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Since the very early days of her remarkable journey into the evolution and expansion of Contemporary Jazz, it was very apparent to music lovers and the music press worldwide that the talent and vision of the Japanese Piano and Keyboard Maestro Hiromi Uehara, universally known solely as Hiromi, would have made through the years an enormous impact in the world of modern music.

The Grammy Winner artist from Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, since her debut album Another Mind released in 2003, has enchanted crowds all over the world  through not only high-energy and legendary live performances, but also for the Japanese composer's capacity and vision to unify layers of Jazz, Funk, Electronica, Classical and Fusion and fusing them together in an electrifying, imaginative and exuberant free-form style.

Read more: Feeling Alive - In Conversation With Free-Form Jazz Supremo Hiromi

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If there is a music genre that has inspired millions of musicians around the world and influenced enormously music through the last century and beyond, that is most certainly Blues.
 
Born as an acoustic music style based often on guitar, harmonica and vocals, Blues has then grown in a more electric form, inspiring the birth of Rock'N'Roll as well as Blues-Rock, the latter exploding very much, in its early stages, in countries like United Kingdom and United States, to then finding a more global resonance and appreciation worldwide. Whilst Blues and Blues-Rock may sound complementary with one another, given their legacy, what can be called "Acoustic Blues" struggles a little, lately, to be embraced by new generations of music fans, maybe due to the sonic structure of the genre so different to Blues-Rock, where electric instrumentation has got a more relevant presence, ignoring, perhaps unconsciously but certainly undeservedly, the quality and the artistic depth present in the songwriting, playing and vocal performance of the traditional Acoustic Blues.
 

Read more: Where The Blues Knows No Boundaries - In Conversation With Kenny Wayne Shepherd And Bobby Rush

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"Peace and love, Sir!" No better and heart warming welcome could have been offered to our website by one of the biggest and most respected Music Icons of the last century, nonetheless that Public Image Limited bandleader and commander-in-chief Mr. John Lydon. This fine English Music Hero doesn't need any introduction at all, because his career speaks by itself. A Punk Role Model in the late 70's with Sex Pistols to then becoming the leader of one of the most loved and forward-thinking collectives of this last half century, Public Image Limited, with whom Lydon has expanded his musical and lyrical vocabulary to outstanding peaks of inspiration and creativity.

Now with a new Tour coming up in 2025, the English artist has very graciously agreed to talk to our website about what the immediate future holds for himself and for Public Image Limited, opening also very candidly to the profound impact that personal losses and his ongoing Spoken Word Tour have done on his life in recent years. 

Read more: Overwhelmingly Me - An Interview With Public Image Limited's bandleader and Punk Icon John Lydon

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For more than two decades, Denmark's global music scene has increasingly produced some of the finest artists in different genres, like Jazz, Blues and R&B, who our website has not failed to notice, especially in the last decade or so.
 
One of those massively talented artists emerging from that beautiful country that is Denmark, is undoubtedly the singer-songwriter Thorbjørn Risager, somebody that, initially as a solo artist and then as bandleader of the collective called Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado, has brought to the table of the current music scene an irresistible blend of Soul, R&B, Funk and Blues that has registered and keeps on registering humongous popularity not only within the European continent but also in countries like United States, for example.
 
Right now, with a new record out called House Of Sticks and released via Mascot Label Group/Provogue,  the Danish collective is ready to embark a long new tour in support of the band's new record and our website has been privileged enough to catch up with Risager himself to discuss both their new and hugely accomplished album and their forthcoming tour too.
 

Read more: It's All About The "Hygge"! - An Interview With Danish Singer/Songwriter Thorbjørn Risager

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What else one can say that has not been said or written before about one of the most legendary artists of the music business of the last half a century that is the American guitarist and songwriter Steve Cropper? The man behind most of the fortunes of the legendary Stax Records, the 82-years-old, also known as "The Colonel" by fans and fellow musician friends, has worked, throughout his glorious career, with the biggest names in the music business, from Otis Redding to The Blues Brothers, Booker T & the MG's, Rod Stewart, Eddie Floyd, Peter Frampton, Art Garfunkel, Richie Havens, B.B. King, Wilson Pickett and the list goes on and on.

After writing and co-writing for five decades classics of Blues, Soul and R&B and having toured the world for numerous years, Cropper may have slowed down his live activity a little, mainly due to little health issues but this has never stopped the American guitarist from writing and playing in studio for himself and for other artists too.

Read more: It's All About The Groove - In Conversation With Steve Cropper

  1. Have A Cigar! - In Conversation With Cigar Box Guitars Maker Alessio Benvegnu'
  2. Tales From Huntingdon Beach - In conversation with Walter Trout
  3. The Joy In Jazz - In Conversation With American Jazz Singer Anaïs Reno
  4. 50 Years Of Aladdin Sane - In Conversation With Mike Garson

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