Part of his month-long US winter tour, Kamasi Washington played one night at Northampton’s Calvin Theater on February 22nd, with his eight-piece band, including drummers Tony Austin and Ronald Bruner
This is the final act on the Dean’s Bean’s stage of the three-day Green River Music Festival in Greenfield, Massachusetts on 7/14/19. The sun is shining on the distant hills
While starters “Soul Tree” are playing their brand of Zappa-esque dub reggae, 82-year-old, Lee “Scratch” Perry with his three-piece band walk across the floor at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke,
The stage is a tiered topographic landscape in beech wood laminate and the colors are muted and warm. Florence Welch enters after the eight-piece band, which includes Isabella Summers on
Stevie Wonder has been an active performer for well over 50 years. He is one of the most respected, covered, and influential contributors to popular music around today. Tonight, we
With a full roster of local and national artists, the music and energy of Springfield (MA) Jazz and Roots Festival on August 11th at Court Square seemed even more vibrant
After a sudden burst of “a thousand kilowatts for P-Funk,” from the speakers (photographers reeled back at the sonic blast), all four music stages of the festival must be aware
Before Coachella, Lollapalooza, Afropunk Festival, and even before Woodstock, the Newport Jazz festival was stirring things up back in the 1950s. For some, the notion of jazz as radical, revolutionary,
Entering the stage in near darkness with the band, there was no grand entrance or pretenses of rock star ego at the XFINITY Theater in Hartford, CT on June, 23rd.
Long before Kendrick, Kanye, Drake, and Nicki Minaj, a formidable and influential hip-hop duo, Erik B. and Rakim, were among those significant predecessors whose originality, style, and content helped create
