Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk on April 29

http://www.youtube.com/v/6DA98cvyAk8

Irma Thomas on May 2

http://www.youtube.com/v/CXPlec9jXZw

Have you been watching Treme on HBO?

Ellis Marsalis on May 2

http://www.youtube.com/v/1NizVQ_4ZcQ  

Edith Grove wrote on Apr 19^th, 2010 at 4:25am:


Good Stuff!

After Jazz Fest the party continues at New Orleans music clubs
By Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune
April 22, 2010, 4:45AM

Once you leave Jazz Fest and wash off a little of that Fair Grounds funk, head to these hot spots for more music.

FRIDAY
Trombone Shorty, House of Blues, 9 p.m.
After years of study on the streets and in the clubs of New Orleans, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews has, at 24, graduated.
This week, Verve Forecast/Universal released his national debut, "Backatown."
Produced by Galactic's Ben Ellman, "Backatown" smartly showcases Andrews' medley of funk, rock, jazz and R&B. Guests include Allen Toussaint, Marc Broussard and Lenny Kravitz; Kravitz, with whom Andrews apprenticed, is an obvious influence on Andrews' singing and showmanship.
Already, Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times and USA Today have raved about "Backatown." Indicative of his fast-rising star, Andrews and his band, Orleans Avenue, headline the House of Blues on the opening night of Jazz Fest. Jon Cleary and the Stooges Brass Band open.

Also catch
Irma Thomas kicks off a three-night stand at Club Precinct on Annunciation Street, with shows at 9 and 11. Papa Grows Funk grooves at the Maple Leaf. Rock 'n' Bowl presents Anders Osborne backed by the Stanton Moore Trio, plus Eric Lindell and Kermit Ruffins.

The Honey Island Swamp Band celebrates its new "Good to You" CD with a show at the Hi-Ho Lounge. Tipitina's hosts Zigaboo's Funk Revue with Meters drummer Zigaboo Modeliste, "Late Show with David Letterman" bandleader Paul Shaffer, the Soul Rebels and more; later, Galactic does a 2 a.m. set.
The French Quarter Tipitina's presents non-smoking shows with Marco Benevento at 10, the Hill Country Revue at midnight and George Porter Jr. & Runnin Pardners at 2 a.m.

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band performs the classic "My Feet Can't Fail Me Now" album in its entirety at One Eyed Jacks. Singer-songwriter Paul Sanchez expands his weekly Friday night gig at Chickie Wah Wah to include Sunpie Barnes, Alex McMurray, Craig Klein, Matt Perrine and Debbie Davis at 8; stick around for guitarist Tab Benoit's Swampland Jam unplugged with Johnny Sansone and Monk Boudreaux.

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings play first at the Howlin' Wolf, followed by Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk and, around 2 a.m., Orgone. Dance to Fredy Omar at BMC at Esplanade and Decatur. Billy Iuso & the Restless Natives are at the Banks Street Bar. Percussionist and Ivory Coast native Seguenon Kone & I'voire Spectacle play a free show at the Big Top. Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse hosts a Danny Barker tribute with Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown, Don Vappie and Uncle Lionel Batiste at 8; stay for the Burlesque Ballroom at midnight.
The Radiators hold court at Southport Hall. Allen Toussaint is featured for the 19th annual JazzFest Shabbat at Touro Synagogue. Pianist Marcia Ball tickles the ivories at The Parish of the House of Blues. In the Carousel Bar of Hotel Monteleone, pianist John Autin hosts special guests all week; tonight it's Don Vappie on banjo. 007 does the early set at Le Bon Temps Roule, followed by Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle at 2 a.m. The "Midnight Preserves" late show at Preservation Hall features Luke Winslow-King plus Loose Marbles. Hot jazz singer Ingrid Lucia is early at d.b.a., followed by the Lost Bayou Ramblers, the Zydepunks and, around 2 a.m., keyboardist Brian Coogan's Band. Catch the Eric Traub Trio at Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar.

