Nordost Playlist – September 2015

Nordost is lucky to have a wonderful team of representatives and product trainers who travel around the world educating and demonstrating the effects of Nordost’s products. As part of these demonstrations, it is our job to find an interesting and diverse selection of music to showcase our cables, power devices, sort system and accessories. Whether at shows, visiting our dealers and distributors or even in our own listening room in our headquarters in Holliston, we are constantly getting asked what music we are playing (or if our audience is not so bold to ask, we can see their Shazams working overtime). So we thought this would be a perfect opportunity to share our favorite songs of the moment. Some may be classics, some may be brand new, some may not even be to your taste, but one thing is for sure …it’s all great music.

Here are some of the songs that we will have on rotation this September.

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  1. All The Pretty Girls – Kaleo –All The Pretty Girls
  2. Hide and Seek — Imogen Heap —Speak For Yourself
  3. You Had Quit Me — Wild Child Butler — Sho’ ‘Nuf
  4. Don’t—Ed Sheeran—X (Deluxe Edition)
  5. Leave A Trace — CHVRCHES — Every Open Eye
  6. Say Goodbye— Beck — Morning Phase
  7. Satisfied Mind—Ben Harper, The Blind Boys Of Alabama—There Will Be A Light
  8. Isfahan  — Sophisticated Lady — Sophisticated Lady
  9. Ultraviolet — FKA twigs — EP2
  10. Queen Of Peace  — Florence + The Machine — How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

Meet Nordost Brand Ambassador, Eleanor McEvoy

Meet Nordost Brand Ambassador, Eleanor McEvoy. Eleanor has been an avid user of Nordost cables throughout her career— in her home, in her performances, and in the recording studio.

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“McEvoy has the skills of a first rate songwriter. She gives her songs full fledged melodies, not just a repeated phrase or two”

— New York Times

Eleanor McEvoy achieved star status in Ireland in 1992 when her song “A Woman’s Heart” inspired the title for, and appeared on, the A Woman’s Heart anthology album. A Woman’s Heart has since gone on to become the best-selling album in Irish history. Its 20th anniversary in 2012 saw twelve sold-out “Woman’s Heart” shows at the Olympia Theatre.

Her career as of one of Ireland’s most popular songwriters started at age four when she performed in an Irish music competition as part of her sister’s band. She later took up the violin, and began playing the guitar in her teens. She graduated from Trinity College Dublin with an honors degree in music and was accepted to the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland as a violinist.  She worked with the symphony orchestra and also as a session musician playing for many acts including U2 and Sinead O’Connor before she finally left that world behind to concentrate on her real passion—songwriting.

She released her eponymous debut on Geffen records followed with tours in the USA, Europe and East Asia. She moved to Columbia Records in New York for her second album “What’s Following Me?”. “Precious Little”, the first single, was a top ten radio hit in the US.

Since then, Eleanor has gone on to become an artist and performer known throughout the world. Her critically acclaimed canon of work spans eleven albums, forty singles, and appearances on numerous compilation albums. She is today recognized as Ireland’s most successful female singer-songwriter, having enjoyed personal chart success and numerous cover versions of her songs by performers Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Phil Coulter, Mary Coughlan, Bella Hardy, Eliza Carthy and Jack L, among others. Her song “All I Have” was featured in the HBO cult series “Six Feet Under.”

Her latest album “STUFF” described as “a standout” by the Irish Times also received rave reviews around the world. John Shand of The Sydney Morning Herald exclaims, “Sass and vulnerability are a rare combination that Eleanor McEvoy is capable of absolutely nailing”.

Nordost Playlist – August 2015

Nordost is lucky to have a wonderful team of representatives and product trainers who travel around the world educating and demonstrating the effects of Nordost’s products. As part of these demonstrations, it is our job to find an interesting and diverse selection of music to showcase our cables, power devices, sort system and accessories. Whether at shows, visiting our dealers and distributors or even in our own listening room in our headquarters in Holliston, we are constantly getting asked what music we are playing (or if our audience is not so bold to ask, we can see their Shazams working overtime). So we thought this would be a perfect opportunity to share our favorite songs of the moment. Some may be classics, some may be brand new, some may not even be to your taste, but one thing is for sure …it’s all great music.

Here are some of the songs that we will have on rotation this August.

