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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 ...
Ray's Music Exchange: Blue in the Face
by Chris M. Slawecki
It's generally considered bad writing to describe one thing in terms of something else that the reader may also need described. This may be considered bad writing, then, but I've gnawed for weeks on this Cincinnati quartet's second studio release, and fifth overall, and this is my best attempt at describing its sound. Imagine ...
Greyboy: Shades of Grey
by Chris M. Slawecki
The cover of this new set reads: “This recording is a live, raw, unfiltered DJ session by DJ Greyboy and contains many rarities and exclusive mixes." Nearly one hour of constantly kaleidoscopic dancefloor motion and commotion--what a great introduction to the mad skillz of San Diego producer, mixmaster, DJ and turntablist Andreas Stevens! It's ...
Pictures Without Borders
by Chris M. Slawecki
Every so often it can be satisfying to set up before one's self a challenge and then to knock it down. Such as trying to find, for example, the jazz threads in sounds cut from different musical cloth. Sons of Armageddon The Softest Touch Magic Pony Records Colorful, complicated and ...
