2011 January 22 — Something Else! Reviews

Archive for January 22nd, 2011

/ January 22, 2011 7:13 am

One Track Mind: Mavis Staples, “Last Train” (2010)

Photograph by Spencer Tweedy by Nick DeRiso Over the course of a remarkable career, both with her family band the Staple Singers and as a solo artist, gospel-soul icon Mavis Staples has bravely explored the frustrations, sorrows and then joys of the African-American freedom fight. But, lest we forget, she can still rock it. “Last Train,” from Staples’ most recent [...]

/ January 22, 2011 6:00 am

Nathaniel Smith – Nathaniel Smith Quartet (2010)

by S. Victor Aaron Missoula, Montana’s own Nathaniel Smith has had a career as a jazz drummer and composer that took him from a mountain valley in the Rockies eastward to Appleton, Wisconsin’s Lawrence University (where Smith got to perform with the visiting Dave Holland and Maria Schneider), briefly west to San Francisco to study with percussionist Michael Spiro, and [...]

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