Blues pianist/chanteuse Dianne Nola has a gorgeously purist album out titled Queen Bee, after the Slim Harpo song, which she imaginatively covers. Nola is oldschool: her playing is judicious. It… more →
Lucid Culturewrote 1 week ago: Don’t you just want to smack people upside the head when they say ignorant things like “ … more →
wrote 3 months ago: LJ Murphy and the Accomplices made their Zirzamin debut last December and they were so good we invit … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Some of you might see the weekly calendar for New York Music Daily’s Sunday Salon at Zirzamin … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Not quite. The final Sunday Salon of the year at Zirzamin featured both usual and unusual suspects. … more →
wrote 5 months ago: New York Music Daily’s Sunday Salon series at Zirzamin took off slowly in the wake of the hurr … more →
wrote 5 months ago: The Sunday Salon at Zirzamin was conceived not as a stuffy, formal setting for songwriters to gently … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Every Sunday at 5 PM, New York Music Daily hosts the Sunday Salon at Zirzamin in the old Zinc Bar sp … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Every Sunday starting at 5 PM, New York Music Daily presents the Sunday Salon at Zirzamin, in the ol … more →
wrote 9 months ago: Jazz writers do this all the time: the dreaded “roundup.” These roundups of albums or co … more →
wrote 11 months ago: LJ Murphy and the Accomplices ripped the roof off Otto’s on Saturday night. The dark lyrical r … more →
wrote 11 months ago: Blues pianist/chanteuse Dianne Nola has a gorgeously purist album out titled Queen Bee, after the Sl … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Dylan said that you can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way. Saturday night … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Can you name a better NYC band than Spanglish Fly? There are a bunch of others who are just as fun: … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Walter Ego played Otto’s Saturday night. The tourists hadn’t made it to the back room ye … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Drummers do all the heavy lifting and usually get none of the credit, so this is to give credit wher … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Here’s LJ Murphy doing his biggest hit, Saturday’s Down, the best song ever performed at … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Saturday night at the Bell House, James McMurtry kept switching guitars and then retuning them. More … more →
wrote 1 year ago: One of the few downsides of running a music blog is that concerts become less of a social event: if … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Spottiswoode & His Enemies’ new album Wild Goosechase Expedition is a throwback to those g … more →