Over 70 and Mose Allison is still one of the heppest oldsters around. His songs have been covered by John Mayall, the Who, the Clash, Eric Clapton Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Leon Russell and Van Morrison among many others. Although the… (Read More)
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NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS ELECTRIC BLUE WATERMELON Jim Dickinson: In the early Fall of 2004, the North Mississippi Allstars (Luther Dickinson, Cody Dickinson and Chris Chew) began what would become the six month process of recording their new record, Electric Blue Watermelon… (Read More)
Based in the San Francisco/Bay Area, OM Trio (Homegrown Music Network members) has brought its unique electric jazz to countless venues across the country through relentless touring. They’ve appeared at such prominent venues as the FILLMORE AUDITORIUM and GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC… (Read More)
From The Allman Brothers Band. Oteil From Egypt — via Washington, D.C. Oteil was born on August 24, 1964, in Washington, D.C. His Egyptian first name means “explorer” or “wanderer”. He has two sisters and a brother. The Burbridge children were… (Read More)
Patricia has just released her standards album, entitled Nightclub! She has been touring both internationally and domestically testing these tunes out on her audiences. On the record, Barber is joined by Marc Johnson and Michael Arnopol on bass, Adam Nussbaum and… (Read More)
Paul McCandless, a member of the pioneering Paul Winter Consort, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones and the relentlessly innovative quartet Oregon, will be joining the Tony Furtado Band on a limited amount of shows this winter. Paul’s instrumental repertoire includes soprano… (Read More)
There are reasons why the angels in old Renaissance-era frescoes are always toting horns, and they aren’t all biblical: Blown just so, brass instruments have a way of setting a tone, inducing feelings — from reverent to melancholic and back again… (Read More)
Charismatic vocalist and prodigious jazz pianist Peter Cincotti is clearly “a star in the making” (Hollywood Reporter). At the age of 19, he is the youngest artist ever to appear at New York’s famed Oak Room at The Algonquin, and a… (Read More)
Smooth jazz guitarist Peter White’s lyrical lines and musical inventiveness are a joy to listen to. The affable Englishman’s charm and playfulness comes through in his music, giving his style of smooth jazz a liveliness that others in the genre lack… (Read More)
Somewhere between a 1930s Cuban dance orchestra, a classical chamber music ensemble, a Brasilian marching street band and Japanese film noir is the 12-piece Pink Martini. Part language lesson, part Hollywood musical, the Portland, Oregon-based ‘little orchestra’ was created in 1994… (Read More)
Brass band music is joyful, heart-pumping and it was born and bred in soul-saturated New Orleans. Rebirth takes brassy funk to the city’s streets and clubs, doing second-line parades just about every Sunday and rocking regular gigs at night. But Rebirths… (Read More)
Although he’s called a “smooth jazz artist,” saxophonist Richard Elliot is equally at home with most rock & roll and the kind of classic R&B performed by the group Tower of Power. For five years in the 1980s, he was a… (Read More)
Robert Walter (of the 20th Congress)
Feat. Fred Wesley Robert Walter is building a reputation as one of America’s heaviest jazz-funk keyboardists as a founding member of The Greyboy Allstars, he toured with the band throughout North Amnerica and Europe for five years. Now 30 years of… (Read More)
Ron Levy and his Wild Kingdom grooveliciously combines, works, plays in, stretches out, distorts, harmonizes and reflects the familiar and exotic, the smooth and toxic, the dynamic ups and the downs, the known and unknown boundries of blues and jazz, latin… (Read More)
Once one of the most visible and winning jazz vibraphonists of the 1960s, then an R&B bandleader in the 1970s and ‘80s, Roy Ayers’ reputation in the 1990s is now that of one of the prophets of acid-jazz, a man decades… (Read More)
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
“You’ve got to feel it,” is the first thing that comes from the mouth of seasoned soul singer Sharon Jones when asked what makes great music. “You’ve got to feeel it! In your bones, your heart, in everything and everywhere!” And… (Read More)
Bassist Dave Ranson was one of the first to be blown away by Sonny Landreth’s six-string prowess. He was 12 or 13, and he went to a Lafayette party where the budding virtuoso, a whole year older, was playing with his… (Read More)
There is simply nothing on the contemporary American music scene quite like The Soul of John Black. The music has the feel of a tightly integrated band. This self-titled album showcases the work of two musicians, John “JB” Bigham and Christopher… (Read More)
A brilliant player on both acoustic and electric basses, Stanley Clarke has spent much of his career outside of jazz, although he has the ability to play jazz with the very best. He played accordion as a youth, switching to violin… (Read More)
The title of Steve Cole’s third recording, NY LA, may trip on the East-meets-West Coast hipness factor of his fresh and crackling brand of smooth sax jazz, but the soul in his music definitely has more than a few touches of… (Read More)
Babe Pino, harp and vocals: Muddy Waters called Babe “one of the finest harmonica players in the country.” As front man for the Babe Pino Blues Band and Babe Pino’s Boston Blues Band, Babe and his brother Ken opened for the… (Read More)
Taj Mahal and the Hula Blues Band
Taj Mahal is the manic street preacher of American roots music. Whether championing the blues, folk, reggae, R&B, zyedeco, gospel or jazz, it’s where he draws his inspiration. Taj Mahal and his Hula Blues band are now capturing the luminous spirit… (Read More)
Somewhere in northern Oregon, on a winding stretch of mountainous Interstate, the seven members of B-Side Players nearly lost their lives. Following a spring drizzle that gently darkened the asphalt, the band’s tour van suddenly lost traction, upending their trailer and… (Read More)
The current Jill Watkins Band was formed in December 2002. Jill raves about the talent of her fellow musicians. “They are treasures that were handed to me on a silver platter,” she says. The passion for music, professionalism, and enthusiasm are… (Read More)
We play for the pure adrenaline rush and to feel the hair on the back of our necks stick straight out! Big Daddy J Mike Dan Spike Jeff We are the band that “Switched from Cocaine to Rogaine” (Read More)
The Rippingtons featuring Russ Freeman
One of the most popular groups in what is loosely termed “contemporary jazz,” the Rippingtons were formed (and have been led ever since) by guitarist/keyboardist Russ Freeman (no relation to the veteran West Coast bop pianist of the same name). Freeman… (Read More)
