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From cookin’ with Blues legend John Lee Hooker, organ summits with B-3 master Dr. Lonnie Smith, television and radio appearances, young Wil Blades is gaining critical acclaim and international recognition. Blades, a native Chicagoan, has become the San Francisco Bay Area’s first call organist and is rapidly gaining momentum throughout the country. In 2007 and 2008, he was named in the Downbeat critics poll under “Rising Star” for organ. For the past several years, Wil has been wowing Bay Area audiences with groups such as “O.G.D.,” “Motherbug”, “Amendola Vs. Blades”, “Steppin’.” In addition to performing with legendary artists such as John Lee Hooker and Dr. Lonnie Smith, Wil has performed and recorded with Melvin Sparks, Idris Muhammad, Joe Louis Walker, Don Braden, Donald Harrison, Karl Denson, Will Bernard, Scott Amendola, Charlie Hunter, Stanton Moore, Betty Joplin, Eddie Marshall, Herbie Lewis, and many others.

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Jacques Lesure Live At Lavender Blue

By Jacques Lesure

Label: Kindred Rhythms
Released: 2026
Track listing: You Are The Sunshine of My Life; Ain’t Nothing But A G-String Baby; Close Your Eyes; 100 Ways; Invitation; You’re My Everything; Cold Duck Time; Boogie Woogie Bossa Nova; Sweet Love; Chitlins Con Carne.

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Jacques Lesure “Live at Lavender Blue”

By Jacques Lesure

Article: Album Review

SticklerPhonics: Technicolor Ghost Parade

Read "Technicolor Ghost Parade" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 4, 2024

For drummer, composer, and bandleader Scott Amendola it ain't nothing but a party. From his early days with guitarist Charlie Hunter's ensembles and their later collaboration with T.J. Kirk which covered the music of Thelonious Monk, James Brown, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Amendola has been an entertaining and maybe more important immersive musician. He seeks out ...

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Roll The Tape

By Adam Deitch

Label: Golden Wolf Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Lay It Back; Mushroom Gravy; Roll The Tape; The Green Ligh; Alone Together; Language Interlude 3; Play on Playa; 7 Down; Have Faith; Language Interlude 4.

Song of the Day

Lay It Back

December 7, 2023

Album: Roll The Tape
By Adam Deitch
Label: Golden Wolf Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 5:42

Article: Multiple Reviews

Scary Goldings and The Adam Deitch Quartet: Funky But Chic

by Doug Collette
December 3, 2023

Having learned to find and make a place for himself in the bands of George Duke and Miles Davis, John Scofield has gone on to perform similar magic with artists as disparate as Medeski Martin & Wood and Phil Lesh & Friends. His latest affiliations once again find the guitarist/composer displaying his uncanny ability to sublimate ...

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Jubilee

By Ava Lemert

Label: Ava Lemert Music, Inc.
Released: 2022
Track listing: Jubilee

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 29, 2022

The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...

Article: Album Review

Scott Sawyer: Change of Scene

Read "Change of Scene" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
November 23, 2022

Notwithstanding a history including associations with the varied likes of famed jazz fretboardists John Abercrombie, and Chris Stamey of the veteran power popsters the dBs, guitarist Scott Sawyer may have the lowest public profile of the three musicians appearing on Change of Scene. Still, it certainly says something about his reputation, not to mention his chops, ...