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Tim Carman
Boston-based drummer/bandleader/author and educator, with an ever-lengthening discography including entries from nouveau organ threesome, The Tim Carman Trio, as well as the similarly configured homage to the blues, GA-20.
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Peter Parcek: Most Of The Time
by Doug Collette
The contemporary blues community is densely populated with posers long on affectation and short on authenticity. Not so Peter Parcek for whom the blues carries truths that resonate in such a deep and abiding way that his own musical articulations, plus those of kindred spirits within and without the genre, become expressions straight from the heart and the soul. In fact, as demonstrated on Most Of The Time, this native of Connecticut--who moved to England in the Sixties ...
Continue ReadingTim Carman Trio: King Comfy
by Doug Collette
On King Comfy, Tim Carman Trio plays with such irrepressible glee that it is difficult, if not impossible, to resist the vivacious charm of their musicianship. Over the course of the album's forty-minutes, its tongue-in- cheek title becomes as much (or more) of a direct reflection of the band's natural fluidity as its ingratiating cover photo. Much of the fun in listening to this, the threesome's second full-length album, is trying to identify the apparent teases in cuts ...
Continue ReadingThe Tim Carman Trio And GA-20: Everything Old Is New Again
by Doug Collette
An author and educator besides a musician, Boston-based Tim Carman might well qualify as a renaissance man. Based on two closely coincidental releases on which he appears, not to mention an increasingly lengthy discography including prior titles with these very same ensembles, he's certainly an artist to be reckoned with. It is one thing to have command of technique, but quite another to be able to adjust those technical skills for a variety of settings and still retain a distinctive ...
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Eat Your Greens
From: EmeraldsBy Tim Carman
