by Frank Jolley | May 6, 2026 | Album/Music Reviews
Of all the famous figures in the world of classical music, the genius and talents of J.S. Bach seem to tower above all the rest. We could even go so far as to call him the father of classical music, and of ‘modern music’ in general. And although he was not...
by Frank Jolley | Aug 27, 2025 | Album/Music Reviews
We’ll Be Together Again is a 1976 release from guitar extraordinaire Pat Martino. Unlike anything else in his decades-long spanning career, it nevertheless, quite paradoxically, captures the guitarist’s’ distinctive sound in an unmistakable manner. I imagine...
by Frank Jolley | Aug 27, 2025 | Album/Music Reviews
The Yellow Jacket’s self-titled debut album is an incredible freshman effort that showcases each member’s virtuosic command of their respective instruments while simultaneously sounding like an organic whole: the sum is truly greater than its component parts. ...
by Frank Jolley | Aug 27, 2025 | Album/Music Reviews
The Tony Rice Unit’s Backwaters is an experimental foray into the group’s self-styled sub-genre of bluegrass dubbed ‘spacegrass’. However, don’t let the term ‘spacegrass’ scare you away too quickly, for there are no psychedelic gimmicks in this music. In...
by Frank Jolley | Aug 27, 2025 | Album/Music Reviews
Aside from Bill Monroe and his band, no other bluegrass ensemble has been so defining of the genre than the duo of Flatt and Scruggs. And they themselves saw their beginnings as members of Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys before they took the plunge and started their own...
by Frank Jolley | Aug 27, 2025 | Album/Music Reviews
When I say that I believe Pasquale Grasso to be one of the greatest guitarists alive, I do not consider myself to be too far from the truth. A bold statement, I know, but one that is echoed by a man whose opinion is of much greater weight than my own on such matters:...
