Rob Shepherd

Relationships Through Music: A Conversation with Zakir Hussain on Shakti at 50 (Part Two)

We continue our conversation with Maestro Hussain with a focus on how This Moment (Abstract Logix, 2023) differs from prior…

1 year ago

Relationships Through Music: A Conversation with Zakir Hussain on Shakti at 50 (Part One)

In the summer of 1970, a guitarist continually seeking new sounds visited the House of Musical Traditions, a musical instrument…

2 years ago

The Recorded Legacy: Five Newport Performances that Changed Music History

One cannot adequately assess the history of the Newport Jazz Festival without examining the recordings captured at the event through…

2 years ago

Peace Through Sound: A Conversation with Lonnie Liston Smith (Part Two)

In the second part of our Conversation with Lonnie Liston Smith (read part one here), we discuss his time with…

2 years ago

Peace Through Sound: A Conversation with Lonnie Liston Smith (Part One)

Across their almost twenty volumes of the Jazz is Dead series, performer-producers Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge have exposed…

2 years ago

Conduit : A Conversation with Todd Clouser on The Mexico City Experiment

The fifth outing in Ropeadope’s Experiment series is markedly different from its predecessors. While all releases to date adopt a general ethos…

2 years ago

Mysterious Textures: A Conversation with Brandon Seabrook

Youthful zeal often brings a desire to show your technical capabilities. Young athletes try to sprint as rapidly as possible,…

2 years ago

Opportunity to Make Something Special: A Conversation with George Benson

To many, George Benson needs little introduction. During his career thus far, the guitarist-vocalist has been nominated for twenty-five Grammy…

2 years ago

Music at the Heart: A Conversation with Erik Friedlander

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the cello established itself as a mainstay in Western European classical music due to…

2 years ago

Mixing Vocabularies: A Conversation with Mike Dillon on Punkadelick

Artistic expression has a unique power to flourish even when the soil is arid and lacking nutrients. The COVID pandemic,…

2 years ago