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3 Brave Souls, Kirk Douglas Theatre
February 8, 2013 Friday’s “3 Brave Souls” CD release event at the Kirk Douglas Theater in Culver City is just one of many ongoing performances held by the Jazz Bakery as they await construction of their Frank Gehry designed new home next door. John Beasley has been a familiar presence in the new year, [...]
Billy Cobham’s Spectrum 40 Band, The Mint
January 26, 2013 Mahavishnu Orchestra is in the pantheon of jazz fusion pioneers. Black hole density, volcanic intensity and ridiculous virtuosity. I had never heard anything quite like John McLaughlin’s searing fretwork, Jan Hammer’s prog-funk sounds and Jerry Goodman’s violin thrown to the front of what truly seemed to be an inner mounting flame. [...]
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Greg Allman Band, Royce Hall
January 11, 2013 Gregg Allman’s life is a road well travelled for sure. As much thriver as survivor, his blues have the resume to match (40+ years on the road and hard knocks you wouldn’t wish on anyone). Last year’s T-Bone Burnett produced “Low Country Blues” is a seminal record that embodies the sum [...]
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Tagged Acura Stage, Allman Brothers, Arcade Fire, blues photography, Blues Tent, concert photography, Eye on the Music, Gibson guitars, Greg Allman, Hammond B3, JamBase, Jazzfest, Jim Brock Photography, Low Country Blues, music photography, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, rock photography, Royce Hall, Scott Sharrard, Spinner
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Dragon Smoke, The Mint
December 12, 2012 Certain celestial alignments skip decades, if not lifetimes, or at a minimum, involve covering great distances at greater expense. Think solar eclipses, Comet Hale-Bopp or if you get around, the aurora. Even then, there is the unexpected cloud cover that can scotch the most anticipated and well-planned events. While the intersection [...]
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Wiltern Theater
November 2, 2012 Grace Potter and the Nocturnals played to a packed Wiltern in the midst of her Fall “all request” tour. The generous set was in the audience’s sweet spot with many sing-alongs that had GP working the front of the pit to connect with as many fans as she could. Potter and the [...]
Voodoo Experience 2012
October 26-28, 2012 As an unabashed Jazzfest vet, I approached my first Voodoo with excitement and a hint of fear. The mix of rap, EDM, and the often indefinable, sprinkled with the best of New Orleans contemporary and traditional, on a bed of arena headliners, eclectic rockers, funk and blues artists, is uniquely [...]
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Tagged Anders Osborne, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, blues, blues music, blues photography, Blunderbuss, Borgore, C.C. Adcock, cajun music, City Park, Claudio Sanchez, Coheed and Cambria, concert photography, Crazy Horse, Dave Stewart, David Egan, Delta, Dubstep, EDM, Edward "Kidd" Jordan, Eurythmics, Eye on the Music, festival, Festival Coverage, Feufollet, Gary Clark Jr., George Porter, George Porter Jr., Jack White, Jazzfest, Jim Brock Photography, Johnny Sansone, Johnny Vidacovich, Kid Koala, Le Carnival Stage, Le Plur Stage, Le Ritual Stage, Lil Band O' Gold, live music, Louisiana, Marcia Ball, mezzic, Mike Dillon, music festival, music photography, MyNameIsJohnMichael, Neil Young, New Orleans Bounce, New Orleans brass, New Orleans funk, New Orleans music, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Preservation Hall Stage, Psychedlic Pill, rock photography, Runnin’, Silversun Pickups, Sister Sparrow and The Dirty Birds, Skerik, Skrillex, Soul Rebels, Stratocaster, Telecaster, The Avett Brothers, Thomas Dolby, Toots and The Maytals, traditional jazz, Voodoo Experience, Warren Storm, world music, WWOZ Stage, zydeco music
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Bombino, The Mint
September 18, 2012 Tuareg guitarist Omara “Bombino” Moctar was born in a nomadic encampment in Niger in 1980. Some 26 years later he was playing alongside Keith Richards and Charlie Watts in California. The here to the there and now is an amazing life of cultural and political conflict, creativity and inspiration that speaks [...]
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Tagged Bombino, concert photography, Eye on the Music, Jim Brock Photography, live music, music photography, The Mint, Tuareg, world music
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