I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, Live , from Zac Harmon & The Drive and it's super! Opening with soulful, NTRO , Nate Robinson on bass and Gino Iglehart on drums set a solid foundation, with Corey Lacy building on keys and lush guitar work by Zac Harmon and Kingston Livingston really setting the bar. Terrific opener. Blue Pill Thrill has super movement and soulful vocals by Harmon. Lacy on keys works the rhythm with Robinson and Iglehart and Livingston and and Harmon play stinging riffs on guitar really giving this track some kick. Deep blues track, Feet Back On The Ground features Albert King like stinging riffs and super soulful vocals by Harmon. Keeping the music floor low allows Harmon plenty of space to go dynamically from soft to wow quickly adding real emotion to the track. Excellent! Boogie Down is a strong jam with a firm piano base by Lacy giving Harmon plenty of headroom for vocal corralling. Lacy lays in some real tasty keyboar...
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I just had the opportunity to review the most recent
release (September 24, 2021), Re: Connection, from Greg
Loughman and it's fresh and inventive. Opening with Disunion,
a song originally titled Darling Nellie Grey when written by Benjamin Hanby
during the civil war era about a runaway slave pining for his love. In 1915,
Ralph Chapin wrote lyrics for this song then called The Commonwealth of Toil.
Loughman has reinterpreted this tune, setting up the composition with an
extended acoustic bass intro, adding to it Nathan Kay on trumpet, Dan Elbert on
alto sax, Anton Derevyenko on tenor sax, Matt Stubbs on clarinet, Anastassiya
Petrova on piano, Tyson Jackson on drums and Max O'Rourke on guitar, weaving in
dramatic themes and interpretations on what sums up like an epic theme song. Isolation
uses a similar structure of Loughman's acoustic bass line to set the stage on
which this track is built. Lead lines by Kay on trumpet and Stubbs on clarinet
further the theme with compliments by Elbert and Derevyenko into a loosely woven
fabric of melody. Very interesting. With a really cool drum line by Jackson and
piano work by Petrova, semi funky, From All Sides is a
full blown jam. With a layering theme of one instrument echoing the other and
the tight drum line of Jackson this track takes shape. With piano and drums as
the constant, the musicians grow slowly apart and more loosely connected and
then back together for a solid conclusion. With a slight melancholy overtone, Grow is
one of my favorite tracks on the release. Petrova's piano, the dominant pace
setter on the track slowly builds with the gradual addition of Loughman, Kay,
Elbert and Derevyenko. Nice lead lines by Kay, Elbert and Derevyenko add just
the right contrast. Very nice. Wrapping the release is Horizon
featuring Faris Ishaq on fey, an end played flute instrument. With tight drum
and piano rhythms, Kay's trumpet melody, Nadia Washington on vocal, Jerry Leake
on percussion and O'Rourke working the counter rhythms, this is a strong
closer.
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Lucille Bogan (April 1, 1897 – August 10, 1948) was an American blues singer, among the first to be recorded. She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson . The sexologist and music critic, Ernest Borneman , stated that Bogan along with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith , was in "the big three of the blues". She was born Lucille Anderson in Amory, Mississippi , United States, and raised in Birmingham, Alabama . In 1916, she married Nazareth Lee Bogan , a railwayman, and gave birth to a son. She first recorded vaudeville songs for Okeh Records in New York in 1923, with pianist Henry Callens . Later that year she recorded " Pawn Shop Blues " in Atlanta, Georgia , which was the first time a black blues singer had been recorded outside New York or Chicago. In 1927 she began recording for Paramount Records in Grafton, Wisconsin , where she recorded her first big success, " Sweet Petunia ", which was covered by Blind Blake . She also recorded for Brunswick...
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