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Crimony! The Smokedown starts Thursday at Little Creek Vineyard in Snow Camp, North Carolina. Well, that’s the pre-party, but you don’t want to miss a … Continued

Feature image courtesy of Jay Blakesburg Just how important WAS Robert Hunter to the Grateful Dead and their catalog? Consider this: he co-wrote every song … Continued

Photographs by kind permission of Funk Eye Media Stories by kind permission of Phil Ross and Dan Farkas George Porter Jr. and Runnin’ Pardners and The … Continued

All photographs by kind permission of Jeffrey Moellering / Snapzalot.com Billy Cobham and his cohorts put on an absolute master class Saturday night, September 21, … Continued

I owned a small record store in Tampa in the ’70s (School Kids Records). I had numerous hip customers who would turn me on to … Continued

Words and photographs by Hillary Carpenter We’ve (presumably) all been to a concert. We paid our money, endured the security shakedown, found our seats and/or … Continued

We caught up with Billy Cobham somewhere near the Georgia-South Carolina border. He and his Crosswinds Project bandmates were en route from Thursday’s Howard Theater … Continued

The year was 1995, and I had just made my first connection with tapers, scoring a copy (on cassettes, of course) of the last Grateful … Continued

Feature image by kind permission of Olga Karpova | JazzMap.ru The first four dates of Billy Cobham’s Crosswinds Project are in the record books, with … Continued

It is interesting that people do not go to jazz concerts to see the featured artists breathe fire, wear wild costumes, prance around knee-deep in … Continued