Saturday night, blues piano player Eden Brent will play Chickie Wah Wah in Mid-City. The Mississippi-born Brent recorded her recent album Ain’t Got No Troubles at Piety Street Recording, and here she is playing the title track live in Memphis. Here is an interview with Brent from NPR’s Weekend Edition, and a second video, this [...]
Tag Archives: Piano
YouTube du Jour: Jon Cleary
March 28, 2011 – 9:34 am
Tonight, pianist Jon Cleary plays Chickie Wah Wah. Here he is at the piano talking about Professor Longhair and the Caribbean influence with Loyola’s John Snyder.
YouTube du Jour: Tuts Washington
December 13, 2010 – 9:37 am
Periodically, we like to go deep into the YouTube vaults for history clips. Here’s New Orleans piano great Tuts Washington performing “Just a Closer Walk with Thee” on British television.
YouTube du Jour: Jon Cleary
August 11, 2010 – 8:50 am
Algiers’ Wednesdays on the Point series continues tonight at 6 p.m. at the Algiers Ferry Dock with a performance by Jon Cleary. Here he is in solo performance improvising a boogie woogie.
Amy Trail of Pat O’Brien’s: Location, Location, Location
July 1, 2010 – 12:10 am
Amy Trail knows she shouldn’t be doing this. It’s midnight at Pat O’Brien’s, and the line to get in the piano bar grows steadily once capacity has been met. Inside, a mosaic of hurricanes clutter the tables as sloshy couples continue to order more. Tourists flood inside with their necks adorned with Mardi Gras beads toasting [...]
Josh Charles, Love, Work & Money (CC Ent/Copycat)
April 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
A reviewer for HuffingtonPost.com wrote of Love, Work & Money, “Remember where you were when you heard Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life, or Alicia Keys’ Songs in A Minor? Like these two albums, you will remember the moment you heard Love, Work and Money, the stunning debut album from visionary musician Josh [...]
Mark Darnell-Marquez/9 Ghosts, Lunar Year (11:11 Music)
February 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
With Lunar Year, multi-instrumentalist/composer Mark Darnell-Marquez adds singer/songwriter to his musical persona, 9 Ghosts. Previously under the moniker, Darnell-Marquez released an arresting piano set, The Book of Disquiet, as well as an evocative electro-acoustic chamber suite, In Twilight. Here, once again, Darnell-Marquez demonstrates his mastery of the sonic landscape. Produced by Tom McDermott, Lunar Year [...]
YouTube du Jour: “Junker Blues”
January 2, 2010 – 9:25 am
Tuts Washington and Professor Longhair demonstrate how the former’s “Junker Blues” became “Tipitina.” Allen Toussaint helps in a killer suit.
Clarence Bucaro, New Orleans (Hyena)
November 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
On his latest album, New Orleans, Clarence Bucaro revisits a project he shelved prior to releasing 2008′s ’Til Spring. Backed by an all-star ensemble, including sousaphonist Kirk Joseph and guitarist Anders Osborne, with whom Bucaro also shares production credits, this ten-song suite depicts the journeyman’s love affair with the Crescent City. Steeped in blue-eyed soul, [...]
