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Lenny Pickett: Equal Opportunity Explorer

by R.J. DeLuke
August 4, 2014

Lenny Pickett is one of those tenor saxophonists who people have heard over and over and, if they're not paying attention, they don't realize it. If they are listening, they will probably pick up on his wailing altissimo phrases and his ballsy, funky sound. He's one of those players, like David Sanborn, who has ...

Article: Album Review

Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters: Good News

Read "Good News" reviewed by Mike Perciaccante

by Mike Perciaccante
July 19, 2014

Ronnie Earl first gained national attention in 1979 when he replaced Duke Robillard as the lead guitarist for Roomful Of Blues. After spending eight years as the main axeman in that group, Earl decided it was finally time to completely branch out on his own. Though Earl had released his first solo disc, Smokin', in 1983 ...

Article: Live Review

Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2014

by R.J. DeLuke
July 9, 2014

Saratoga Performing Arts Center Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival Saratoga Springs, NY June 28-29, 2014 Perfect weather accented this years Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival, an event that had an eclectic mix of young musicians with interesting ideas and approaches, and veterans who deliver consistently. The weather is always a factor ...

Article: Live Review

Buddy Guy At the Paramount

by Mike Perciaccante
June 28, 2014

Buddy Guy The Paramount Huntington, NY June 11, 2014 On a pleasant Wednesday evening in early June, following a bluesy and soulful acoustic set by opening act Matt Anderson, six time Grammy Award winner and Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame member Buddy Guy brought his unique brand of Chicago Blues ...

Article: Live Review

The Art of Blues at Herberger Theatre

by Patricia Myers
June 8, 2014

The Art of Blues Herberger Theater Phoenix, AZ May 4, 2014 “The Art of Blues," an original scripted tribute to blues legends Billie Holiday, Etta James, B. B. King and Buddy Guy, featured speed-artist Randall Hedden creating five-minute portraits to the accompaniment of a Phoenix-based sextet and four vocalists. The performance ...

Article: Live Review

Beale Street Music Festival 2014

by C. Michael Bailey
May 14, 2014

Beale Street Music FestivalMemphis in May International Festival Tom Lee Park Memphis, Tennessee May 2-4, 2014 For most of us, even those born and raised here and rooted to the soil like one of Faulkner's oaks, the South no longer exists. In fact, nearer to the truth, it has ...

News: Recording

Bernie Worrell's First Ever Solo Piano CD Released On M.O.D. Technologies - Elevation, The Upper Air

February 25, 2014

Bernie Worrell, keyboard legend, founding member and essential collaborator / composer / arranger in George Clintonʼs Parliament/Funkadelic, has worked with an extremely diverse array of artists - Talking Heads, Bootsy Collins, The Rolling Stones, Lee ”Scratch” Perry, Black Uhuru, Fela Kuti, Burning Spear, Pharoah Sanders, Buddy Guy, Sly & The Family Stone, Mos Def, Albert King, ...

Article: Live Review

Buddy Guy at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury

by Mike Perciaccante
October 12, 2013

Buddy Guy with Special Guest Quinn Sullivan NYCB Theatre at Westbury Westbury, NY October 3, 2013 Legendary Chicago guitarist Buddy Guy has seen and done it all. He is one of the greatest guitarists of his generation. The Louisiana-born, Guy was exposed to the blues at a young ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

George Thorogood Taught Me To Play Guitar

by C. Michael Bailey
August 4, 2013

Rounder Records has reissued George Thorogood and the Destroyers' first two recordings, George Thorogood And The Destroyers and Move It On Over. Like many white, middle-class kids, it was through the likes of Eric Burdon and the Animals, John Mayall, Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton and, indeed, George Thorogood that I learned the African-American tradition of the ...

Article: Live Review

Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival, Saratoga Springs, NY, June 29-30, 2013

by R.J. DeLuke
July 12, 2013

Saratoga Performing Arts CenterFreihofer's Saratoga Jazz FestivalSaratoga Springs, NYJune 29-30, 2013 Fiery music that burned with intensity, eclectic compositions that shifted in time signature and tempo, sweet melodies and down-home dirty blues--all were heard at this year's Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival in upstate New York, an event that is among the ...