Indie Blues CD Review Joel DaSilva Everywhere From Here Trunoyz Records Joel DaSilva was born in Chicago to Brazilian parents. His mother was a singer and his father a guitarist. His father died when DaSilva was still a child but he must have inherited his musical gene. As soon as he was able to work […]
This is The Voice of Indie Blues the show that brings you the Future of the Blues being made by Indie Blues Artists who Embrace the Diversity of the Blues and understand it is this diversity that is the TRUE tradition of the blues! This week we have an INDIE Blues Double shot! We give you 2 songs from every artist on our playlist today […]
Indie Blues CD Review Chris Daniels and The Kings with Freddi Gowdy Blues With Horns Vol 1 Moon Voyage Records Chris Daniels formed the Chicago styled horn band Chris Daniels and The Kings in 1984. The Kings have backed many artists including Bo Diddley, Percy Sledge, Al Kooper, and Francine Reed. Daniels and Freddi Gowdy […]
HOME PAGE FACEBOOK PAGE Joe Mazzari, guitar, lead vocals, songwriter Joe Mazzari began writing roots-rock music in his 20s, influenced by John Hiatt, Bob Dylan, Link Wray, Rory Gallagher and the Delta blues musicians. Caught up in the Boston rock scene in the 1980s, Joe recorded a handful of albums/CDs and toured the U.S. and U.K. […]
Indie Blues CD Review Savoy Brown has been around since the mid’ -60’s and recorded over 30 albums. While recording on Ruf in recent years, The band has often played with mystic themes, with titles such as Voodoo Moon and The Devil to Pay. Witchy Feelin‘ has definitely got some of that, woven in with some […]
Indie Blues CD Review King Louie’s Blues Revue Live At Riverhouse Jazz Shoug Records King Louie Pain was nicknamed “Portland’s Boss of The B-3” by the newspaper The Oregonian. King Louie hails from San Francisco where he started playing professionally in 1970. He moved to Portland in 1986 and works with area blues and soul […]
Chaz Lipp is a saxophone teacher who occasionally gigs around Washington state. Lipp has honed his skill for years and now, luckily for us, he is ready to share it with the larger world. To do so, he has put together “The Chaz Lipp Groove Tripp” and created a debut album, Good Merlin. The group […]
The stage was awash in red and black and it was a whirl of motion and sound as The Squirrel Nut Zippers thoroughly entertained the crowd at City Winery in Atlanta Thursday night. The City Winery is a new venue for Atlanta and it is a pleasant one. Mid-sized with a fairly large wine selection […]
Sea Level “Sea Level/Long Walk on a Short Pier” (2 LP’s on 1 CD) www.RealGoneMusic.com Keyboardist Chuck Leavell organized Sea Level as a quartet in 1976 after the Allman Brothers Band’s first breakup of their post Duane Allman era. Sea Level’s bassist Lamar Williams and percussionist/drummer Jaimoe were also Brothers giving Leavell’s band a somewhat […]
Branford Marsalis Quartet with special guest Kurt Elling Upward Spiral Marsalis Music/Okeh Records Branford Marsalis was born in Breaux Bridge, La. the son of Dolores and Ellis Marsalis. His father is a notable pianist and the leading musical educator in New Orleans. In 1995 saxophonist Branford recorded “Loved Ones” with his father Ellis. He and […]
Charlie Wooton is a versatile guy. Last time we saw him was with Zabadodat with Laura Reed and it was all jazzy and tropical vibes. This time, it was The Charlie Wooton Project and it was blues and funk..We enjoyed both but Saturday night’s show was my favorite. With Daniel Groover on bass,Mike Phillips on […]
Allen Toussaint “American Tunes” Nonesuch Records It would seem that “American Tunes” was/is intended to be the follow up to Toussaint’s 2009 “The Bright Mississippi.” In preparation for this album solo piano sessions were recorded in 2013, plus during the early fall of 2015 full ensemble tracks were assembled, several with special guests. Unfortunately: weeks […]
Little Charlie and Organ Grinder Swing Skronky Tonk EllerSoul Records Little Charlie (Baty) is a guitarist who enjoys playing the blues. But like other guitarists his own interest in where blues meets jazz was increased by listening to others. Organists Jimmy Smith and Jimmy McGriff have stated that they are blues players. An appreciation for […]
