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The Road Continues: An Interview With Mark Helias

Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon. Mark Helias should need no introduction considering his unparalleled body of work. There are few bassists over the last half-century that have composed and played on as much imaginative and influential work. I find myself returning to his solo albums […]

By Brad Rose

May 18, 2022 May 10, 2022

11 min Read

Jane Ira Bloom/Mark Helias “See Our Way”

While preparing for an upcoming interview with bassist Mark Helias, I started making a list of artists he’s worked with over the past 40+ years and it’s an astonishing list. Helias has worked with everyone from Anthony Braxton and Don Cherry to the late Dennis Gonzalez and Bill Laswell. Some of his most inviting work, […]

By Brad Rose

April 19, 2022 April 20, 2022

2 min Read

Foxy Digitalis Mix Season 2, #2: Charlatan

I’ve been wanting to make some kind of mix for the site for a while after having such a blast collaborating on the Halloween and Xmas mixes, so starting the year off with some Charlatan action on Foxy Digitalis feels right. After numerous stops and starts, I finally settled on a mix of one instrument/solo […]

By Brad Rose

January 11, 2022 January 12, 2022

1 min Read

NU “Live in Glasgow”

I’ve reached the point in my life where if you say ‘Don Cherry’ in front of me, I will simply hand you my money and say thank you. And you know what? That’s not a bad thing. Anyway, NU was the band Don Cherry led in the mid-80s that doesn’t seem to get as much […]

By Brad Rose

February 12, 2021

2 min Read