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The first part of an audio interview with New Orleans pianist, Tom Mcdermott is now up on the interviews page.
If you are interested in exciting New Orleans piano styles you should take a listen. Tom has interesting ways to engage with traditional forms and personalized composition style within those forms.
Take a listen!
Tom McDermott talked in an interview the other day about his influences and current passions. They are interesting- Brazilian Choro, French Musette, Stride, Ragtime are just some of the sounds playing a large part in how he composes and plays piano.
Check it out on the music interviews page...
The Circle Bar has had their music licensing called into question and is currently not having live music. So, unfortunately, this Sunday's show with the Jackals is cancelled. However, there will be an extravaganza and Jam Session with a great number of special guests on Monday night at the Bacchanal at 8pm. Here is the flyer by Joe Cabral. Can you identify that sax giant?
joe cabral
doug garrison
marcello 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
The final part is up on the interviews page. Diversify your knowledge of the New Orleans music world!
I've posted the 2nd and 3rd part of a great interview with New Orleans guitarist, Tim Robertson.
Get involved here...
Sorry to those of you who were looking for this and only finding a blank file. hanks also to Patrick McCurry for, once again, alerting me to the situation. The avidly interested music fans, enthusiasts, and seekers are inspiring.
The interview is found on the interviews page here...
Apologies to anyone trying in vain for a year to pick up the first two parts of the Dave Capello interview on itunes. That is now fixed.
check it here...
Tim is an interesting figure in the New Orleans music vista. He plays Bourbon St. He is a survivor of that commercial zone and knows how to do it (or has the personality for it) in a way that doesn't limit him and has driven him plain crazy. Many have been driven in such a direction.
Many people ask questions about validities and viabilities involved in music on Bourbon St. Tim, from first hand experience over lot of years, engages these questions:-
What is Bourbon St.? How does that music zone operate differently and similarly to other parts of town? What are it's musical features and modes of development? Is there anything really good out there?
There is much more, however, to Tim and to this interview. Tim is an avid experimental/modern/"classical" composer and has moved himself through in-depth, mentored, study in that direction too. For those who may wonder what the relevance of Bourbon St. and "classical" music is to New Orleans music and whether he can really talk about it, there is more. He also plays guitar with Neslort (if you don't know then be sure to go), Amanda Shaw, and two very interesting comico-satirical-serious groups that started quite a while ago and feature a very biting and immediate viewpoint voiced by Robertson: Dirty Mouth and Hot Karl.
Enjoy the interview- there is a lot here...
Also available as a free podcast through the itunes store.
The interview was conducted, 5/1/12, at the orange couch in New Orleans.
Anthony Cuccia- percussion
Brad Walker- sax
Casandra Faulconer-bass
I don't think that Cass and I have played together since the days of Poor Man's Speedball. Come take a look!
Bachanal 8pm.Food from Chef Joaquin and great wine.
Catch the heated debate about New Orleans musical life in the conclusion to this interview with Dan Oestreicher. Dan is Bari sax man for Trombone Shorty. He also is the main chap in town for the all too rare, Bass saxophone.
get the interview here...
Looking forward to this lineup tomorrow (saturday) at Three Muses on Frenchmen St.
Doug Belote-drums
James Singleton- Bass
Jonathan Freilich- Guitar
6-9pm
...and with the old majestic lineup (we have been playing since 1995) but with the addition of one very esteemed guest, Mr. Johnny Vidacovich.
so, Naked On The Floor will be...
Jonathan Freilich- guitar
James Singleton- bass
Johnny Vidacovich- Drums
Tim Green- saxophone
Rick Trolsen- Trombone
All the music is original, and some very recently composed and, most of all, it will be exciting.
There are two shows at Snug Harbor, 8 & 10.
Here is Part 2 of a very coherent interview with one of the hardest working horn players currently in New Orleans (or mostly out of it right now since he has been with the meteorically rising, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue.)
Dan Oestreicher first hit the radar for this writer when he presented himself at a Naked Orchestra show at the Mermaid lounge and made clear that he should be playing with the group. He did that for the rest of that evening and for a long time afterward.
He played with many of the most forward thinking New Orleans musicians and frequently he is there right when they are looking the most forward. This includes the The Other Planets, The Magnetic Ear, 3 now 4, James Singleton, Irvin Mayfield's New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Roger Lewis's Baritone quintet (where Dan is playing Bass sax instead of his more heard, Bari sax,) The Naked Orchestra, The Jonathan Freilich group, his own group- The Diesel Combustion Orchestra, and more. He is seen playing some tuba and really tends to go very deep when he is exploring anything, but especially music. He also knows a good deal about saxophone lore and trade as well as the other end of the spectrum, analog synthesis.
He is in Trombone Shorty's band, touring constantly, and because of this he is in a unique position to discuss the meaning of New Orleans music (if there is really such a thing at all) and improvisation as it stands in the world outside of New Orleans. His perspectives are well informed and if nothing at all show a blazing mind for inquiry and a fearless and healthy statement of opinion. He could go anywhere from here. If you were into horse racing you might see him listed in the racing form as one to watch.
The interviews are still available as a podcast on itunes or from the interviews page here...
This Sunday at 8pm, there will be a very interesting lineup for improvisational delight at Cafe Istanbul in the Healing Center in New Orleans. The show is scheduled for 8 pm.
I foresee a sonic physick for renewed vigor brewing!
Jeff Albert-Trombone
Jesse Morrow-Bass
Jonathan Freilich- Guitar
Doug Garrison- drums
Presented by Benjamin Lyons and Valid. 
Playing at Bacchanal tomorrow (Monday) night at 7:30 pm. Stellar lineup, why would you miss it??
James Singleton- bass
Rick Trolsen- Trombone (pictured)
Doug Garrison- drums
Jonathan Freilich- guitar
The interviews are back!
This interview was recorded during jazzfest (5/2/12) and Dan, riding high on the Trombone Shorty wave, ponders, philosophizes, and argues about music and what he is doing with it.
This has much of interest about New Orleans music and the burdens and freedoms of its positive and negative associations. There is also a good deal of general chatter about the art form in general and some intriguing particulars.
If you are interested in the music around New Orleans, you'll want to take a listen.
The interview is here...
Apologies!!!
The announced hit with Hamid Drake and Jeff Albert on July 1st is not happening. Sorry.
This Monday for my weekly Bacchanal show I will be playing with cellist, Helen Gillet. Just the two of us. Expect French music, improvisations, Rock 'n' roll flares, Baroque hauntings, jazz flecks, and Rococo rescue. Also, there will be the great food and wine that Bacchanal offers. The whole thing kicks off at 7:30pm.