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  1. Both Hands—Ani Difranco—Ani DiFranco
  2. Got It—Marian Hill—Got it
  3. I’m Yours—Vitamin String Quartet—Vitamin String Quartet Performs Jason Mraz
  4. I’ll Be Seeing You—Billie Holiday—Standards (Great Songs/Great Performances)
  5. Deadwater—Wet—Deadwater
  6. Your Drums, Your Love—AlunaGeorge—Body Music (Deluxe)
  7. In The Winelight—Kurt Elling—Man In The Air
  8. Used—Wyvern Lingo—The Widow Knows E.P.
  9. Beautiful Drug—Zac Brown Band—JEKYLL+HYDE
  10. Shaped Like A Gun—Tailor—The Dark Horse

Nordost at RMAF 2015

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The International Rocky Mountain Audio Festival has been a highlight each year for Nordost, and this year is no exception. Nordost will be featuring our new Supreme Reference cable range, Odin 2, as well as introducing a few exciting new products to our line. Join us at the Marriott Denver Tech Center October 2-4 in the Humboldt Peak Room, where Nordost’s product specialists will be performing live demonstrations and cable comparisons for RMAF guests. While you are there, don’t forget to visit our booth in Nordost’s lobby location to take advantage of some exclusive show specials!

Additionally, this year Nordost is proud to announce Unknownour sponsorship of Ireland’s most successful female singer/songwriter, Eleanor McEvoy. Eleanor will be entertaining show attendees with hits spanning her career, from “A Woman’s Heart”, the title track on the best-selling album in Irish history, to her most recent album “Stuff”. During Ms. McEvoy’s concerts, she will be using Nordost’s new Ax Angel pro audio cables, which truly enhance her already stellar live performances.

Nelson Brill Previews Newport Jazz Festival 2015

Real music lovers can find the melody in everything. From the park to the concert hall, our friend Nelson Brill is always on the hunt for great sound.

In this article, Nelson sets the stage for the upcoming Newport Jazz Festival.


THE NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL 2015: INSPIRATION ACROSS BORDERS AND TIME

BY NELSON BRILL     JULY 5, 2015

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In the fall of 1972, the visionary founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, George Wein, (he now 90 years young!), had the idea of trying to convince the great pianist Dave Brubeck to re-unite his legendary quartet (Paul Desmond on alto sax; Gerry Mulligan on baritone sax; Jack Six on bass and Boston’s own Alan Dawson on drums) to take their act on the road one more time.

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It had been five years since Brubeck had performed with his quartet. During that absence, the always inventive Brubeck (along with his wife and musical companion, Iola) had composed and performed a number of original and daring compositions. (One of these was a “classical” cantata which was scored for piano, a rock band, a classical chorus and symphony orchestra- an amazing new sound for that time). Wein had the notion that the world was ready to hear Brubeck in his jazz element once again, and approached him with the idea of taking his quartet on an international tour under the flag of the Newport Jazz Festival.  Brubeck agreed, and as a result we now have the audiophile gem of a live recording from this whirlwind 1972 tour: We’re All Together Again For The First Time [Atlantic Records].

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Here is a masterful live recording, especially when heard on its original vinyl pressing. The recording captures the incredible energy and excitement of these live performances that took place in spacious halls from Berlin, Paris and Rotterdam. The recording has a “you are there” presence, allowing the listener to peer into the hall spaces and hear the dynamic envelopes of air and space surrounding the musicians on these stages.  (When dialed-in carefully, a quality subwoofer [from subwoofer manufacturers such as Fathom or REL] is a key component in a home audio system that allows the listener to capture the very last decibels of energy and acoustic space and air on such great live recordings as this one. With a subwoofer properly configured, We’re All Together Again comes alive with its deep recesses of acoustic space and layered soundstage).

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The opening cut to this delectable recording, Brubeck’s “Truth,” is an intense improvisational workout between Mulligan on baritone sax and Desmond on alto, each coiled and stealthy in their solos. Desmond is exuberant and light in his unfolding lines while Mulligan is muscular in his twisting flights and growls on his bleating baritone. Brubeck adds his own punchy piano solo which is filled with keyboard stomps and quick breaks (with bluesy chords thrown hither and yonder in his signature ambitious reach).

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“Unfinished Woman” finds Mulligan moving breezy and free on his own composition, his baritone sounding fleshy and big- yet also light as a feather. Dawson, (whose passing at a young age was a blow to the entire jazz world-he was caught regularly lighting up the now-defunct Willow Jazz Club in Somerville, MA.), is a marvel throughout this outing.

