Tagged with: rhythm 'n' blues
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.
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
Alex Mcmurray
Jimmy Horn is a fascinating musician with one of the greatest neighborhood regular gigs around: Mondays at BJ's. That band plays great R'n'B music from all across a wide blues time span. The band does not come off like a museum piece at all but does give the feeling that you are outside time in another rockin', blues alterverse. Get right to the interview here...
As Jimmy explains here, the driver of that is a comfortability and fascination with all kinds of music, and especially the blues, since he was four years old. And "all kinds of music" is really what it means- Chinese Opera to Muddy Waters, Kurdish music to Kiss. He sees connections everywhere but really seeks to communicate with people and be in line with the sort of energy that will give them what they need on their night out.
Here he discusses openly, his winding road toward the current King James scenario, from Utah to BJ's, time in Mississippi around Jesse Mae Hemphill and other great Mississippi musicians, Sun Ra saturation. Playing on the street with the Royal St bunch in the 90s, The Photon Band. Jimmy plays saxophone, bass, piano, guitar, piano and has a natural feel on each. How does this happen? Check out this interview with a musician who is currently picking up pace in the local scene and, probably has a lot to say to it.
The interview, in line with the rest on this site, is informal but informative. You will hear the sounds of BJ's day shift in the background as well as words from harmonica player Bobby Lewis. The interview shows again what level of interest and love musicians can take in every kind of sound phenomena and how it can cut to a very deep kind of communication that puts people together in fascinating ways. Enjoy!
Just before King James and the Special Men took off for shows in New York City, including at The Lincoln Center, I sat down with their leader, Jimmy "King James" Horn, at BJ's bar in New Orleans for a relaxed audio interview. There, at BJ's, his band, The Special Men, have been holding down one of the greatest weekly gigs in town for quite some time now. I felt quite lucky to be able to catch some words by a bandleader riding at a crest of the project's development.
The power and delivery that make for attention grabbing music always have stories in the background that are supplying the power. It is scarcely possible to create depth in music by mere emulation. Imitators can be very good but they can't supply the hidden mysterious qualities in music. King James is not an imitator but his drives musical and otherwise do come from somewhere. He has possibilities and there are reasons why the sound takes this form right now.
Transformation is discussed.
You may figure some of it out on the interviews page. The same place you can get the ideas of so many key New Orleans players in need of more attention.
My old guitar teacher, friend, and brilliant New Orleans musician, Carl Leblanc has just released his brand new recording- Those Who Have Ears. It's available at CD Baby amongst other services and... help out an artist and pick up a copy.
I wrote a string quartet arrangement for one of the pieces on the record and am honored to find out that he wanted to use it on its own for the finale of the record. It's called Hesed if you pick up a copy.
Carl is a great guitarist and all around musician who always comes out with a landscape of musical statements on record that really shows all he can breathe life into for a listener. He has played on some key New Orleans recordings and has played in many of the greatest groups associated with the city including the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Allen Toussaint- (actually the list is so extensive- I'll let you music fans seek out the rest of the bio information). He was also guitarist for the Sun Ra Arkestra for about 9 years and luckily my generous guitar teacher for a long time.
This one is worth checking out and many great musicians were involved...
