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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 ...
Give the Singers Some!
by Chris M. Slawecki
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men And bring them back to heaven again. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Singers Ruth Naomi Floyd Root to the Fruit ...
Joe Williams: Music for Lovers
by Chris M. Slawecki
Joe Williams' Music for Lovers comes closer to the cocktail sophistication of Nat King Cole or Billy Eckstine than to any blues jump or shout to which Williams gave joyous voice as vocalist with the Count Basie Band. Perhaps the best part of this material, drawn from Williams' 1959-63 ballad albums for Roulette Records, ...
Dinah Washington: Music for Lovers
by Chris M. Slawecki
Dinah Washington's biting, blues-smoked phrasing is often cited as the primordial ground from which singers such as Esther Phillips and Nancy Wilson blossomed, and through them, more contemporary vocalists like Chaka Khan and Patti Labelle subsequently bloomed. This new collection of ballads draws from Washington's 1962-63 recording prime, a fertile period when she released several albums ...
