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Album of the Day 8/2/11
Every day, our 1000 best albums of all time countdown continues all the way to #1. Tuesday’s album is #546: Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Complete Recorded Works 1942-44 A gospel guitar goddess who...
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Dianne Nola’s Queen Bee: Gorgeous Purist Blues
Blues pianist/chanteuse Dianne Nola has a gorgeously purist album out titled Queen Bee, after the Slim Harpo song, which she imaginatively covers. Nola is oldschool: her playing is judicious. It’s...
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B3 Overkill? NEVER!
Isn’t it funny how the world’s full of bad guitarists…bad sax players…bad drummers…but when you think about it, how many bad B3 players are there? For one reason or another, that’s one instrument that...
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A Haunting Update on Old Spirituals from Jaimeo Brown’s Transcendence
Percussionist Jaimeo Brown’s new Transcendence album (just out from Motema) was inspired by a cult classic, How We Got Over: Sacred Songs of Gee’s Bend by the Gee’s Bend Quilters. It’s a double album...
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The Suwon Civic Chorale Make an Exciting, Cutting-Edge NYC Debut
It’s possible that the best globally-known export from the South Korean city of Suwon is its Civic Chorale, who made an exciting and eclectic debut in New York at Alice Tully Hall last night,...
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Jon Batiste Brings the Party to Harlem This Weekend
Jon Batiste makes a whirlwind stop in town tonight, May 1 and tomorrow night, May 2 uptown at Minton’s for a couple of rare solo shows. It’s hard to be cynical about this guy – to call him exuberant is...
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Smart, Edgy, Charmingly Retro Swing Quartet Rosie & the Riveters Make Their...
Rosie & the Riveters sing irrepressible, irresistible, original four-part-harmony swing tunes inspired by 30s girlgroups like the Andrews Sisters, spiced with equal parts jump blues, 18th century...
View ArticleA Brooding Live Film Score and New York’s Most Relevant Gospel Choir at...
It wouldn’t be fair to let the month go by without mentioning the wickedly amusing, entertaining score that Sexmob played to the 1925 Italian silent film Maciste All’Inferno at Prospect Park Bandshell...
View ArticleA New Take on a Gospel Jazz Classic
Singer Trineice Robinson‘s new single Come Sunday, a rapt, absolutely mystical take of the Duke Ellington classic, is just out and streaming at Spotify. Pianist Cyrus Chestnut keeps the ambience...
View ArticleA Soulful, Gospel-Inspired, Overdue Debut From Individualistic Jazz Singer...
Trineice Robinson brings deep gospel roots to her work in jazz. Like most good singers, she’s covered a lot of ground throughout her career, from classical choral music, to jazz and various touring...
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