Continuing series of music at Luna Libre- Music with Dayna Kurtz - Tacos!

Luna Libre is a new food and music spot on St. Claude Ave. I have been asked to do some curating for the Tuesday series. Come over the great food and music.

It is to be a really good listening room and the next 4 weeks will have some great artists (including the Author tomorrow.

Tuesdays 7-9pm:

This week:

November 19- Dayna Kurtz (blues and original music)


TACOS everybody!

Curating a series of music at Luna Libre- Music- Tacos!

Luna Libre is a new food and music spot on St. Claude Ave. I have been asked to do some curating for the Tuesday series. Come over the great food and music.

It is to be a really good listening room and the next 4 weeks will have some great artists (including the Author tomorrow.

Tuesdays 7-9pm:

November 5- Jonathan Freilich Solo (guitar and songs)

November 12- Alex Mcmurray & Luke Allen (Bards of the neighborhood)

November 19- Dayna Kurtz (blues and original music)

November 26- Joe Cabral and Friend- (brilliant musician and robust pillar of The Iguanas)


TACOS everybody!

007 is back on the scene- Oct 18-20 DBA, New Orleans & Pensacola, Fla

Do you love ROCKSTEADY music?

007 does too.


Jeffrey Clemens is back around so we have a show Friday the 18th at DBA, 10pm. We will also play two nights at the Paradise Inn, Pensacola, Fla. Oct 19-20.

For those of you who missed the sensation of 007 in the heyday it comprised of:

Jeffrey Clemens (G-Love & the Special Sauce)- drums/vocals
Alex Mcmurray (Alex Mcmurray)-guitar/vocals
Joe Cabral (The Iguanas etc.)- bass/ vocals
Jonathan Freilich (see website)- Guitar

And was greater than the sum of the parts (which was confusing for people so oriented toward the diminutive.)

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At Yuki with The Jackals

Tonight at Yuki at 525 Frenchmen St.- 8pm til

These days, The Jackals are rare.   Old friends, greater thanks than the sum of parts.  All that kind of thing.  A wild an unpredictable repertoire with great playing all around.

Alex Mcmurray-guitar,vocals
Joe Cabral-bass, vocals
Jonathan Freilich-guitar
Doug Garrison-drums

Come see the group that started that whole Bacchanal thing.  You might get an interesting new hang going.

We will answer the question- "Is a Jackal an Iguana?"

Two shows this week-trio at Yuki tonight; Maple Leaf with Mike Dillon Friday

Have two interesting hits this week:

Tonight with a Trio at Yuki on Frenchmen St at 8pm.

Joe Cabral-bass/vocals
Jonathan Freilich- guitar
Doug Garrison- drums

Expect a Jackal-ish guest and then expect the unexpected...


Friday will be at the Maple Leaf Bar on Oak St in Uptown New Orleans.  Show starts @10pm.

Mike Dillon is a fascinating multi instrumentalism who has some unbelievably exciting approaches to things like vibraphones and Marimbas.  There's a punk thing, a surf thing, a Jazz thang, a Metal thing, a Funk thang, a surf thing.  Lot's of things and thangs.  A good deal of tings, dings, damns and dangs.


Tonight at Circle Bar- The Jackals 10pm

So good last week we got another shot.  Come out.  As Alex Mcmurray (there tonight!) says, it's ecumenical music.

last week's crowd

last week's crowd

The Jackals  are:

Doug Garrison- drums
Joe Cabral-bass
Jonathan Freilich-guitar
Alex Mcmurray-guitar

Oh yes...Alex and Joe sing songs too.  And not all in one language either.  Collectively we are unafraid of a multilingual universe. Lengue, eh? 

Doug Garrison

Doug Garrison

Joe Cabral

Joe Cabral

Gray Gankendorff and Alex Mcmurray  

Gray Gankendorff and Alex Mcmurray  

At 3muses tonight at 8pm-joe Cabral band

Tonight. after your linen has been truly gallery dirtied. get over to three muses- nola. great songs played at a high level. no sacrifice of essential humanity involved. you will beam and easily grab a fine wine at the same time!

Alex Mcmurray-guitar/vocals
James Singleton-bass
Joe Cabral-saxophone
Jonathan Freilich

The Jackals ride again-Circle Bar Wed Aug 7-10pm(that's tonight!)

Hard as it's been to get some time where we can all make it, we finally did.  If you are unfamiliar with The Jackals, it was the sequel to 007 which became 00-Doug when drummer Jeffrey Clemens wasn't around.  Lip service had to be paid to those voices that attempt minor potential gains through strict name recognition, so we changed the name to The Jackals.  Now it is vastly distinguished from 007.  You'll see!

Anyway we are at The Circle bar this Wednesday at 10pm.  

Be there or don't. But...

As Louis Armstrong said "I never was born to be a Square about anything, no matter what it is..."   

How about you? 

The lineup is:

joe cabral

joe cabral

Alex Mcmurray

Alex Mcmurray

Alex Mcmurray-guitar, vocals
Jonathan Freilich- guitar
Joe Cabral-bass, vocals
Doug Garrison--drums

 

Satchmo Fest: Celebration of Louis Armstrong's writings

On Sunday 4th of August at 8pm, come to readings from the work of... 

