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Bio: Sal Cataldi is a musician, writer and former entertainment publicist living in the Hudson Valley and NYC. He is leader of the band Spaghetti Eastern Music (first gig was at the CBGB gallery in 2004) and member of the ensembles Guitars A Go Go, Vapor Vespers and spaceheater. He is also the host of “Reading In Funktamental” on WGXC 90.7 FM/Wave Farm, a monthly show/podcasts where he speaks to the authors of the books on music, many that he reviews here at NYSMusic.com

Features

Process, Pain & Peak Experience – 50 Years of King Crimson Explored in New Documentary

Sal Cataldi Apr 20, 2022

In the Court of the Crimson King, Toby Amies’ fantastic new film about prog rock pioneers King Crimson, is like no other rock documentary that has come before it. And that, Music Lovers, is a very good thing. It’s as far from…

Show Reviews

Luscious Dissonance with Thollem, Cline, Wimberly & Bisio at Lace Mill

Sal Cataldi Mar 29, 2022

For six years, acclaimed bassist Michael Bisio and his artist wife Dawn have been bringing some of the jazz world’s finest to Lace Mill, the 55-unit affordable artist housing, gallery and performance space in Kingston that is…

Photo Gallery

Mdou Moctar Brings Saharan Guitar Smoke Show to Colony Woodstock

Sal Cataldi Mar 26, 2022

In 2017, the Washington Post published a story entitled “The Death of the Electric Guitar.” But you wouldn’t know it from the sell-out crowd that packed Colony Woodstock this past Monday night, March 21, for a…

Album Reviews

Jazz Visionary Michael Gregory Jackson Releases for First Solo Electric Guitar Album “Electric…

Sal Cataldi Mar 17, 2022

Michael Gregory Jackson, the innovative guitarist namechecked as a vital influence by modern masters like Vernon Reid, Brandon Ross, Bill Frisell and Nels Cline, is releasing his first-ever solo electric guitar…

Book Reviews

Motown’s Top Songwriter Dozier Shares His Creative Struggles and Secrets

Sal Cataldi Mar 12, 2022

You may not know the name Lamont Dozier, but you certainly know his music. Together with Brian and Eddie Holland, Dozier was the top songwriting and producing team at the almighty Motown Records – the craftsmen behind 15 #1 hits and…

Book Reviews

Silenced Jazz Bass Icon Eberhard Weber Pens An Autobiography

Sal Cataldi Feb 26, 2022

The 1970s were heady times when it came to bass innovators. In America, Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke not only reinvented how the electric bass was played but pushed it front and center on stage and in recordings with their…

Rock

David Byrdie Releases A “Folked Up” Cover of Bowie’s “Let’s Dance”

Sal Cataldi Feb 24, 2022

Every wonder what David Bowie classics might sound like if they were reset to the jingle jangle style of America’s folk-rock pioneers, The Byrds? Now you can thanks to “mysterioso rocker” David Byrdie has a new mashed up cover of the Thin…

News

50 Years of King Crimson Celebrated in Forthcoming Documentary

Sal Cataldi Feb 9, 2022

The mercurial Robert Fripp and his ever-changing band of prog-fathers will be the subject of In the Court of the Crimson King, a new documentary by director Toby Amies premiering at the 2022 SXSW film fest. Named after…

Book Reviews

Robby Krieger’s Book Opens New Doors on the Lizard King and his Legendary Band

Sal Cataldi Jan 27, 2022

Robby Krieger was far more than a simple guitarist for The Doors. For all the acclaim laid upon Jim Morrison as rock’s poet laureate, it was Krieger who almost singlehandedly wrote the music and words for some of their biggest hits…

Book Reviews

Whole Lotta Zeppelin in Bob Spitz’s Epic-Length Biography

Sal Cataldi Jan 19, 2022

In 2005, music manager turned biographer Bob Spitz fashioned 1,000 pages to craft the definitive biography of The Beatles, the music- and culture-quaking foursome who reshaped the Sixties. Now, Spitz has put his superior skills as a…

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