Email Author Mark Keresman

2007 Stories by Mark Keresman

• James "Blood" Ulmer

  published May 17, 2007

  Guitarist James "Blood" Ulmer is a strange duck. Though he started out in jazz organ combos, Ulmer made his rep with avant-jazz icon Ornette... More >>

• Willard Grant Conspiracy

  published May 3, 2007

  Boston-based music group Willard Grant Conspiracy sure knows how to make a music critic's job tough. Whereas most bands can be blithely described... More >>

• The Fall

  published April 19, 2007

  Sharon Stone makes another movie, bands of the 1978-1982 epoch reunite, technology advances, trans fats are banned — yet the Fall perseveres,... More >>

• David Kilgour

  published March 15, 2007

  Anyone hoping that singer David Kilgour's latest disc, The Far Now, would be a return to the streamlined, guitar-driven rush of his former... More >>

• Rez Abassi

  published March 1, 2007

  Because jazz sitarist and guitarist Rez Abbasi was born in Pakistan, studied in India, grew up in Los Angeles, and paid his dues in New York, it's... More >>

• The Bird and the Bee

  published February 15, 2007

  When one thinks of significant "duo" performers in American pop culture, who comes to mind? Sam and Dave, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Simon and... More >>

• Jackie Mittoo

  published January 25, 2007

  Although he never achieved the same fame as his peers — a group that includes Augustus Pablo and Tommy McCook — the late Jackie Mittoo... More >>