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Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood: Out Louder
by Doug Collette
During the early 1990s, Medeski, Martin & Wood conjured up a heady, groove-oriented style that coincided with the increasingly rhythm-oriented approach John Scofield was developing. A year before the trio made the leap to Blue Note, those parallel paths intersected in 1998: MMW accompanied the guitarist in the studio on A Go Go (Verve), and they ...
Lobos Live in Lowell: Ridin' On
by Doug Collette
Los Lobos Boarding House Park Lowell, Massachusetts September 1, 2006 Los Lobos should be honored as a national treasure. Appearing in the home of Jack Kerouac near the end of the Massachusetts city's summer music series, this band from East LA displayed an affectionate enthusiasm for their ...
Los Lobos: The Town And The City
by Doug Collette
The Town And The City is music for the head, heart and soul. Its sound is deeply atmospheric, its songs emotionally resonant and its concept keenly intelligent. This is the work of a great band uniting its musical and cultural roots in a song cycle imbued with universal relevance. That might sound pretentious if Los Lobos ...
The Allmans and The Mule: Brothers of the Road
by Doug Collette
The Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule Meadowbrook Farms Gilford NH August 25th 2006 Tweeter Center Mansfield MA August 26th 2006 Given the fundamental connections between The Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule, it was nothing less than inevitable that the two bands ...
Miles Davis: The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions
by Doug Collette
The Miles Davis Quintet The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions Prestige Records 2006 (1955-56) Adorned by a painting rendered by the man with the horn himself, the elegant understatement of the packaging of The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions is wholly in line with the music it contains. ...
Gov't Mule: High and Mighty
by Doug Collette
With their new album High & Mighty, Gov't Mule has once again given the lie to the myth that a hard-rockin' band can't possess a finely tuned intellect. Or that a musical group with real strength is too muscle-bound to display sufficient finesse to improvise with urgency and purpose. The sound of High & Mighty hits ...
Phish Live in Brooklyn
by Doug Collette
Phish Live in Brooklyn Rhino 2006 If the individual band members' need for escape from the confines of Phish has any bearing on the playing contained in Live in Brooklyn, it's purely positive. Whether from the release of pent-up emotion with the announcement of their disbandment ...
Trey @ The Tweeter: Opening the Doors
by Doug Collette
Trey Anastasio Tweeter Center Mansfield, MA June 21, 2006 The summer of 2006 is what Trey Anastasio must've been thinking of when he decided to announce the disbandment of Phish a little over two years ago: with his own band, he's embarked on the first of two legs of touring ...
Phil Lesh & Friends, Trey Anastasio & Mike Gordon, Benvento/Russo Duo: Goin' Down the Road
by Doug Collette
Phil Lesh & Friends, Trey Anastasio & Mike Gordon, Benevento/Russo Duo Tweeter Center Mansfield, MA July 6, 2006 The spontaneous spirit of improvisation overflowed at Mansfield, Massachusetts' Tweeter Center on July 6. Seven hours of music were rife with great moments, though none of the three acts played ...
Eric Clapton & The Allman Brothers: Sharing The Key To The Highway
by Doug Collette
Long before Duane Allman prevailed upon famed record producer Tom Dowd to usher him into a session with Derek and The Dominos, the respective fates of The Allman Brothers and Eric Clapton were inextricably intertwined. Early in their development as the Allman Joys and The Hourglass, Skydog, as Duane was nicknamed, and Gregg had covered Yardbirds' ...


