Archive for February, 2009

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Lightnin’ Hopkins, “Back Door Friend” (1965): One Track Mind

Sam “Lightnin'” Hopkins, as always, did it in just one take – with the money upfront.

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Lonnie Wilson, Nashville sessions drummer: Something Else! Interview

“It’s funny how perceptive parents can be,” ace drummer Lonnie Wilson tells me. “When I was little, my mother was listening to me practice. I was running into the house, listening to a record, then practicing some more.” Musicians call that kind of near-evangelical practice “wood-shedding.” From these lonely, repetitiveRead More

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Jeff 'Tain' Watts – Watts (2009)

by Pico Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts doesn’t hail from New Orleans (he’s a native of Pittsburgh), but it seems he enjoys hanging out with guys from there. The Marsalis family—Wynton, Branford and Ellis—have enlisted his services, as well other Big Easy luminaries as Terence Blanchard and Harry Connick, Jr. Watts firstRead More

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Jon Hassell – Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street (2009)

by S. Victor Aaron Jon Hassell is an inventor of new forms of music – of new ideas of what music could be and how it might be made. His work is drawn from his whole cultural experience without fear or prejudice. It is an optimistic, global vision that suggestsRead More

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Something Else! Reviews on the 2009 Grammy winners

Click through the titles below for Something Else! reviews on a number of last night’s key Grammy-award winners, including Robert Plant and Alison Krauss — who must have charley horses from going up and down to the podium so often. We also review B.B. King, whose terrific “One Kind Favor”Read More

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One Track Mind: Marco Benevento "Friends" (2009)

Last year, keyboard whiz Marco Benevento caused a stir with his very first studio effort Invisible Baby. That record presented Benevento as a post-rocker who likes to mingle melodic acoustic piano with edgy electronic effects used to create a unique sonic presence; a sort of indie-minded Jim Brickman. Just oneRead More

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Chick Corea & Hiromi – Duet (2009)

You May Also Like: Chick Corea (1941-2021): An Appreciation Chick Corea – ‘The Montreux Years’ (2022) The Chick Corea + Steve Gadd Band – Chinese Butterfly (2018)

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Mike Clark – Blueprints Of Jazz, Vol. 1 (2009)

by Pico Mike Clark assured his place in jazz history for the severely funky rhythms he laid down all over Herbie Hancock’s 1974 fusion classic Thrust. His knotty beats managed to make me forget about his Headhunters predecessor Harvey Mason and they probably should have been patented. If you hadn’tRead More

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A Special Benefit Concert In Memory of Sean Costello

by Pico In the last year I’ve written here to first sing the praises of Sean Costello’s new We Can Get Together album, then bereave his sudden death a mere month later, and finally, recognize his album again at year-end evaluation time. And now, I’m back to discuss Sean onceRead More