Jazz Articles

The Greyboy Allstars: What Happened to Television?

by Matt Leskovic
September 29, 2007

Flip through albums in the bargain Funk/Soul/R&B bin at your local record store and you'll find a mix of classic Meters, Mayfield, and James Brown LPs. If a copy of the Greyboy Allstars' What Happened To Television? winds up in your stack, you probably wouldn't guess it was recorded in 2007.

While many contemporary funk outfits have diluted their music with commercially driven slickness, the Greyboy Allstars have stuck to their roots. Their sound has not smoothed out--it's ...

The Greyboy AllStars: What Happened to Television?

by Doug Collette
August 2, 2007

Having formed almost fifteen years ago in 1993, The Greyboy AllStars are an urban myth of sorts. Their early forays into funk flowed throughout the jamband scene that coalesced in the mid-to-late 1990s, which is where the principals of the quintet found a name for themselves. Now hornman Karl Denson (leader of Tiny Universe) and keyboardist Robert Walter (head of 20th Congress) are principals (though only slightly more so than their peers) of the first Greyboy AllStars studio recording in ...

Kyle Hollingsworth: Never Odd Or Even

by Dennis Cook
January 6, 2005

Press play on Never Odd Or Even and you're suddenly tuned into a foreign radio broadcast, mechanized drums and wailing voices sparring with hot wax keyboards. On his solo debut, String Cheese Incident ivory tickler Hollingsworth trots out his considerable chops, but more importantly his compositional skills. His band is a who's who of Boulder, Colorado players, including Motet drummer Dave Watts. “The Crusade" kicks it off with a bumping soul jazz workout, a vibe that resurfaces several times. Joshua ...

Keller Williams: Laugh

by Susie Ochs
March 1, 2002

Keller Williams' latest studio album, Laugh, is at once an extremely creative endeavor, stretching Keller's boundless talent into new musical areas, and a playful snapshot of musicians in a studio just having a great old time.

The first track, “Freeker by the Speaker," starts by sounding like classic Keller: a melodic riff played on an acoustic guitar with jaw-dropping speed. But a few bars later, when the drums, bass and electric guitar kick in, it hits you. This isn't the ...