SATURDAY
Patti Smith holds court at Tipitina's. Anders Osborne and Eric Lindell team up at 10 p.m. for a non-smoking show at Tipitina's French Quarter. Dr. John headlines the House of Blues. The late show at the Blue Nile boasts Frequinox featuring Robert Walter, Donald Harrison, Stanton Moore, Will Bernard and Rob Mercurio. Long-lost local favorites Tribe Nunzio reunites at Chickie Wah Wah. The Little Freddie King Blues Band plugs in at BJ's Lounge in Bywater. Johnny J & the Hitmen do classic rockabilly at the Bayou Park Bar. Irma Thomas does two shows at Club Precinct. Phillip Manuel sings jazz and R&B at the Bombay Club. Dash Rip Rock rocks Carrollton Station with The Help featuring Barbara Menendez of The Cold. The Rebirth Brass Band hits the Howlin' Wolf. Marcia Ball plays a benefit show at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
The Sierra Leone Refugee AllStars do the early show at The Parish of the House of Blues. A big bill at Rock 'n' Bowl boasts the Radiators, Rockin' Dopsie Jr. and Bonerama. Hold on during the Morning 40 Federation at One Eyed Jacks. Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes are up first at the Maple Leaf, followed later by Johnny Vidacovich. Experience Luther Kent & Trick Bag at Monkey Hill Bar on Magazine St. Catch the Wild Magnolias at Donna's, followed at 1 a.m. by trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis. Maison on Frenchmen hosts Big Sam's Funky Nation, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and more.
Jazz saxophonist John Ellis & Double Wide park at the Rusty Nail. Saxophonist Charles Neville does two sets at Snug Harbor. Singer-songwriter Luke Winslow-King is on at 5 at d.b.a., followed by John Boutte at 8 and bassist George Porter Jr. & His Runnin' Pardners at midnight. The Hot 8 Brass Band kicks at Domino Sound Record Shack at 7, just as the nearby Fair Grounds empties.

SUNDAY
Rahsaan Patterson and Lalah Hathaway co-headline Harrah's Theatre, with David Batiste & the Gladiators and Meters guitarist Leo Nocentelli; show times are 8 and 11 p.m. "The Drummers Cometh" at the Howlin' Wolf boasts Zigaboo Modeliste, Stanton Moore, Johnny Vidacovich, Shannon Powell and Terence Higgins; stick around for Global Noize with George Porter Jr., Leo Nocentelli, Billy Martin and more. Chickie Wah Wah presents the Mardi Gras Indian Orchestra led by guitarist Papa Mali; it includes Reggie Scanlan and Camile Baudoin of the Radiators and more. The Funky Meters hit the House of Blues with Anders Osborne.
Experience the New Orleans Bingo! Show at One Eyed Jacks. Rock 'n' Bowl has Tab Benoit with Jimmy Hall and Louisiana Leroux, Sonny Landreth and the Chuck Credo Blues Society. See Egg Yolk Jubilee at Le Bon Temps Roule. The Palmetto Bug Stompers play d.b.a. at 5, followed at 8 by Grayson Capps and finally Papa Grows Funk with Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and others. Irma Thomas does two shows at Club Precinct. DJ Jubilee spins at the Circle Bar with White Colla Crimes.
From 8 to 11 p.m., the Cabildo hosts a memorial concert honoring the late songwriter Bobby Charles. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is teamed with Jon Cleary at Tipitina's. Guitarist Tim Reynolds is at the French Quarter Tipitina's with the Benjy Davis Project. Trumpeter Terence Blanchard fills Snug Harbor. The original Jeremy Lyons & the Deltabilly Boys and the Schatzy Band team up at the Hi-Ho Lounge. Papa Mali and Vinyl visit the Maple Leaf. Pianist Jesse McBride & the Next Generation Jazz Band are at Donna's. At Maison on Frenchmen, the "Funky Butt Revisited" show has Big Sam Williams, Nicholas Payton, Brian Coogan and more.

