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Article Contributed by August Forte | Published on Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Tim Kobza is a Los Angeles-based guitarist/multi-instrumentalist and producer, writing and recording music with attitude, movement, and authenticity, inspired by an extensive career playing jazz, funk, Latin, soul, R&B and improvised music.
Kobza s sophomore album
Montecito Heights was released on Friday, July 18 and has since received airplay on jazz stations and specialty shows all over the U.S. The first single Tranquilo was premiered via Here Comes the Flood in the Netherlands and featured recently via the Phoenix, AZ-based site Independent Clauses. Montecito Heights has been featured via the Spanish site Republic of Jazz.
Charles Stepney and Richard Evans: Soulful Symphonies Of Psychedelia
Charles Stepney and Richard Evans: Soulful Symphonies Of Psychedelia
The duo were two of the greatest musical minds of the 60s and 70s, but remain little known today.
Published on Rotary Connection s debut album was just one of the albums that Charles Stepney worked on in the 1960s
Imagine a psychedelic music that didn’t expand your musical mind with volume and effects, but elevated your consciousness with melody and cleverly arranged layers of instruments. A music that sought to reflect the new-age thinking of the hippie era. A groove with a jazzy edge, and orchestras that ventured into the infrared and ultraviolet extremes of pop’s spectrum. A music of angles, culture, questions, elegance and love. If you tried to create it, it might seem impossible. But it happened, thanks to Richard Evans and Charles Stepney.
Ask the Cuban-born, Chicago-raised guitarist and singer Eddie Turner how he ended up in Colorado about five decades ago, and he says, “It’s actually pretty simple. I saw the band Zephyr when I was in high school, and I was just like, ‘Wow, what an amazing band! I just kind of said to myself, ‘I m going to join that band one day.’”
In the early ’70s, Turner moved to Boulder to study liberal arts at the University of Colorado, and after playing in the band Mother Earth, he did finally get that guitar spot in Zephyr in 1980, four years after the death of guitarist and co-founder Tommy Bolin. Turner appears on the band’s final album, 1982’s
Johnny Pacheco’s recent passing rocked the Latin music community. Without him, salsa would never have coalesced, been codified, and spread throughout the