by Chris Sommovigo | Dec 12, 2020 | From the Archive
Anachronic Serendipity. Happy accident. One day while fingering through records at a local shop I happened upon one of the Anachronic Jazz Band records and decided to buy it. Brought it home, played it, fell instantly in love. These gifted musicians rearrange classic...
by Chris Sommovigo | Dec 10, 2020 | From the Archive
Play it loud Widespread Panic was my wedding band. Not really (it was really The Bonaventure Quartet gyspy jazz ensemble), however at the venue where my wife and I were married, Widespread Panic was practicing for their show that night in the theater below the...
by Chris Sommovigo | Nov 30, 2020 | From the Archive
Digging up oldies I’ve been hunting down some of the music I used to enjoy when i was quite young. I would have to ask permission from my parents (!!) to buy records, and this is one of the ones I wore out when I was about nine or ten years old. While Disco was...
by Chris Sommovigo | Nov 24, 2020 | From the Archive
Bitten Back in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, before I had started Illuminati and was just a young hobbyist of around 22 or 23, I would make the rounds of the various HiFi stores and get “educated” (indoctrinated?) about matters pertaining...
by Chris Sommovigo | Nov 24, 2020 | From the Archive
Sugoi! “Sugoi” is a Japanese that approximates “wow” or “amazing” in English, and it is deserved – unabashedly – in relation to this outstanding performance of a small collection of works by Brazilian composer, Heitor...
