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Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling brings his versatile baritone sound to Goshen College
- Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling, a baritone with a four-octave range, will perform Jan. 26 at the Goshen College Music Center. Tickets are $45-$30.
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“I made a point of never listening to Jaco until I was forced to in 1995!” Mick Karn: an interview with Japan’s fallen bass hero
"I tend to look at the bass guitar in much the same way as a vocalist might a lead vocal": Words of wisdom from the avant-garde fretless icon who would have been 65 this year
- LifestyleGuitar World
Pat Metheny is a true master of guitar, and every player can learn from his awe-inspiring fusion approach – expand your chops with these key concepts
We put Metheny's blues motifs, subversion of genre, his use of slurs and slides, unisons, and the targeting of crucial chord tones under the microscope – tabs and audio included
- CelebrityGuitar World
“Prince was serious about what he wanted. He would turn around, point to you and say, ‘Go!’”: Josh Dunham names the five albums that helped shape his sound with Prince
According to Josh Dunham, having chops is cool, but playing with Prince you really had to play in the pocket
- EntertainmentGuitar World
“I made my own bass and used bicycle brake cables as strings…” How Richard Bona went from homemade guitars to being hailed as “the African Jaco”
"I don't want to play for bass players – I want to play for truckdrivers! I want people to dance!" The rise of a reluctant virtuoso
- EntertainmentGuitar World
"Come and see this!" Inside Jaco’s Weather Report audition and the making of Havona
Discovering Jaco and the recording of Heavy Weather standout track Havona: "It’s definitive Jaco!"
- CelebrityGuitar World
Marcus Miller: “The phone rings in my hotel room and it was Jaco Pastorius”
Marcus Miller on the whole tone lick he learnt from Jaco Pastorius and why replacing him in Weather Report was “a beat down waiting to happen!”
- EntertainmentGuitar World
Jeff Berlin: “Look at Jaco Pastorius: clearly a genius, but misunderstood”
Jazz bassist Jeff Berlin debunks a myth surrounding Jaco’s early years
- NewsPitchfork
Wayne Cochran, “Last Kiss” Soul Singer, Dead at 78
The Georgia-born so-called “White Knight of Soul” passes after a battle with cancer
- NewsPeople
Toots Thielemans, Jazz Legend Famous for the Sesame Street Theme, Dies at 94
Toots Thielemans, the jazz harmonica virtuoso best known for playing the theme to the iconic children's television series Sesame Street, has died at age 94. Throughout a career that spanned over seven decades, Thielemans worked with jazz masters including Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker, and Ella Fitzgerald – as well as contemporary electric fusion artists like Jaco Pastorius and Pat Metheny.
- NewsChris Willman
The Year in Music DVDs: 40 Years Later, It’s Still Beatles vs. Who vs. Stones
Even as the boxed set phenomenon is starting to look exhausted, there seems to be no shortage of classic rock material that music archivists are finding to bring out on DVD and Blu-Ray. If you have a needy music buff on your gift list — by which we mean, of course, yourself — here are 10 home video releases from 2015 that will sate the musical appetite as well as stuff the stocking.
