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"Globe Music" and Beyond
by Brian Reesman
Eddie Jobson is a man with parallel careers—art rock progenitor, contemporary instrumental forerunner, world music adventurer and cutting-edge television composer. The gifted multi-instrumentalist perennially seeks to expand the boundaries of music, unconcerned with the niche marketing mentality that has seized the record industry over the past decade. “My interest in music, since I was young, has always been in what was progressive,” asserts Jobson. “In other words, who was doing what was new. I’ve never had that much interest in music that was frozen in time.” Continue..
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by Robin Tolleson
Joel Dorn is a lifer, in a musical sense of the word, and his latest venture, Label M, gives him a crack at bringing a lot of important, historic, previously unheard jazz before the public. “This is exciting—there’s a sense of discovery every day,” says the producer. “It’s like going into a mine and saying, ‘That looks like gold,’ and you come out with something. We listen to a lot of tapes—you gotta kiss a lot of frogs before one of them turns into a handsome prince. But we found some great Coleman Hawkins the other day, at the end of his life. That’s a big deal.” Continue..
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by David John Farinella
You know there’s trouble brewing when one of your producers describes you with a string of adjectives: “The new album is kind of hip hop, soul, country…” starts John Gamble. “I don’t know exactly what to call it,” he concludes after a second of thought. “Erik has been a chameleon during his career, but what he’s doing now is not chameleon-like.” Continue..
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Bob Seger's "Night Moves"
by Dan Daley
“Night Moves” was a good move for Bob Seger. The song—both the Number One single and the title track of the Capitol Records album released in October 1976—solidified his place as one of the premier “heartland” rockers, along with Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp, creating what was essentially a new genre in the rapidly fragmenting American music industry. The same album also contained the singles “Mainstreet” and “Rock and Roll Never Forgets,” and their success paved the way for Seger to expand on these themes—lyrically, musically and emotionally—to create a body of work that includes such Classic Rock K-Tel compilation staples as “Against the Wind” and “Stranger in Town,” right through the ubiquitous “Like a Rock,” which quite possibly has sold as many Chevy pickup trucks as it has records. Continue..
Reprinted with permission from
Magazine, April, 2001© 2001, Intertec Publishing, A Primedia Company All Rights Reserved
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