The Concert Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... top guitarists in the business. The gunslingers are John Scofield, Bill Frisell, Derek Trucks and Marc Ribot (who’s not as famous as others, but he should be). The disc also features three tunes with Bela Fleck, who’s known as a banjo player, not a guitarist. (The program for the big Outside Lands music festival labeled Fleck as a fiddler _ and one of the world’s finest at that _...
Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
... oeuvre as it contains a rotating roster of high profile guitarists, featuring Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, John Scofield, Derek Trucks and banjo wizard Bela Fleck.( more… )
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
McCoy Tyner Quartet featuring Marc Ribot At the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts In Vancouver on Saturday If you're a 70-year-old jazz legend with more than 80 albums to your name, not to mention five Grammys, you can get away with pretty much anything. But still, when McCoy Tyner picked up the mike while the rest of his band were playing, tapped it three times to get their attention...
The Globe and Mail - Music News (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
McCoy Tyner Quartet featuring Marc Ribot At the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts In Vancouver on Saturday If you're a 70-year-old jazz legend with more than 80 albums to your name, not to mention five Grammys, you can get away with pretty much anything. But still, when McCoy Tyner picked up the mike while the rest of his band were playing, tapped it three times to get their attention...
prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
... Cocker, Keith Richards, and Kate and Anna McGarrigle. The band featured on the album is made up of Marc Ribot, Greg Cohen, Rob Burger, Barry Reynolds, and Jim White. The covers selected by Faithfull include tracks from The Decemberists, Neko Case, Dolly Parton, and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. Voices like Colin Meloy's and Faithfull's are both squarely outside of convention,...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
MASTERS AT THE GREEK WITH ELLIS MARSALIS, MCCOY TYNER, MARC RIBOT, BRAD MEHLDAU There is a lot of jazz this week, but if we have to pick a fave its Jesse Sharps Gathering at the Jazz Bakery this Sunday. Jesse, a key player in the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, released The Gathering a few years back, an excellent slice of Leimert Park jazz featuring a couple dozen of the neighborhoods...
