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Honey Island Swamp Band Returns to The Mint
August 14, 2012
It’s apropos that the Honey Island Swamp Band would return for a summer gig at The Mint following an appearance at Outside Lands the prior weekend. After all, the Bay Area figures so prominently in this NOLA band’s origin…
Buddy Guy and Jonny Lang, City National Grove of Anaheim
August 10, 2012
Into the blues or not, it was impossible not to look forward to the crossroads on the road summit of Buddy Guy and Jonny Lang - two giant slingers for the ages. Myself, I’ll get me some 8/12-bars all night long from just…
Rock ‘n Roll Will Never Die Exhibit
Jim Brock Photography is pleased to have images of the Beach Boys featured at the Canadian National Exposition's "Rock 'n Roll Will Never Die" exhibit in Toronto. CanEx kicks off August 17th and draws an estimated 1.3 million visitors during…
Moncef Genoud Trio, Vitello’s
July 12, 2012
Jazz is constant discovery. Notes become threads, stories become journeys. Artists find a larger audience. Old things are expressed in new and surprising ways. All were elemental to the first of two nights with the Moncef Genoud…
Robert Walter Residency, with the 20th Congress, The Mint
June 13, 2012
There is no sound quite as satisfying as a Hammond B-3 organ through a Leslie speaker. In the right hands, the B-3 can be pure blues drenched, Sunday church joy, straight up bop, prog rock majesty, soul master and classic rock…
Matt Chamberlain Residency with Bill Frisell, The Mint
May 30, 2012
A guitar’s frequent absence from a jazz arrangement is both a uniqueness of the idiom and distinguishes it from the string driven sound of rock and blues. As an early ‘70s kid I was wide eyed about rock and all about guitars.…