By Mike Shanley Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com Half a century ago, Dr. Nathan Davis held the first Pitt Jazz Seminar and Concert. Groundbreaking jazz musicians like Pittsburgh native Art…
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By Mike Shanley Info@pittsburghcurrnt.com STUTTER STEPS Reeling (Blue Arrow) stutter steps.bandcamp.com Youngstown doesn’t typically appear in sentences with the adjective “dreamy.” But the word aptly describes the sounds created at…
By Mike Shanley info@pittsburghcurrent.com When a band works in the studio with a producer, the members often find themselves pushed out of their comfort zone in the attempt to get…
By Mike Shanley Pittsburgh Current Music Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com Mike Baltzer has presented the Pittsburgh music scene with atmospheric synth-pop, harder rock and pure indie pop, in bands like Joybox, Fangs…
By Mike Shanley Pittsburgh Current Music Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com DSC MonkTime [JazzAvenue 1] Leon Lee Dorsey filled some big shoes at the University of Pittsburgh in the early 2000s. The Pittsburgh-born…
By Mike Shanley Pittsburgh Current Music Writer Jonathan Richman was scheduled to perform at the Carnegie Music Hall on Wednesday, March 25. Like everything in the upcoming weeks, the show…
By Mike Shanley Pittsburgh Current Music Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com Ken Vandermark estimates that he spends about six months a year performing and traveling. The saxophonist/clarinetist still calls Chicago his home, but…
By Mike Shanley Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com Maura Jacob has ideas about how a band can work. “Bands are not just about how good of a musician you are,…
By Mike Shanley Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com In the five years since Music on the Edge presented its first Beyond Microtonal Music Festival, the perception of that music has…
“I want to stay true to the kind of music I love.” By Mike Shanley Pittsburgh Current Music Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com Benny Benack III recalls a conversation with his mother when…