The News Review:
- Muldaur brings blues to the Tecumseh Center for the Arts
- Fresh thoughts on new music
- SUTHEAST TRAVEL CALENDAR
- CNCERT REVIEW: Revue brings soul and blues to the Berks Jazz Fest
- Music festival teeters on the edge
- The Notations offer a window to the soul
Muldaur brings blues to the Tecumseh Center for the Arts
Adrian Daily Telegram
- To Maria Muldaur blues music is as honest as it gets when it comes to telling the story of life. “It’s an authentic spontaneous expression of the human condition” she said. “It’s not ‘wishful thinking’ music” — music where the lyrics speak of wishing life was different or wishing someone loved you more or something like that — “it’s ‘this is the way it really is. ’ … it’s everything that speaks to what’s real. ”Muldaur brings a program of classic blues music like that heard on her recent album “Naughty Bawdy & Blue” to the Tecumseh Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.
Fresh thoughts on new music
Detroit Free Press
McBride strikes a deep groove Garrett’s hot-and-sour alto caterwauls McLaughlin’s crunchy guitar rocks out and Colaiuta’s drums are more focused than elsewhere. Mostly however individual passages come off better than the wandering extended performances where the payoffs don’t always justify the journey. The many rhythmic and textural shifts on Jackie McLean’s blues “Dr. Jackle” descend into pastiche though Garrett still blows up an expressive bebop storm. Corea’s ambitious 28-minute sci-fi suite “Hymn to Andromeda” includes stimulating interplay between Corea and McBride but the elaborate rigging turns a bit nerdy in spots. (2 of 3)After its first flush of creativity one wing of ’70s fusion got trapped in the cul-de-sac of hyperdrive attitude and warp-speed chops. Those issues don’t saturate the music here but neither are they totally absent.
SUTHEAST TRAVEL CALENDAR
Atlanta Journal Constitution
pensacolawinefestival. Jacksonville Beach —- The three-day Springing the Blues April 3-5 offers free blues music from Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band the Legendary JC’s Roger “Hurricane” Wilson and more. Art shows and movie also scheduled. 904-247-6100 springingtheblues. Fort Lauderdale —- The FGRA Sunshine Stampede Rodeo April 3-5 is one of the largest gay rodeos in the country and this year features a rodeo school.
CNCERT REVIEW: Revue brings soul and blues to the Berks Jazz Fest
Reading Eagle
Saturday night Severn Records an independent label offering “roots music for the 21st century” presented a soul and blues revue spotlighting some of its artists. The show in the Inn at Reading ballroom was the second of two. The first which took place Friday night highlighed other artists on the label. Clarence Spady one of the evening’s headlining acts never made it to the stage apparently the result of arriving rather late.
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Music festival teeters on the edge
Times-Standard
15 but has none lined up for this year due to uncertain finances. Unless people turn out to the jazz festival in droves Maxon said Advertisement yld_mgr. place_ad_here(“adPosBox”); it’s going to be hard to pull off Blues by the Bay which in turn will leave the nonprofit Redwood Coast Music Festivals behind in funding next year’s jazz festival. The impact of losing both festivals would go well beyond entertainment value according to Humboldt County Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Tony Smithers. Smithers said that on average parties traveling to Eureka usually spend more than $800 money that comes from outside the county and is infused into the local economy. Both the jazz and blues concerts bring people to town Smithers said but the jazz festival is more important because it falls in March when tourists are generally few and far between. ”The end of March is when we need the business the most” Smithers said adding that September is already a tourist-rich month locally.
The Notations offer a window to the soul
Chicago Sun-Times
“And Chicago produced more soul records than any other city in the country. Chicago goes blow to blow with Detroit in a heartbeat because we had more labels. Someone is doing a Ken Burns-type documentary on soul and they contacted us about licensing music. So I go ‘You guys coming to Chicago?’ and they said they were skipping it. People think of Chess and the blues with Chicago. But every major record company had an office here. “Brunswick [Tyrone Davis Jackie Wilson Gene Chandler] was here.