Photograph by Andy Goetz By Nick DeRiso Big Sam’s Funky Nation, all brass and sass, opens its latest CD with a floor-rattling invitation to shake every thing you’ve got. For all of its musical prowess, that remains the one and only goal of this fun-loving, funky-butt recording by New Orleans-based trombone-playing bandleader Sammie Williams, formerly of the Dirty Dozen Brass [...]
by Something Else Reviews Writing can feel akin to tossing a flat rock across the surface of a shimmering river. You never know how far it will go, or just how wide those concentric circles left behind might eventually spread. Sometimes, the thing just sinks. Like, well, a rock. But other times, these entries take on a life of their [...]
by S. Victor Aaron Last weekend I reminisced about Toto’s forgotten fun ‘n’ raucous rocker, “All Us Boys”. But reconnecting with that song really got me reconnected to the entire album it originally came from, Hydra. I soon started playing the entire album in my head, which lead me soon led me to play it for real. Man, I gotta [...]
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