Better known as a writer and cultural critic, former Village Voice scribe Greg Tate has been equally prolific on the bandstand. He's the musical director of the improvisational acid-funk band Burnt Sugar: The Arkestra Chamber, which makes its Toronto debut at Lula Lounge this Thursday as part of Small World Jazz Series II. (Visit smallworldmusic.com for more info.)
By Ben Salmon • The BulletinWhen The Greyboy Allstars started doing what they do back in the early 1990s, it was different, for sure.Soul, jazz and electro-loops, dropped into a funky tumbler and shaken till fizzy. It even helped spawn a movement of sorts.Acid jazz is what folks called it. The sound had its genesis with rare-vinyl-crazed DJs in England 10 years earlier, but it was San Diego’s DJ
This is where people will come after Doomsday: a town 600 miles from the North Pole whose idea of fun is hosting the world's northernmost jazz festival in the middle of winter.
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The Doors, Live, Pittsburgh Civic Arena, May 2, 1970 (Doors Music Company/Rhino). By 1970, the Doors in concert were fantastic when Jim Morrison was relatively sober, and either fascinating or horrifying when he wasn't. For this torrid gig in Pittsburgh, our rock 'n' roll Rimbaud was on his game, in control, reflective, even.
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