It’s rare to hear banjo in a straight-ahead jazz setting these days, which makes the new collaboration between banjoist Béla Fleck and jazz masters the Marcus Roberts Trio all the more interesting. What started as an impromptu jam session at the Savannah Music Festival in 2009 has turned into an hour long album entitled Across The Imaginary Divide, released June 10 on Rounder Records.
One of the best things I love about Summer, besides the beach, the food and the Mosquitos (the band, in this case, not the bug), is the ability to see live music. Or maybe in my case now, it's the rememberance of seeing some really great live shows (with two kids and two jobs, it's hard to get out to see music much).
John and I are unwrapping some new stuff this week on TIme for the Blues (6/10/12)! Ooohhh..a paper cut from the CD cover! Join us for two distinctively different yet uncompromising modern bluesmen, Joe Louis Walker and JT Coldfire! More from The Goldwax Story too!
Answer: In one form or another, they are featured on this week's World Music Show (6/2).
Do you find the above list an odd combination for a show about World Music? Like a good puzzle, you'll soon see how these three meet up on this Saturday's show. But first, a humble begining.
Here we go again... another tribute show this week on Time for the Blues (6/3/12)--we hate doing them but it’s important that we remember the great artists that pass. This time it’s Andrew Love, fantastic sax player (and half of the duo that headed up the Memphis Horns) who left us in April.
In looking at the calendar for this week's World Music Show (5/26), I realized that this weekend marks the "unofficial" beginning of the summer season. And like any good procrastinator, as is my nature, I suddenly realized that I had to come up with some type of theme to talk about. Well, thank goodness for holidays. Because after perusing the playlist for Saturday's show, I realized that, indeed, there is a theme hidden inside that can corralate with the start of summer. So follow me as I try to persuade you on my new found theme.
