Anti Records’ blog reports that Galactic is finishing a new live album, The Other Side of Midnight: Live in New Orleans, for a May 3 release. Guests on the album include Cyril Neville, who toured as a guest vocalist with the band for much of last year, and Trombone Shorty, the Soul Rebels, Corey Henry [...]
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Charles Lloyd Quartet, Rabo de Nube (ECM)
August 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
The melodic playing of saxophonist Charles Lloyd often drifts lightly from one measure to the next. His ability to make popular jazz in the heyday of the hippie and his years spend teaching mediation add to his ethereal aura. The young pianist Jason Moran is incessantly inventive and deeply intellectual. He never lets us forget [...]
Robert Nighthawk and His Flames of Rhythm, Live on Maxwell Street, 1964 (Rounder Records)
October 1, 1991 – 12:01 am
Robert Nighthawk was among the earliest of Mississippi bluesmen to emigrate to Chicago, and this disc, recorded by blues historian Norman Dayron in September 1964, is about as lowdown, dirty, mean and nasty as the real thing gets. Accompanied only by rhythm guitar and drums and Carey Bell’s wonderful harp on two numbers, this is [...]
