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Legends of the 88s: Cuba to Chicago, New Orleans to New York

Sep 6, 2010

in Blues, Chicago, Country, Creole, Cuba, Jazz, Keyboards, Latin Jazz, New Orleans, New York City, Piano, Salsa Music

Since September is traditionally back-to-school month, I thought I’d do a short history lesson on some of the most influential roots piano players. Whether barrelhouse, boogie woogie, boogaloo, or rumba, hard pounding rhythmic piano playing has found its home in the brothels and the concert halls, with styles traveling that swath of land and sea…

Raw, swampy, earthy, pure groove: Florida’s JJ Grey & Mofro

May 31, 2010

in Blues, Country, Fender Rhodes, Funk, Harmonica, Keyboards, Piano, Slide Guitar, Soul

One of my favorite musicians/bands is North Florida’s JJ Grey & Mofro. They were first MOFRO and now they go by JJ Grey & Mofro, but regardless I’ve been following since their first album, Blackwater. My sister played them for me and I fell deeply in love at first sound. I listened to that album…

New Orleans: “The music bubbles up from the cracks in the sidewalks.”

Sep 8, 2009

in Blues, New Orleans, Piano, Soul

There is a phrase that describes the center of the proverbial universe. The “axis mundi” is where all life sprang from; where the sacred and the profane meet; the point at which heaven touches earth. In the history of American music, the axis mundi must be the Crescent City…. This will be my first of…

Category: Piano

Legends of the 88s: Cuba to Chicago, New Orleans to New York

Raw, swampy, earthy, pure groove: Florida’s JJ Grey & Mofro

New Orleans: “The music bubbles up from the cracks in the sidewalks.”