Jazz Articles about Atiba Rorie

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Album Review

Candice Ivory: When The Levee Breaks: The Music Of Memphis Minnie

Read "When The Levee Breaks: The Music Of Memphis Minnie" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
December 9, 2023

Candice Ivory is more than a little ambitious to conceive and execute an album comprised wholly of material by blues icon Memphis Minnie. But to her credit, she has been quite resourceful in enlisting some formidable resources in the effort: guitarist/bassist Charlie Hunter serves as a player and the album producer, the latter role he also filled on the album of the steel guitarist here DaShawn Hickman. Needless to say, camaraderie abounds throughout the dozen cuts, beginning with ...

Album Review

DaShawn Hickman with Charlie Hunter: Drums, Roots & Steel

Read "Drums, Roots & Steel" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
June 11, 2022

When keyboardist John Medeski (of Medeski, Martin and Wood) produced the The Campbell Brothers' Can You Feel It? (Ropeadope, 2005), he helped bring deserved attention to the woefully unrecognized field of “sacred steel," a musical style and African-American gospel tradition that features the steel guitar. Now, seventeen years later, guitar wunderkind Charlie Hunter makes a similar effort by overseeing and playing bass on DaShawn Hickman's Drums, Roots & Steel. Bringing the familiar “Saints" (...go marching in...) and “Just ...