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Carolina Chocolate Drops - Leaving Eden (2012)
The Carolina Chocolate Drops, despite their rocket-ride to Grammy fame in 2010, hadn't yet made an album that captured their live set's boot-scooting, blues-belting string-band revivalist verve—until now. Producer Buddy Miller brings a candle-lit ambiance to the proceedings, allowing the band to wander ever deeper into backwoods musical influences from across the Deep South. Again stirring ...
Jim McCarty Discusses Jeff Beck's Ouster from the Yardbirds: "He Had to Go"
The Yardbirds, famous for such 1960s-era tracks as “For Your Love," “Over Under Sideways Down," and “Heart Full of Soul," served as a launching pad for three of rock's most recognizable guitarists—Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. Co-founding drummer Jim McCarty recently returned to the band's separation from Beck, which actually happened on tour after ...
Josh Ginsburg - Zembla Variations (2012)
In a couple of days, bassist/composer/bandleader Josh Ginsburg will issue his first album, one he's clearly ready for. Zembla Variations, inspired mainly from his Red Hook, Brooklyn environs, finds Ginsburg sliding into those composer and bandleader roles with confidence after already establishing himself as a sideman for an impressive list of jazz notables. Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jeff ...
Charles Gayle Trio - Streets (2012)
Like Giuseppi Logan, tenor saxophonist Charles Gayle was in the thick of it during the free jazz revolution taking place in New York during the 1960s. Also like Logan, Gayle's choice of profession forced a meager existence on him that eventually led him drop out nearly completely out of sight by the end of that decade. ...
Chick Corea/ Eddie Gomez/ Paul Motian - Further Explorations (2012)
It's yet another tribute to the singular artistry of Bill Evans, but this one has a special plot line: the drummer played for Evans in one era and the bassist played for him in another era. While the pianist, naturally, was never a part of an Evans ensemble, he has over several decades built a wide-ranging ...
Pete Robbins Transatlantic Quartet - Live in Basel (2012)
Both Pete Robbins' band and music represents reaching across from one space to another. The aptly named Transatlantic Quartet consists of musicians on either side of the “pond," starting with the Massachusetts saxophonist Robbins joined by his Irish bassist Simon Jermyn living in NYC, Canadian drummer Kevin Brow living in Copenhagen and guitarist Mikkel Ploug who ...
Roger Hodgson, the Voice of Supertramp, Announces New 'Breakfast in America' Tour
Roger Hodgson, the voice of Supertramp, will embark on his Breakfast in America Tour next month, kicking off with two sold out shows at the Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula, Calif. Hodgson and his band will perform all of Supertramp's timeless hits, including “Breakfast in America," “The Logical Song," “Dreamer," “Give a Little Bit," “Take the ...
Ian Anderson Will Return to Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick for First Time in Decades
Ian Anderson is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick by playing the progressive rock epic in its entirety for the first time since 1972. But not with the band with which he once sang and played the flute. Anderson prefers the more intimate settings that a solo tour provides: “The audiences ...
The Friday Morning Listen: Frank Zappa - We're Only in It for the Money (1968)
The drama surrounding the whole SOPA and PIPA bills was kind of fun to see play out. It was like the corporate interests legislators who were behind the bills had absolutely no idea that their proposals might have unintended consequences: ones that would generate a firestorm of passion. Between the website blackouts and the avalanche of ...
Tania Maria - Tempo (2012)
One of Brazil's brightest performers of the last three decades, Tania Maria led a band by the age of 13, and has a distinctively exuberant vocal and percussive piano style as part of her wide skill set. An international pop star since the 1980's, she's probably best known for her worldwide pop hit song “Come With ...