Gil Scott-Heron in “Black Wax” www.MVDvisual.com Blu-Ray Disc, Eighty-nine minutes Robert Mugge’s film of Gil Scott-Heron’s 1982 concert performance at the Black Wax in Washington D.C. bounces back and forth from the club to Heron’s jaunts around his D.C. neighborhoods with boom-box in hand singing along with the battery powered portable, adding commentary to setup […]
Maynard Ferguson 1986: “Body & Soul” and 1990: “Big Bop Nouveau” www.OmnivoreRecordings.com Omnivore Recordings continues its Maynard Ferguson reissue campaign with two new packages from the three-time Grammy nominee and Downbeat magazine award winner. These two reissues of 1986’s “Body & Soul,” and 1990’s “Big Bop Nouveau” add bonus tracks; three for “Body & Soul,” […]
Herbie Mann “Live at the Whisky 1969 The Unreleased Masters ” 2-CD’swww.RealGoneMusic.com The original 1969 “Live at the Whisky A Go Go” vinyl LP on Atlantic Records was produced by the legendary Nesuhi Ertegun (an early originator at Atlantic) recorded by fabled audio engineer Wally Heider via his mobile truck on one-inch tape. Mann and […]
Cyrille Aimee Let’s Get Lost Mack Avenue Records Cyrille Aimee was born in Fontainebleau, France to a French father and a Dominican mother. She grew up nearby in the village of Samois-sur-Seine, the same village where gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt lived. Every June the village would host the Django Reinhardt Festival and a young Aimee […]
Los Jazz Vatos El Jefe Lounge Side Records Los Jazz Vatos is the brainchild of Ernie Durawa. Durawa was born in San Antonio but lives in Austin. As a drummer Durawa possesses a unique ability to totally transcend stylistic barriers. Durawa has performed with Charlie Byrd, Larry Coryell, Herb Ellis, Townes Van Zandt, and Willie Nelson. […]
Robert Trujillo Presents Jaco” MVD Visual – 2 DVD’s “Jaco” is predominantly presented with old and recent interviews via the eyes of his family and his world-class musical collaborators, plus there are several vintage video segments of Jaco Pastorius himself. Produced by Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo directed by Paul Marchand and Stephen Kijak the documentary […]
Mike Pachelli Fade to Blue Fullblast Recordings Michael Pachelli was raised in Youngstown, Ohio. His earliest guitar influence was Wes Montgomery. He studied classical guitar at Youngstown State University before moving to New York City to study bebop with Joe Pass and Pat Martino. He has toured with Brother Jack McDuff and Albert King among […]
Stan Getz “Getz/Gilberto ‘76” & “Moments in Time” www.ResonanceRecords.org During a week run at the now defunct Keystone Korner in San Francisco, California a series of concerts were recorded and are finally making their commercial debut. “Getz/Gilberto ’76” and “Moments in Time” have been simultaneously issued as two distinct CD releases. Both of these recordings […]
Mack Avenue Superband Live From The 2015 Detroit Jazz Festival Mack Avenue Records The Mack Avenue Record label “follows a tradition of record labels, no matter what genre, having a sense of pride in their roster”. The Superband was born when they first appeared in Hart Plaza at the 2012 Detroit Jazz Festival. The ensemble […]
King Curtis “The Complete Atco Singles” <3 CD’s> www.RealGoneMusic.com Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee King Curtis (Curtis Ousley – 2/7/1934 – 8/13/1971) released recordings on the Atlantic Records subsidiary Atco during 1958-1959 and again from 1967-1971. This three-CD/sixty-six-track compilation assembles singles from both of Curtis’ Atco eras. It includes all A-sides and B-sides, […]
If you have ever seen Mudcat and the Atlanta Horns, then your eyes light up and your heart lifts a bit just hearing their name. Being in the same room with them is like being touched by a very special sort of musical magic. Atlanta magazine, in an excellent article this month by Barry Yeoman, […]
Charlie Wooten said that the name of his new band, Zabadodat, a word he made up, but throughout the show and Laura Reed mentioned that it basically means “love.” And that was a good theme for the evening, as the band and Reed sent love out to the audience and got it back in abundance. […]
