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It is very refreshing to notice that European artists still provide, in a time of the world when sometimes music can be felt a bit flat and repetitive, so much vital sonic oxygenation and creativity in every field to the art of music.

Italy is one of those many countries in Europe that particularly keeps on delivering consistently a range of artists that excel on marrying lyrical brushes of geniality with visionary and instinctive musical arrangements with fabulous results, as our website has often discovered when reviewing bodies of work of Italian artists.

Read more: Cronauer - Life Stems Out Of Death

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Listening to each record of the American singer/songwriter Beth Hart, it feels like scrolling the pages of a personal diary every time.

Of course, for each passing year, the content of Hart's diary changes, reflecting life's experiences of any sort, may they be related to love or to struggles.

Read more: Beth Hart - You Still Got Me

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One of the most joyous feelings for some music writers like us, at Bluebird Reviews, is that of discovering, as the years go by, more and more artists willingly deciding not to contain their passion for their art-form, i.e. by pidgeonholing themselves in a sole sonic niche, but to push instead their improvisational skills and musical visions into highly interesting mash-up of genres.

That is pretty much the story of what happened with the brand new album of a hugely eclectic and talented collective coming from Denmark and called A Plane To Catch. 

Read more: A Plane To Catch - Soul Piece

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One of the biggest secrets that makes the art of music being so special, is that of associating sounds with memories, like a special moment lived somewhere in the world, perhaps watching a live concert, or spending a wonderful holiday somewhere with a partner and/or friend, or meeting new people, trying new flavours and the list goes on and on. 

That is pretty much what happened to the Taiwan-born Jazz pianist and composer Eric Pan a few years ago just before the pandemic, when coming back home from a colossal journey across four continents, while sampling the history, traditions and cultures of dozens of country visited throughout this mammouthian journey.

Read more: Eric Pan - Travel Poems

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For many years now, the sound of an instrument like the saxophone gets often linked to music genres like Jazz or maybe, at times, Fusion and occasionally, to Soul music too. It takes a proper Master of said instrument to be able to shift from a genre to another with convincing credibility and one of the very few artists able to make such effortlessly smooth transitions, thanks to his widely recognised talent and musical ability, it's the Las Vegas based singer/songwriter and Saxophonist Supremo Jimmy Carpenter, one of the very few artists in the contemporary music scene able to switch from Soul to Blues, R&B, Fusion and Funk maintaining always the same high level of musicianship on each passing record.
 

Read more: Jimmy Carpenter - Just Got Started

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It is easy to understand why the American Guitar Maestro and singer/songwriter Kenny Wayne Shepherd wanted to split into two separate musical entities a highly successful project like his latest, called Dirt On My Diamonds.

After the many praises received by press and fans, following last year’s release of the Vol.1 of the project, Shepherd and his band had clearly in their minds that the time was right to release the second half of Dirt On My Diamonds, given also the enthusiastic receptions showed by every crowd that attended the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band’s latest Tour, in support of the Volume 1 of the album.

Read more: Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Dirt On My Diamonds, Vol.2

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Some records, no matter the genres played, have got some deep stories to tell than others and whether those stories are narrated or not in form of spoken words, it doesn't really matter, in the final analysis, as long as those stories are felt emotionally by the listener.
 
The story behind a record called Arcs & Rivers, from Swedish Jazz and Classical pianist and composer Joel Lyssarides and Greek bouzouki virtuoso Georgios Prokopiou, it is most certainly a deep one, a story that is made of family roots, fortuitous meetings and, most importantly, of a musical bridge between two cultures and genres faraway and still so close.
 

Read more: Joel Lyssarides & Georgios Prokopiou - Arcs & Rivers

  1. Billy Price - Person Of Interest
  2. Gregg Allman Band - Uncle Sam’s
  3. The Airborne Toxic Event - Glory
  4. Albert Castiglia - Righteous Souls
  5. Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour - Friendlytown

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