MONDAY
The Blue Nile hosts Anders Osborne and Good Enough for Good Times. At Rock 'n' Bowl, hear Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women with Sonny Landreth plus a Snooks Eaglin tribute featuring guitarist Brint Anderson and bassist George Porter Jr. European improvised music saxophonist Peter Brotzmann and percussionist Hamid Drake team up at thte Big Top. Paul Sanchez does an 8 p.m. set at d.b.a., followed by Glen David Andrews' birthday bash.
Drummer Bob French marks the 100th anniversary of the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band at Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse. Owen "Big Daddy O" Tufts joins pianist John Autin at the Carousel Bar in Hotel Monteleone. Following a happy hour set from the Pfister Sisters, stick around Chickie Wah Wah for clarinetist Evan Christopher. Guitarist John Fohl picks at Dos Jefes. The House of Blues hosts WWOZ Piano Night. Papa Grows Funk is at the Maple Leaf. "Instruments A Comin'" takes over Tipitina's.

TUESDAY
Idris Muhammad, Blue Nile, 8:30 p.m.
As a boy in New Orleans, Leo Morris was mesmerized by the chants and rhythms of the Mardi Gras Indians. Years later, he moved to New York and then Europe, changed his name to Idris Muhammad and deployed those rhythms as a prolific drummer for hire.

Over five decades, he logged hundreds of recordings and thousands of performances with Sam Cooke, Jerry Butler, Roberta Flack, avant-jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, jazz-funk saxophonist Lou Donaldson, guitarist Melvin Sparks, pianist Ahmad Jamal, New York tenor star Joe Lovano and many more. In recent years, Muhammad has returned to his hometown to mask Indian with saxophonist Big Chief Donald Harrison's tribe. On Tuesday, Harrison joins Muhammad for a show at the Blue Nile. Muhammad also conducts a Monday evening clinic at the Blue Nile.

Also catch
The Howlin' Wolf hosts a benefit for Little Feat drummer Richie Hayward, who is battling liver cancer; the show features Little Feat's Kenny Gradney, Paul Barrere and Fred Tacket plus Anders Osborne, John "Papa" Gros, Dave Malone and Sonny Landreth. One Eyed Jacks presents Dragon Smoke with Eric Lindell, Ivan Neville, Stanton Moore and Robert Mercurio. Guitarist Mem Shannon & the Membership park at Le Bon Temps Roule. Margie Perez sings at the Bayou Park Bar. Zeitgeist hosts an avant-jazz show with Hamid Drake, Nobu Ozaki and Rob Wagner, plus reed man Peter Brotzmann.

Paul Cebar does the early set at Chickie Wah Wah, followed by Anders Osborne, Jumpin' Johnny Sansone and John Fohl. The legendary Allen Toussaint does two jazzy sets at Snug Harbor. Rock 'n' Bowl gets brassy with the Soul Rebels and Big Sam's Funky Nation. Hear Jeremy Lyons & the Deltabilly Boys at 5 at d.b.a., followed by the Cottonmouth Kings of New Orleans at 8 and TheTrio featuring Johnny Vidacovich, June Yamagishi and George Porter Jr. at 11. Trumpeter Leroy Jones joins John Autin at the Carousel Bar.

WEDNESDAY
The Radiators return to Frenchmen Street for the "Dream Palace Reincarnation" at the Blue Nile. Twangorama, the Bonerama horns and Woodenhead join forces at Carrollton Station. Lynn Drury is at the Bayou Park Bar. Swamp-blues guitarist Papa Mali leads an all-star amalgamation at Chickie Wah Wah. The "Megalomaniacs Ball" at the Howlin' Wolf features Garage A Trois, the Stanton Moore, Marco Benevento and Mike Dillon trios and the Dead Kenny G's.

Marcia Ball and MyNameIsJohnMichael play the free "Wednesday at the Square" show at Lafayette Square downtown. The Iguanas visit d.b.a. early, followed by Walter "Wolfman" Washington. Pianist Bob Andrews is at Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar. Grayson Capps & the Stumpknockers hit Le Bon Temps Roule. Chaz Fest 2010 takes over the Truck Farm studio in Bywater. Kermit Ruffins is joined by Henry Butler, Trombone Shorty and more at the House of Blues. See Martin Sexton at The Parish of the House of Blues.

