Ascending: Jazz Trios Two fine albums by two of the finest jazz trios extant, led by DAVE STRYKER and ANDY PRATT. Read more…
The Deep Roots Elite Half-Hundred, 2023 The best of the roots music rest for the year recently completed... Read more…
DEEP ROOTS ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2023 Eleven worthy long players lead our best-of 2023 picks. Read more…
In Trim: Bruce Brown’s Endless Epic Writing for Longboard magazine in 2005, PAUL HOLMES captured the entire epic saga of the making of BRUCE BROWN's THE ENDLESS SUMMER. Read more…
Engaging Piazzolla, With Flair Clasically trained, the LONDON TANGO QUINTET brings elegance and improvisatory freedom to a tango tribute. Read more…
Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks Gospel picks with a World Music flavor dominate Bob Marovich's latest hot platters... Read more…
Right On Time, Indeed Daring to change, CHATHAM COUNTY LINE is renewed and reinvigorated to the nth degree on HIYO Read more…
Updike at Easter, 2024 Edition Seven Voices on 'Seven Stanzas" with new voices (including Updike's own) and appropriate gospel music interludes. Read more…
Crafting an inclusive message to promote agriculture that is environmentally sound, profitable and supports communities was the goal of the workshop "Building Capacity and the Voice for a Stronger Sustainable Agriculture Moveme...
For some 30 years Lou Pallo was the steady rhythm guitarist supporting Les Paul's incandescent leads in the Les Paul Trio. Now Pallo pays tribute to his boss with an all-star tribute featuring the likes of Keith Richards, Slash...
A review of gospel authority ANTHONY HEILBUT's new book of incisive, informed essays, The Fan Who Knew Too Much, which includes a lengthy examination of the gay subculture within the gospel world. Also: an interview with Mr. He...
ANTHONY BROWN & GROUP THERAPY have released their debut CD and the gospel world is taking note. Bob Marovich interviews Brown in a Deep Roots exclusive.
ELLIOTT CARTER: AN APPRECIATION--America's greatest living composer died on November 5 at the age of 103. Herewith an appreciation of this visionary's rewarding and unpredictable music.
At the intersection of unabashed globalism and bass music, the wandering arts instigator FILASTINE takes dance music to its outer-national limits on £00T, incorporating and dismantling lush sounds from North Africa, Brazil, Ja...
Reflections on Thanksgiving in song. Music by Larry Yazzie and the Native Pride Dancers, Douglas Spotted Eagle, Johnny Cash, Mary Chapin Carpenter, George Winston, Celtic Women and, by way of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, Vince...
Man attraction: Man of the Forest, a classic 1933 western starring Randolph Scott and Verna Hallie. Directed by Henry Hathaway, adapted from the Zane Grey novel. Selected short: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck (1925).
Ever wonder what it would have been like to spend a day with, say, Felix Mendelssoh? Especially a day when Robert Schumann shows up? George Sampson did just that, and set down the experience for posterity.