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Tedeschi Trucks Band at the Vogue Theater

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
January 1, 2014

Tedeschi Trucks Band Vogue Theater Vancouver, BC November 8, 2013 Jazz has always taken from the pop music of its day and culturalized it, intellectualized it, added some soul or swing and for those who are capable, added the personalized artistic X factor that is unique to that artist's ...

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Live From Old York: Big Boy Bloater, Dreadzone & Oli Brown

by Martin Longley
December 23, 2013

Big Boy Bloater City Screen Basement York, UK December 5, 2013 The Bloater returneth, just over a year after his last appearance in York. Back then, he was joined by his full combo, but this 2013 show was a part of the Big Boy's solo tour, ...

Article: Album Review

The Jost Project: Can't Find My Way Home

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by Ian Patterson
November 28, 2013

Rock 'n' roll and The Beatles created serious challenges for jazz. Soul funk, folk and the rock explosion of the 1960s and 1970s left jazz with an even smaller slice of the pie. Many jazz artists jumped to cover pop tunes of the day, often falling ungraciously between two stools. In recent years contemporary jazz artists ...

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Fort Knox Five: 10 Years of the Fort Knox Five

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by Chris M. Slawecki
October 14, 2013

“All good things come in five, baby...You can't get around no prime number, you dig?" Some music just makes you feel good. You can't explain it but some music makes you feel like life's a party and you're invited. (It's that “can't explain it" part which drives writers crazy.) 10 Years of The Fort ...

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Slobber Pup: Black Aces

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by Chris M. Slawecki
October 9, 2013

Keyboardist Jamie Saft, guitarist Joe Morris, bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Balazs Pandi bring merciless new meaning to the phrase “heavy rock quartet." Saft and Morris first met at the New England Conservatory twenty years ago; Saft and Pani are bandmates in Metallic Taste of Blood; and Saft has worked with Dunn on several projects led ...

Article: From the Inside Out

Six Stops Around the Whirled

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 3, 2013

Fort Knox Five 10 Years of The Fort Knox Five Fort Knox Recordings 2013 “All good things come in five, baby...You can't get around no prime number, you dig?" Some music just makes you feel good. You can't explain it but some music makes you feel like life's a ...

Article: Catching Up With

Gene Ess: Blending Passionate and Pensive

by Jud Branam
September 4, 2013

Fresh off the release of Fractal Attraction (Simp, 2013), which blends traditional combo jazz lineups and approaches with a unique take on vocal jazz, Gene Ess is a man with a lot on his mind as it pertains to career, place--and music in general. Ess is enthusiastic about his love of jazz, classical and ...

Article: Book Review

David Byrne: How Music Works

by Nenad Georgievski
August 18, 2013

How Music WorksDavid ByrneHardcover, 352 pagesISBN: 1936365537Canongate Books Ltd.2012By definition, a renaissance man suggests a highly cultivated man of many accomplishments, someone who has a broad base of knowledge and interests, and is skilled in multiple fields or multiple disciplines. As a musician, singer, ...

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Rob Hart Trio: 3000 Realms of 10 Worlds

Read "3000 Realms of 10 Worlds" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
August 7, 2013

Drummers come in as many different flavors as ice cream and each and every one brings something different to the party: some are technicians; some are powerhouses; some are timekeepers; some are virtuosos; and some are innovators.Then there are drummers like Rob Hart, who is comfortable in multiple categories and adds the title of ...

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Lenny White: Lenny White Live from '97

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by Chris M. Slawecki
July 21, 2013

Lenny White played powerful funky drums on some of the best records in jazz and jazz fusion history, including Freddie Hubbard's triumphant Red Clay with Creed Taylor (CTI, 1970), Miles Davis' (in)famous Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970), Romantic Warrior (Columbia, 1975) from his tenure in the Return to Forever rhythm section, and more.Lenny White Live ...