The subdudes and Creole Stringbeans are at Rock 'n' Bowl. Pianists Marcia Ball, Tom McDermott and Joe Krown team up at Snug Harbor. Veteran British rock and blues singer Terry Reid returns to One Eyed Jacks. Jon Cleary joins John Autin in the Carousel Bar. Guitarist Peter Bernstein jams with the UNO Guitar Ensemble at the UNO University Center. Nathan & the Zydeco Cha-chas do an early set at the Sound Cafe. Junco Partners features John "Papa" Gros, Brian Stoltz, June Yamagishi, Tony Hall and Raymond Webber at the Maple Leaf. Eric Krasno celebrates his new CD at Maison on Frenchmen.

THURSDAY
Husband and wife duo Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi front their respective bands at the House of Blues. Southwest Louisiana all-star swamp pop and rock 'n' roll gang Lil' Band O' Gold and special guests Dr. John, Shannon McNally and Jon Cleary salute the late Bobby Charles at The Parish of the House of Blues. See Galactic at One Eyed Jacks. The Big Blues Harmonica Show at Chickie Wah Wah includes Greg "Fingers" Taylor from the Jimmy Buffett band, plus Johnny Sansone, Ben Maygarden and Sunpie Barnes.

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue funk up the Blue Nile. Irma Thomas returns to Club Precinct. Carrollton Station presents Anders Osborne, John Gros and Eric Lindell plus Jimmy Robinson. Pianist Jon Cleary is solo early at d.b.a., followed by the Honey Island Swamp Band and, around 1 a.m., Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm. It's Bebop Night with Loren Pickford at Dos Jefes. The Radiators are back at Southport Hall. The Legends of Zydeco show at Rock 'n' Bowl includes Buckwheat Zydeco, C.J. Chenier, Nathan Williams, Sunpie Barnes, Clayton Sampy, Lil Buck Sinegal and more.

The North Mississippi Allstars plug in at Tipitina's, followed late by Karl Denson's Tiny Universe. Tipitina's French Quarter has Cyril Neville & Tribe 13 plus Toubab Krewe. Jazz vocalist Johnaye Kendrick salutes Dee Dee Bridgewater at Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse, followed by Amanda Shaw at midnight. Pianist Tom McDermott holds court at Donna's. Hear Chris Thomas King at Snug Harbor. The Soul Rebels Brass Band hits Le Bon Temps Roule. Guitarist Sam Broussard joins John Autin at the Carousel Bar. The Trio at the Maple Leaf features Johnny Vidacovich, Marco Benevento and Skerik. Hear clarinetist Michael White early at the Sound Cafe.

-- Keith Spera

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Preservation Hall gets a little help from friends at the New Orleans Jazz Fest
By Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune
April 25, 2010, 4:35PM

A new ensemble took shape over the weekend at the New Orleans Jazz Fest. Call it the Preservation Morning Jacket.
Preservation Hall Jazz Band creative director Ben Jaffe oversees an ongoing effort to sustain the band's vitality by plugging in to contemporary music. The PHJB is in the midst of a brief tour with My Morning Jacket, a Kentucky rock band newly graduated to arena status.
Pres Hall joined My Morning Jacket for the conclusion of the latter's Jazz Fest set on Saturday. Later that night, members of My Morning Jacket sat in with Preservation Hall at the Hall itself for the toughest ticket of this Jazz Fest season. Prominent rock photographer Danny Clinch is on hand to shoot a documentary of the collaboration.
And, at Jazz Fest on Sunday, My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James joined Preservation Hall at the Gentilly Stage for two songs. He even donned the band's traditional white shirt, black tie and black vest, accessorized with a pair of rock star sunglasses.
Even before James's appearance, the Pres Hall set demonstrated the benefits of cross-generational collaboration. Thirty-something, pencil-mustachioed saxophonist and singer Clint Maedgen, recruited from the avant-garde performance troupe the New Orleans Bingo! Show, presided over a leering "Complicated Life," a Kinks cover that the Hall has adapted.
On "I Believe Like Moses Did," trombonist Freddie Lonzo, trumpeter Mark Braud and Maedgen, on one microphone, swapped call-and-response lines with clarinetist Charlie Gabriel on another. The playing was invigorated, the attitude mischievous.
Guest singer Amy Lavere sassed up "Baby Won't You Please Come Home," as she does on the recent all-star Pres Hall CD "Preservation." James joined in to recreate his contribution to that album, "Louisiana Fairytale." He projected his tenor through a megaphone, carefully enunciating in cahoots with the jazz band behind him.
Trumpeter Terence Blanchard then spiked a variation on "St. James Infirmary," with James stomping and jerking around, caught up in the music, feeling it. If this whole My Morning Jacket thing doesn't work out, he could likely land a permanent gig with Preservation Hall.

