The modern reggae team New Kingston consists of Courney M Panton/dr, Courney “Fadah P” Panton/b-perc, Tahir Panton/key, Stephen Suckarie/g and Kristoff Harmon/perc, while they all sing and allow various guests throughout the ten originals. Pressure Busspiep adds rich vocals on…
Month: November 2017
Tedeschi Trucks Band@The Arlington Theatre 11.07.17
Is there a more wide ranging American band than the one lead by the husband and wife team of Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi? During the 90 minute concert, they and their mix and match entourage delivered material that satisfied…
EAST MEETS SOUTH…Hiromi & Edmar Castaneda: Live In Montreal
A meeting of minds and cultures successfully takes place as Japanese Hiromi brings her rapidly firing piano fingers to team up with Colombian harpist Edmar Castaneda for an in concert recording. This could have turned into a mindless chop fest,…
SO, 8 BEATS WALK INTO A BAR…Kim Wilson: Blues and Boogie
Kim Wilson growls on the harmonica and sings like a carney barker through 16 boogie-non stop shuffles. A rotating team of gun stringing Strats by Big Jon Atkinson, Nathan James, Billy Flynn, Bob Welsh and danny Michel team up with…
Cecile McLorin Salvant: Dreams and Daggers
Listening to Cecile McLorin Salvant is like strolling through a sonic art gallery of impressionists. The vocalist creates audible framed works of art, each with its own story and style, allowing you to examine each brush stroke, be it water…
Jerry Bergonzi: Dog Star
Muscular post-bop tenor saxist leads a simpatico team of Phil Grenadier/tp, Carl Winther/p, Johnny AMan/b and Anders Mogensen/dr through a mix of originals by himself and Winther. Trumpeter Grenadier bookends the album with four of the eight tunes, creating a…
OH, YEAH! Lucky Peterson: Tribute to Jimmy Smith
Blues groover Lucky Peterson is adept at guitar, piano and Hammond, but sticks to the B3 here on this smoking tribute to the organmeister Jimmy Smith. With his regular team of Herlin Riley/dr and Kelyn Crapp/g, he augments the session…
EAGLES’ NEST…Jack Tempchin: Peaceful Easy Feeling
In the early days of the iconic band The Eagles, Jack Tempchin was one of it’s major contributing songwriters. The long time friend of Glen Frey wrote many of their hits such as “Peaceful, Easy Feeling,” and “Already Gone” as…
GOOD VIBES…Steve Hobbs: Tribute to Bobby
A musical tip of the hat in honor of the recently departed master of the vibes, Bobby Hutcherson, is adroitly delivered by Steve Hobbs, who uses both vibes and marimba to celebrate the master’s touch and style. Along with a…
BUDDY’S BACK! Buddy Rich: The Lost Tapes, The Channel One Set
Sometimes, you just forget how formidable a drummer Buddy Rich was. These two albums of concert material from 1985 shows in San Francisco’s King Street Studios that Buddy Rich went out SWINGING! The Lost Tapes session has Rich in a…