Back when Ike was in the White House, the West Coast featured some of the most influential music not only in jazz, but in popular music. The Hollywood studios were brimming with jazzers who were supplementing their income by playing…
Month: October 2015
Taste: What’s Going On-Live At the Isle of Wight
Most of us Americans have overlooked the career of the late Rory Gallagher, but he’s all but forgotten in his homeland of Ireland. The blues rock guitarist started out in the band Taste before going on his solo career, and…
Liberty Ellman: Radiate
Liberty Ellman displays his guitar in variety of sounds and settings here in this collection of originals with Steve Lehman/as, Jonathan Finlayson/tp, Jose Davila/tb, Stephan Crump/b and Damion Reid/dr. He mixes it up with Reid as Lehman’s alto sears through…
9 Horses: Perfectest Herald
The band 9 Horses is rooted in the trio of Joe Brent/mand, Sara Caswell/violin and Shawn Conley, but this is no bluegrass or traditional band. Yes, there is a folksy feel to their swinging “Monochrome Shoe #2” and strumming “Movement…
John Scofield: Past Present
Guitar vet John Scofield tries to show that you can go back home. Back in the 90s, he teamed together with Joe Lovano/ts and Bill Stewart/dr for some nice and funky sounds. With a different bassist than before in Larry…
John Hebert: Rambling Confessions
Bassist John Hebet leads a lithe team of Andy Milne/p, Billy Drumond/dr and vocalist Jen Shyu through an impressionistic mix of originals and standards. The rhythm team develops a subtle but forward pulse, with Drummond’s cymbals tapping out the relentless…
Tom Harrell: First Impressions
Tom Harrell continues his explorations into various sounds and styles as he delves into his French Impressionism period. Armed with arrangers pen, trumpet and flugelhorn, he brings together his usual teammates of Wayne Escoffery/ss-ts, Danny Grissett/p and Johnathan Blake/dr and…
Mack Avenue Superband: Live! From the Detroit Jazz Festival
I declare, I’ve GOT to go to this fest next year. This is the third time in a row that Mack Avenue has released a collection of songs from the Detroit Jazz Fest, and the music is COOKING! It includes local…
Mindi Abair & The Boneshakers: Live In Seattle
Mindi Abair has put together a solid touring band with Rand Jacobs/g, Sweet Pea Atkinson/voc, Rodney Lee/key, Derek Frank/b and Third Richardson/dr, and this disc shows how they can rev up a crowd mixing jazz, pop and R&B. Abair’s alto…
Sinne Eeg@The E Spot Lounge 10.21.15
Leave it to the Danish to deliver the Great American Songbook! Vocalist SInne Eeg has made a name for herself as one of the most important jazz vocalists in Scandinavia , but if her show at The E Spot Lounge is…