What live music are you going to see tonight?

[kh1958]

This Saturday afternoon, at the Gainesville Blues and Tattoos Festival, Bnois King Band. He's a fabulous blues vocalist and his guitar is the opposite of the usual blues/rock guitarist of today. Bnois' guitar playing is elegant, measured, unhurried, rich in sound, yet also very intense, and achieved without a single guitar pedal.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Tonight, Randy Brecker and his wife, Ada Rovati are playing with a local rhythm section at the tiny Press Room club in Portsmouth, NH.

https://www.portsmouthnh.com/event/randy-brecker-and-ada-rovatti-at-the-press-room/

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Brecker & Rovatti put on a good show last night. The local rhythm section, Nick Grondin, guitar; Mark Shilansky, piano; Bronek Suchanek, bass and Austin McMahon, drums. I ended up getting moved around to 3 different tables because of a ticketing snafu but the final seat location, up on the balcony, is one of my preferred spots.

They opened with a tune from Brecker's, "In the Idiom", which I had him sign after the set. He gave some humorous stories before each tune. Nathan Jorgensen, Director of Jazz Studies at UNH, sat in for the last tune and played a fiery solo on his alto that would have made Cannonball proud.

The setlist:

There's A Mingus A Monk Us

Shanghigh

O Corko Mio

The Marble Sea

Over The Rainbow

Dirty Dogs

About the only negative (for me) was that the guitarist used heavy reverb throughout the set. I'm not a fan of that sound though my buddy who went with me (who plays guitar) says that some guitarists use that to sound more bluesy. I don't know if that's true.