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Pristine. That may be the only way to describe the sound quality of Steely Dan’s Aja. When you consider that the album was released 32 years ago today, it says a lot for what was achieved. I know Steely Dan gets a lot of disrespect from some quarters. Their music — at least their last […] Usually, I try to use album releases and recording sessions as the basis for these features. But something struck we when I realized that September 15 was the anniversary of the death of jazz pianist Bill Evans. When he died in 1980, he was barely 51. That’s what struck me. With my birthday this week, […] My definition of “old soul” differs slightly from the more common usage. To me, an old soul is someone who, musically or otherwise, grasps and is able to express the ethos of those who are a decade or more older. Any number of the tunes on Rockin’ the Suburbs make it plain Ben Folds is […] Today my wife and I officially become “empty nesters.” And one of the things that comes to mind as my youngest flies off this morning to UMass is The Beatles. That may strike some as a bit odd but, truly, it isn’t. My youngest daughter is the biggest Beatles fan I know. She got hooked […] Last week, I mentioned that following Led Zeppelin’s 1973 album, my musical interests were changing. I wrote that wholly unaware of the subject of this week’s Midweek Music Moment. By chance, it reveals just how much those interests changed over the course of a couple years. On August 31, 1973, Leon Russell released Hank Wilson’s […] |
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