It’s been a long time since Sheila Chandra graced us with new music. Her last proper album was This Sentence Is True (The Previous Sentence Is False) in 2001. Since then Chandra has been retiring in southwest England, singing only in an amateur choir, still nursing her voice after years of nagging throat problems. But…
Month: August 2007
Reviews & Commentary
Lone Rider: Shadowfax & G.E. Stinson’s Glitched Trajectory
Ever wonder what happened to Shadowfax? This instrumental band, named for Gandalf’s horse in the Lord of the Rings, started as a progressive rock group with leanings toward the acoustic chamber sound of Oregon in the 1970s. After Will Ackerman resurrected their careers on Windham Hill they became leading exponents for an evocative, melodic and…
Reviews & Commentary
A Beat Drops: Max Roach Passes
Max Roach: January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007 A true Titan of 20th century music, one of the principal architects of Be-Bop and a voice of liberation in the black community, Max Roach has passed. Roach wasn’t just a drummer, but a musical conceptualist. Whether orchestrating polyrhythmic equations behind Charlie Parker or tuning the…