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Sonny Landreth on May 1

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New Orleans Jazz Fest crafts: What's cool under the white tents
By Doug MacCash, The Times-Picayune
April 29, 2010, 3:00AM

The hits keep on coming in the New Orleans Jazz Fest presented by Shell Contemporary Crafts tents on weekend two of Jazz Fest. Look for these three most promising first-timers.


Courtesy Archie Smith
Look for Archie Smith's hand-made psalteries such as "Morning Callas," at the New Orleans Jazz Fest

Middle ages musical mosaics

First, we have to go all the way back to the middle ages, when crusaders returned to Europe from what we now call the Republic of Turkey, with knowledge of the new-to-them (violin) bow. They applied the cutting-edge technology to some traditional stringed instrument (no one knows which) and the bowed psaltery was born.

At least that's how retired history teacher Archie Smith, who comes to the festival on Thursday, sketches out the misty origins of the little-seen instruments he's created in his North Carolina workshop since the late 1970s. Playing the slice-of-pie-shaped, hand-held, zither-like instrument, is "like playing the piano with one finger, " Smith says. The twelve strings on the right are
like the white keys; the twelve strings on the left are like the black keys. The "ethereal" sound, he says, is perfect for certain folk music.

Like paintings or sculpture, Smith assigns titles to his elaborate wooden creations, such as "Morning Callas (lily), " "Chocolate Waves, " "Butterfly Maze, " and "Fly Me to the Dark Side of the Moon." Based on the photos I've seen, the surfaces of Smith's psalteries are like musical mosaics. He says the instruments are made of carefully selected exotic woods, inlaid with patterns of ebony, holly, crushed malachite, turquoise, and sometimes even thinly sliced walnut shells.

Smith, a big fan of Zydeco, hopes to catch a little chank-a-chank at his first Jazz Fest.

Look for him on the second weekend, in Contemporary Craft tent I.

Own your own bowed psaltery for $500 to $900.

A new angle on still-life painting

Metairie-born artist Amy Glisan, who now lives in Pineville, says her breezy botanical still-life paintings are the product of several influences, from early American folk art to art nouveau to Gothic architecture.


Courtesy of Jazz Fest
A piece by artist Amy Glisan. Her work will on display at the second weekend of New Orleans Jazz Fest.

Glisan says she begins her paintings as if they were etchings, by scratching lines into clay-coated painting boards. She wipes the surface with black paint to emphasize the scratches and then carefully colors between the lines, leaving the dark ground tone peeking through here and there.

The overall effect, based on my preview of photos, is a rustic brand of angular modernism that's domestic enough for the breakfast nook but has just enough design bite to keep it interesting. Prices: $100 to $1,500. This is Glisan's first Jazz Fest. Find her at Contemporary Crafts tent J.

The circus sculpture comes to town

Artist Tammy Smith grew up in Kansas City, Mo., near the old Fairyland amusement park that, she said, remained standing so long after it went out of business, trees eventually grew through the skeletons of the rides.

"I was afraid of it, and entranced by it, " she said.

Smith hadn't much thought of Fairyland until two years ago when she encountered a burned amusement park in Brighton, England, that, she said, had been taken over by birds. Her childhood fear and fascination rekindled, she began creating the wire sculptures of alluringly decrepit amusements that she'll display at this year's Jazz Fest.


Courtesy of Jazz Fest
Jazz Fest crafts artist Tammy Smith's work.

Smith, a professional illustrator who worked for Hallmark Cards for 17 years, lived in the French Quarter for a short time when she was 19 and attended Jazz Fest last year. She said her sculpture titled "Twist of Fate, " depicting a wind-bent tent and tree occupied by birds is her tribute to New Orleans' recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

Based on a photo preview of her work, Smith should be a hit -- especially with the New Orleans Bingo! Show set. Look for Smith's sculptural circus in Contemporary Crafts tent D. Prices range from $60 to $800.

