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PBS' 'American Masters' to Air New Tribute to Cab Calloway for Black History Month
A new documentary on legendary bandleader and showman Cab Calloway will air on the PBS program “American Masters" as part of Black History Month. Cab Calloway: Sketches premieres nationally on Monday, February 27. Best known for his signature song “Minnie the Moocher," his inspirational role in the creation of Sportin' Life for Porgy and Bess, and ...
Abigail Riccards - Soft Rains Fall (2011)
When I first listened to Chicago-based jazz singer Abigail Riccards I had that strange and wonderful feeling of temporarily “forgetting who I was." This is the kind of power that music can have, forcing the attention down to a tiny (and yet immense) point of interest, causing the listener's surroundings to vanish. Riccards' 2008 debut recording ...
Jeff Lorber Fusion - Galaxy (2012)
Keyboardist, composer, producer, arranger and bandleader Jeff Lorber has been propagating fusion jazz for so long, the term “Jeff Lorber Fusion" seems almost redundant. Long dismissed by jazz purists and “heavier" fusion fans alike, Lorber has actually provided a bridge from so-called “lite" jazz to more serious, improvisational forms of jazz, as his Berklee-bred chops are ...
Duke Ellington - The Great London Concerts (1963)
When Duke Ellington strolled out on stage for this 1958 date, it had been 25 years since he'd previously appeared in Europe. Still, though he was kept away by a war and a drawn-out dispute between the U.S. and Brit's musicians unions, you could say Ellington had made quite an impression with that earlier 1933 show ...
Peter Gabriel to Celebrate Anniversary of So with Badly Needed Reworking of 1987 Concert Film
Peter Gabriel's 1986 project So has long been critically and commercially beloved. The accompanying Martin Scorsese-directed concert film, “Peter Gabriel: POV"? Not so much. Look for reissues of both in the coming months, as Gabriel puts the finishing touches on a special 25th anniversary edition of the original album and a long-needed reworking of the 1987 ...
Susan Tedeschi Says Sprawling Tedeschi Trucks Band Owes Much to Joe Cocker's 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen'
There is, of course, an obvious comparison for the newly formed Tedeschi Trucks Band—yeah, we made it too—in the 1970s-era husband-and-wife tours led by Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett. Susan Tedeschi, however, says their group's main inspiration goes further back. All the way back to the traveling caravan of grease-popping soul and eye-popping excess that was Joe ...
Carolina Chocolate Drops Working with Buddy Miller on Follow up to Grammy-Winning Smash
The Carolina Chocolate Drops are working with producer Buddy Miller (Emmylou Harris, Robert Plant, Patty Griffin, Solomon Burke) on a follow up to 2010's Grammy Award—winning label-debut Genuine Negro Jig. The album became an out-of-nowhere sensation, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard bluegrass chart, No. 2 on the Billboard Heatseekers and folk charts, and earning year-end ...
George Porter Jr. to be Honored with Offbeat Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award in Music
George Porter Jr., original bassist with the Meters, will be this year's recipient of OffBeat magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award in Music, during ceremonies to be held January 26 at Generations Hall in New Orleans. An in-demand sideman, Porter has performed and recorded with Dr. John, Paul McCartney, Robbie Robertson, Robert Palmer, Patti Labelle, Jimmy Buffett, David ...
The Wee Trio - Ashes to Ashes: A David Bowie Intraspective (2012)
A finely judged treatment of David Bowie's music, done without hewing too closely to the old sides—and without fear of going too deep into his catalog for material. Along the way, the Wee Trio gives us a new understanding of Bowie's sometimes overlooked way with a pop tune. But, more importantly, Ashes to Ashes is such ...
Steely Dan's Donald Fagen to Sit in for Levon Helm at Midnight Rambles in February
With Levon Helm sidelined by an undisclosed medical procedure, his web site has announced that Donald Fagen of Steely Dan will be a special guest at previously scheduled Midnight Rambles on February 11, 18 and 25. Helm, the Grammy-winning co-founding member of the Band, is expected to be out at least a month. He suffered through ...
