Jazz/Blues
The Rolling Stones Plan to Release New Blues-Covers Studio Album, First Since 2005
NEA Jazz Masters Ceremony Honors Musicians But Doesn't Let Them Play
This year's National Endowment for the Arts induction ceremony was a series of firsts. For one, it wasn't held at its standard Jazz at Lincoln Center venue and it also didn't feature the honorees in performance. These 'Native Sons' Be Nonch Harpin'! Get the Kids out of the Room! [REVIEW]
Go to the Northern California town of Boonville and the 'Native Sons' there say "nonch harpin'" as slang for "dirty talkin'." So when saxophonist Chinh Tran, bassist Shawn Ellis, drummer Alan Spearot, keyboardist Daniel Raynaud and guitarist Andy Markham jammed at the 150-year old 'Native Sons' Hall in Pescadero to the point where it sounded so good, they formed a band, guess what they named themselves?