Trying metal on for size

Based on preview photographs, Georgia artist Chris Beck's recycled sheet-metal clothing is my favorite of Jazz Fest 2010 crafts.

Beck, a carpenter by trade, was renovating houses in Dalton, Ga., in 2008 when the housing market crashed. With time on his hands, he turned to art. Inspired by folk artists such as Charlie Lucas and Mose Toliver, Beck began combing dumps for cast-off metal to shape into sculpture.

When his mother gave him an old ironing board, Beck began creating a sheet-metal shirt to place atop it, and a style was born. Beck, 36, prefers rusted sheet iron from the roofs of old chicken coops and barns, which he bangs and wrinkles, then cuts and welds into full-size suit coats, waitress uniforms, coveralls....


Courtesy of Jazz Fest
Work by Chris Beck.

He colors his creations with recycled house paint, seals them with automotive clear coat, and assigns them names such as "Wes, " "Tiffany, " and "Mrs. Patterson" to reflect the real folks whose wardrobes inspired them.

Beck's sculpture seems to stitch together pop and folk art perfectly. Look for his work in Contemporary Crafts tent J. Prices range from $400 to $2,200.


Take a video tour of the contemporary crafts area on weekend one below.

http://videos.nola.com/times-picayune/2010/04/new_orleans_jazz_fest_2010_con.htm...


Arts writer Doug MacCash can be reached at [email protected] or 504.826.3481. Follow him on Twitter at dougmaccashtp.

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Jeff Beck soars at New Orleans Jazz Fest
By Doug MacCash, The Times-Picayune
May 01, 2010, 7:21PM


Chris Granger, The Times-Picayune
Guitarist Jeff Beck plays on the Gentilly Stage at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on Saturday.

Quint Davis, producer of the New Orleans Jazz Festival Presented by Shell, introduced Jeff Beck with an unparalleled string of superlatives. Davis declared him a genius and more. Beck, Davis said, was simply the best guitarist to have emerged from rock.

Beck then appeared on stage wearing a white sleeveless jacket with Celtic pattern, white sleeveless shirt with Nehru collar, black pants with white piping, white pro wrestler boots, and multiple silver arm bands. His stage costume was the only part of his performance that was not an exercise in subtlety.
From the first song, Beck did everything possible to prove Davis right. Whether he's weaving angelic melodies like "People Get Ready," "Over the Rainbow;" or "A Day in the Life;" or scrubbing the strings of his white Fender to thunderous effect during "The Birth of the Blues," the clarity of Beck's playing is stunning.

Beck, who did not sing during the show, is especially interesting to watch on the big screen since he has a peculiar guitar style. He works without a pick, stroking the strings with his bare fingers and stretching notes with the tremolo bar to such sublime effect that it's as if he's singing through his guitar. And his backing band befits his, well, genius. This evening the Gentilly stage was awash in consummate jazz-inflected musicianship. Beck's bass player Rhonda Smith, who also handles most vocals, plays a starring role.

Between songs, Beck smiles sweetly and bends at the waist, with great humility for someone who proved today he's shoulder to shoulder with any guitar hero past or present. After the achingly beautiful encore, which the fan behind me recognized as an opera aria, Beck borrowed his keyboard player's hat so he could bow properly.

Bravo Beck!


Comments (2 total)

Posted by gingerk
May 01, 2010, 8:47PM
Great review. Stunning performance. Rhonda Smith is a powerhouse and needs to headline a show. Proud to have witnessed it.


Posted by teagreen54
May 02, 2010, 1:15AM
Jeff Beck is one of my all time favorite musicians. I caught him back in 1972 on tour with the Mahavishnu Orchestra when the Blow By Blow album first came out. Blew me away. Then at City Park, the Warehouse, in D.C., Europe, the House of Blues and now Jazz Fest. Clapton & Page are rank amateurs compared to the artistic brilliance of Beck. Forever the innovator.

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