by Jeff Maisey | Apr 15, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(James McMurtry is back on the road in support of “The Horses and the Hounds.” Photo by Mary Keating Bruton.) By Jim Morrison It’s the details that make James McMurtry’s songs compelling character studies. That and the melodies, of course. There are the...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 5, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison It was nine years since Bright Eyes, the trio featuring frontman Conor Oberst, had released an album when “Down In the Weeds Where The World Once Was” hit the streets in 2020. You’re forgiven if Oberst came across as something of a...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 29, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Banjo great Bela Fleck. Photo by William Matthews) By Jim Morrison Bela Fleck is on the phone ruminating about why he dips in and out of so many genres from bluegrass to newgrass to jazz to classical, from his mind-blowing creations with The Flecktones to his work...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 21, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Sultry jazz vocalist Liz Terrell will unveil her debut full-length solo album “It’s All Right with Me” on January 20 & 21 with a live performance of the work at American Theatre intimate Studio Theater in Hampton. Terrell’s dynamic voice is...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 21, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Byron Stripling is conductor and trumpet soloist.) By Jerome Langston “A lot of this is informed by Count Basie,” says Byron Stripling, the acclaimed jazz trumpeter, actor and conductor. “The show is informed by the music of Ella Fitzgerald and so many others, so it...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 8, 2021 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison For Michael Goldberg, the journey back began with a guy in Norway on Facebook. Goldberg was a fixture in the Baltimore music scene in the early 1970s when he was walking upstairs at The Classroom, a club he played six nights a week when he met a woman...
