Jazz/Blues
Pianist-Arranger John Beasley 'Presents Monk'estra Volume #1,' Mack Avenue Records [REVIEW]
Eddie Turner & The Trouble Twins Are 'Naked...In Your Face,' 7-14 Productions, [REVIEW]
Born in Cuba, raised in Chicago, Eddie Turner played in San Francisco with Tracy Nelson and Mother Earth in the 1970s, Colorado's hard-rock Zephyr in the 1980s and The Otis Taylor Band in the 1990s. In the new millennium, his 2005 'Rise,' 2006 'Turner Diaries' and 2010 'Miracles & Demons' made him his generation's equivalent of Hound Dog Taylor or Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. Now, he's 'Naked...In Your Face' (7-14 Records) on his first ever concert CD. It's 'Sunday Night at the Vanguard' with the Fred Hersch Trio on Palmetto Reccords [REVIEW]
What? You say you've never heard of pianist/composer/bandleader Fred Hersch? Just walk into the storied bowels of New York City's Village Vanguard and there on the wall, next to framed signed pictures of John Coltrane and Charles Mingus, is a picture under glass of Fred Hersch. 'Sunday Night at the Vanguard' (Palmetto) is the place to be.
