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11 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

If I had, I'd give it away.

Is he not here for this garguantuan SNL 50th anniversary live stream on Sunday? I admit I am backing away from it, such a gluttony of self-congratulation. 

he is. I think he's actually performing at Radio City for it on Friday.

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Last week, at the Café Carlyle, we were lucky enough to see a great show by Benmont Tench; Benmont was Tom Petty's (RIP) keyboard player, and has played with, well, basically everyone from the Stones on down or up, however you want to look at it.

And he had a special guest, who was on a break from a mini-tour - Steve Nieve. He invited Steve up and they sang a beautiful version of (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding.

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As noted above, Steve is on a "mini-tour" with Elvis Costello.  Seems right, since he's been playing keyboards with Elvis for about 47 years.

We saw the shows in Red Bank and Montclair, NJ and will be at tomorrow night's show at the famous Capital Theatre, in Port Chester, NY.

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A fantastic show at The Town Hall last night. T Bone Burnett, touring for the first time in nearly 20 years, in semi-support of his first album (The Other Side) over that same time period.  All strings, lots of bluegrass, just great - as is the album.

The strict no-photos policy was being enforced...with a light hand. So I waited until the final song to take a crappy pic...

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The album is well worth a listen...or ten.

 

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On 2/26/2025 at 11:49 AM, MitchW said:

As noted above, Steve is on a "mini-tour" with Elvis Costello.  Seems right, since he's been playing keyboards with Elvis for about 47 years.

We saw the shows in Red Bank and Montclair, NJ and will be at tomorrow night's show at the famous Capital Theatre, in Port Chester, NY.

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And guess who was just added as a special guest at Trombone Shorty's Treme Threauxdown during Jazzfest? 

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Not sure if this would be considered a gig, but N and I saw a brilliant SF Symphony concert conducted by Marin Alsop last week, making her SF Symphony debut if you can believe it. Alsop, like Gustavo Dudamel, is a conductor I've always wanted to see live, so I'm really glad I had the chance.  It was one of the best classical concerts I've ever seen.

Review here: Conductor Marin Alsop Makes High-Octane Debut With SF Symphony | San Francisco Classical Voice

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Jazzfest Highlights Part 1

Halfway thru and here are the highlights:

Ryan Foret & the Foret Tradition: Swampy soul with a great groove

Rosie Ledet singing cajun/zydeco with a family band with all of her songs being double entendre like "You Can Eat My Poussier"  😀

Bonerama: Trombone band playing Led Zeppelin

Stanton Moore Trio: Funky jazz with sit ins by horn players Eric Bloom (Lettuce) and Skerik. This was just great and had everyone in the Jazz Tent on their feet.

Shemekia Copeland singing the blues.  What a voice.

Delfeayo Marsalis and his orchestra: What a band. My newbie friends were blown away.

Honey Island Swamp Band: If there is a more fun swampy funky soul band please let me know.

Youssou NDOUR: Just amazing voice and band. Never saw him before.

Stanley Clarke: Just wow. A small and super tight band. Clarke played upright bass for the first half of the show and bass guitar for the second half. A true legend.  

The Rumble: Mardi Gras Indian Soul Funk band that never disappoints. Ari Teitel, their Jewish guitar player, is making his parents very happy. 😆

The Revivalists: They always bring it at Jazzfest. Special moment: they brought out Tank Ball and Ivan Neville to close with "I Shall Be released." My wife lost her mother just last month so she lost it. It was downright beautiful. And the next day we ran into lead singer David Shaw at a Crawfish Festival. She told him that he made her cry the day before and he gave her the biggest hug. 

And the above was just during the day....... Night time has also been great including this:

 

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Last night, Trombone Shorty did a gig in Soho, with any number of special guests, including EC, Larry Campbell, Bernie Williams, and others...

