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Looking at the history and the development of a music genre like the Blues, especially throughout the last 6 decades, nobody on earth could deny that the American guitarist, producer and songwriter Steve Cropper has been and still is, at the tender age of 82, one of the greatest innovators of the genre, especially through the monumental body of work that Cropper did with Stax Records and, subsequently, with the cream of the Blues and Rock'N'Roll industry.

Forever considered a forward-thinker artist, somebody that would never sit comfortably on his fame and success, Cropper (and his unmistakable guitar playing style) has been the ultimate Guitar Maestro for any aspiring musician for so many years as he still is now, second perhaps only to the late great Jimi Hendrix, according to some worldwide press.

Read more: Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour - Friendlytown

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When people talk about living music legends, they often refer to artists that have established themselves through the course of several decades, managing somehow to stay in people's minds, in many cases, because of a couple of more inspired, highly selling records that made their fortune throughout their careers.

Somebody that was destined to be one of said living music legends, since the very beginning of her glorious career to date, is the prodigious American singer Shemekia Copeland, unanimously considered already, at the age of 45 and by some of the most illustrious names in the music business, as one of the greatest Americana singers of the last half a century.

Read more: Shemekia Copeland - Blame It On Eve

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Carrying a legendary family name, sometimes, may feel like a double-edged sword, especially when an artist needs to deal with pressure and expectations coming from said family name.

In that respect, the story of Jazz giant John Coltrane's second wife, Alice, has been often and unjustifiably underrated by the press, especially after her musical conversion to Hindu music on the second half of the '70s.

Read more: Alice Coltrane - The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971)

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The artistic parabole of the highly gifted British Troubadour, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jack Garratt is a very interesting and, by the same token, slightly complicated one too.
 
Immediately recognised as one of the most talented and promising young newcomers by the British music industry and press, on the back of Garratt’s 2016 debut album called Phase, a record that rewarded Jack Garratt's brilliant and inspired body of work with the BRITS Choice Award, the British artist found himself, in later years, in a personal struggle with pressure coming from all the accolades received in previous years, pressure that resulted, presumably, in what many may call "The writer block" for Jack Garratt and his music.
 

Read more: Jack Garratt - At PizzaExpress Live In London

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There is no wonder why music can be considered as the sole art form able to translate human feelings and natural phenomenon happening around us truthfully, no matters whether said feelings or phenomenon are related to dramatic or more romantic and gentle moments.

The Italian Saxophonist and Composer  Extraordinaire Gianni Savelli knows very well how to represent, through music and his own talent and creativity, the aforementioned sensations, thanks also to the experience accumulated by the Italian artist through the many bodies of work that Savelli has been able to generate in various art-forms, throughout the last 40 years of his illustrious career.

Read more: Gianni Savelli Media Res - Alisei

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When back in 2022 our website was privileged to review the full-length debut album of the young American pianist, drummer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Julius Rodriguez called Let Sound Tell All, we all had the distinctive feeling that the deserved accolades that Rodriguez received, back then, were just the first step in a very luminous career to come.
 
Time confirmed our website's gut feeling; between touring incessantly the world, bringing Rodriguez's multi-faceted musical vision that incorporates Jazz, Soul, Gospel, Ambient, Bebop and Drum'N'Bass to the masses, whilst collaborating at the same time with fellow artists like Meshell Ndegeocello or Wynton Marsalis, among others, the American artist had been working also on new compositions that would summarise accurately the way that Rodriguez sees his music vision growing, as the years go by.
 

Read more: Julius Rodriguez - Evergreen

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It is a common belief, within the music industry, that those collectives called "Supergroups", which would include a cast of stellar musicians gathered together for special projects, very rarely work well together, often because of each musicians' ego and strong personality, where each of the Supergroup's members would expect to be the dominant feature on said projects in their own right, overshadowing, in this way, the quality of the finished products that get printed and released on the market.

Rather fortunately, though, this is not the case of Black Country Communion, a very special project born in 2010 which includes "The Voice Of Rock" Glenn Hughes on bass guitar and vocals, Blues/Rock Guitar Titan Joe Bonamassa on guitars and vocals, Rock Drummer Extraordinaire Jason Bonham and Prog/Rock Keyboards Maestro Derek Sherinian, which, after 4 studio albums and a live one, all overlooked by Kevin Shirley on the production room, have now released a brand new album simply called V, a record that epitomizes the idea of 4 highly skilled artists working together with the sole goal of delivering a record of remarkable depth, as V has clearly demonstrated to be.

Read more: Black Country Communion - V

  1. Eliza Neals - Colorcrimes
  2. Itai Kriss & Telavana - All Aboard/Vol.1 Departures
  3. Emiliana Torrini - Miss Flower
  4. JP Soars - Brick By Brick
  5. Paolo Tarsi - Unnatural Self

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