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Article: Book Review

No Saints No Saviors: My Years with The Allman Brothers Band

by Doug Collette
March 27, 2005

Willie Perkins No Saints No Saviors: My Years with The Allman Brothers Band Mercer University Press (ISBN: 0865549672) 2005 No Saints No Saviors is Willie Perkins' story of his days as road manager with The Allman Brothers and, in later years, with Gregg Allman. Since it is presented in anecdotal ...

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Article: Jazz Journal

March 2005

by Doug Collette
March 14, 2005

Dave Holland Big Band Overtime Dare2 Records 2005 This jubilant, colorful jazz bodes well for the success of the great bassist's own label. What distinguishes this set is what made his quintet in recent years such a joy: well-structured compositions into which the musicians breath life through crisp exchanges and ...

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Article: Profile

The Allman Brothers Band: Beacon Theatre Preview 2005

by Doug Collette
February 26, 2005

Whither The Brothers in 2005? A question worth pondering after the breakthrough year of 2003, those prodigious gains consolidated throughout 2004 and the apparently ever-widening future of ABB to be shaped beginning, as it does every March, at The Beacon Theatre in New York City 2005 is shaping up to be a ...

Article: Live Review

Basso Profundo: Oteil & The Peacemakers Live at Nectar's Burlington Vermont

by Doug Collette
February 26, 2005

History will show that the enistment of Oteil Burbridge as bassist for The Allman Brothers Band was the first major step towards the reconfiguration of that seminal Southern group that now boasts all the potency of any lineup that's ever worked under that name. Recruited in 1997 to take the place of Allen Woody when he ...

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Article: Live Review

The Way Up to the Green Mountains: The Pat Metheny Group Live

by Doug Collette
February 24, 2005

To his enormous credit as a musician, Pat Metheny has become more rather than less interesting as his career has developed. New Agey sounds have taken the place of airy Brazilian textures (the forgettable likes of which closed this February 15th show) while his work in studio and on the road has left him wholly unpredictable.

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Eric Clapton: Prototype of the Guitar Hero

by Doug Collette
February 20, 2005

Eric Clapton Disraeli Gears (with Cream) 461 Ocean Blvd. Layla (with Derek & The Dominos) Universal Music Enterprises 2004 With the reformation of Cream looming for later this year, it's well to ponder how Eric Clapton became the archetypal guitar hero of our times. A series ...

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Article: Live Review

Art of The Duo: Benevento & Russo Live at Higher Ground

by Doug Collette
February 19, 2005

With this, their fourth appearance in the greater Burlington area in less than a year(!), The Duo are rapidly becoming the darlings of the area music scene, but they're preparing to make a much larger impact than just Vermont's largest city: with a ballyhooed studio album set for release on Ropeadope Records in April and their ...

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Article: Live Review

Addison Groove Project Live: The Beat Goes On

by Doug Collette
February 12, 2005

Boston' s Addison Groove Project turned their first visit to the new Higher Ground into a dance party for the new millennium this Thursday night. It was a testament to the infectious nature of their music as well as their direct connection to their young audience that when the dance floor filled up, it stayed that ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Marsalis Music: A Love For Jazz Supreme

by Doug Collette
February 10, 2005

Born into a family with an estimable legacy in the annals of jazz, Branford Marsalis has always done that legacy proud and never more so than through his conception of Marsalis Music. Conceived, according to noted jazz critic Bob Blumenthal (who works hand in hand on various projects under the MM aegis), as a homage to ...

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Article: Film Review

Ride The Music: Los Lobos Live at the Fillmore

by Doug Collette
February 6, 2005

Los Lobos Live at The Fillmore Hollywood 2004 During the “Imported from ELA"? documentary section of the new Los Lobos DVD, guitarist/songwriter/singer Cesar Rosas muses on the acts who once opened for his band, such as Melissa Etheridge and Stevie Ray Vaughan, who have gone on to great popularity. He ...