Maceo Parker * 2007 * Germany
10/Apr/2009 Filed in: Funk/R&B/Soul
"This live set from the summer of 2007 finds famed ex-James Brown horn man Maceo Parker cutting loose with Germany’s incredible WDR Big Band. The concert shoots the intensity up several notches with Parliament-Funkadelic alumni Dennis Chambers (drums) and Rodney "Skeet" Curtis (bass) driving the energy to uncommonly soulful and sweaty peaks. The concept of playing hard funk with a brassy big band in tow is somewhat unusual, but the results smash all preconceptions. Parker’s dueling alto battle with Karolina Strassmayer on "To Be or Not to Be" and a rousing 17-minute version of the J.B.’s classic "Pass the Peas" are just a few highlights of this rollicking, electrifying set."
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20/Feb/2009 Filed in: Jazz
"Guitarist Charlie Hunter appeals to a lot of music fans on a lot of different levels. His amazing technique and improvisational skills have earned praise from straight-ahead jazz critics and fans. His willingness to experiment musically is looked upon with great favor by devotees of the avant-garde. And his ability to dig into a big, nasty groove and then run away with it has made him a favorite with jam-band audiences.
No matter what sort of music he plays, his amazing technique has been Hunter's calling card since he started recording in the mid-1990s. Armed with a seven-string guitar, he possesses the unique ability to sound like at least two guitarists at once, as he seems to play bass lines, melody lines, chords and improvisational passages at the same time.
However, as he tells KPLU's Nick Francis in this session, he feels that he's taken technique as far as he can. Hunter jokes that, at a certain point in the recent past, he felt that the only thing he could do to outdo himself on stage would be to set himself on fire. Since he was understandably hesitant to take such a drastic step, he began to re-think the music he was playing and the reasons he wanted to play music in the first place.
His conclusion, as you'll hear, was that he'd spent enough of his career in the service of technique — and that it was now time to serve the music. The solo guitar pieces he plays in this interview clearly demonstrate the fruits of Hunter's new path."
--88.5 KPLU FM
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Esbjorn Svenson Trio * 12.01.07 * Gamla Theatern, Sweden
21/Jun/2008 Filed in: Jazz
Esbjörn Svensson, R.I.P.
Swedish jazz pianist and band leader whose exciting and unconventional performances won an international following
Esbjörn Svensson, who died on Saturday aged 44 in a scuba-diving accident near Stockholm, was a pianist and leader of the innovative Esbjörn Svensson Trio, popularly known as EST.
The trio, founded in the early 1990s, played an unclassifiable brand of music which incorporated avant-garde jazz, contemporary rock and elements of modern classical music in constantly varying proportions.
Its live performances, in particular, were exciting, unpredictable and hugely popular with young audiences. The trio's fame was still growing strongly at the time of Svensson's death.
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Swedish jazz pianist and band leader whose exciting and unconventional performances won an international following
Esbjörn Svensson: his music was described as a 'fusion of American post-bop, synthesised abstractions and Nordic cool'
Esbjörn Svensson, who died on Saturday aged 44 in a scuba-diving accident near Stockholm, was a pianist and leader of the innovative Esbjörn Svensson Trio, popularly known as EST.
The trio, founded in the early 1990s, played an unclassifiable brand of music which incorporated avant-garde jazz, contemporary rock and elements of modern classical music in constantly varying proportions.
Its live performances, in particular, were exciting, unpredictable and hugely popular with young audiences. The trio's fame was still growing strongly at the time of Svensson's death.
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Bill Frisell & Greg Leisz * 2/14/07 * Bellingham
26/Nov/2007 Filed in: Americana
Guitarist Bill Frisell and pedal steel player Greg Leisz playing selections from Frisell's vast repertoire and a few surprising covers in the intimate setting of Bellingham, Washington's Nightlight Lounge on Valentine's Day, 2007. Recorded by DJ Fundi on a minidisk, front row, stage left.
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