Founded in 1961, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band had a very distinct and important mission – to promote traditional New Orleans Jazz with total authenticity. Their legendary first lineup has been long gone but the […]
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Stones Throw Records will be releasing Troubadour, the follow-up to the Stepkids’ breakout, self-titled debut later on this year – it’s slated for the fall. The trio was enlisted to take part in Red Bull’s new […]
My Gift To You, which Basin Street Records will release on June 11th, is the first album from Davell Crawford (the grandson of James “Sugarboy” Crawford) in almost 14 years. Although, the younger Crawford has lived […]
When you think of New Orleans – and in particular New Orleans jazz, a few names should immediately come to mind: Louis Armstrong, the Marsalis family, Harry Connick, Jr. Kermit Ruffins, and countless others. Ruffins’ […]
The super-talented Asheville, NC-based Jonathan Scales Fourchestra was invited by Hype Mag for a video session while Suwannee Springfest this year, and they recorded the incredibly funky “TNFJ” which will be on the band’s forthcoming […]
Marco Benevento teams up with Rubblebucket’s Kalmia Traver on two songs on his latest effort, Tigerface – and it marks the first time that he’s had someone else collaborating with him and his band on a […]
Jason Marsalis at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola 3/4/13
Jason Marsalis Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola March 4, 2013 There are few families who have had quite the same impact on jazz – hell, on modern music over the course of […]
Rondi Charleston at Joe’s Pub 2/28/13
Rondi Charleston Joe’s Pub 2/28/13 I’ve realized that I have my moments where I’m an old soul, and my heart longs for some great jazz so when I got an invite to catch Rondi Charleston […]
If you know anything about New York’s experimental jazz scene, Sexmob will be a familiar name – and if you’re not you’ll soon to be familiar with them as they’ll be releasing their first full-length […]
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/track=1966899556/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/ In their three previous albums Mop Mop have a reputation for their unique sound which borrows and mixes elements of jazz, funk, Latin music and Italian post-modern music. And because of that sound, the […]
Taking their name from a compilation of old time ragtime and blues Shake Your Wicked Knees, the avant garde, brass jazz quartet of Wicked Knee has one of the most interesting backstories I’ve recently heard. Over twenty […]
If you know anything about jazz – hell, about music over the past 50-60 years or so – you know that the venerable New Orleans-based Marsalis family have made a tremendous impact on jazz and […]
Just the other day, the legendary McCoy Tyner celebrated his 74th birthday – thankfully one of my Twitter followers reminded me of the occasion, and although I’m a day or two late, I wanted to […]
The Jonathan Scales Fourchestra were recently invited by Hype Mag to do a live session of “Jam We Did,” off their fantastic 2011 release, Character Farm and Other Stories, an album which was on this blog’s […]