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A Tribute to the McCoy Brothers (October 3, 2010)
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Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
In the Thirties, one of the great folk-blues-hot jazz bands was the Harlem Hamfats, who recorded a great many rocking sides for Decca's “race records" line. The band was sparked by the string playing of “Kansas Joe" (guitar) and “Papa Charlie" McCoy (mandolin) — who are buried in unmarked graves. Arlo Leach has organized a daylong tribute to the McCoy brothers: it's October 3, taking place in Chicago. And our own Andy Schumm will be playing the role of hot ...
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Violinist Christian Howes Interviewed at All About Jazz...And More!
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All About Jazz
It's not difficult to think of great blues artists—there's a roll call of honor as long as that of great jazz artists—and every sizeable town in the world has a blues band or two. So where is the violin? Great blues guitarist sand vocalists have never been in short supply, but the great blues violinist, once such an important part of the blues group, has all but disappeared. Christian Howes—a classically trained violinist who has turned his hand to all ...
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JJ Grey and Mofro: True Warhorses
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JamBase
By Dennis Cook Maybe it's pounding soul of “All," the slinky strut of “Diyo Dayo," the synth-dappled, switchback funk of “Hide & Seek" or perhaps the crack-your-heart-open tenderness of “King Hummingbird," but something gonna get you on JJ Grey & Mofro's new slab, Georgia Warhorse (released August 24 on Alligator Records). Grey and his shifting ensemble specialize in 'getcha music,' the sort that runs its fingers through your hair, leaves lipstick on your collar and sometimes lifts your wallet and ...
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"An Effort to Become the IMDB of Live Music." Part 2 of an Interview with Michelle You of Songkick
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HypeBot
This is the second part of my interview with Michelle You, who is co-founder and Head of Product at Songkick; the live music database and concert alert system. In this segment, You talks the archival aspect of Songkick, how they've become the largest database of live music in the world, and the enornous opportunity before the record industry in the digital age. Kyle Bylin: The most active concertgoers aren't solely live music junkies as much as they are a different ...
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Guitarist Matthew Charles Heulitt Interviewed at All About Jazz
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John Kelman
Guitarist/composer Matthew Charles Heulitt has been around for a while, gigging for over a decade in drumming master Zigaboo Modeliste's funk band. Heulitt is also a member of ex-Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra drummer Narada Michael Walden's band; it is therefore no surprise that he displays an acute rhythmic sense in his playing. In fact, Heulitt's approach to the guitar stems from the way he hears other instruments; he adapts the agility of the piano and horns into his playing, ...
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A 1977 Interview with Jaco Pastorius: The Florida Flash
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Groove Notes
By Neil Tesser (Downbeat, January 27, 1977) “There's a real rhythm in Florida," Jaco Pastorius says in a voice saturated in matter-of-fact. “Because of the ocean. There's something about the Caribbean Ocean, it's why all that music from down there sounds like that. I can't explain it, but I know what it is." He pauses to unclasp his hands, like gangly sandcrabs, and drop his lanky arms to the sides of his lanky body. “I can feel it when I'm ...
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A Bill Evans Addendum
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Thanks to Jan Stevens of The Bill Evans Web Pages for pointing the way to a revealing interview with Evans the year before he died. Ross Porter (pictured), then of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, talked with the pianist at his home and in his car as Evans was driving to a medical appointment. Evans is articulate about his career, his musical goals and his associates, including Miles Davis, Philly Joe Jones and Scott LaFaro. He does not dwell on his ...
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Marc Ribot Taps Into Lyricism for His Solo Guitar Soundtrack to Nonexistent Movies
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All About Jazz @ Spinner
There are few musicians that have worked in a wider and more creative catalog of material than Marc Ribot. As a sideman, the guitarist has backed singers including Tom Waits, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, Richard Hell, Elvis Costello and Norah Jones, not to mention John Zorn and vast array of avant-garde jazz musicians. His own material tends to be wildly eclectic: He's probably the only person who will ever record an Albert Ayler tribute for solo guitar for Atlantic ...
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