A few from the great jazz composer/pianist Horace Silver, who died yesterday at the age of 85. Señor Blues with Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook: Wes Playing Silver’s Nica’s Dream Song for My Father, Horace Silver’s 5tet: photo by Dimitri Savitski Read more →
The music industry is in bad shape. Record labels are losing money. Naturally, I started a record label. The Catalog So Far: Thesaurus of Diatonic Sets — The book that started it all. Lots of numbers, and they only make sense if you’re used to pandiatonic composition. Still, Still, Still — The first audio release was a reissue of Aspen… Read more →
A full set from my favorite Scofield line-up. With Steve Swallow on bass and Bill Stewart on drums. Read more →
NAMM training video featuring a young Conan O’Brien: Every guitar should have a “fiber-optic body”. via NAMM.org’s Facebook page Read more →
Pete Ehrmann and I have just released an album of our favorite swing tunes from the past seven years of gigging as The Pete & Vic Duo. Give it a listen below or find out more at Curious Automata. Read more →
Photographer/Renaissance Man Gravee reworked “Somewhere Else Entirely” from Analogues of Infinity into a meditative accompaniment to his time-lapse of a sunset at Ish Reservoir. It’s well worth 45 seconds of your time. “Analogues of Infinity” was released under a Creative Commons Attribution license so you can use it for your own creations. Download the full album here or at Curious… Read more →
“As I’ve got older, I found that music for me is not just a question of music and then living; it’s become more and more a question of living and then music, with the music expressing the living. What you do, what you feel, and the actions you take, is the essence of what you communicate through music.” Julian Bream… Read more →
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