Could Detroit’s own innovative popsters Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. really be breaking, ulp, into the big time? The group’s late-night network TV debut on Monday’s “The Conan O’Brien Show” certainly seems to point in that direction. Daniel Zott and Joshua Epstein were even joined on stage by a string section for their performance of “Simple [...]
The decision is all yours: cutting-edge jazz or over-the-edge, psychedelic prog-rock jamming. The New York-based Robert Glasper Experiment takes the idea of rhythm and space, mixes it with hip-hop, and turns jazz into something quite unlikely and decidedly fresh. Glasper, a native of Texas whose piano stylings have stirred the pot and created a real buzz nationally, is about [...]
Way back in the Dark Ages when I first put pen to paper and fingers to the green-screen Atex computer system at The Grand Rapids Press, the newspaper ran a column called Quickly Down the Rapids. Well, this is my version, updating all of you music fans on ticket availability for some high-profile shows floating into [...]
Enduring jazz singers are a rare breed. West Michigan is lucky to have a few of these gems, including the effervescent Mary Rademacher. As I said noted on the air at News Talk 1340 AM earlier this week, few Grand Rapids area musicians are more recognizable than Rademacher, who has established herself as a consummate [...]