The News Review:
- Music Review | John McLaughlin
- Don’t Call ‘Em Duets
- The band Scribe (TI Photo)
- Saturday ‘” September 29
- San Francisco Blues Festival
Music Review | John McLaughlin
New York Times – Sep 29, 2007
And though the middles were dominated by exhaustingly fast runs and patterns they weren’t bad either. He knows that speed isn’t everything; among those highly articulated runs he slowed down some phrases elongated some notes. As a whole fast and less fast his playing reflected a great deal: post-Coltrane jazz blues Indian music and some of his own work since the early 1970s. McLaughlin has usually toured with an acoustic guitar over the last decade but this was an electric jazz-fusion show straight up and down with speed and density and virtuosity. It included a keyboardist (Gary Husband) who played passages with flutelike or guitarlike sounds; a young bassist (Hadrien Feraud) who is inspired by Jaco Pastorius; and a drummer (Mark Mondesir) who hit hard on a big set with a lot of cymbal crashes. The band’s rhythms taking cues from Indian music were long sequences subdivided in different ways so that counting through the pieces was difficult; the melodies lay atop those long babbling streams of beats.
Don’t Call ‘Em Duets
Billboard – Sep 29, 2007
)Burnett says his criteria for selecting songs was simple: “I wanted to find stuff I could imagine them killing. ” The producer says they steered clear of chestnuts preferring to tackle lesser-known songs that forced Plant and Krauss to venture beyond their comfort zones. “Robert’s interest is primarily in Delta blues and Alison’s is mostly Appalachian music. So my tendency was to give him the Appalachian stuff and her the Delta blues. By the end of the record Robert’s doing a Doc Watson tune ‘Year Long Journey. ‘ He’s never gotten close to that kind of country music before. Rounder executive VP Sheri Sands says “Both of these artists have always shown a willingness to expand the boundaries of what they do.
The band Scribe (TI Photo)
Times of India – Sep 29, 2007
absolutely great? saysPrasant the lead guitarist of the Mumbai-based band after they performed inDelhi for their victory tourperformance. The runner-up? Delhi-based band Boomerang ? with blues funk and alternativemusic as its forte had a wild time too competing with the six bands at thegrand finale. Talking about the mega rock fest Joshua the bassist of the bandsays ?We don?t exactly lose it while performing live but it is ahigh one can?t describe inwords. ? The bandperformed live in Delhi for a swaying and cheering crowd of rock aficionados. ?We love Delhi?s audience. Their madness and enthusiasm areinfectious.
Saturday ‘” September 29
NEWS.com.au – Sep 29, 2007
8 Rhythm Stick (spotlight on percussion). 9 The Deep End (global underground). Midnight Democracy Now… 7 Hamish & Andy. 9 Adrian Brine with Ad-Free 50s. Noon DJ Free 50s continuous Hit Music. 4pm The Hot Hits with Kyle and Jackie.
San Francisco Blues Festival
SFStation.com – Sep 29, 2007
This year’s festival marks the 35th anniversary for the long-running production which began in 1973 and is the oldest blues festival in the world. The show has always featured the blues idioms of Chicago’s Southside New rleans Louisiana the Mississippi Delta Texas and the West Coast. This year’s lineup includes some of the best known names on the worldwide blues scene as well as some of the hottest up-and-coming acts. Well known blues artists such as Allen Toussaint John Hammond and Charlie Musselwhite are complemented by the Grammy Award-winning Robert Randolph & the Family Band and Grammy nominee British R&B James Hunter… Tickets are also available at Streetlight Records in S. Children under the age of 10 are admitted free.