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Mike Greenblatt STAFF ’ ‘ ’ PUBLISHERS MIKE GREENBLATT S RANT N ROLL DIANE CASAZZA CHRIS FARINAS SPECIAL PROJECTS PUBLISHER and Harold Arlen’s “Somewhere Over “Royal Garden Blues,” “On The Sunny MARK SCEURMAN What’s Old MANAGING EDITOR the Rainbow”), there’s action aplenty. Side Of The Street,” “Mahogany Hall Is New Again DANIEL ALLEVA Highlight has to be “Fort Worth” with Stomp,” and “Black And Blue”—which CONTRIBUTING EDITORS nods to that town’s Ornette Coleman gives me chills to this day: “ What did JAMES CAMPION The Ethan Iverson Quartet’s MIKE GREENBLATT and Dewey Redman. As Lovano says, I do to be so black…and blue? I’m Common Practice (ECM Records) has TIM LOUIE “it’s a funky 24-bar blues with a lot white inside but that don’t help my JOHN PFEIFFER the unenviable task of reconstructing of freedom in it.” case… ’Cause I can’t hide what is on PATRICK SLEVIN the “Great American Songbook” in CONTRIBUTING WRITERS my face… I’m so forlorn… life’s just a terms of modernity, infusing decades- AMANDA FERRANTE BATISTA thorn… my heart is torn… Why was I MICHAEL CAVACINI old chestnuts with daring Monk-like RACHAEL CICCONE born? ” The German portion of the propensities and an unerring feel for CHARLEY CRESPO show, with different personnel, kicks SAMANTHA CURRELI ALESSANDRA DONNELLY Mike Zito off with “My Bucket’s Got A Hole In It,” AMY EBELING Does Chuck Berry beauty out of sorrow.” Plath took her the 1949 hit by Hank Williams, before GLYN EMMERSON own life at age 30, but not before she ROBERT GLUCK he takes the crowd “Way Down Yonder ALISON GRAVES heavily influenced generations of If ever you get the chance to see in New Orleans.” These tapes were JESSICA GUICA confessional singer-songwriters recovered from the Louis Armstrong STEPHANIE GUIDA singer/songwriter/guitarist Mike Zito DOKTOR JOHN starting with Joni Mitchell. Knott is on a stage, do it. He’s a cyclone. He’s House Museum on 107th Street in JENNIFER KAJZER right there with Plath and Mitchell Corona, Queens, where Pops lived MORGAN MAGID Stevie Ray Vaughan crossed with RYAN M CGRATH as she sings her songs of pain and Delbert McClinton. And if any cat can from 1943 with his wife Lucille until GREGG M cQUEEN disillusion. Too dark for country radio, his death in 1971. The building was GIORGIO MUSTICA lay claim to the rock ‘n’ roll VERONICA RAJADNYA too profound for pop radio, Knott falls designated a National Historic BRYAN REESMAN the future. They swing like mad. Their Shakespeare, Chuck Berry—it’s Zito. somewhere in the cracks. Will she be Landmark in 1976 and you can visit DANIELLE SARIYAN They’re both from St. Louis and Zito’s DEBRA KATE SCHAFER music swirls with kaleidoscopic aplomb condemned to a life of cult hero been recycling these treasured riffs it today. ANDREA SEASTRAND to reach dizzying new heights almost worship? Her two compilations last HAL SELZER since he was five years old. This had MARIA SHIELDS despite the material. Pianist Iverson year— Anthology and Sunset Avenue to happen. For his 16th album, the LEANNE ACIZ STANTON works in the spaces in-between his Sessions —showed an artist of DANI TAUBER mates. In that sense, he’s the glue self-produced Rock ‘n’ Roll: A Tribute OLIVIA TAUBNER inestimable talents. Producer Glenn CARMEN TRIOLA that holds it together, laying back Barratt, in whose Philadelphia-area Bo Diddley STEVE TRUGLIO without any Oscar Peterson/Art Tatum studio Knott records, discovered her SONNY WHELDON Is a Zombie TINA WHELSKI fireworks. He’s subtle. And his subtlety when she was playing South Jersey KAM WILLIAMS LEAD PHOTOGRAPHER gives superstar trumpeter Tom Harrell dives for chump change. He’s been Time to finally retire “Monster Mash” MARK WEISS room to burnish the mix with naked there ever since for her. Honesty is CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS abandon. (Just listen to him on George as the de facto Halloween song for her policy with songs like “Emmylou,” the ages. Feel free to choose between KELSEY AYRES Gershwin’s 95-year old “The Man I “Keep Me Alive,” “Tired,” “I Was A Bird,” ANTHONY COSENTINO Love.”) Double-bassist Ben Street and the 