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Psychedelic Furs & Tom Tom Club: Westbury, NY, October 7, 2011
by Mike Perciaccante
Psychedelic Furs & Tom Tom Club NYCB Theatre at Westbury Westbury, New York October 7, 2011 Touching down at Long Island's NYCB Theatre at Westbury for the penultimate night of a short eighteen-date trek across the U.S., legendary modern rock bands The Psychedelic Furs and Tom Tom Club used their ...
Quentin Moore: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by Chris M. Slawecki
Much has been recently written about the “graying" of jazz and the audience who listens to it, young musicians seem to continually discover (and rediscover) its enduring value--and not just the value of jazz as its own standalone genre, but the benefit of incorporating aspects of jazz, such as improvisation and arrangement, into music of every ...
Live From The Bell House: Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars, Big Sandy And His Fly-Rite Boys, Dennis Coffey & Syl Johnson
by Martin Longley
Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars The Bell House May 28, 2011 Down in Gowanus again, a few blocks away from its toxic canal, a proximity that doesn't impair The Bell House's ability to present great music, or even discourage folks from sitting outside in the newly-arrived swelter. How charming, to ...
Johnnie Taylor: Taylored in Silk
by C. Michael Bailey
Concord Music Group begins a Stax Remasters series with the release of The Staples Singers' Be Altitude: Respect Yourself (1972), Booker T and the MGs' McLemore Avenue (1970) and Johnnie Taylor Taylored in Silk (1973). The Taylor's disc is most notable for sharpening the definition of “Memphis Soul." Johnnie Taylor today is best known for his ...
Donny Hathaway: Someday We'll All Be Free
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Donny HathawaySomeday We'll All Be FreeRhino France2010 Critical opinion has not always been kind to the singer Donny Hathaway, who died in 1979 at the age of 33. Some have decried an alleged bourgeoisification of soul; but more cruel, perhaps, is the general neglect of critical and commercial ...
Take Five With David White
by AAJ Staff
Meet David White:Trombonist/composer/arranger David White is a highly versatile musician who is building a strong reputation in the New York jazz scene. Since arriving in New York in 1999, he has performed frequently throughout the area and has shared the stage with such luminaries as Jon Faddis, Slide Hampton, James Weidman, Frank Lowe, Todd ...
Fat Freddy's Drop Jamming Live & Taking Names
Fat Freddy's Drop Captured in Their Natural State: Jamming Live and Taking Names at the Roundhouse Fat Freddy's Drop has battled mad scientists and unleashed mad skills. An unlikely band of sons of the Pacific, they can flip on the fly from Maori reggae to sweet Yankee soul with near psychic precision. Like kungfu masters, they ...
North Sea Jazz 2010 Leads Tour de Jazz
The widely renown port of Rotterdam promises to provide even more metropolitan vibrancy than usual from July 9th through the 11th, as the 35th edition of the North Sea Jazz juggernaut raises the standard of musical entertainment once again. In terms of big bang for the show time buck and relative ease of multiple-venue accessibility, when ...
Jazz Goes Green: Musical Explorations On A Secondary Color Of Note
by Dan Bilawsky
With spring taking hold and summer on the way, it's hard to avoid encounters with the color green. The drab gray and white of winter is now no more and a vibrant green color scheme has taken over. A drive along the Long Island Expressway--which leads to Manhattan and some of the greatest jazz clubs in ...
Mindi Abair: In Hi-Fi Stereo
by Woodrow Wilkins
Sometimes, trends are a good thing. A number of recording artists have dipped back into old-school sounds--not necessarily remaking hits, but making new music using older styles. Saxophonist Mindi Abair follows suit with In Hi-Fi Stereo, a set of mostly original music. Abair was surrounded by musicians as a child, with a grandmother singing ...
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