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 […]
Tag: New Orleans
Album Reviews
Much like countless other bloggers, I make the often uncomfortable balance between running a blog mostly full-time and having a full-time career, and that can be (understandably) difficult endeavor. With that in mind, I still […]
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 […]
a Q&A with Morgan Christopher Geer, a.k.a Drunken Prayer
Singer/songwriter Morgan Christopher Geer has one of the more unique stories I’ve recently heard. Originally, from the San Francisco area, Geer is the son of a California mushroom farmer and a New Orleans folk singer. […]
Swedish born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Theresa Andersson’s sophomore effort Street Songs was released earlier this year through Basin Street Records, and it has been critically applauded by publications such as Spin, USA Today, the New York Times, and others. […]
With the exception of New Orleans jazz, the trombone is sadly relegated to the forgotten instrument status – after all, it’s not like everyone is waiting for the funky trombone solo during one of Springsteen’s […]
Album Review: Drunken Prayer’s Into the Missionfield
Drunken Prayer Into the Missionfield Fluff and Gravy Records Release Date: February 7, 2012 Track Listing Brazil Ain’t No Grave Always Sad Maryjane Take a Walk I Saw It With My Own Two Eyes […]
With the official release of their 4 CD box set, The Preservation Hall 50th Anniversary Collection from Legacy Records and their live recording from Carnegie Hall, St. Peter and 57th, the folks in the Preservation Jazz Hall Band […]
Album Review: My Jerusalem’s Preachers
My Jerusalem Preachers The End Records Release Date: October 9, 2012 Track Listing Preachers Shatter Together Born in the Belly Mono This Time Death Valley Devoe Between Space Oh Little Sister Chameleon I Left My […]