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On “Unfinished Woman” Dawson propels all of the action with his heady snare and cymbals (with the backbone of Six’s bass) and then, towards the end on Side Two’s extended and frolicking version of “Take Five”, he unleashes a dazzling drum solo that is a clinic in pure locomotion: powerful and fierce in every rapid drum roll and monumental spray of his cymbals. Dawson shows his tender side as well, on Brubeck’s meditative “Koto Song,” where he employs the lightest touch on his cymbals so that Desmond can take flight in his meditative alto solo (upon this cushion of rhythmic serenity). We’re All Together is a great portrait of these four consummate musicians working together as one great vehicle of musical invention and joy. We have Newport Jazz’s George Wein to thank for bringing this group together once again (“for the first time”).

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In the footsteps of the Brubeck Quartet’s Paul Desmond (and in light of our recent tribute to the passing of another monumental alto saxophonist and composer, Ornette Coleman), its a nice segue from We’re All Together to report on a recent live performance by another dynamic alto player, Miguel Zenon (who has also graced the stages of the Newport Jazz Festival).  On June 22nd, Zenon took to the stage at Jordan Hall at The New England Conservatory of Music (“NEC”) to perform as part of NEC’s Jazz Lab Week. [Jazz Lab, (www.necmusic.edu/jazz-lab), is a program that brings high school students to NEC for a week of intensive trainings, seminars and improvisation sessions with faculty and guest artists].  At this concert, Zenon was joined by bassist Rick McLaughlin and drummer extraordinaire Joe Hunt. Besides being a drummer for the likes of Stan Getz and Bill Evans, Hunt also worked with Ornette Coleman – another nice historic link to the recently passed alto giant. The crowd on this evening at Jordan Hall was packed in with high school students and it made for a raucous and energetic atmosphere.

Zenon continued his spirited journey into his Puerto Rican musical heritage by focusing at this concert on a celebration of Puerto Rican composers. Two famous compositions written by Juan Tizol, (trombonist in the Duke Ellington Orchestra), were performed: Caravan (1936) and Perdido (1941). On Caravan,Zenon started fastidiously-slow and steady- drifting and building his elongated sax lines into a whirl of notes and trills. McLaughlin and Hunt rode alongside Zenon, offering their own redoubtable grooves. McLaughlin loved taking fragments of the melody and carved them up into big slides and holds on his bass. Hunt pounced on the essence of Caravan’s toe-tapping rhythm and used big hits on his bass drum for added bravado. With a grin on his face, Hunt always anticipated the next danceable moment with his swinging punctuations.

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At his appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival last year, Zenon took his musical explorations of Puerto Rican vibrancy to another dimension. At Newport, he performed with his large “Identities Band” and delivered an eclectic and buoyant performance rooted in his 2014 recording,  Identities Are Changeable [Miel Music; www.miguelzenon.com].

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Like Brubeck in his own ambitious works, Identities Are Changeable is a recording that stretches musical borders. It  delivers a challenging multi-media project that combines voice-overs (in which individual Puerto Ricans discuss their own stories of immigration and what it means to call a place “home”), with Zenon’s imaginative and enveloping music. For instance, on the title cut of the recording, individual young Puerto Ricans in New York City discuss how what they feel about their living in dual cultural heritages with one foot in Puerto Rico and another here. These poignant observations are spoken over simple rolling bass and drum lines until the music gradually takes over into a grand sweep of big band sounds and colors. The music surges and leaps captured beautifully in the wide dynamics and muscular feel of this recording. The individual soloing throughout Identities is superb with bristling sax and brass sparkle, surging collective blasts and a feeling of optimism in its message of youthful exuberance in the face of big social and political questions raised by its narrators.

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You can pick out Zenon’s alto from the surrounding groove, with his style of building intricate strings of sweet and pungent sounds on his alto sax. Zenon’s alto style brings to mind the process of making rock candy: taking an empty string and then passing it through a sugary base and watching how, over time, crystals of rock candy are formed in long intricate and sweet lines. His alto lines start on a blank slate and build similar long, languid lines and phrases (entwining in unpredictable ways with short bursts). The beauty of his playing is not only this combination of sweet and languid, but how Zenon never losing sight of the established rhythmic groove of his rich Puerto Rican heritage (like those rock candy crystals remaining tethered to their string).

