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Rod Piazza and The Mighty Flyers: Here and Now
by Ed Kopp
Rod Piazza and The Mighty Flyers won the 1999 W.C. Handy Award for Blues Band of the Year. Since the Handy Awards are the blues equivalent of the Grammy's, the award was no small honor for the Los Angeles quintet.The Flyers swing out in classic West Coast style, and anybody who has caught this ...
Paul Rishell and Annie Raines: Moving to the Country
by Ed Kopp
Paul Rishell (guitars) and Annie Raines (harmonicas and mandolin) are two of the most talented instrumentalists playing traditional blues today. For their superb first full album as a duo, I Want You to Know (1995), the Bostonians infused their music with various electric touches. Moving to the Country continues this trend, but not at the expense ...
Tom Teasley: Global Standard Time
by Ed Kopp
Percussionist/drummer Tom Teasley delivers earthy interpretations of well-known jazz standards on Global Standard Time, a release that's loose, soulful, exotic, and somewhat remindful of Leon Parker's approach to jazz. Like Parker, Teasley is a gifted percussionist whose worldly vision breathes new life into familiar songs.A musician and educator from the Washington, D.C., area whose ...
Jazz Is Dead: Laughing Water
by Ed Kopp
On Laughing Water, the fusion ensemble Jazz Is Dead one-ups the band that it sets out to honor. Laughing Water is a superior remake of the Grateful Dead's rather ordinary rock album Wake of the Flood.Jazz is Dead's core musicians Jimmy Herring (guitar), T Lavitz (keys) and Alphonso Johnson (bass) trade melodic licks as ...
Asie Payton: Worried
by Ed Kopp
Asie Payton was a full-time farmer and part-time bluesman from Holly Ridge, Mississippi, who died of a heart attack at age 60 while driving his tractor. For two years prior to his death in 1997, Payton resisted overtures to record his music. Fortunately, however, he eventually consented to make two demo tapes for Fat Possum Records. ...
Do: Rowena Said
by Ed Kopp
So many aspiring musicians have taken up the guitar in recent years, it's a rare event when a talented young pianist leads a blues recording session. Rowena Said introduces the world to Doña Oxford, a clever young pianist/organist and sassy vocalist with a don't-mess-with-me attitude. Best known as the keyboardist in Shemekia Copeland's road ...
Tommy Castro: Right as Rain
by Ed Kopp
Originally pegged as the Bay area's answer to Stevie Ray Vaughn, Tommy Castro is an ace guitarist and supremely soulful singer. However, his music is more evocative of Memphis-style soul and roots-rock than Vaughn's Texas blues. Right As Rain features flaming guitar solos, slick backup vocal choruses, jumping Memphis horns and famous guest stars ...
John Carey: Hot for Louisiana
by Ed Kopp
Like many of his musical brethren in New Orleans, John Carey is actually a transplanted Yankee. Somehow this little-known harmonicat and singer from Boston convinced the Memphis Horns, bass-phenom George Porter, and guitarist-extraordinaire Duke Levine to join him on his second album.These celebrated musicians acquit themselves well here, but it's Carey and his lesser-known ...
Sax Gordon: Have Horn Will Travel
by Ed Kopp
Sax Gordon appropriately fuses blues and jazz on Have Horn Will Travel, his terrific debut release for the newly renamed Bullseye Blues and Jazz label. This is an ultra-fine release from a talented saxman with a great sense of humor and an even better sense of swing. The 32-year-old Gordon, aka Gordon Beadle, honed his powerful ...
CeLange: New Day Comin'
by Ed Kopp
Something about this CD takes me back to April 1975, specifically to a warm and sunny afternoon when my college cohorts and I decided to blow off philosophy class. As I remember it, we anchored some speakers in the window of our second-floor dorm room, grabbed a frisbee and some beers, and blasted Delaney and Bonnie, ...
