Jazz/Blues
Documentarian Robert Mugge Talks Blues and Filmmaking [Exclusive]
Michel Benita & Ethics Sail Across the 'River Silver' on Gorgeous New ECM Release (REVIEW)
Take one French bandleader/composer/double bassist in Michel Benita, add a Japanese koto player, a Swiss flugelhornist, a guitarist from Norway who also adds electronics and a French drummer and you have Ethics. 'River Silver' (ECM) cannot be categorized. I like to think of it as an instrumental folk CD but it's so much more. San Francisco's Church of John Coltrane Faces Eviction from Fillmore
As John Oliver proved on Last Week Tonight, the routes to form a church in the U.S. are remarkably easy to navigate. The Church of John Coltrane, though, may not be having as easy a time remaining intact, as the Church's headquarters at the Fillmore Auditorium is under fire as the landlord is threatening to evict.