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And, speaking of sweet sounds, this year’s edition of the Newport Jazz Festival, (www.newportjazzfestival.org) is coming to Newport, Rhode Island on Friday-Sunday, July 31st-August 2nd.  The Friday session is always a great opportunity to hear new and exciting talent, like when Miguel Zenon performed last year with his Identities Big Band. This year, a big band under the direction of drummer John Hollenbeck is performing, with many young upstart musicians in its ranks. On Friday, there are also intriguing small ensembles put together by bassist Christian McBride, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and – one of my favorite young drummers – Johnathan Blake. Friday will also offer a chance to hear the legendary drummer Herlin Riley and his Quintet. The rest of the Newport weekend promises many more sonic feasts, including appearances by the Maria Schneider Orchestra (who performed one of the great performances of recent memory at Tanglewood last summer and has a new album just out, The Thompson Fields [on ArtistShare; www.artistshare.com]) and Cecile McLorin Salvant, the singer who brought down the house last year at Newport. (Salvant’s wondrous album, Woman Child [Mack Avenue] remains in heavy rotation here at bostonconcertreviews).

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Several other artists (whose concerts we have reviewed in the past year): Arturo Sandoval; Aaron Diehl; Frank Kimbrough- will also all make appearances at Newport this year. Cassandra Wilson will also be bringing her “Tribute to Billie Holliday” to Newport and from all reports, her recent concert at The Berklee Performance Center with this same lineup was astonishing.

From Brubeck to Jon Batiste, Newport Jazz’s founder George Wein continues to weave his magic in bringing folks together under Newport’s big tent for the love and joy of the music.

For the full Newport Jazz Festival lineup, see www.newportjazzfestival.org.

Jon Batiste and Stay Human at Newport, 2014

Jon Batiste and Stay Human at Newport, 2014


If you would like to read more reviews like this one, visit Nelson’s blog at www.bostonconcertreviews.com.

Nordost Playlist – May 2015

Nordost is lucky to have a wonderful team of representatives and product trainers who travel around the world educating and demonstrating the effects of Nordost’s products. As part of these demonstrations, it is our job to find an interesting and diverse selection of music to showcase our cables, power devices, sort system and accessories. Whether at shows, visiting our dealers and distributors or even in our own listening room in our headquarters in Holliston, we are constantly getting asked what music we are playing (or if our audience is not so bold to ask, we can see their Shazams working overtime). So we thought this would be a perfect opportunity to share our favorite songs of the moment. Some may be classics, some may be brand new, some may not even be to your taste, but one thing is for sure …it’s all great music.

Here are some of the songs that we will have on rotation this May.

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  1. River—Ibeyi—Ibeyi
  2. The Singer Addresses His Audience—The Decemberists—What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
  3. The Look—Metronomy—The English Riviera
  4. Anyone Who Had A Heart—Shelby Lynne—Just a Little Lovin’
  5. Explosions—Ellie Goulding—Halcyon Days
  6. Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 – I. Non Allegro—Donald Johanos—Copland, Ives And Rachmaninoff
  7. Truth Begins—Fink—Hard Believer
  8. New World—Björk—Selmasongs: Music From the Motion Picture “Dancer In The Dark”
  9. Albacore—Ani Difranco—Which Side Are You On?
  10. Chandelier—Kina Grannis—Chandelier

Nordost Playlist – April 2015

Nordost is lucky to have a wonderful team of representatives and product trainers who travel around the world educating and demonstrating the effects of Nordost’s products. As part of these demonstrations, it is our job to find an interesting and diverse selection of music to showcase our cables, power devices, sort system and accessories. Whether at shows, visiting our dealers and distributors or even in our own listening room in our headquarters in Holliston, we are constantly getting asked what music we are playing (or if our audience is not so bold to ask, we can see their Shazams working overtime). So we thought this would be a perfect opportunity to share our favorite songs of the moment. Some may be classics, some may be brand new, some may not even be to your taste, but one thing is for sure …it’s all great music.

Here are some of the songs that we will have on rotation this April.

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  1. Love is Won—Lia Ices—Grown Unknown
  2. Higher Love—James Vincent McMorrow—We Don’t Eat EP
  3. Madness—Muse—The 2nd Law
  4. Let’s Do It—Eartha Kitt—Purrfect-The Ultimate Collection
  5. Lovers In Captivity—Ima Robot—Monument To The Masses
  6. Hero—Family of the Year—Loma Vista
  7. Don’t Wanna Fight—Alabama Shakes—Don’t Wanna Fight
  8. The World (Is Going Up In Flames)—Charles Bradley, Menahan Street Band—No Time For Dreaming (Re-issue)
  9. Work Me Over—Allan Kingdom—Future Memoirs
  10. Zodiac Shit—Flying Lotus—Cosmogramma

Nelson Brill reviews Joey DeFrancesco

We love being able to share live performance reviews from our friend Nelson Brill.

