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Live Review

Barenaked Ladies at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa

by Mike Perciaccante
July 13, 2014

Barenaked Ladies San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa Nielsen 360 Conference San Antonio, TX June 24, 2014 The Barenaked Ladies are one of Canada's greatest and most successful exports to the United States if not the world. If success were defined by bringing smiles to the faces of the young and old alike, then the band is clearly a huge success. Best known for their string of hit singles that include “One ...

Album Review

Dan Phillips BKK Quartet: Bangkok Edge Live

Read "Bangkok Edge Live" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
July 13, 2014

Guitarist Dan Phillips has long been a leading figure in nurturing jazz in his adopted home of Bangkok. Whether teaching in the city's universities or through his club gigs, Phillips has mentored and inspired many of Thailand's upcoming jazz musicians. With the excellent pairing of drummer Chanutr Techatana-nan (aka Hong) and bassist Pornchart Viriyapark, the trio's impressive debut Bangkok Edge (Self produced, 2012) featured Danish saxophonist Jakob Dinesen on half the tracks. That collaboration is reprised here in a vibrant ...

Live Review

Halie Loren at the Bach Dynamite & Dancing Society

by Bill Leikam
July 13, 2014

Halie Loren Quartet Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society aka Douglas Beach House Half Moon Bay, CaliforniaJune 22, 2014 Topping off the late afternoon at the Bach, the Halie Loren Quartet took the stage, ready to give the audience the gift of song. The quartet was composed of Brian West on drums, Mark Schneider on bass, Matthew Treder on piano and Halie Loren vocals. They have been on the rise in the public eye, expanding their ...

Profile

Remembering Charlie Haden

by Michael Ricci
July 12, 2014

We're celebrating the spirited life and music of bassist Charlie Haden (1937-2014) who passed away on July 11th. We've included links to four archived interviews as well as our coverage of Mr. Haden's music from years past. Charlie Haden: An Analog Guy in a Digital World (2004) Born August 6, 1937 in Shenandoah, Iowa, Charlie Haden came up in a musical family. After moving around the Midwest, he eventually settled in Los Angeles playing bass with ...

Live Review

Jeff Beck in Cologne

by Phillip Woolever
July 12, 2014

Jeff Beck Group E-Werk Cologne, Germany May 29, 2014 Sometimes a man's reputation proceeds him. Such was the case tonight, where an overflow crowd of 2,000 fans arrived early, and crammed into a steamy bunker of bricks to hear Jeff Beck's wonderous wails to the electric wind. With general admission ticket prices around an 80 buck exchange rate, it was good indication of respect. The price of admission proved to ...

Album Review

Walt Weiskopf: Overdrive

Read "Overdrive" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan
July 12, 2014

Since making his first two records on the independent Iris label back in the early '90s, Walt Weiskopf has staked a claim as one of the most advanced and iconic tenor saxophonists in jazz. However, even as he went on to record one great record after another for Criss Cross beginning in 1993, Weiskopf remained under the radar of most listeners and seldom even registered on most critics polls. Over the past several years his profile has risen ...

Album Review

Joe Magnarelli: Lookin' Up!

Read "Lookin' Up!" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
July 12, 2014

Trumpeter Joe Magnarelli has been a jazz scene stalwart for 30 years. Based in New York since 1986 he's worked with a broad range of musicians including Lionel Hampton, Jimmy Cobb and Michael Feinstein and has released a series of albums as leader. Lookin' Up! is his first recording for the Posi-Tone label and it proves to be a fine addition to that label's roster of top-flight straight-ahead jazz.Lookin' Up! is a quintet outing, with trombonist and fellow ...

Extended Analysis

Steve Hackett: Genesis Revisited - Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Limited Artbook Edition)

by John Kelman
July 12, 2014

Recorded just five months after the three-CD/two-DVD Genesis Revisited: Live at Hammersmith (Inside Out, 2013), it's not an unreasonable question to ask: why another show from the same tour (given the tour has been extended even further, by popular demand, into 2014 under the moniker Genesis Extended, featuring the same lineup with the exception of Nick Beggs replacing Lee Pomeroy on bass, bass pedals, guitar and vocals)--especially when this is the music of Genesis, a group renowned for its desire ...

Album Review

The Grahams: Riverman's Daughter (Deluxe Edition)

Read "Riverman's Daughter (Deluxe Edition)" reviewed by Mike Perciaccante

by Mike Perciaccante
July 12, 2014

Alyssa and Doug Graham are a husband and wife duo who met in gramar school. The duo's music is passionate, joyful, harmonious and captivating. It isn't exactly country, though, country music fans will love it. It isn't exactly folk, yet folk music aficionados will immediately connect with it. The music isn't exactly pop, yet it features pop elements. It can't be called blues but it is certainly bluesy. It sure is rootsy, but the term rootsy doesn't do justice to ...

Album Review

Cowboy Mouth: Go!

Read "Go!" reviewed by Mike Perciaccante

by Mike Perciaccante
July 12, 2014

Cowboy Mouth drummer/lead vocalist Fred LeBlanc has been quoted as saying, “If the Neville Brothers and the Clash had a baby, it would be Cowboy Mouth." Fans have described a Cowboy Mouth performance as a Southern gospel revival sans the religion. In many ways for many of the band's fans, Cowboy Mouth is a religion. As anyone who has seen a Cowboy Mouth concert can attest, there is a lot of southern preacher in LeBlanc's stage banter. Cake Magazine once ...