Dr. Lonnie Smith
Dapper DanRise Up! 2009 via Palmetto Records
Song: "Within Me A Lunatic Sings" Album: "With a buzz in our ears we play endlessly"
Sex Mob's sets feature a high proportion of covers, usually familiar pop songs, given a humorous, but avant garde treatment. Bernstein points out that this is a return to a fundamental jazz tradition, to take a familiar song then disassemble and reassemble. * Steven Bernstein - slide trumpet * Tony Scherr - bass * Briggan Krauss - saxophone * Kenny Wollesen - drums * John Medeski - Organ
Played in Lansing last Friday with Michigan band, Frontier Ruckus! And I missed it. Argh.
Back to 1990 ya'll!
Michael Sullivan on guitar!
Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears are an eight-piece outfit of twenty-something devotees of hard blues-funk. Fronted by young guitarist and soul shouter Joe Lewis, these talented newcomers on the Austin, Texas, music scene have unleashed one of the toughest, rawest funk EP's to come out in many years.
A group of paraplegic street musicians who live in and around the grounds of the zoo in Kinshasa, Congo, they make music of astonishing power and beauty.