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Joe Beck: Tri07
by Chris M. Slawecki
Tri07 is a different type of release for Joe Beck. Which is a powerful statement, since this guitarists' guitarist has won the Most Valuable Player Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS) five different times, and his career, which spans five decades, includes working with Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Antonio ...
Bobby Broom: Song and Dance
by Chris M. Slawecki
Chicago native Bobby Broom has been playing guitar since he was about eleven. He decided to become a professional musician after hearing guitarist George Benson kick ass throughout Bad Benson, and was invited on tour by colossal saxophonist Sonny Rollins when Broom was only sixteen. You don't hear or read the phrase “song and ...
JJ Grey & Mofro: Country Ghetto
by Chris M. Slawecki
It's rather promising for a band's debut to remind you of the Faces on the fast numbers and of Otis Redding on the slow ones, but these legends provide solid points of reference for JJ Grey & Mofro's Country Ghetto. Country Ghetto is swampy, funky, bluesy, and above all genuine, straight from JJ Grey's ...
Survey with the Strings On Top
by Chris M. Slawecki
Beg your pardon for the atrocious pun, but it sort of introduces this survey of jazz and blues releases instrumented by bass and guitar players. Bobby Broom Song and Dance Origin 2007 Chicago native Bobby Broom has been playing guitar since he was about eleven. He decided to ...
Various Artists: Backspin: A Six Degrees 10 Year Anniversary Project
by Chris M. Slawecki
Upon this year's tenth anniversary celebration of Six Degrees Records, label co-founder and president Bob Duskis explains, “We like poking holes in the notion of what 'world music' is, or is not. And to commemorate the anniversary, we wanted to do something surprising and different. The label's tenth anniversary celebratory release, Backspin, presents ...
Robert Randolph & The Family Band: Colorblind
by Chris M. Slawecki
In a relatively short time, Robert Randolph has become generally renowned as “the Hendrix of pedal steel guitar, expanding the instrument's vocabulary and approach beyond its familiar country/pop settings. He's in what must be a rather exclusive club of musicians who have guest-starred, upon request, with the Five Blind Boys of Alabama and with Ozzy Osbourne. ...
Viktor Krauss: II
by Chris M. Slawecki
Thanks to his dexterity and vision on multiple stringed instruments, Krauss is kind of a musical everyman who has recorded and performed with Bill Frisell and Lyle Lovett (both of whom appear on II) plus Chet Atkins, Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello and The Chieftains. His solo debut, Far From Enough (Nonesuch, 2004), made it up to ...
Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle: Battery Milk
by Chris M. Slawecki
Vibes player and bandleader Dillon explains the concept behind his genre-mashing Go-Go Jungle ensemble this way: “I wanted to write some blues heads like Milt Jackson might have written had he grown up listening to Led Zeppelin, and play them over a go-go groove. Right from the opening “Go-Go's Theme you can tell ...
"Curiouser & Curiouser": Global Beat April 2007
by Chris M. Slawecki
“Curiouser and curiouser! cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). “Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! -"Alice in Wonderland Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle Battery Milk HYENA 2007 Vibes player and ...
Spanky Wilson & The Quantic Soul Orchestra: I'm Thankful
by Chris M. Slawecki
In previous musical lives, Spanky Wilson recorded more than half a dozen albums and performed and recorded with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Marvin Gaye, Jimmy Smith and Sammy Davis Jr. The Philadelphia-born and bred musician moved to Los Angeles then in the early 1980s relocated to France, where she spent more than a decade as a ...
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