2015 Stocking Stuffers: For Heightened Holiday Cheer – A Half Dozen Grab-bag CD’s The Soulful Strings “The Magic of Christmas” www.RealGoneMusic.com Originally issued via the Cadet subsidiary of Chess Records this collection makes its debut on CD. Chess/Cadet house-band studio players; harpist (not harmonica) Dorothy Ashby, Charles Stepney, Lenard Druss, Bunky Green, Phil Upchurch, Cleveland […]
Terry Adams “Talk Thelonious” NRBQ+ Clang! Big Notes Except for the final tune “Talk Thelonious” is a live performance recorded at the Flynn Space, Burlington, VT, on April 5, 2012. All twelve tunes are Thelonious Monk compositions – recently rearranged by Terry Adams. The opening “Reflections” leads with Adams introducing the theme and playing a […]
LIVE from the Midnight Circus 10/4/2015 with Oz Noy! by Richard Lhommedieu on Mixcloud INDIE Blues – Currently Touring Musicians who recognize they are influenced by The Blues artists that came before them and in the time honored tradition of The Blues, are creating New Original Music that reflects their reality. The music they create […]
An Exclusive interview with Oz Noy! by Richard Lhommedieu on Mixcloud “It’s Jazz. It just doesn’t sound like it.” This is how virtuoso guitarist Oz Noy describes his intoxicating blend of jazz, funk, rock, blues, and r&b. Born in Israel, Oz started his professional career at the age of 13 playing jazz, blues, pop and […]
An Exclusive Interview with Nick Fishman by Richard Lhommedieu on Mixcloud San Francisco based drummer and bandleader Nick Fishman’s debut album California Fresh brings blues into the modern world with a slickness and big city sophistication currently found nowhere else in the idiom. The album, which features an eight piece band made up of San […]
Vince Guaraldi Trio “Peanuts Greatest Hits” www.ConcordMusicGroup.com Even though Vince Guaraldi has passed on some forty years ago he left behind volumes of (in-print and readily available) recorded music. His most popular are the Peanuts television tracks, bringing us to this 2015 compilation “Peanuts Greatest Hits.” Charles Schulz created Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus and Snoopy […]
Cannonball Adderley’s “Big Man: The Legend of John Henry” www.RealGoneMusic.com 1975’s “Big Man: The Legend of John Henry” was the last album Cannonball Adderley recorded, and was released near the time of his stroke and death at just forty-six years of age. It’s also his most unique musical project composed by the great altoist and […]
Les McCann “Invitation to Openness” www.OmnivoreRecordings.com Les McCann’s “Invitation to Openness” made its first appearance on vinyl in 1972 on the powerhouse Atlantic Records label, it also reached number eight on Billboards Jazz chart. The original session was produced by the late great Joel Dorn, and Dorn reissued it on CD via his Label M […]
“The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings” 4 vinyl LP’s, 40th Anniversary Edition Fantasy – Concord Forty years ago Tony Bennett and pianist Bill Evans recorded their first of two duo albums: 1975’s “The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album,” followed by their ’76 “Together Again.” These albums have been distributed on various formats in the past, but […]
Dave Stryker Messin With Mister T Strikezone Records In 1980 guitarist Dave Stryker left Nebraska and moved to New York City. He joined Jack McDuff’s band and toured with him from 1984 to 1985. From 1986 thru 1995 and again from 1998 thru 2000 Stryker toured with tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine. Today bandleader Stryker leads […]
– www.RaphaelWressnig.com The young Wressnig’s previous recording “Soul Gift” was successful, and if you enjoyed that disc you should definitely appreciate his latest “Soul Gumbo.” Veteran players (many from around The Big Easy) are featured: Walter “Wolfman” Washington, George Porter Jr., Larry Garner, Stanton Moore, with longtime Crescent City pianist Jon Cleary. Added to the […]
John Tropea “Gotcha Rhythm Right Here” STP Records www.JohnTropea.com If you are not already familiar with his name, you’ve probably heard John Tropea’s guitar on famous recordings by Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, Paul Simon, Laura Nyro, Van Morrison, Phoebe Snow, Lyle Lovett, James Brown, David Ruffin, Chaka Kahn, Roberta Flack, Donny […]
