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Article: Out and About: The Super Fans

Meet Clifford Bass

Read "Meet Clifford Bass" reviewed by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper


Our newest super fan's first jazz record was The Best of Nat King Cole, which he chose at just ten years old! The bug bit him so hard that, by age 14, he was listening obsessively to A Love Supreme. He is now such a fan of improvisational, in-the-moment performance that he rarely listens to recordings, ...

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Article: Film Review

Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Capitol Session '73

Read "Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Capitol Session '73" reviewed by Doug Collette


Bob Marley and the Wailers The Capitol Session '73 Mercury Studios 2021 Talk about buried treasure indeed! Bob Marley and The Wailers The Capitol Session '73 would not exist in this CD/DVD package (or it's other configurations) if not for a series of deceptively fortuitous events that occurred nearly a half-century ...

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Article: Interview

Dave McMurray: Blowing on the Edge of Grate-ness

Read "Dave McMurray: Blowing on the Edge of Grate-ness" reviewed by Lawrence Peryer


Saxophonist Dave McMurray's discography is reflective of the musical melting pot of his hometown jny: Detroit. Dave came up playing with everyone from bluesman Albert King, pianist Geri Allen, even Kid Rock. He is most known for his decades-long association with eclectic producer, and Blue Note label President, Don Was. Through Was, ...

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Article: Live Review

Groove8 At The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Festival 2017

Read "Groove8 At The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Festival 2017" reviewed by Walter Atkins


Groove8 San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Festival San Francisco, CAJuly 1-2, 2017 San Francisco's 33rd Annual Fillmore Jazz Festival was a huge, funky street party celebrating numerous music genres, ethnic foods, crafts and more in the city's historical and culturally rich Fillmore neighborhood. This year's edition of the FJF, running between ...

Album

Sly and the Family Stone: Live at The Fillmore East October 4th and 4th 1968

Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2015
Track listing: CD 1: Are You Ready; Color Me True; Won't Be Long; We Love All (Freedom); MEDLEY: Turn Me Loose/I Can't Turn You Loose; Chicken; Love City. CD 2: M' Lady; Don't Burn Baby; Color Me True; Won't Be Long; St. James Infirmary; MEDLEY: Turn Me Loose/I Can't Turn You Loose; Are You Ready; Dance To The Music; Music Lover; MEDLEY: Life/Music Lover. CD 3: Life; Color Me True; Won't Be Long; Are You Ready; Dance To The Music; Music Lover; M' Lady. CD 4: M' Lady; Life; Are You Ready; Won't Be Long; Color Me True; Dance To The Music; Music Lover; Love City; MEDLEY: Turn Me Loose/I Can't Turn You Loose; The Riffs.

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Article: Extended Analysis

Sly and the Family Stone: Live at The Fillmore East October 4th and 4th 1968

Read "Sly and the Family Stone: Live at The Fillmore East October 4th and 4th 1968" reviewed by Doug Collette


Sly and The Family Stone's galvanizing appearance at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in August of 1969 may well represent the pinnacle of their career, but their rise to this apogee of recognition was the culmination of a long slow climb to fame dating back even further than Sylvester Stewart's, nee Sly, tenure as a ...

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Sly and the Family Stone: Higher

Label: Epic/Legacy
Released: 2013
Track listing: CD1: I Just Learned How To Swim; Scat Swim; Buttermilk (Part One); Dance All Night; Temptation Walk (Part One); I Ain’t Got Nobody (For Real); I Can’t Turn You Loose; Higher; Underdog; Bad Risk; Let Me Hear It From You; Advice; If This Room Could Talk; I Cannot Make It; Trip To Your Heart; I Hate To Love Her; Silent Communication; I Get High On You (version one); I Remember; My Woman’s Head. CD2: What’s That Got To Do With Me; Fortune And Fame; What Would I Do; Only One Way Out Of This Mess; I Know What You Came To Say; Dance To The Music; Ride The Rhythm; Color Me True; Are You Ready; Don’t Burn Baby; We Love All; Danse A La Musique; Small Fries; Chicken; Into My Own Thing; Live; Love City; M’lady; Dynamite; Undercat. CD3: Everyday People; Sing A Simple Song; I Get High On You (version two); Wonderful World Of Color; Pressure: I Want To Take You Higher; Seven More Days; Feathers; Somebody’s Watching You; Sex Machine; Hot Fun In The Summertime; Everybody Is A Star; Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin); Stand!; You Can Make It If You Try; Dance To The Music; Medley: Music Lover/I Want To Take You Higher/Music Lover. CD4: Luv N’ Haight; Family Affair; Brave & Strong; Runnin’ Away; (You Caught Me) Smilin’; Spaced Cowboy; You’re The One; In Time; If You Want Me To Stay; Frisky; Skin I’m In; If It Were Left Up To Me; Time For Livin’; Can’t Strain My Brain; Loose Booty; Le Lo Li; Crossword Puzzle; Family Again; Hoboken; High.

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Article: Extended Analysis

Sly and the Family Stone: Higher

Read "Sly and the Family Stone: Higher" reviewed by Carlo Wolff


Sylvester Stewart is a maddening guy. Both a cock of the walk and abjectly self-destructive, the man better known as Sly Stone, leader of the Family Stone, psychedelicized funk better, or at least more notoriously, than anyone else as the 1960s collapsed into the 1970s. In albums like Dance to the Music (1968), the 1969 breakout ...

News: Performance / Tour

Vocalist Kevin Valentine In Old City Phila. Thurs. May 16th!

Vocalist Kevin Valentine In Old City Phila. Thurs. May 16th!

Appearing at the Arch Street Friends Meeting House—4th and Arch Street in Philadelphia—on Thursday, May 16th is singer Kevin Valentine. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Show time is 7:30 p.m. Information: 215-517-8337. I can’t remember any phase of my life when I wasn’t singing, says this Bronx- born ...


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