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Cory Henry and The Funk Apostles at Miner Auditorium
by Steven Roby
Cory Henry and The Funk Apostles Miner Auditorium San Francisco, CA September 5, 2025 SFJAZZ Center's digital director, Ross Eustis, started the evening with a brief welcome, highlighting more than 350 shows on the new season's schedule. The crowd greeted the band with the kind of enthusiasm associated with Cory Henry's tour reputation: participatory, spiritual, a revival without dogma. Henry mentioned The Funk Apostles hadn't played together “in over a year." Still, the exchanges suggested ...
Continue ReadingSpodie's Back
by Jim Trageser
Still a teenager when signed to Quincy Jones' Warner Bros. subsidiary, Qwest, trumpeter Derrick Shezbie was nonetheless a veteran on this debut as leader--having been playing in the traditionalist Rebirth Brass Band for several years already. Produced by fellow Crescent City native Delfeayo Marsalis, “Spodie's Back" is a much more modernistic outing than anything he would have tackled in Rebirth. But unlike the throwback neo-bop so popular with other young jazz lions in the 1990s, this is more ...
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