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Future Fusions: Hear and Now
by Chris M. Slawecki
Many artists have been reaching toward truly fusing jazz with soul, hip-hop, trip-hop, electronic, and other non-jazz forms of music. And it's tempting to think that this fusion will happen, but happen eventually, sometime in the future. It seems more and more apparent that there may no longer be a need to wait for it. If ...
April PBS Special Honors Life, Music and Photos of Milt Hinton
by Chris M. Slawecki
You don't have to be a great person to be a great musician. It's great if and when it happens, but it seems that it rarely does. Milt Hinton seems a joyous exception to this rule. By all accounts a great person AND musician, he is celebrated with the new documentary Keeping Time: The ...
Corky Siegel: Corky Siegel
by Chris M. Slawecki
Harmonicat Corky Siegel is a four-decade veteran of the Chicago blues scene and co-leads the Siegel-Schwall Blues Band with guitarist Jim Schwall. Siegel held a long residency during the storied heyday of Pepper's Lounge in Chicago--ripping up and tearing down the blues with Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon and other legends--during which he was befriended ...
Colin John Band: Live Voodoo Surfing from the Beachland
by Chris M. Slawecki
Guitarist, songwriter, and singer Colin John takes his music way beyond “traditional blues. “It's sort of a stigma that all blues sounds the same, he says, so he tries to ignite a musical fire that burns differently from the straight blues flame. “I would call it contemporary blues, rock, and soul, he says, or, “non-traditional, traditional ...
Norman Brown: West Coast Coolin
by Chris M. Slawecki
Norman Brown plays rhythm & blues that's more rhythm than blues and more truthfully jazz-pop than anything else. The guitarist's previous album, Just Chillin', was largely produced by James Poyser and Viktor Dupliax--hit-makers for Erykah Badu, D'Angelo, Jill Scott, and Macy Gray--and claimed the 2002 Grammy® for Best Pop Instrumental recording. The pair returns ...
Count Basie & His Orchestra: Good Time Blues
by Chris M. Slawecki
Recorded in Budapest, this previously unissued 1970 performance proves that nobody could make feeling the blues swing good and hard like Count Basie. Especially when fronting a typically first-rate orchestra, in this case featuring Eddie “Lockjaw Davis on tenor sax, returning son Harry “Sweets Edison (who first played with Basie in the late 1930s) on trumpet, ...
Mike Bloomfield: If You Love These Blues, Play 'Em As You Please
by Chris M. Slawecki
This compilation is a blues purists' dream, packaging If You Love These Blues, Play 'Em As You Please (1976), guitarist Bloomfield's personal tour through the history of acoustic and electric guitar blues, together with Bloomfield/Harris, his 1979 instrumental overview of acoustic country-gospel blues jointly conducted with guitarist Woody Harris. Bloomfield was the American leader ...
The Honest-to-Goodness Real-Life Blues
by Chris M. Slawecki
So you groan through Thanksgiving and trudge through Christmas and endure another New Year's Eve and even force a smile through Valentine's Day...and now......and now, what? What?You've still got more than nine months left in your “new" year, buddy. That's what.And when that realization crunches you under its weight, the ...
Old Fashioned Folk Fry with Hot Tuna
by Chris M. Slawecki
These pages have consistently explored (some might say “beaten to death") the on- and off-ramps between jazz and rock, jazz and funk, jazz and reggae, jazz and other electric music, but rarely if ever the connection between jazz and another form of music, folk. Folk music seems like jazz in one way: It's almost ...
Various Artists: What Is Hip? Remix Project Volume 1
by Chris M. Slawecki
This is probably the release I had the most fun with--laughing alongside friends at parties, singing at the top of my lungs alone in the car with, fun--in 2004. Folks in or around their forties (such as yours truly, H.S. class of 1978) will find that this collection of classics Warner Bros. pop catalog, remaked/remodeled by ...
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