INTERMISSION | 15 minutes with … Steve Tyrell ‘The Good Life’: Whether composing hits for others or singing standards, it’s an ‘artist’s life’ for him. Born Stephen Louis Bilao III in Texas on December 19, 1944, and fronting a hit-making r&b outfit at 15, Steve Tyrell would forsake the ‘artist’s life’ by the time he […]
INTERMISSION | 15 minutes with … Rickie Lee Jones The wondrous world of the beat angel and poet songwriter
HE’S GOT TO FUNKIFIZE Emilio Castillo Sessions with the co-founder-saxophonist of Oakland’s Top Brass. n 1970, news of the debut album from a horn-driven band from Oakland, California spread like honky pox through the USC Marching Band’s trumpet section. Two-year-old Tower of Power’s East Bay Grease was something different in the musical evolution of late
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Tutu Revisited Marcus Miller Afrodeezia Marcus Miller The Ozell Tapes: The Official Bootleg Marcus Miller INTERMISSION: 15 MINUTES WITH… MARCUS MILLER Jazz and funk basics from the omnipresent musician, composer and arranger. n 2006, on assignment from the Long Beach Press-Telegram, I spoke to Marcus Miller, the multi-instrumentalist behind Miles Davis’ landmark ‘Tutu’ recording and
