Gary Clark, Jr.

To sum up Gary Clark Jr.is more challenging every day. He��s a musical universe unto himself, expanding at a nearly immeasurable rate, ever more hard to define �� as a mind-blowing guitarist, a dazzling songwriter and engagingly soulful singer. With his debut album Blak And Blu he has just become the first artist ever recognized by the Recording Academy with Grammy Award nominations in both the rock and R&B categories for the same album in the same year, winning the latter: Best Traditional R&B Performance�� - ��Please Come Home��(from the album Blak And Blu). And the day after claiming those honors he provided one of the highlights of the highlights-filled ��The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles,�� with sparks flying as he dueled with Joe Walsh on an incendiary ��While My Guitar Gently Weeps,�� Dave Grohl behind them pounding the drums. But that barely scratches the surface

Take Five with Saxophonist/Singer/Guitarist Vanessa Collier

by AAJ Staff
April 22, 2025

Meet Vanessa Collier Vanessa Collier's sixth album Do It My Own Way was recently released on Phenix Fire Records. Recorded on analog gear with the musicians largely in one room, Do It My Own Way is sonically inspired by the classic Memphis soul sound of Stax and Hi Records, especially that of the Staples Singers. The ...

JPEG RAW

By Gary Clark, Jr.

Label: Warner Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: Maktub; JPEG RAW; Don��t Start; This Is Who We Are; To The End Of The Earth; Alone Together; What About The Children; Hearts In Retrograde; Hyperwave; Funk Which U; Triumph; Habits.

Doug Collette's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Doug Collette
December 4, 2024

These may not have been the only titles that provided respite from the inane insanity (insane inanity?) around us this year, but each in its own way commanded deep and abiding attention in and of itself. Mary Halvorson Cloudward Nonesuch Records Satoko Fujii Jet Black ...

Gary Clark, Jr.: JPEG RAW

by Doug Collette
March 22, 2024

In contrast to Gary Clark Jr.'s thunderous stage performances, the keen impact of which permeate Live (Warner Bros., 2014) and Live in North America 2016 (Warner Bros., 2017), his studio albums, including JPEG RAW, are ambitious eclectic pieces of work the force of which grow inexorably with repeated listening. Its title an acronym for ...

Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience 2023

by Geoff Anderson
July 6, 2023

Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience Downtown Aspen Aspen, Colorado June 22-24, 2023 Jazz Aspen Snowmass (JAS) has been around as a concept for a few decades now. The format and specific locations have changed over the years, but the basic idea remains the same: go to a beautiful mountain location and ...

Savoy Brown: Ain't Done Yet

by Doug Collette
August 22, 2020

Kim Simmonds might not be quite as highly regarded in the contemporary blues milieu as “The Godfather of British Blues," John Mayall, but the former's forty-first album under the Savoy Brown monicker suggests he ought to be. As his profile has risen over the last five years, commensurate with his increased activity on the road and ...

Live North America 2016

By Gary Clark, Jr.

Label: Warner Music Group
Released: 2017
Track listing: Grinder; The Healing; Our Love; Cold Blooded; When My Train Pulls In; Down To Ride; You Saved Me; Shake; Church; Honest I Do; My Baby's Gone; Numb.

Gary Clark, Jr. and Jimmie Vaughan at the Iridium

by Mike Perciaccante
September 16, 2017

Gary Clark, Jr. and Jimmie Vaughan The Iridium New York, NY September 8, 2017 Speakeasy is a public television series that pairs Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famers, Grammy Award winners, Tony Award winners and iconic musicians with an interviewer of their choice. The show features conversations between the stars and ...

Gary Clark, Jr.: Live North America 2016

by Doug Collette
March 18, 2017

At first glance and upon initial listen, Gary Clark Jr.'s Live North America 2016 suggests a holding pattern on his rapidly-developing career. More careful perusal, however, reveals the man's second concert release, out in fairly quick succession to both Live (Warner Bros., 2014) and his last studio album, The Story of Sunny Boy Slim (Warner Bros., ...