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Giving Sound to Silence

Innocence and wonder allow creativity to flow endlessly, without inhibition. Bill Frisell knows and practices innocence in everything he does. He continually changes his sound in relation to the context in which he places himself. What the listener will hear is always Frisell though, abstractions, melodies, and all. Frisell takes away all preconceptions about his task of making music...

Concert Review by Lyn Horton
Chris Botti: An Evening At Davies Symphony Hall

I remember it all as though it were yesterday, the first time I heard Chris Botti's music. It was a typical sunny Bel Air afternoon in October of 2000. It was my freshman year in college and I was studying for my first set of midterms. I went to my laptop computer, and noticed that I had just received...

Concert Review by Katrina-Kasey Wheeler
Spyro Gyra, David Longoria, Marc Antoine.

In 2002 Bradley Quick created The Cool Change Foundation a non-profit foundation to carry the message of positive change, recovery, motivation, and life enhancement to a broad demographic that might not otherwise receive it. Bradley Quick’s Los Angeles based radio show, Help Your Self, airs weekly on KRLA 870 AM, which often features various celebrity guests, authors, and specialists.

On...

Concert Review by Katrina-Kasey Wheeler
James Brown & The Soul Generals

James Brown, performed to a sold out show at Toronto's Massey Hall on the night of Monday, November 29, 2004. If you've never encountered the man who gave 'soul' its name ... its definition ... raising it to a musical art form -- then you're in for a treat! True musical expression from heart, to ears to soul -- that's what the James...

Concert Review by Joe Curtis
Buddy Guy at Massey Hall

Buddy Guy is truly a blues legend. His Chicago nightclub, Buddy Guy's Legends is legendary for the fine talent that's performed there. Mr. Guy was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 14, 2005. Congratulations to Buddy behalf of all his blues fans worldwide for this recent and well-deserved honor bestowed upon him.

A little...

Concert Review by Joe Curtis
The Beaches International Jazz Festival

The David Virelles Quintet Live at The Beaches International Jazz Festival

Fresh off a very successful Canadian tour the band performed an early morning show, 11:30 A.M thus kicking off the 18th annual Beaches International Jazz Festival. I was invited to see the band, report on the show and follow up with a post show interview.

Classically trained Virelles studied piano...

Concert Review by Paul J. Youngman
The Rippingtons Celebrate 20 Years As A Collective

Whenever The Rippingtons come to Houston, Texas for a concert, the welcome mat is always open for one of smooth jazz’s most prolific groups. In conjunction with the release of their latest CD/DVD entitled ‘The Rippingtons 20th Anniversary,’ (Peak Records) the group has embarked upon an August/September multi-city tour of the United States. The City of Houston is but one of the many pit stops along the...
Concert Review by Sheldon T. Nunn
Clef Notes

Ann Hampton Callaway – Blues In The Night (2006 Telarc) Your emotions will fall from your eyes when the first spin takes off into your heart from the vocals of Ann Hampton Callaway and her Blues in the Night. Excellence in the “blues feel” is as simple as I can script it. With a tearful sax in the background...

Viewpoint by Karl Stober
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Buck Hill - Relax (2006 Severn Records)

Tenor sax aficionado Buck Hill extracts the classic tunes of Miles Davis, Charlie Parker along with himself to fashion a spin worth any collection. Distinct reverberations such as the Ozment organ thrusting out mystic grooves offers to the listener added adventures presented on this disc. The project is a very respectful example of...

Viewpoint by Karl Stober
SOLOMON BURKE DAZZLES TORONTO WITH CHARISMATIC PERFORMANCE

Solomon Burke’s arrival at Toronto’s Massey Hall after a 15-year hiatus was greeted with a burst of applause seldom heard around these parts. It signaled the beginning of festivities that would shake the venerable concert hall to its foundation. I’ve never witnessed as warm and as embracing a welcome as the one afforded the King Of Rock And Soul,...

Concert Review by Gary Tate
At Last

“At Last” Etta James – The Hummingbird Centre – June 27 - Toronto Jazz Festival - Day 5 

The show was sold out, The Hummingbird Centre seats 3200 people, as Ross Porter (Jazz.Fm Radio CEO) mentioned at the start of the show, “At last the Toronto Jazz Festival has arrived; they’re scalping tickets in front of the theatre.”

The Roots...

Concert Review by Paul J. Youngman
Charles Lloyd and Sangam at the JVC Festival

As part of the JVC Jazz Festival, Charles Lloyd brought his new project Sangam to Zankel Hall June 22nd for their first New York performance. Judging from the ovation that erupted at the end of the group's stream-of-consciousness performance, Lloyd is once again exhibiting his knack of making abstract music accessible. In this case, he combines his various horns...
Concert Review by Peter Westbrook
Enlightenment

McCoy Tyner was announced, the crowd stood and applauded, a heroes welcome. Many in the audience worship the keys that Tyner dances upon. Bassist, Charnett Moffett, many including myself, worship the keys he plays in and drummer Eric Kamdu Gravatt took to the stage. Tyner was not with them, regroup, locate McCoy Tyner and take two. The audience breathed...

