Search - Beppe Crovella :: What's Rattlin' On The Moon? - A Personal Vision Of The Music Of Mike Ratledge

With his brilliant new MoonJune Records release What's Rattlin' on the Moon, veteran progressive musician and award-winning composer Beppe Crovella (Arti e Mestieri) delivers a heartfelt and long-overdue appreciation of one of the defining voices of the jazz-rock idiom, Soft Machine keyboard player and composer Mike Ratledge. Perhaps the most radical break with the past here is the absence of a rhythm section or other melody instruments competing for attention; by placing Ratledge's music fully in the foreground, Crovella cannily illumines key facets of his subject's musical personality.