Sitemap - 2021 - Zapato's Jam: Music without Borders

Best wishes for the New Year: A song about the power of music

A couple of songs for Christmas

Great Voices (9) The Shaman: Diana Ankudinova

Do you have an artist who tops your bucket list to see live? This is my pick...

Greatest Voices (8): Floor Jansen goes nuclear (final post of this series)

Greatest Voices (7): Floor Unchained

Supernova: A retrospective on the first five years of Lovebites

Greatest Voices (6) More Floor

Greatest Voices (5): Floor Jansen

Jazz and Fusion greats (5): Senri

Halloween-Eve concert

Rock (5): Next-level arrangements--Especially for my musician and music nerd friends (but everyone should check these out)

Jazz Greats (4): Hiromi

When a cover is better than the original (3): Covers of Dire Straits, Heart, Yngwie Malmsteen and Gary Moore

Violin Magic (1): Unlucky Morpheus

Jazz Greats (3): Keith Jarrett

Songs about things you're not supposed to do (2)

Covers (2): And now for something completely different

Songs about bad habits

When the cover is better than the original (1)

Best new artists of the past decade: Your picks (6)

Favorite new artists? Here is one of mine

Your picks (5): Mixing it up--21 Pilots, Punch Brothers, Jon Batiste, Poppy

It’s not just WAP: Are women winning the battles but losing the war?

Your choices (4): Marcus King, H.E.R., Janelle Monáe, Tedeschi-Trucks Band

Your picks (3): Drugs optional

Your picks (2): Nigerian Explosion

Power Ballads (3): Can women do power ballads? You bet.

Who are your picks for best new musical acts of the last 10 years?

Not the Village People (2)

Great Voices (4): Patricia Janečková

Guitar Magic (5): More duets

More Power Ballads

Guitar Magic (4): Twin leads (the Yardbirds, Derek and the Dominoes, Boston and more)

What is a power ballad?

New Wave (3)

Vintage Blasts from the Past

International Women's Week, postscript: Some thoughts on WAP

International Women’s Week (3)

International Women’s Week (2)

International Women’s Week

Guitar Magic (3): Young guns

Coping with the lockdown