The Grateful Dead, probably more than any other rock band that emerged from the 1960s, tapped into the full scope of American musical tradition. From their earliest days, they were an eclectic rock ...

Lou Reed of The Velvet Underground was quite a fan of jazz. In fact, he enjoyed the unique perspective of jazz and its freedom. Free-form jazz, specifically, could have easily inspired unique (and ...

Mohama Saz brings their psych-rock live show to the Casbah while punk-rock pioneers ,The Executives, return to the Casbah nearly 50 years after their first album.

The Byrds weren’t attempting to sound jazzy. Instead, they wanted to incorporate some of Coltrane’s approaches into their music. Like any other genre of music, rock is constantly developing. In the ...

There’s a reason Miles Davis recorded “My Funny Valentine” and John Coltrane “My Favorite Things.” Jazz musicians work via a strategy of theme-and-variation. They plant a melodic/rhythmic motif in the ...

Fifty years ago this month, Columbia Records issued Miles Davis’s churning “Bitches Brew,” confronting two genres of music and crystallizing a third, jazz-rock fusion. It was a potent cauldron: a ...

The NY Times recently published an op-ed on the aging of rock music as a genre and of its first generation of musicians (specifically the ones who played “Oldchella”). It included the following claim: ...

Phillip Lenberg, Professor of Music at Mendocino College has put together a free, all-ages jazz night at Medium Art Center on ...