Concert Review by Paul J. Youngman
Senegalese Songbird Baaba Maal Shines at SFJazz Festival

Wearing purple flowing robes, Baaba Maal takes the stage at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco. Seated, he sings while accompanying himself on his six-string acoustic guitar. To his right sits his longtime accompanist and backup singer blind griot Mansour Seck, who — with his shaved head and orange flowing gown — resembles an elderly monk. Another backup singer,...
Concert Review by Harry S. Pariser
An Evening To Remember At The Ultimate Doo Wop Show

It was a privilege to have attended the Ultimate Doo Wop Show, a touring package that appeared recently at Buffalo’s majestic Shea’s Performing Arts Center.  For starters, Pookie Hudson of Spaniels' fame qualifies as the highlight of this nostalgic extravaganza, but a host of Doo Wop greats helped set the stage for the much esteemed Mr. Hudson who is back-in-action after being sidelined...

Concert Review by Gary Tate
Jerome Godboo at The Orbit Room

This night was an Orbit Room first, since it’s the first time they’ve featured the awesome harp and vocal talents of the always entertaining and charismatic Jerome Godboo. Godboo was longtime harp player/sideman for rockabilly legend Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks until recently, as well as front man in his own Jerome Godboo Band/The Phantoms.

Godboo recently toured the world...

Concert Review by Joe Curtis
About Last Night

About Last Night

Jazz festival time is a great time in Toronto; clubs that I normally wouldn’t attend lure me out with the promise of great music. After taking in a concert what better way to end the night than with a night cap at a near by club featuring trumpet master Marcus Belgrave and his quartet.


Marcus Belgrave is...

Concert Review by Paul J. Youngman
Toronto Jazz Festival Day One

TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz - Festival June 23 – July 2

The festivals 20th anniversary celebration commenced with 27-year-old jazz piano phenom Robi Botos. Botos was joined on stage by his brother Frank on drums and Attila Darvas playing bass. Robi Botos was the winner of the prestigious 2004 Montreux Jazz Festival solo piano competition.


Botos, who was born...

Concert Review by Paul J. Youngman
Clef Notes

Bonnie Bramlett-Roots, Blues, & Groove (2006 ZOHO Records)

Bold, Brassy, and bursting of Blues is the only way to script this groove we are stuck in when Ms. Bonnie Bramlett vocalizes. At first listen I was caught up in her delivery and execution of deep soulful emotion. This will be the equivalent for you! Selections range from standards to...

Viewpoint by Karl Stober
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Ranee Lee & Oliver Jones – Just You, Just Me (2005 Justin Time Records)

Hot sizzle with a splash of elegance, as one would say pure temptation! It’s a continuous groove from spin to spin with charisma injected into the soul of Canadian sensation Ranee Lee and Oliver Jones as they perform Just You, Just Me and of course...

Viewpoint by Karl Stober
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Sara Gazarek-Yours (2005 Native Language Music Inc.)

If your choice vocals are that of the “Girl Next Door” appeal then I will make your day with a recommended spin of this jewel box “Yours”, for Ms. Gazarek is it! Intimate and tender sultry yet innocent at times, her presentation is very much worth the listen. Her 2006 “Yours” possibly...

Viewpoint by Karl Stober
Wanda Jackson At The Cadillac Lounge

Rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson sang her ever-lovin’ heart out at Toronto’s Cadillac Lounge, for two nights of high-energy partying, Fri. & Sat. Oct. 14 & 15, 2005. This writer saw the latter of these two amazing performances, and it’s a memory that will be cherished as long as I’m around.

Wanda Jackson was the first female singer to record rock...

Concert Review by Joe Curtis
Guitars & Saxes Are A Welcome Respite

In 1995, Bob Engel and John Harrington launched one of the most celebrated jazz acts of its kind ever observed in recent history. What has since become a multi-talented touring package made up of a wide and varied group of artists commonly referred to as “Guitars & Saxesis now one of the most phenomenal franchises in performance history. At various...

Concert Review by Sheldon T. Nunn
Miles Davis 80th Anniversary Celebration

Sponsored by Freedom Trails: Legacy of Hope, African American Heritage Tourism Development, Illinois

If you're into jazz, you're surely into Miles Davis. The money-makers know this too, which is why you see countless Miles tributes and marketing tie-ins. But all cynicism aside, last Friday's 80th Birthday Party in East St. Louis was the real deal. A simple idea to celebrate...

Concert Review by David Seymour
Kevin Yost

Kevin Yost is a Waynesboro Pennsylvania native. At the age of eleven he developed an interest in House music and started DJing at school parties, dances, and the like. Kevin was a very musical child, his love for music specifically drums and piano was fostered during this time. Growing up in such a rural town with limited opportunities to...

Concert Review by Katrina-Kasey Wheeler
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