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Alerted to this earlier in the day, I did my due diligence and walked over to Centre Street, rode the elevator up to the performance space, heard some soundcheck going on, asked about possibly getting in, and was told, very politely, no way. Soho Sessions are private gigs, with corporate sponsorship, often with charitable institutions involved. And fancy guest lists (there was a time, back in the day, when I was often a +1 to gigs like this, but that was when record stores really mattered, as a very old and close friend managed the largest Tower Records in the world).

This morning, when I saw photos of guests arriving to the gig last evening, I'm not that surprised that they weren't letting my ass in.

Whoopi, McEnroe, Turturro, Porizkova (worth the price of admission alone!) and others way more important than yours truly.  Can't say I didn't give it the old college try.

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It's not until August but we got tix for The Who at the Prudential Center in August. And we're taking the kid. He became obsessed with Tommy last year and I'm looking forward to doing a deep dive into their catalogue with him over the next few months.

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AFter the Trombone Shorty gig the other night, it looks as if EC talked a bit to a reporter from the post (either not realizing, or caring, who it was)...

https://nypost.com/2025/05/21/entertainment/elvis-costello-may-be-done-with-new-music-let-somebody-else-make-records/

This is classic Elvis, when he's getting interviewed:

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While he may still enjoy playing cool new venues such as the Soho Sessions hot spot, Costello has no plans to make any new music — 48 years after releasing his debut album, 1977’s “My Aim Is True.”

“Right now, I’ve made so many records, might be time to let somebody else make records for a while,” he said.

 

I think this might be the 150th time he's said this.

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Kind of hard to write this as life threw us a curveball while at Jazzfest. We were staying for both weekends and was having a great time as always. On the 2nd Friday we got the news that my younger brother who lives in Las Vegas took his own life the night before. He had been struggling with depression for quite a while and couldn't see a way forward. We have holes in our hearts but grateful he is no longer in pain.  There really wasn't anything we needed to do immediately so after much thought we decided to stay. We be believed being around our close friends and listening to music would be cathartic for us and as it turned out it most definitely was.  So the highlights including some special moments:

Santana: he passed out on stage 2 weeks earlier so we weren't even sure he'd show but he did and was fantastic. His band is on another level. 

Dragon Smoke: mash up Jazzfest only band with Stanton Moore, Rob Mercurio, Eric Lindell and Ivan Neville. I've heard Ivan Neville sing the Jimmy Cliff song "Sitting Here in Limbo" covered by The Neville Brothers innumerable times but after my brother's passing it had new meaning to me. 

Pearl Jam: Just a super fun set with everyone singing along to all of their hits. They had a two hour set and we really wanted to see Ledisi singing Nina Simone songs in the Jazz Tent so we left Pearl jam halfway thru. If you aren't familiar with Ledisi you should be. An amazing voice, so soulful. She has an album of all Nina songs that is great. Live was even better. As for a special moment, about 4 songs in she said she is often asked what her first exposure to Nina Simone was and why she loved her so. She said she was 17 years old sitting on her porch thinking about how she was going to kill herself when she heard "Trouble in Mind." Needless to say I lost it.....  

Naughty Professor: A local jazz/funk instrumental band whose latest album  (Voices) utilized 10 or so local vocalists on different songs. Just great with the highlight being Maggie Koerner on "Wings to Fly"

Lenny Kravitz: I wasn't sure how this was going to be as he doesn't tour with his band all that much but this was fire from beginning to end. We had ideas of leaving early to go see an act at another stage but it was so good we stayed put.  He stayed around and played with Trombone Shorty to close which didn't suck. 

At night, a tribute to Walter "Wolfman" Washington who passed away a few years ago. 

And another special moment Saturday night: Most of you know that one of our faves is Anders Osborne who had his annual birthday bash with a bunch of special guests.  He has a song called "It's Gonna be OK" which is simple but soulful and meaningful. Whenever anyone close to us faces loss or tragedy we send a video of him singing the song with an acoustic guitar.

 

He never plays it with his band or electric but sure enough on that Saturday night the day after we learned about my brother he played it. It was like he was singing it to us. Tears started flowing again. 

Anyway, thanks for reading along. Writing this has also been cathartic....

 

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