by Kile Smith | Oct 5, 2015 | Jazz, WRTI, WRTI Arts Desk
[First published in WRTI’s Arts Desk 5 Oct 2015] Two Englishmen, Guy Wood and Robert Mellin, slipped it into the Great American Songbook just before it closed, just as rock rolled over sophistication. It begins from below, a slowly twisting Roman candle of a tune, and...
by Kile Smith | Feb 10, 2009 | CD Reviews, CDs, Music Composition, My CD Reviews, WRTI
For Valentine’s Day, WRTI asked us for our “favorite romantic CDs.” I came up with one easily enough (the same one Bob Perkins did…I am not worthy and no, I did not peek), but then thought that a classical CD might be expected of me, so then I was stumped. Favorite...