interview Archive
16 Aug 2019
My Conversations with Woodstock Performers
Woodstock took place 50 years ago (August 15-18, 1969). If you find yourself in a Woodstock frame of mind, you might be interested in reading some interviews with artists who […]
16 Aug 2019
Santana Speaks, Part Two
Continued from Part One … Bill Kopp: One of the qualities of your work that has always struck me is the way that you approach each project with what I […]
15 Aug 2019
Santana Speaks, Part One
2019 is an important year for Carlos Santana. It’s the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock festival, featuring a breakout performance of his then largely-unknown band, two weeks ahead of the […]
07 Aug 2019
Heart Still Beating Strong: Chick Corea’s ‘Antidote’ (Part Three)
Continued from Part Two … Are you at all intrigued by recent developments in keyboard technology? I’m thinking of things like the Continuum Fingerboard. Or do you prefer to stick […]
06 Aug 2019
Heart Still Beating Strong: Chick Corea’s ‘Antidote’ (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … With regard to the older songs for which you recorded the new versions on Antidote, was there kind of a specific mindset at work in […]
05 Aug 2019
Heart Still Beating Strong: Chick Corea’s ‘Antidote’ (Part One)
Keyboardist Chick Corea is a giant in the jazz world. Composer of several tunes now considered standards, he has also been a key figure in the pioneering field of jazz […]
04 Aug 2019
A Passion for Jazz: Jason DeCristofaro
Jason DeCristofaro has a full schedule. Looking only at his list of performances booked for the second half of 2018, one finds over 70 engagements. And these aren’t all the […]
29 Jul 2019
Shemekia Copeland: Not Like Everybody Else
The singing daughter of blues guitarist Johnny Copeland, Shemekia Copeland is a Blues Music Award winner and critics’ favorite. On America’s Child, her 10th album, Copeland delivers a set of […]
24 Jul 2019
For Caleb Johnson, The Second and Third Times are the Charm
Note: Caleb Johnson is a “local boy makes good” hometown success story here in Asheville. I wrote this feature on the eve of his current tour. This version is an […]
21 Jul 2019
Rock-a-bye Everybody: The Moon and You and Friends
The Moon and You – the Asheville-based wife and husband songwriter duo of Melissa Hyman and Ryan Fursternburg – has released four albums to date. But 2019 marks the addition […]