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Brian AugerLive at the Baked Potato
The Waterboys - Fisherman's Bluessamples
http://www.amazon.com/Nothings-Impossible-Solomon-Burke/dp/B0037EDIKKThe last hurrah...Solomon Burke, nothing's impossible
I freakin' love the music of Miles Davis. I once named a dog “Miles Davis." I've written tons about Miles Davis. Even compare most every artist who's doing something cool and expansive to Miles Davis. And when a musician takes on a project projecting the music of Miles Davis, I'm gonna listen to it and chances are, I'll dig it. Especially that dark, enigmatic early electric period of 1969-1975...Gerry Gibbs is the son of famed vibrist and bandleader Terry Gibbs. But Terry's offspring picked up drumsticks instead of mallets and had gigged with Buddy DeFranco, Woody Shaw, Ernie Watts, Alice Coltrane, and Alice's son, Ravi, his childhood friend. In fact, Ravi served as a sideman on Gibbs' first album back in 1996. Over time, Gibbs earned the nickname “Thrasher" and his diverse sonic palette makes him a good fit for a variety of settings. Like his dad, Gerry evolved into a bandleader role and he's lad bands large and small. For instance, last year's release, Moving On, Never Looking Back was a quintet. For his Miles tribute, Gibbs leads an thirteen piece band.He calls this band the “The Electric Thrasher Orchestra." See, even the band name is cool.This orchestra is actually a spinoff of an earlier one Gibbs led, The Bitches Brew Orchestra, based out of San Antonio, and functioned as a tribute band to the electric period of Miles...The double-set of twenty-six tracks gets going with a concert favorite “Directions." It sets the tone the right way, as this Joe Zawinul composition is so wide open, it allows the musicians to improvise with little constraints, just as long as it's short theme is revisited every now and then. “Bitches Brew," with the most sinister bass line ever, is a song that few bands can capture correctly, but the Thrasher Orchestra's got this one down cold. “Little Church" is notable for its floating quality, an often overlooked side of Miles from the early seventies, outside of In A Silent Way. And speaking of that album, the title song is represented here, in a way that honors the sublimely pretty melody that soon makes way for the hypnotic “It's About That Time."...http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=53391
...Every facet of Dee Dee Bridgewater plays out on this album, from soft and soulful to bright and breezy to sultry flirt, to impassioned priestess. There’s no better way to honor the spirit of Billie Holiday. http://www.jazzpolice.com/content/view/9424/79/
