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Jun 26, 2024 | jazztimes.com | Mac Randall

Nearly two decades before COVID-19 was even a twinkle in a pangolin’s eye—if in fact those endearing critters had any coronavirus connection at all—John Scofield was already messing around with looping devices to, as he puts it, “extend the sound” of his guitar.

May 12, 2024 | jazztimes.com | Jim Farber

At certain points in his long and varied career, Bill Bruford has been called a rock drummer. At others, he has been called a jazz drummer. He isn’t happy about either description. “If there were a government edict that came down tomorrow that said that the words ‘rock’ and ‘jazz’ will never be permissible again, I’d be thrilled,” Bruford said. “That would give drummers like me a freer hand.”Not that there are many drummers like him.

May 2, 2023 | jazztimes.com | Andrew Hamlin

To take on Peggy Lee phrase-for-phrase, squeak-for-perky-squeak, with those soft sexy whispers, would be by far the easier course. Callaway, wise in the ways of tribute, takes the bridge—or maybe the tunnel—not the overstreet imitation route. Blessed with a sultry, often-throaty delivery, equal to but at odds with her heroine’s chirp, she finds a fresh angle for the multilayered tilt of Lee’s classic material.