This is an updated version of a story that originally ran in 2017. Fellow New Jersey music diehards, this is it — the ultimate Garden State music bucket list: 51 Jersey albums that wholly define our ...

This album is for people my age who grew up loving these movies, but also for them to share with their kids. The music is so gorgeous, and it fits perfectly with Gypsy jazz. I pretended the songs ...

It may have simple origins, but Race with Devil on Spanish Highway is a true feat of guitar acrobatics (though Di Meola has always pushed back on those who refer to it as an example of proto-shred).

“I was also heavily into Al Di Meola. I put a lot of effort into learning the licks from his Elegant Gypsy and Land Of The Midnight Sun albums when I was seventeen, because I wanted to do the Di ...