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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

Album Reviews

Hearing Aide: Analog Players Society “TILTED” and “Soundtrack for a Nonexistent…

Sal Cataldi Aug 29, 2020

File this one under so nice the Analog Players Society had to release it twice. The first disc, TILTED, is a percolating live acoustic jazz session featuring four of the genre’s finest players. The second, Soundtrack for a Nonexistent…

Album Reviews

Hearing Aide: “Nueva Guitarra” by Harvey Valdes and Álvaro Domene

Sal Cataldi Aug 21, 2020

And now for something completely different. Two New York-based guitarists, Harvey Valdes and Álvaro Domene, come together for an ear-opening album of nine deliciously deviant duets. It’s an ever-evolving, sonic tornado that is part free…

Features

Remembering Julian Bream

Sal Cataldi Aug 15, 2020

Anyone who can spell the word "guitar" likely knows of the formidable Spaniard of the gut string, Andrés Segovia. But too few know enough about the Brit who cast just a smidge less of a shadow in the world of classical guitar and…

Brooklyn

Sculpting Sounds at Brooklyn’s Soapbox Gallery

Sal Cataldi Aug 4, 2020

When COVID-19 hit New York City in March, the music, as Jim Morrison crooned, was over. But one place it never stopped was at Soapbox Gallery, one of Brooklyn’s most unique and eclectic performance venues. Soapbox Gallery is…

Book Reviews

Interview: Sarah Pinsker, Novelist and Indie Rocker who predicted our Quarantined, Concert-Less…

Sal Cataldi Jul 24, 2020

If anyone can lay claim to the title of “Rock and Roll Nostradamus,” it’s Sarah Pinsker. Born in New York City and a present-day driver of the fertile culture scene in hip Baltimore, Pinsker is a true multi-hyphenate. First off, she’s a…

Album Reviews

Michael Gregory Jackson releases “Change,” a sprawling live jazz suite for Nelson Mandela

Sal Cataldi Jul 12, 2020

Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Vernon Reid, Marc Ribot and Mary Halvorsen. One look at the list of progressive jazz guitar all-stars who have named Michael Gregory Jackson as an influence demonstrates the continued resonance and relevance of…

Obituaries

In Memoriam: Milton Glaser, Graphic Design Master who inadvertently brought Dylan and the 60s music…

Sal Cataldi Jun 27, 2020

Milton Glaser, the master artist who created many of the most popular images of our times, from logos for IBM, DC Comics, UPS, Brooklyn Brewery, and ABC, to the iconic “I ♥ NY,” has passed away at 91. For we devotees of music, and…

Interviews

Interview: Quarantine Streaming with Guitar God Gary Lucas

Sal Cataldi Jun 9, 2020

Since commencing his professional career in the early 80s, Gary Lucas has done about just about everything you could do with a guitar, beginning with his stint as guitarist for Captain Beefheart, followed by his songwriting and performance…

Artist Profile

Quarantine is the Right Time to Discover the Side-Long Prog Rock Epic

Sal Cataldi May 30, 2020

For all the horrors the COVID-19 quarantine has wrought, it has given us one nice thing – oodles of downtime that we can spend listening to music, ad infinitum. So rather than getting emotionally played by non-stop news, why not invest…

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