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James Polk: Recipes from the Doctor
by Josep Pedro
Pianist Dr. James Polk's musical knowledge and worldwide experience spans over more than 50 years. His style, deeply-rooted in the blues, is an example of richness and experience. Polk came up along with a group of incredible Texan musicians; jazz and blues artists like David “Fathead" Newman, Russell Jacquet, Arnett Cobb, Don Wilkerson, and Ornette Coleman, ...
Rick Estrin & The Nightcats to Perform in Edgely, PA, Sunday 17 April
Blues harmonica master /singer/songwriter Rick Estrin and his band The Nightcats will perform at the Terchon V.F.W. in Edgely on Sunday, April 17, 2011. Estrin and The Nightcats will be performing songs from their Alligator Records debut, Twisted. For more than 30 years and nine albums, Estrin fronted the jumping, swinging Little Charlie & The Nightcats, ...
Lest We Forget: Remembering Myrna Lake at the Lenox Lounge 2006
by Daniel Kassell
In his All About Jazz review of Yesterdays (Jazzing Music, 2008), Samuel Chell described singer Myrna Lake's recording as “an exploration of the power of memory itself, a musical narrative yielding the discovery that memory, like the songs that are eventually designated standards, is a moment in the present, an instant distinguished by heightened awareness ...
Gregg Allman: Low Country Blues
by C. Michael Bailey
Low Country Blues is Gregg Allman's eighth (not counting anthologies) solo recording. His previous solo effort was 1997's Searching for Simplicity (Sony), and for those counting, that was 14 years ago. His present recording reflects a trend established with Johnny Cash's American> releases (American Recordings, 1994-2010) and Joe Cocker's Organic (550 Music, 1996), and most recently ...
Charlie Musselwhite Celebrates New Release with Performances in Wilmington & Sellersville
Harmonicist/vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Charlie Musselwhite will give live performances at The Grand Opera House in Wilmington on Sunday, February 13 and at the Sellersville Theatre in Sellersville on Tuesday, February 15, 2011, playing as part of “Hot Tuna Blues on Tour" featuring Musselwhite along with Hot Tuna (Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady and Jim Lauderdale. Musselwhite will be performing ...
Cassandra Wilson: Silver Pony
by Lewis J Whittington
Vocalist Cassandra Wilson is known for her genre bending interpretations of jazz and pop standards, though Silver Pony represents a bit of a departure. The liner notes explain that she worked on it during a personal crisis and also was returning to her musical roots. There are studio tracks recorded in New Orleans, mixed with live ...
Christian Howes: Blues for the Blues Violin
by Ian Patterson
It's not difficult to think of great blues artists--there's a roll call of honor as long as that of great jazz artists--and every sizeable town in the world has a blues band or two. So where is the violin? Great blues guitarists and vocalists have never been in short supply, but the great blues violinist, once ...
Harmonica Master Charlie Musselwhite Celebrates New Release with a Performance in Philadelphia
Harmonicist/vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Charlie Musselwhite celebrates his return to Alligator Records with his new CD, The Well, and a live performance at the World Music Cafe on Wednesday, September 15, 2010. The album is an authentic slice of Charlie's deep blues roots with musical flavors from Mississippi to Chicago to California, including help on one song from legendary ...
Rock Legend Steve Miller to Teach at USC Thornton School of Music
Los Angeles, CA — Some people call him the Space Cowboy. Some call him the Gangster of Love. But when Steve Miller, one of rock music's all-time greats, joins the University of Southern California faculty this fall, he will have to get used another moniker: professor. During the 2010-2011 school year, Miller will teach at the ...
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers with Buddy Guy at Madison Square Garden
by Mike Perciaccante
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers with Buddy GuyMadison Square GardenNew York, New YorkJuly 28, 2010 Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers have been making music for over 30 years (their self-titled debut on Shelter Records was released on November 9, 1976). Petty, who turns 60 in October 2010, and The Heartbreakers (Mike ...
