Edgar Winter

Randal Despommier: South

by Dan Bilawsky
March 6, 2025

Growing up in Metairie, Louisiana--a mere six miles from New Orleans--alto saxophonist Randal Despommier's formative experiences were rooted in the Crescent City's fertile sonic soil. A stone's throw away from the action, he was able to cut his teeth on the local scene(s) and put his horn to good use in Mardi Gras parades. In addition, ...

The Johnny Winter Story - The GRT / Janus Recordings

By Johnny Winter

Label: Omnivore Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: TRACKS: CD 1: Ease My Heart; That��s What Love Does; Crying In My Heart; The Guy You Left Behind; Shed So Many Tears; Creepy; Gangster Of Love; Road Runner; Leave My Woman (Wife) Alone; I Can��t Believe You Want To Leave; Broke And Lonely; Oh My Darling; By The Light Of The Silvery Moon; Five After Four A.M.; Parchman Farm; Livin�� In The Blues; Leavin�� Blues; Thirty-Eight, Thirty-Two, Twenty. CD 2: Bad News; Kind Hearted Woman; Out Of Sight; Low Down Gal Of Mine; Going Down Slow; Avocado Green; Stay By My Side; I Had To Cry; Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye; Harlem Nocturne; Easy Lovin�� Girl; Spiders Of The Mind; My World Turns Around Her; Take A Chance On My Love; Please Come Home For Christmas.

Paula Shocron, Nendo Dango & Steven Bernstein

by Maurice Hogue
November 10, 2021

Following up on music by Argentinean pianist, Paula Shocron, led me to Nendo Dango Records, the Buenos Aires label run by Shocron and her partner, drummer Pablo Diaz. This episode features very forward-thinking music from several Nendo Dango releases. There's also more piano from a new recording by Australian Alister Spence and Japan's Satoko Fujii. Their ...

The Ed Palermo Big Band Releases A Blues-Rich Tribute To The Music Of Edgar Winter

February 22, 2022

The Ed Palermo Big Band Delivers an Entrancing Tribute to Legendary Texas Blues/Jazz Multi-Instrumentalist Edgar Winter with I��ve Got News For You: The Music of Edgar Winter. An Instrumental and Vocal Tour de Force, the Sky Cat Records Release Features Palermo��s Swaggering 17-Piece Jazz Orchestra Joyfully Conjuring a Soul-filled, Blues-Drenched Sound. For acclaimed jazz big band ...

The Ed Palermo Big Band? Flaunts the Union Jack with The Great Un-American Songbook Vol. 3: Run for Your Life

October 28, 2020

While pundits and experts debate whether the United States of America has entered an age of decline as a world power, New York saxophonist, composer, arranger, bandleader and inveterate troublemaker Ed Palermo makes an incontrovertible case for un-American ascendance. With The Great Un-American Songbook Volume 3: Run for your Life, slated for release on guitarist/vocalist Bruce ...

Take Five with Ed Palermo

by AAJ Staff
October 9, 2019

Meet Ed Palermo Ed Palermo is an arranger, composer and alto saxophonist mostly known for his big band and their interpretations of the music of Ed's hero, Frank Zappa. Coming out of college in Chicago, his initial plan was to become a great jazz tenor saxophonist in the vein of Michael Brecker, Steve Grossman and Dave ...

Walter Trout: Thriving With The Blues

by Jim Worsley
February 24, 2018

I considered using the word surviving, instead of thriving, in the title. However, as you will see, Walter Trout has done much more than “just survive" his real life blues. Trout speaks candidly about his struggles and near fatal experience with liver disease and the ensuing transplant. He also spoke with humor, vigor, and a renewed ...

Rock Candy: Montrose (eponymous) & Paper Money

by Doug Collette
December 29, 2017

The late Ronnie Montrose was a guitar hero for our times if there ever was one. An uncommon combination of skills in which he fused as much finesse as power enabled him to assume him a wide-ranging series of sideman gigs and solo projects, the dual results of which were, unfortunately, inextricably intertwined: he was impossible ...

Colin Hay at the Concert Hall at the New York Society for Ethical Culture

by Mike Perciaccante
March 25, 2017

Colin Hay Concert Hall at the New York Society for Ethical Culture New York, NY March 18, 2017 Had Colin Hay not made his mark as a musician with Men At Work and as a solo performer, he'd surely have gained fame as a stand-up comedian. Hay has a wickedly ...