Through The Streets of the City New Orleans Brass Bands Smithsonian Folkways Recordings This is the newest album from Smithsonian Folkways’ African-American Legacy series. Included is a 34 page booklet authored by Dr. Michael White. He is a jazz music historian but also a clarinetist, composer, bandleader, producer and educator. He has six albums under his […]
Three New Releases from Hendrik Meurkens German born Hendrik Muerkens now lives in upstate New York. Originally a vibraphonist in the tradition of Milt Jackson and Bobby Hutcherson Meurkens was inspired by the sound of Toots Thieleman’s harmonica. Today the self taught Meurkens is considered the most important jazz harmonica player since Thielemans. Meurkens was […]
Cyrille Aimee It’s A Good Day Mack Avenue Records This is the major label debut of jazz vocalist Cyrille Aimee. Vocally Aimee is a bit like Madeleine Peyroux but Aimee’s music is rooted in the gypsy guitar of Django Reinhardt. She also has affection for Brazilian guitar, and thus an understanding of bossa nova and […]
Phil Bowler & Pocket Jungle Phil Bowler & Pocket Jungle Zoho Music Phil Bowler is a Grammy winning bassist and sideman who played in the bands of Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Horace Silver, Hilton Ruiz, and Wynton Marsalis, among many others. Twenty years ago Bowler also had his own jazz ensemble called “Pocket Jungle”. Now they […]
A 2014 Musical Grab Bag of Jazz, Blues and Rocking Christmas Holiday Stocking Stuffers: Marilyn Scott “Get Christmas Started!” Prana Entertainment www.MarilynScott.com Scott digs deep for several well performed and way-back Christmas covers. For example not one but two Leon Russell Christmas covers that were actually released as A and B sides on a seven-inch […]
Peaches and Crime are tapping into a new genre that might be called “dark Americana.” On their new CD, “Do Bad Things,” they take us back to Victorian and Edwardian Vaudeville to celebrate some dark and funny territory. The CD is structured like a turn of the 20th century vaudeville show, complete with introductions by […]
Alex Belhaj’s Crescent City Quartet Sugar Blues Alex Belhaj Music I first went to New Orleans in 1995. I thought it would be great if I got to see Joe Krown playing piano at The Maple Leaf. I didn’t think I was really into Jazz except where it crossed with the Blues. After going to […]
Bill Frisell “Guitar in the Space Age!” Okeh Records – Sony – www.BillFrisell.com Title this recording as (updated) memorabilia of the fifties and sixties, it plays like an AM radio jukebox from the same era, but radiates a current and unique vibe. No matter; set your way-back machine(s) and enjoy the modernized and respectful (all-instrumental) […]
Rob Paparozzi & The Ed Palermo Big Band Electric Butter/Play the Music of Butterfield & The Electric Flag Independent Rob Paparozzi, vocals and harmonica, is a New Jersey based session musician who has toured with “The Original Blues Brothers Band” and also as lead vocalist in the reformed “Blood, Sweat and Tears”. He has played […]
Jaco Pastorius “Modern American Music … Period! The Criteria Sessions” Omnivore Recordings Jaco Pastorius’ major solo debut appeared in 1976 on Epic Records, many of the tracks had their beginning two years earlier when a twenty-two year-old Pastorius booked time at Criteria Studios to work out songs and jam. Eventually six of those session tracks […]
Catherine Russell Bring It Back Jazz Village Catherine Russell is a Jazz singer who will appeal to Blues aficionados. It has been a long time since Jazz has had a singer like Russell. Russell is the daughter of Luis Russell the former musical director for Louis Armstrong. Her father died when she was very young […]
Cannonball Adderley “The Black Messiah” Live at the Troubador – 1972 – 2 CD’s www.RealGoneMusic.com The year was 1972 when Cannonball Adderley’s quintet (there were more than five musicians) took the stage with Cannonball’s alto and soprano saxes, brother Nat’s cornet, a rhythm section of Roy McCurdy’s drums, Walter Booker’s bass, and direct from a […]
Mack Avenue Superband Live From The Detroit Jazz Festival 2013 Mack Avenue Records The Mack Avenue Superband is an ensemble of jazz artists from the Mack Avenue roster. Each of these participants is a seasoned leader in their own right. This album documents a live concert at Detroit’s Hart Plaza. Virbraphonist Warren Wolf composed “Soul […]
