Short List with Bob Naujoks Mon. – Thurs. at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: B-3 Blitz Two: Ronnie Foster Ronnie Foster is one of the lesser lights in the “acid jazz” genre, but he has gathered in a new following that loves his funky vamps. Foster is not a …
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New Music Monday for November 18, 2013
Big John Patton was a staple of the Blue Note Records roster during the heyday of soul jazz in the 1960s. The link between the bluesy hard bop of Jimmy Smith and the modal free-jazz explorations of Larry Young, Patton had a style that was funky and raw, emotional and honest and thrillingly …
New Music Monday for November 11, 2013
‘Full bodied and comforting as home-baked apple pie’ is one apt description of Houston Person’s saxophone sound. It has also been compared to ‘mom’s meatloaf.’ Inasmuch as these similes attempt to convey the warm-hearted and effortlessly accomplished nature of the South Carolina-born tenorman’s art, they are spot-on, but it must be remembered that …
Special Programs for the Week of November 11 – 17
Short List with Bob Naujoks Mon. – Thurs. at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: B-3 Blitz Two: Ron Levy Ron Levy is a Boston B-3 marvel. While in high school he was playing on the local jazz scene, and not even graduated, would tour with blues singer Albert King. …
Special Programs for the Week of November 4
Short List with Bob Naujoks Mon. – Thurs. at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: B-3 Blitz Two: Chris Foreman Chris Foreman, of the Chicago-based Deep Blue Organ Trio, has been blind since birth, but that seems to be no handicap. Foreman started out in the late 1970s at music bars …
New Music Monday for November 4, 2013
Pianist Marc Cary has spent close to a decade honing a distinctive sound and improvisational approach with his enduring and much acclaimed Focus Trio. Despite a few shifts in the bass chair, and an ever-transforming array of acoustic and electronic instrumentation, the band’s original mission remains the same: “to bring indigenous rhythms together …
Special Programs for the Week of October 28
Short List with Bob Naujoks Mon. – Thurs. at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: B-3 Blitz Two: “Baby Face” Willette The B-3 Blitz Two series on the great Hammond B-3 organ players continues with a survey of the small but interesting discography of “Baby Face” Willette. His career was short—less …
New Music Monday for October 28, 2013
Joey DeFrancesco fondly remembers his work with legendary record producer Rudy Van Gelder ever since the keyboardist’s second release as a leader in 1990. “I could not resist the sound he would get on those Blue Note records and Prestige records,” the organist recalls. “And we hit it off. Everything was cool, man.” …