Jan 29, 2022
Sometimes when a child of a musician shows an interest or an aptitude in playing music themselves, it’s called “the curse”. Sometimes the curse is revealed in mysterious ways, and the cursed child might not even realize that they have the curse until something clicks in them, a light goes off, a switch flips.
In...
Jan 9, 2022
Benny Benack III didn’t necessarily start out thinking he would be a hipster crooner. He spent his 10,000 hours dealing with the trumpet, and he’s still dealing with it. He tells me that he brings it with him everywhere - even on dates. He says, “Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Brown, Roy Hargrove, and Clark Terry were...
Jan 1, 2022
When Lionel Loueke
was coming of age as a young guitar player in his home country of
Benin in West Africa, there were no music stores of any kind. He
would have had to travel to Nigeria - the next country over - just
to get his hands on some new strings. So he made due with what he
had, cleaning and soaking, reusing...