Here is a piece from his latest trip to Scullers Jazz Club in Boston.

 


 

JOEY DEFRANCESCO AND HIS TRIO AT SCULLERS JAZZ CLUB DELIVER “STONE GROOVES”

BY NELSON BRILL     MARCH 1, 2015

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If you don’t have a fireplace to gather around in this intense winter season, the next best thing might be to listen to the radiant sounds of Joey DeFrancesco’s classic Hammond B organ/Leslie speaker sound and let DeFrancesco’s soulful touch on this sensual, airy instrument heat you up to operating temperature. That’s what happened when DeFrancesco and his quartet descended on the intimate confines of Scullers Jazz Club (www.scullersjazz.com) in Cambridge, MA. on a frigid February 20, 2015 evening and brought the full house down with their intensely hot grooves. (The evening performance was broadcast live on radio station WGBH [www.wgbh.org) and mc’ed by local radio legend Eric Jackson and Sculler’s own Fred Taylor).

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DeFrancesco called this an evening of “Stone Groove,” and from the first notes of his velvet-toned organ bass, the tenacious groove was on. DeFrancesco was joined in this buoyant romp by the stellar young talents of Dan Wilson on guitar, Jason Brown on drums and Mike Boone on acoustic and electric bass. With DeFrancesco at the helm, (checking on each member of his sympathetic band with smiles and knowing glances from behind his keyboard), the music was fierce and flowing with an exuberant heat that never let up.

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The blues (fast and furious or slow brewing) were in ample evidence up and down the band’s hot chart for this “Stone Groove” evening at Scullers.

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When DeFrancesco manned his organ, it was all blues at a furious pace. DeFrancesco displayed a love for little quips of short high or low organ notes – a little elegant chatter- that led into cascades of runs and dynamic contrasts between soft/loud and major/minor keys. All of this delight was condensed and squeezed into a luscious flow of organ warmth and airy sounds. Wilson’s guitar ran alongside this organ bluster with a sparkling, elegant sound that punctuated DeFrancesco’s creative pounces.

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Brown was a humming engine through out on his drum kit, with a great feel for a dampened snare that crackled with splintered light next to the organ’s contrasting plush and velvety tones. At one point, Brown and bassist Boone held a comic little tete a tete in which drum and bass held to a swanky groove, with lots of comic starts and stops. All of this action was to the delight of DeFrancesco, who encouraged the duo to just “keep walking!” (The duet reminded of the radiant swaying blues heard on DeFrancesco’s great version of Ray Charles’ swanky “I’ve Got A Woman” from his superb self titled 2011 recording on HighNote Records).

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DeFrancesco also did some elegant walking himself on trumpet (using a treasured mute from Miles Davis, his old comrade in blues arms).

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DeFrancesco’s trumpet echoed his ebullient style on organ – little niches of complex notes and runs; interstitial spaces of silences and sharp corners – all adding up to an opulent feast of metallic tones and colors.

As an added treat, DeFrancesco invited up to the stage Trent Austin, a trumpeter from Redding, MA. (who also makes custom trumpets and mouthpieces-www.austincustombrass.com). DeFrancesco and Austin carved up a blues number with Austin’s exuberant trumpet sailing high above DeFrancesco’s surging organ and Wilson’s fleet footed guitar. The fireworks continued with an encore that brought all the funk and groove to a full throttled apex. DeFrancesco pulled out all the [organ] stops by pelted out huge chords and blasts of gleeful running notes while the rest of the band grooved alongside him with a pulse that had the audience dancing in the aisles.

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After this inspiring performance at Scullers, a return home to listen to more bright and gutsy Hammond organ recordings found the legendary organist Jimmy Smith in fine form. A superb audiophile gem of Smith’s is his Organ Grinder Swing [Verve], (especially if you can find the original or Japanese pressing version on vinyl!).

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With a dream team of Kenny Burrell on guitar and Grady Tate on drums, Smith takes the Old English classic “Greensleeves” and turns this chestnut into a thicket of funky and propulsive sounds raw and vital- foreshadowing DeFrancesco’s own genius. (Keep your ears out too for Burrell’s soulful guitar on the slow brewing “Oh, No, Babe” and Tate’s fastidious snare/cymbal groove on “Blues For J”).

