The emerging band playing an album-release show tonight was featured for Local Spins on WYCE, which also debuted music by The Night Caps, Troy Ceasar, Cal in Red, Michael Waite, Ficus, Annie & Rod Capps and more. Get the Short Panic back story and listen to this week’s radio show po...
Tonight I’m off to hear Brixton-based blues musician Errol Linton at the Green Note in Camden. Linton has been singing and playing harmonica all around London for over twenty years. I even have vague, childhood memories of hearing him busking in Oxford Circus tube station! Linton was feature...
“Tonight, God is in the house” is how fellow pianist Fats Waller purportedly referred to Art Tatum‘s presence in a club he was playing at. Waller’s deification of Tatum, a visually impaired pianist from Toledo, Ohio, expressed the awe that many jazz musicians felt when faced with Tatum...
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Over his professional career, which began with the quintet he co-led with his brother, the trumpeter Wynton, Branford has toured and recorded with Sting, jammed with the Grateful Dead, led the Tonight Show with Jay Leno Band, played in various bands in his hometown of New Orleans, and ...
“But when I am in a situation like tonight, it forces me to hear things that I would not think about hearing.” The Generations Series Continues The “Generations Series” continues with three concerts. Receive a 25% discount by using the code COF25. Oct. 19: Saxophonists Bobby Watson ...
“What will you play tonight” I asked on the way into town? Mike gave a typical Mike reply, “Man I don’t always know until my fingers are on the piano keys”. When I repeated this to bass player Brett Hirst he laughed, “Yes and I age a year every-time he does it” he ...
Fortunately, Clark Terry was up to the task Friday night at the Gem Theater for the American Jazz Museum’s Duke Ellington celebration. The 89-year-old trumpet master played with Ellington for 10 years, led Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show band, and recorded with Oscar Peterson, J.J. Johnson...
Recording Artists Stevie Wonder, Michael and Janet Jackson, The Rolling Stones, Will Smith, AC/DC, American Idol's Randy Jackson & Paula Abdul, The Electric Light Orchestra & Whitney Houston have all utilized Doc's expertise in the audio field. ...
The other 7 titles, "Lonely House,""Lonesome Town,""Day-O,""16 Tons,"Civil War lament "Tenting Tonight,""I'm Going Home"and "Wiegenlied"share a bluesy, endless workday theme and/or feeling. Yet however "down"the message, the tempo and optimistic outlook on life remain upbeat. The ...