ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON MARCH 11, 1983 By Steve Newton Before I'd even crossed the threshold into Jim McGillveray's harmonious Collingwood Street residence, something told me I was entering heavily musical territory. It could have been the two big ivory-coloured congas standing like sentinels on his front porch, their skins removed and evidently under repair. But … Continue reading Jim McGillveray says that the Wildroot Orchestra is like Guy Lombardo on speed
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Skywalk guitarist Harris Van Berkel makes like Larry Carlton for The Bohemians
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON MARCH 28, 1986 By Steve Newton Skywalk guitarist Harris Van Berkel carefully ponders the suggestion that his group's new album has sort of a West Coast sound to it. "There's a slight one... There's a kind of a West Coast affiliation, I guess. We definitely don't have an East Coast sound, you know … Continue reading Skywalk guitarist Harris Van Berkel makes like Larry Carlton for The Bohemians
Don’t call Vancouver’s Skywalk jazz or fusion, it’s just “a music band”
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON APRIL 8, 1983 By Steve Newton "When it comes to Skywalk," says the group's drummer and veteran session player Kat Hendrikse, "the word jazz is inappropriate. It's got a lot of jazz influences, but basically it's a modern concept. It's modern music in that it's very composition-oriented as opposed to solo-oriented. We … Continue reading Don’t call Vancouver’s Skywalk jazz or fusion, it’s just “a music band”