Jazz Articles

Dr. John: Right Place, Right Time

by Jim Santella
April 16, 2006

This 1989 performance at Tipitina's features Dr. John with his band playing a program of comfortable New Orleans favorites. Blues, gospel, voodoo and jazz merge evenly on this Mardi Gras concert, which feels like an all-night celebration.

With “I Walk on Guilded Splinters, Dr. John sings about the prescription that he can provide for those who will listen. Count me in. He has the mojo to make magic happen any night of the week. With congas poppin' and ...

Dr. John: Right Place Right Time: Live at Tipitina

by C. Michael Bailey
April 3, 2006

Dr. John at Tipitina's on Mardi Gras, God's in his heaven, and all's right with the world. Right Place Right Time is the second of the projected Rebennack Chronicles, live recordings culled from Dr. John's extensive private collection by uber-producer Joel Dorn. The first release was the exquisite All By Hisself, a 1986 solo outing that found the voodoo doctor in fine form. Add a band to that piano in the cradle of jazz on the Crescent City's highest holy ...

Mac "Dr. John" Rebennack: Dr. John - All By Hisself

by C. Michael Bailey
October 17, 2003

Mac Rebennack allowed producer Joel Dorn to peer into his bag of tricks, and out popped the first of what promises to be several releases of the good Doctor in concert. For consideration here is a live show at the Lonestar Restaurant in New York City, recorded in 1986. Dr. John Swings through a collection of songs well known to him all played in that New Orleans piano style fashioned by Champion Jack Dupree, Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, and Rebennack ...