey “Drake” Graham To quote Oscar Wilde, “There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is NOT being talked about.” Another way to put it is “No publicity is bad publicity.” Such would seem to be the case earlier this week when a brawl broke out in a New York nightclubRead More

The Sound Rebound!

Soundgarden I think I’m like most people out there who have a comfort zone within our work. I am aware of my personal comfort zone when it comes to writing about music. For a certainty I find it much easier to write about R & B or Hip Hop musicians. When I need to writeRead More

A Legend In Our Time

John Legend Many of you may know that I am not really a fan of reality television, especially musical contests. At one time, I was a regular viewer of American Idol but eventually did not find it entertaining and used my time in other ways. Since my abandonment of AI, more music reality shows haveRead More