And, of course, there is the dynamic Bruce Katz, a bostonconcertreviews favorite, (both in his live local performances and his great recordings), springing on us his latest release, Homecoming [American Showplace Music]. Here’s Katz and his sterling band delivering their hard-nosed mix of rock, blues and prankish adventure (in the company of many fine guests, including vocals from John Hammond), with Katz’s fiery Hammond B (and crisp piano swing) up front and gloriously personal.

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Finally, looking into the future of young Hammond organ players, one finds the vivacious Kevin Coelho, a player with a lot of funk on his mind (and the soulful tone and technique on the Hammond to get right to it).

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On his boisterous and funky recording, Turn It Up [Chicken Coup Records], Coelho is joined by guitarist Derek DiCenzo and drummer Reggie Jackson and this trio tackles everything from Jimmy Smith to Lennon and McCartney to Coelho’s swinging original tunes- all with verve and a tightly focused sound that is captured on a recording with great image dimensionality and presence.

The velvet glove of the Hammond organ sound (ready to pounce with great funk and creative swing at a moment’s notice) is certainly in good hands!

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If you would like to read more reviews like this one, visit Nelson’s blog at www.bostonconcertreviews.com.

Nordost Playlist – March 2015

Nordost is lucky to have a wonderful team of representatives and product trainers who travel around the world educating and demonstrating the effects of Nordost’s products. As part of these demonstrations, it is our job to find an interesting and diverse selection of music to showcase our cables, power devices, sort system and accessories. Whether at shows, visiting our dealers and distributors or even in our own listening room in our headquarters in Holliston, we are constantly getting asked what music we are playing (or if our audience is not so bold to ask, we can see their Shazams working overtime). So we thought this would be a perfect opportunity to share our favorite songs of the moment. Some may be classics, some may be brand new, some may not even be to your taste, but one thing is for sure …it’s all great music.

Here are some of the songs that we will have on rotation this March.

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  1. Black Is The Color Of My True Love’s Hair—Nina Simone—The Collection
  2. Bem, Bem, Maria—Gipsy Kings—Best of the Gipsy Kings
  3. Ooo Baby Baby—Smokey Robinson & The Miracles—Going to A Go-Go
  4. Trad: The Brown Girl—Aurora Orchestra, Nicolas Collon, Dawn Landes—Road Trip
  5. Maybe Later—Rudrest Mahanthappa , Adam O’Farrill, Matt Mitchell, Francois Moutin, Rudy Royston—Bird Calls
  6. Summertime—Annie Lennox—Nostalgia
  7. Ave Maria—Franz Schubert, Andrea Bocelli, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Victor Popov, Academy Of Choir Art Of Russia—Viaggio Italiano
  8. Streets of Philadelphia—Bruce Springsteen—Philadelphia –Music From The Motion Picture
  9. Elastic Heart—Sia—1000 Forms Of Fear
  10. Golden Gate—STS9—When The Dust Settles

Nordost Playlist – February 2015

Nordost is lucky to have a wonderful team of representatives and product trainers who travel around the world educating and demonstrating the effects of Nordost’s products. As part of these demonstrations, it is our job to find an interesting and diverse selection of music to showcase our cables, power devices, sort system and accessories. Whether at shows, visiting our dealers and distributors or even in our own listening room in our headquarters in Holliston, we are constantly getting asked what music we are playing (or if our audience is not so bold to ask, we can see their Shazams working overtime). So we thought this would be a perfect opportunity to share our favorite songs of the moment. Some may be classics, some may be brand new, some may not even be to your taste, but one thing is for sure …it’s all great music.

Here are some of the songs that we will have on rotation this February.

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  1. Full Moon & Empty Arms—Bob Dylan—Shadows In The Night
  2. Caravan—John Wasson—Whiplash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  3. Human Nature—Trijntje Oosterhuis—Never Can Say Goodbye
  4. Somewhere Over The Rainbow—Pomplamoose—Somewhere Over The Rainbow
  5. Prelude to Cello Suite #1 In G Major—Michael Hedges—The Essential Winter’s Solstice
  6. Little Weaver Bird—Molly Drake—Molly Drake
  7. Billie Jean—The Civil Wars—Between The Bars
  8. Low Down The Chariot—Gaither Vocal Band—The Best Of The Gaither Vocal Band
  9. Halo—Ane Brun, Linnea Olsson—Rarities
  10. The Widow—The Mars Volta—Frances the Mute