Interview with B3 Hammond prodigy Wil Blades & Billy Martin about their new album 'Shimmy'
On one level it sounds like dogged persistence paid off. Billy Martin is in San Fransisco doing a drum clinic, the young organist Wil Blades whose built a name for himself at the Boom Boom Room thinks he can swing a duo money gig together, presses the manager, and apparently he passes the muster. "We just got up there and played, there was no preparation we didn't really have time for any of that with Billy coming in to do these clinics there just wasn't any time. So we basically did a quick…See More
On one level it sounds like dogged persistence paid off. Billy Martin is in San Fransisco doing a drum clinic, the young organist Wil Blades whose built a name for himself at the Boom Boom Room thinks he can swing a duo money gig together, presses the manager, and apparently he passes the muster. "We just got up there and played, there was no preparation we didn't really have time for any of that with Billy coming in to do these clinics there just wasn't any time. So we basically…
Marco Benevento is one of the premier jazz pianists improvising in a rock context today. He is a bandleader in his own trio Marco Benevento, came to prominence through his Duo (Marco Benevento and Joe Russo), also touring as a member of Garage A Trois and Bustle In Your Hedgerow (alongside Dave Dreiwitz of Ween (RIP)) - a band that enthusiastically revisits and revamps the Led Zeppelin catalog. He came to national attention when he and his longtime friend and collaborator Russo…
The Dukes Of September's second of two Canadian whistlestops blew through the Big Smoke last night without too many airs, nor fanfare, about it. Toronto is a musical town, increasingly asserting itself as one of the major cosmopolitan cultural centres of North America. You can't see every artist touring North America every summer in Toronto but you'd be hard pressed to find a more affordable and diverse, minor and major league musical offerings…
