Rant ‘n’ Roll — Charlie Faye & The Fayettes, John Fusco and the X-Road Riders, and more! Mike Greenblatt March 20, 2019 Albums, Reviews The Whole Shebang (Bigger Better More Records), by Charlie Faye & The Fayettes, feels good. An update on the girl groups of the ’60s, singer-songwriter Faye wrote or co-wrote 12 frilly retro-pop tunes, sing...
Rant ‘n’ Roll: The Delines, Dave Rudolph Quartet, Aaron Goldberg, and much more! Mike Greenblatt March 13, 2019 Albums, Reviews The story of the second album of The Delines would make a great movie. In 2014, the Portland, Oregon Americana band with the country-soul female singer made many a Top 10 list with its Colfax debut. With most o...
Rant ‘n’ Roll: Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom, David Dominique, Kalyn Fay, and more! Mike Greenblatt March 6, 2019 Albums, Columns, Rant 'N' Roll, Reviews This Glitter Wolf Bites Drummer/composer/educator Allison Miller has been busy. In New York City, she sits in with the band on Late Night with Seth Myers. In Washington D.C., she’s Musical Director for INK a...
Rant ‘n’ Roll: Clifford Lamb, Gurf Morlix, Miho Hazama, Colin Linden & Luther Dickinson, and Andy B. Mike Greenblatt February 27, 2019 Albums, Columns, Rant 'N' Roll, Reviews Mash-Up City Blues & Hues (Weber Works Entertainment Group) by San Francisco pianist-composer Clifford Lamb mashes up old and new to ingratiating effect. The brainchild of producer Jeffrey Weber, its eig...
Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt February 20, 2019 Albums, Columns, Rant 'N' Roll, Reviews Solo Piano Billy Joel once wrote “And the piano it sounds like a carnival....” Nowhere is that more applicable than on James Fernando’s solo piano debut, his self-released The Lonely Sailor, where he deconst...
Rant ‘n’ Roll: The Jazz Page Mike Greenblatt February 13, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Good Vibes Vibraphonist Behn Gillece resides in a Parallel Universe on his fourth Posi-Tone album. The 11 originals feature his good vibes alongside a tenor sax/trumpet frontline, complete with piano/bass/dr...
Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt February 6, 2019 Rant 'N' Roll Pete Seeger, American Hero During and after World War II, the Soviet Union were our friends. So much so that American communist groups started sprouting up in the United States. Sure, the USSR used So...
Spotlights — The Return of the Gin Blossoms Mike Greenblatt February 6, 2019 Goings-On On Feb. 11, the Gin Blossoms will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their biggest album, New Miserable Experience, by performing it in its entirety (along with a random sampling of tracks from their other five ...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt January 30, 2019 Rant 'N' Roll Vocal Champian Champian Fulton came out of Oklahoma to become a vocalist/pianist with or without the blessing of her trumpeter/educator/father who had friends like the legendary Clark Terry for whom she san...
Spotlights – “Rock of Ages” and The Neal Morse Band Mike Greenblatt January 30, 2019 Goings-On Let’s Party Like It’s The 1980s! - Rock Of Ages It’s been over a decade for Broadway’s “Rock Of Ages” and they’re taking it on the road. One stop will be Easton PA’s State Theatre on Feb. 17. Can you ...
