On Carnivale Electricos, Galactic delivers exactly what the title promises. The funk band turns its attention to Carnival music, and electricity is central to every track. Carnival in New Orleans, Rio and Cajun Country may rely on acoustic instruments, but like From the Corner to the Block and Ya-Ka-May, Carnivale Electricos is the product of [...]
Tag Archives: Stanton Moore
Jonathan Freilich, Electric Eggplant (Independent)
September 1, 2011 – 12:57 am
Jonathan Freilich’s guitar work and compositions are the sound of modern jazz in New Orleans. Although sometimes abstract and angular, they have rhythmic bounce and melodic sense that is much more accessible than similar music made in other settings and still reflect the best New Orleans music. His new album, Electric Eggplant, features musicians who [...]
YouTube du Jour: Trombone Shorty and New Album For True
July 15, 2011 – 9:50 am
Trombone Shorty has spent much of the summer on tour in Europe. Here’s footage of an interview with him by a Dutch radio station, where he talks about learning circular breathing among other things. Shorty’s upcoming album, For True, is once again produced by Galactic’s Ben Ellman, and it’s due out September 13. Here’s a [...]
Johnny Sansone, The Lord is Waiting and the Devil is Too (Shortstack Records)
July 1, 2011 – 12:56 am
In the wrong hands, the blues are a quick trip to Cliché City, a place where there’s no lyrical or musical problem that can’t be solved in the exact same way as thousands of musicians before him or her have done. In the right hands, it helps them tap into something elemental, as is the [...]
Garage a Trois, Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil (Royal Potato Family Records)
May 1, 2011 – 12:47 am
Like Gang of Four, which is now essentially two guys, Garage a Trois has a band name that’s just too good to change when it’s no longer numerically accurate. The group only remained a trio for a short time after drummer Stanton Moore launched it as a 1999 side project, with guitarist Charlie Hunter and [...]
Jazz Fest Focus: Johnny Sansone
May 1, 2011 – 12:28 am
If New Orleans is home to a new renaissance, Johnny Sansone is ready to be its Da Vinci. “I think there’s a renaissance period coming and I’m really happy to be in this generation at this time,” says the New Orleans- based multi-instrumentalist who is known for maintaining a full and diverse musical schedule. He’ll [...]
YouTube du Jour: Street Sweeper Social Club
October 27, 2010 – 9:17 am
Street Sweeper Social Club makes its New Orleans debut Saturday at 8 p.m. at this year’s Voodoo Experience, but the players are no strangers. Guitarist Tom Morello has visited New Orleans numerous times since Katrina, and rapper Boots Riley performed with Galactic on From the Corner to the Block and on the subsequent tour. SSSC’s [...]
The Weekend’s Highs and Lows
October 18, 2010 – 10:13 am
The Highs: – Otis Taylor’s version of “Hey Joe” during the Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival Saturday. Don Vappie played banjo with Taylor throughout the set and played a fevered, rhythmic solo when his turn came. Alvin Youngblood Hart followed him on guitar with a solo that was so thoroughly inside the blues idiom [...]
Midnite Disturbers: Jazz Fest Focus
May 1, 2010 – 12:26 am
The idea for the Midnite Disturbers came at drummer Stanton Moore’s kitchen table. He and fellow drummer Kevin O’Day had been tossing around the idea of forming an all-star brass band, and they had called Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews to see what he thought. When he agreed, they started calling friends and ended up with [...]
Stanton Moore, Groove Alchemy (Telarc)
April 1, 2010 – 2:01 am
Groove Alchemy the CD is only one part of Groove Alchemy, the larger project that comes with a DVD and instructional book. The project takes drummers and those interested in funk drumming inside Stanton Moore’s process of developing grooves, and the CD presents those grooves in action. The drummers who infuenced him the most are [...]
