Results for "JamBase"

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News: Performance / Tour

Phil and Friends to CO-Headline Nye with Weir and Ratdog

October 15, 2008

Phil Lesh & Friends to Co-Headline NYE Shows with Bob Weir & RatDog Jackie Greene Band To Open Both Shows at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco Phil Lesh On December 30 and 31 (New Year's Eve) Phil Lesh & Friends and Bob Weir and RatDog will celebrate the turning of the year ...

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News: Music Industry

Happy Birthday, Thelonious Monk!

October 15, 2008

JAZZ'S GRAND TRICKSTER WOULD HAVE BEEN 91 THIS WEEK There's no one quite like Thelonious Monk. His impact on the instrument of piano, jazz and music as a whole is beyond comprehension. He's one of those rare individuals whose imagination and fearlessness break up the calcification that builds up on music and frees it ...

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News: Performance / Tour

B.B. King | 09.25.08 | Connecticut

October 15, 2008

Words & Images by: Arthur Shim B.B. King :: 09.25.08 :: Klein Memorial Auditorium :: Bridgeport, CT B.B. King :: 09.25 :: CT The legendary king of the blues, Riley “B.B." King strolled into town, appearing at a small community theater in Bridgeport, CT, just 50 miles north of New ...

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News: Recording

Johnny Neel and the Criminal Element:volume 2

October 14, 2008

By: Dennis Cook Twistin' one and smokin' it down, skinny dippin' in a lake and generally driving their fingers into fine, earthy stuff, Johnny Neel and the Criminal Element tap into The Mothers of Invention, Dumpstaphunk and some of Neel's earlier involvements like Blue Floyd and the Allman Brothers. Clever but streetwise, the Criminal Element - ...

News: Performance / Tour

Phil and Friends | 09.21-28 | Sweetwater

October 14, 2008

By: Michele Augis Phil Lesh & Friends :: 09.21.08 - 09.25.08 & 09.28.08 :: Sweetwater Station :: Larkspur, CA Phil Lesh by Susan J. Weiand Before the first night of the Phil Lesh & Friends run at the Sweetwater Station in late September, the general consensus was a curious one. The first four “Sweetwater Sessions" ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Magnoliafest: 10/23-26

October 14, 2008

MagnoliaFest Ready to Rock the Suwannee Again 12th Annual Music Festival Features the Best in Roots & Jam Rock MagFest - Spirit of the Suwannee by Nick Atlas One of the most highly-regarded music festivals anywhere, MagnoliaFest returns to the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, FL October 23-26. MagFest, as ...

News: Recording

Neil Young: Live at Sugar MTN '68

October 14, 2008

REPRISE SETS NEIL YOUNG'S SUGAR MOUNTAIN LIVE RELEASE FOR NOVEMBER 25 Neil Young by Jay Blakesberg Just five days shy of his 23rd birthday, Neil Young's solo career launched in earnest with an engagement at The Canterbury House in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Having left the Buffalo Springfield only six months earlier, Neil brought just his guitar ...

News: Recording

New Toubab Krewe Live Album

October 13, 2008

MORE DETAILS SURFACE FOR LATEST OFFERING BY ASHEVILLE'S AFRO BLUES JAM JUGGERNAUT Toubab Krewe's highly anticipated new release, Live at the Orange Peel will be released nationally on November 29 but the band is making a limited number of copies available at shows on their fall currently underway. The band plays next on ...

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News: Recording

Garaj Mahal:woot

October 13, 2008

By: Josh Potter Ah, remember when funky, instrumental music wasn't simply lumped in with other bands that “jammed" and actually got the credit it deserved for all the crazy influences it drew upon? Garaj Mahal does. It's been no secret amongst Mahalics, either, that the San Francisco-Chicago quartet deals in some of the most perplexing arrangements ...

News: TV / Film

Sat Eye Candy: SNL Turns 33

October 12, 2008

“LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT" On this evening in 1975, George Carlin hosted the very first episode of Saturday Night Live. Joined by musical guests Janis Ian and Billy Preston, he kicked off one of the longest running comedy variety show in TV history. Each Saturday night for a good chunk of each year, ...