Bunny Wailer Blackheart Man (Island: 1976) Just last month, the great Bunny Wailer passed away. The last of The Wailers, he continued to loom large over the musical landscape when I was coming up, a legendary figure alongside other great roots singers like Burning Spear, Max Romeo, and Junior Byles. His old sparring partners Peter … Continue reading Bunny Wailer – Blackheart Man

Chick Corea: The Sound of Crystal Silence The news came through last month that jazz legend Chick Corea had passed away. Fronting his group Return To Forever, he did as much as anyone to codify the sound that would come to be called “fusion”, and alongside Herbie Hancock was one of the key jazz pianists … Continue reading Chick Corea

Still on the beach, the tides still turning. Sun slowly sinks into the ocean, melting out across the horizon and into the cool blue waters of the Pacific as the disco pulse spirals off into the evening mist. Bouncing off the “mother sunspot of all time”, some strange connection separated by a gulf of twenty-odd … Continue reading Dance The Parallax