DJ for The Blues Alley Show
OCEAN SHORES, Washington, United States
I started collecting music in 1962, at the age of 10. In 1973 I went to work at Budget Tapes and Records in Burien , Wa. I started as a clerk, in 6 months I was promoted to Mgr. In 1975 I became a multiple location mgr. In 1977 I became the Western Region Operations Manager over seeing 100+ stores in 10 states for the corporate office. In 1978 I added Blues buyer to my duties.
In 1983 I left the Record business and began a 12 year run in the HiFi store management... Read More
Latest Album Reviews
Review of Secret Message
Album Info: Secret Message
Joe Syrian Motor City Jazz Octet Album: Secret Message Label: Circle 9 Genre(s): Contemporary Jazz Posted By: Robert Silverstein
Feb 17, 2025
Review
One of the hottest jazz-fusion albums of the past year, Secret Message is the 2024 release from the Detroit-area based Joe Syrian Motor City Jazz Octet. Fans and critics alike have called Secret Message a feel-good kind of jazz album and for good reasons.
With 8 tracks, Secret Message features a range of songs most music fans know, and not just jazz fans. Covers of “Bye, Bye Blackbird” (from 1926), “This Masquerade” (the Leon Russell song from 1972), the Beatles “Here There And Everywhere” (from 1966) and “Night And Day” (Cole Porter’s classic from 1932) rub elbows with other much loved music classics. The only vocal track here “People Make The World Go Round” features vocals by guest artist Kenny Washington.
Skillful on the drum kit and as a band-leader, Joe gets excellent support from renowned jazz artists like
Review of Bob Corritore & Friends: Doin' The Shout
Album Info: Bob Corritore & Friends: Doin' The Shout
Bob Corritore Album: Bob Corritore & Friends: Doin' The Shout Label: VizzTone Genre(s): Contemporary Blues, Electric BluesBlues Posted By: Duane Verh
Feb 16, 2025
Review
Alongside the play of his reliable blues harp, Bob Corritore has shown a continual knack for consorting with prime female vocal talent. Two standout performances on his latest “& Friends” offering come courtesy of such a pair. Francine Reed’s smoldering reading of the Memphis Slim ballad “I Guess I’m A Fool” and Nora Jean Wallace’s tight-and-tough, self-penned “It’s My Life” are bona fide highlights. Good stuff.
Ron Korb Album: Global Canvas Label: Humbledragon Genre(s): Fusion Posted By: Robert Silverstein
Feb 12, 2025
Review
In the spirit of his classic album releases World Café (2018) and Asia Beauty (2015), the 2024 album by Global music artist, flutist / composer Ron Korb, Global Canvas will be appreciated by music fans far and wide, much like the vast musical spectrum he inhabits. Surpassing his musical identity while focusing on the music universe that unites cultures and blurs borders, the 17-track, 53-minute Global Canvas is the most adventurous and eclectic outing yet by Ron Korb.
If the premise behind World Café and Asia Beauty was to unite the global sonic arts and designs, the 2024 CD release of Global Canvas takes similar genre elements to dizzying heights. By adding in mysterious elements of World Beat, Jazz, neoclassical and more, Korb transcends musical borders by focusing on what unites all great
Liz Cole Album: I Want To Be Happy Label: Self-Release Genre(s): Contemporary Jazz Posted By: Robert Silverstein
Feb 10, 2025
Review
Taking a deep dive into the Great American Songbook, Los Angeles-based vocalist Liz Cole strikes jazz-pop gold with the 2025 release of I Want To Be Happy. Produced by Aarón Serfaty, the ten track album offers a refresher course via a round of key pop classics from the past that track well into the future by way of Ms. Cole’s jazzy versions.
Case in point is the title track, a world-famous song actually written in 1925 for the Broadway production of No No Nanette. Listening further, there are covers of songs by Cole Porter (“You’re Sensational” from 1956), Hoagy Carmichael (“Lazy River”), Fred E. Ahlert (“Mean To Me”) and much more.
Two fairly obscure South American songs add fun to the colorful mix. Of these two tracks one of the songs is Brazilian ("Lobo Bobo"), written by Carlos Lyra & Ronaldo Bôscoli in
Junior Sisk Album: If There's A Will, There's A Way Label: Mountain Fever Genre(s): Traditional BluegrassBluegrass Posted By: Joe Ross
Feb 7, 2025
Review
Born and raised in Virginia, and performing professionally since age 16, Junior Sisk is one of bluegrass music’s top contemporary male vocalists. In fact, he won IBMA’s Male Vocalist of the Year Award in 2013. He put out about a half dozen albums on the Rebel Records label before moving to the Mountain Fever label in 2017.
Peaking at #3 on The Roots Music Report’s Top 50 Bluegrass Album Chart, “If There’s a Will There’s a Way” is Sisk’s fourth album on that label, and once again, he and bandmates play and sing their hearts out on these ten tracks of top notch radio-friendly bluegrass music. Since 2023, Junior Sisk has been joined by Heather Berry Mabe (guitar), Tony Mabe (banjo), Jonathan Dillon (mandolin) and Curt Love (bass), a quartet that also performs on their own as Red Camel Collective. On this recording, Tim Crouch also
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