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Tab Benoit: These Blues Are All Mine
by Ed Kopp
Tab Benoit is a passionate axeman and full-throated singer. His sixth release shows the full extent of the Louisiana native's considerable talent.Recorded live to analog in a '50s-era Houston studio, These Blues offers uncompromising guitar-propelled blues. The music here is occasionally reminiscent of the two Alberts, King and Collins, and includes tracks made famous ...
Charles Brown: In A Grand Style
by Ed Kopp
Charles Brown pioneered a sophisticated form of post-World War II blues that was part slow blues, part mellow jazz. Brown's smooth music inspired the likes of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Little Richard and countless others who later became much wealthier than their idol. Over the past decade, a new generation of listeners has fallen in love ...
Louisiana Red: Always Played The Blues
by Ed Kopp
Louisiana Red is a spontaneous kind of guy. He never writes any of his songs on paper, even for a recording session. The five British musicians who backed him on this release knew nothing of Red's intentions when they entered the studio. Red's extemporaneous approach could have spelled disaster, but it actually enhances this album. There's ...
Bill Sims: Bill Sims
by Ed Kopp
Bill Sims is a 50-year-old black man whose biracial family was the subject of a recent 10-hour documentary on PBS entitled An American Love Story. PBS released this eponymous blues album in conjunction with the documentary.Surprisingly, it's a terrific blues collection from Sims, an obscure musician who grew up in Ohio and enjoyed modest ...
Wilson Pickett: It's Harder Now
by Ed Kopp
Wilson Pickett's first release in over a decade is a hot blast of authentic Southern soul. Pickett sounds downright dangerous as he roars his way through these 11 originals. With rough-hewn guitars, exploding horns, funkified beats and a soulful contingent of backup singers, this one feels like Muscle Shoals circa 1965.Granted, no song on ...
Cool Bop Phonics: Cool Bop Phonics
by Ed Kopp
If you like fusion that’s more bop than pop, Cool Bop Phonics is well worth tracking down.Cool Bop Phonics was born out of a series of Friday night jam sessions at a club called Robin Hood’s in Stamford, Conn. Organized by percussionist Gerard “Vito" Diacri, these sessions attracted a bevy of veteran jazzers from ...
Lowblow: Victor Bailey
by Ed Kopp
There must be something in Philadelphia’s water supply that spawns great bass players. How else do you explain Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, Alphonso Johnson, Jamaldeen Tacuma, Charles Fambrough, Gerald Veasley and Christian McBride?Victor Bailey is yet another outstanding Philly product. Bailey straddles the line between pop-jazz and fusion on Lowblow, his second solo release. ...
Joey DeFrancesco: Joey DeFrancesco's Goodfellas
by Ed Kopp
You can just imagine a pitchman trying to sell this concept to the suits: “OK, everybody, here's the plan: We find us three Italian jazzers. We have 'em play tunes popularized by famous Italian Americans -- Old Blue Eyes and a couple more. We even throw in some old-country favorites -- “O Solo Mio" and such. ...
Paul Motian & The Electric Bebop Band: Play Monk and Powell
by Ed Kopp
When you think about Thelonious Monk's or Bud Powell’s music, you think of the piano, the instrument of choice for those two eccentric legends. Drummer Paul Motian adopts a different approach to Monk and Powell with his piano-less Electric Bebop Band.The name might lead you to believe that this is a fusion outfit, but ...
Edgar Winter: Winter Blues
by Ed Kopp
For those of us who came of age in the pre-disco ‘70s, Edgar Winter’s “Frankenstein" and “Free Ride" still ignite fond memories. People born after the classic-rock era will recognize Winter as the exceedingly white dude who plays George Hamilton’s unlikely twin brother in that goofy Miller Lite TV ad. Though Winter released two underhyped albums ...
