Showing posts with label Jazz and Blues Report. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jazz and Blues Report. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Taking the Blues Time Machine To May 1977 with Big Joe Turner

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This is from the May 1977 Buffalo Jazz Report which had the great Big Joe Turner on the cover to help promote the show he did at the Tr...
Friday, February 22, 2008

Sacred Steel's First Exposure

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Its just been over ten years since Arhoolie Records issued its first anthology of the sacred steel music tradition. In the intervening decad...
Monday, February 18, 2008

Taylor's Good Love Was Good Soul & Blues

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Johnnie Taylor was one of the great soul and blues singers of the past five decades (emphasis for the eurocentric editors of the Penguin Gu...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

Mingus' Complete Town Hall Concert

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1994 saw Blue Note release Charles Mingus, The Complete Town Hall Concert . As long a fan of the late bassist, composer and leader, it certa...

Son's Fires Still Burned Hot

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It has 15 years since Columbia, based on the success of its Robert Johnson set, issued a variety of excellent blues reissues. One of note w...
Friday, December 07, 2007

Omar Sharriff's modern piano blues

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The career of pianist Omar Sharriff demonstrates that talent and originality does not necessarily result in success. One of the most distinc...
Sunday, January 14, 2007

The Good Doctor Cures the Boogie Disease

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This is a review I did in 1992 of Dr. Ross for Jazz & Blues Report . Dr. Ross passed away in 1993 and I am fortunate to have seen the o...