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One of the most joyous feelings for some music writers like us, at Bluebird Reviews, is that of discovering, as the years go by, more and more artists willingly deciding not to contain their passion for their art-form, i.e. by pidgeonholing themselves in a sole sonic niche, but to push instead their improvisational skills and musical visions into highly interesting mash-up of genres.

That is pretty much the story of what happened with the brand new album of a hugely eclectic and talented collective coming from Denmark and called A Plane To Catch. 

Read more: A Plane To Catch - Soul Piece

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One of the biggest secrets that makes the art of music being so special, is that of associating sounds with memories, like a special moment lived somewhere in the world, perhaps watching a live concert, or spending a wonderful holiday somewhere with a partner and/or friend, or meeting new people, trying new flavours and the list goes on and on. 

That is pretty much what happened to the Taiwan-born Jazz pianist and composer Eric Pan a few years ago just before the pandemic, when coming back home from a colossal journey across four continents, while sampling the history, traditions and cultures of dozens of country visited throughout this mammouthian journey.

Read more: Eric Pan - Travel Poems

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For many years now, the sound of an instrument like the saxophone gets often linked to music genres like Jazz or maybe, at times, Fusion and occasionally, to Soul music too. It takes a proper Master of said instrument to be able to shift from a genre to another with convincing credibility and one of the very few artists able to make such effortlessly smooth transitions, thanks to his widely recognised talent and musical ability, it's the Las Vegas based singer/songwriter and Saxophonist Supremo Jimmy Carpenter, one of the very few artists in the contemporary music scene able to switch from Soul to Blues, R&B, Fusion and Funk maintaining always the same high level of musicianship on each passing record.
 

Read more: Jimmy Carpenter - Just Got Started

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It is easy to understand why the American Guitar Maestro and singer/songwriter Kenny Wayne Shepherd wanted to split into two separate musical entities a highly successful project like his latest, called Dirt On My Diamonds.

After the many praises received by press and fans, following last year’s release of the Vol.1 of the project, Shepherd and his band had clearly in their minds that the time was right to release the second half of Dirt On My Diamonds, given also the enthusiastic receptions showed by every crowd that attended the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band’s latest Tour, in support of the Volume 1 of the album.

Read more: Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Dirt On My Diamonds, Vol.2

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Some records, no matter the genres played, have got some deep stories to tell than others and whether those stories are narrated or not in form of spoken words, it doesn't really matter, in the final analysis, as long as those stories are felt emotionally by the listener.
 
The story behind a record called Arcs & Rivers, from Swedish Jazz and Classical pianist and composer Joel Lyssarides and Greek bouzouki virtuoso Georgios Prokopiou, it is most certainly a deep one, a story that is made of family roots, fortuitous meetings and, most importantly, of a musical bridge between two cultures and genres faraway and still so close.
 

Read more: Joel Lyssarides & Georgios Prokopiou - Arcs & Rivers

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Every time that there is a new album release by the American singer/songwriter Billy Price, it always feels like a special event.

At the age of 74, the New Jersey-born artist keeps on delighting his audience and any Blues, Soul and R&B aficionado through this irresistible blend of genres that Price has mastered to perfection for many years now, a blend that can be very much enjoyed on the artist's brand new record called Person Of Interest.

Read more: Billy Price - Person Of Interest

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From where can any respectable music writer possibly start describing the career of a giant of American music like Gregg Allman in the best possible way?
 
The former singer, keyboardist and chief songwriter of a cult Rock Band like the Allman Brothers Band, who sadly passed away in 2017, has left such an inestimable sonic patrimony to the whole music world, both as a band member of the A.B.B. and as a solo artist, throughout the 5 decades of Allman’s glorious career, that calling him one of the greatest American music artists of this century is not at all an obvious or gratuitous compliment.
 

Read more: Gregg Allman Band - Uncle Sam’s

  1. The Airborne Toxic Event - Glory
  2. Albert Castiglia - Righteous Souls
  3. Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour - Friendlytown
  4. Shemekia Copeland - Blame It On Eve
  5. Alice Coltrane - The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971)

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