Louis Armstrong- premier jazz journalist

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

        New Orleans music journalist, John Swenson will be curating this presentation of Armstrong as first 'jazz journalist.'  The show is an effort by the New Orleans chapter of the JJA.  Come by and see notable New Orleans voices including Chuck Perkins (poet), Mark Bingham(engineer/composer), Joe Cabral (musician/composer), and many more reading selections from the writings of the jazz, and 20th century music mastermind, Louis Armstrong. This will be towards the end of the festivities for the  Satchmo Summerfest at Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans.  Armstrong was an all-round artistic voice; a prolific writer to boot and, as always his distinctive artistic bent and style pervade this medium as well as his colossal music contribution. Of course, he was also a central shaping figure of the 20th century art so his stories are ground central for an important viewpoint of the world in his time.  For more information and times check the calendar entry...

John Swenson

John Swenson

Successful day of recording with The New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars

Ben Ellman: note the shirt & NOKAS drummer Kevin O'DayWe congregated in New Orleans last Friday at Galactic studios and made a start on a recording that looks to be really different from previous outings of the last 20 years...

Ben Ellman

Glenn Hartman

Dave Rebeck

Joe Cabral

Jonathan Freilich

Stanton Moore

 

We all were there.  Ben manned the controls.  But special thanks to Bobby Mack who made the day even easier and the reflections even more entertaining!

Last few shows in New Orleans

joe cabral
doug garrisonmarcello bennetti
jimbo walsh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coming into my last three scheduled shows before heading out for quite a while.  It would be great to see you out there.  We guarantee the music whimsy, fun, and for those of you still hung up on the myth of respectability, standards!

Tonight (July 30)- at Bacchanal (8-10:30pm) with Marcello Bennetti-drums and Jimbo Walsh-bass.

Thursday August 2nd- at The Circle Bar (10-30pm) with The Jackals

Monday August 6th- at Bacchanal (8pm) with Doug Garrison-drums

Few shows just added

Check out-

Tonight at Blue Nile(New Orleans) and the open ears series- with Joe Cabral-Bari sax; Jeff Albert-trombone; Doug Garrison Drums

Tomorrow, July 4th 6pm-at DBA New Orleans with The Mirlitones- Washboard Chaz; Alex Mcmurray- gtr, voc

Friday 6th July 9:30pm- at Hermes Bar with Los Muertos featuring Rod Hodges (gtr) Doug Garrison-drums; Joe Cabral-bass

Saturday 7th July 10pm- at Tipitinas with Derrick Freeman presents Smoker's World- cavalcade of New Orleans musical personalities.

Come out for a great and varied week of music.

Upcoming performance with New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars at Jazzfest 2012

Will be performing with the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars at The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on Sunday, April 29.

The All-Star lineup will be:

Joe Cabral-Bass

Glenn Hartman-Accordion, Keys

Jonathan Freilich-Guitar

Ben Ellman- Saxophone

Stanton Moore-drums

David Rebeck-Violin

 

You don't want to miss this.

WWOZ radio performance.

Yesterday, the quintet performed on WWOZ for their pledge drive. The group was:

Jonathan Freilich-guitar

Aurora Nealand-alto and soprano sax

Dan Oestreicher- sax

Joe Cabral- bass

Doug Garrison- drums

Energetically speaking, the performance went well; a crazy morning energy. Some precision elements flying out the window, sacrificing themselves for a rapid phoenix-like, burn up to get the energy to carry through the transmitters.

The state of recording

The quintet I'm writing for, Dan Oestreicher, Aurora Nealand, Joe Cabral, Doug Garrison, is doing some recording at Dave Pirner's new home studio. It's a bit of parallel guinea pigging; he's trying to get his new studio up and running while we are trying to troubleshoot arrangements with the slightly new sort of syntax I have been writing in.

The conversation turned to whether we are making a record and, it occurred to me that I don't even know what that means anymore. Dave concurred, "What does that mean anymore." We are, nonetheless, still in there recording amidst the building of a new studio. In this time we definitely are make recordings but not records in the old sense. The purpose is clearly different. We are probably moving towards purposelessness or a much more ephemeral, rapidly evaporating type of purpose. Ironically, both Dave and I were at the tail end of whatever that world was; of course, I believe his recording career was somewhat more successful, but in both cases, in those times, there were contracts for making a product, the record.

Now?...how do you even talk about it? We're sitting there talking about making a record (rabbit ears flying everywhere in the air), producer role (more rabbit ears) etc. Dave came to the good conclusion- that now things really are a labor of love; they have to be, or why would we do it?

I'm enjoying it. the guy is a pleasure to work with. I like the "idea" of Dave as a producer. His hearts in it and there's a lot to be excited about; his studio; talented engineer, George; this talented combo messing around with some unusual sounds in a new format with new ears. Creative possibility and outcome looming.

Looking forward to seeing what happens.