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Popa Chubby: Live at G. Bluey's Juke Joint NYC
by Doug Collette
When we last heard from Popa Chubby, he was on his own, producing, recording and mixing at Chubbyland, his upstate New York music compound, making the most of his time in the lock-downs of the COVID pandemic on Emotional Gangster (Dixie Frog Records, 2022). Now the man born Ted Horowitz is in his preferred element, back out on the road, captured in the autumn of 2022 in all his redoubtable glory within the modern blues environs of G Bluey's Juke ...
Continue ReadingPopa Chubby: The Catfish
by Chris Mosey
Popa Chubby sees life like this: “Everything is breaking down. The lines are being redefined." With his shaven head and tattooed arms, Chubby--born Ted Horowitz in New York City--may seem an unlikely commentator on the way the world is going, still less someone warranting inclusion on a jazz website. But right away, as he struts his considerable stuff, you realize that appearances deceive, that this is someone way out of the ordinary. Although he very definitely came ...
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