Articles by Larry Geiger

Live Review

Candy Dulfer Band in New Jersey

by Larry Geiger
November 16, 2007

Candy Dulfer and Band Shrine Auditorium West Collingswood, New Jersey October 13, 2007

The intimate art deco theater helped launch many conversations among the attendees until the band started a funky rhythm, which grew stronger, with chants of “Candy emanating from the stage, and then the featured artist entering from the back of the auditorium, walking up some steps and down a ramp leading to the stage, all the while blowing into her alto ...

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Album Review

Sean J Kennedy Quartet: Queen Anne's Revenge

Read "Queen Anne's Revenge" reviewed by Larry Geiger

by Larry Geiger
June 8, 2007

Queen Anne's Revenge, according to the well-written liner notes, refers to the stolen ship that Blackbeard used to plunder the Caribbean in the early eighteenth century. It was eventually consumed by the sea, showing that good can triumph over evil. Like those epic battles for survival on the high seas of yore, the title track pits drummers Liberty DeVito and Sean Kennedy against each other in a modern musical re-creation of battle.

Kennedy's energy and talent as a ...

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Live Review

Tim Price with D.O.G.E and Rachel Z

by Larry Geiger
April 8, 2007

Tim Price with The Department of Good and Evil and Rachel Z First Energy Berks Jazz Festival concert L'Villa D'Arte in the Abraham Lincoln Hotel Ballroom Reading, Pennsylvania March 16-17, 2007

Why was I going to drive five hours to Reading PA, in blinding sleet and snow for a concert? My wife should have known better, after her twenty-two years of my going to jazz shows, than to ask that question. ...