28 pre-1963 holiday novelties GLYN EMMERSON and the highlight, “Like I Love My Dog,” on The Mojo Man Presents Black NADINE JOY drummer Eric McPherson propel the wherein a smile bursts through the MICHELE TERRY action forward, especially on the bebop Halloween: Bo Diddley Is a Zombie, STEVE TRUGLIO gloom like a weed through a concrete A Koko Mojo Celebration . Koko Mojo APRIL WORONOWICZ wildness of “Wee” and the bluesy ADVERTISING DIRECTOR sidewalk. Records has a knack for finding the geography of “Philadelphia Creamer” MICHELLE DENHOLTZ PRINT ART DIRECTOR and “Jed From Teaneck.” When Doris rarest of the rare, and the European label has outdid itself here. Starting ANGELA TEIXEIRA Day had her first #1 with “Sentimental To Chuck Berry (Ruf Records) jams PRODUCTION DESIGNER Journey” in 1945, it was a pop song. out on 19 of The Master’s classics DEB KERRIGAN CIRCULATION-MARKETING In this quartet’s hands, especially with (and one clinker, the awful “My Ding- Pops! A-Ling,” ironically Berry’s biggest hit) PHIL FIUMANO Harrell’s Roy Eldridge-inspired shrieks, BRUCE HOLLAND in a super-session of sorts. Twenty- CHARLES PIZZUTA it’s a whole ‘nother animal. Common Louis Armstrong set the world on one lead guitarists add their signatures ANDREW LAZZAROTTI Practice is both ancient and modern fire. He’s not dead. Never will be. (In TED SHIKO to these songs including Joe CREATIVE DIRECTOR at the same time. fact, he’s a near-constant presence Bonamassa (“Wee Wee Hours”), DENNIS RAKAUCKAS in my household.) The 16 tracks of SR. MARKETING DIRECTOR Sonny Landreth (“Havana Moon”), Live In Europe (Dot Time Records), SERENA CASAZZA Eric Gales (“Back In The USA”), Luther MARKETING DIRECTOR released for the first time, is like a gift Dickinson (“Too Much Monkey BRIANNA AGUIRRE from heaven. Recorded in 1948 in MARKETING ASSOCIATES Business”), Walter Trout (“Johnny B When Legends France and 1952 in Germany, with JAKE ANDERSON Collide Goode”), Robben Ford (“You Never KYLIE BAYER Can Tell”), Albert Castiglia (“30 Days”), AWM DESIGNERS Anders Osborne (“Memphis”), Alex with Lord Luther’s “(I Was A) Teenage PETER BREITFELDER Italy’s greatest trumpeter Enrico PAUL CALABRESE Skolnick (“Down Bound Train”), Jimmy Creature” and ending with “Blues For Rava played flugelhorn last year in CHARLIE PLATOW Vivino (“Let It Rock”), and Berry’s Dracula” by the legendary jazz ERIC STEINERT a quintet he co-led with American sax FOUNDER grandson, Charles Berry III (“St. Louis drummer Philly Joe Jones, this man Joe Lovano, opening up both JAMES RENSENBRINK Blues”). It took a year. It’s been six amazing set contains stars like Ike 1932-2013 their songbooks on a European tour years since Zito’s Gone To Texas Turner, The Coasters, Screamin’ Jay THE AQUARIAN WEEKLY (USPS 009-474) last year. Roma (ECM Records) is the is published ( Weekly), by Arts Weekly , masterpiece. Zito has survived hell. Hawkins, Howlin’ Wolf, and Bo Diddley result. The two masters play off each 52 Sindle Ave., Little Falls, NJ 07424. He’s clean, sober, and making the side-by-side with purveyors of such Periodical postage paid at Wayne, New Jersey 07470. best music of his life. arcane fare as Hollywood Flames Subscription $99.00 per year. (“Frankenstein’s Den”), Johnny Fuller POSTMASTER send address changes to: (“Haunted House”), The Naturals (“The THE AQUARIAN WEEKLY, P.O. Box 1140, Little Falls, NJ 07424. Mummy”), The Cadillacs (“The Boogie surprisingly good sound, has him in The Aquarian Weekly is owned and operated by Man”), The Jay-Hawks (“The Arts Weekly Inc. 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Poet Sylvia Plath is quoted within amazing, what with the legendary “Witchcraft”—not to be confused with the packaging of singer-songwriter other in front of an exquisite personnel of trombonist Jack the 1957 Frank Sinatra hit of the same FOLLOW • LIKE • SHARE Lizanne Knott’s sixth album, the self- piano/bass/drums rhythm section and Teagarden, clarinetist Barney Bigard, name—written by Pee Wee King and released Bones and Gravity , as saying, the result couldn’t be more joyful. From pianist Earl “Fatha” Hines, bassist Dave Bartholomew for The Spiders, “perhaps someday I’ll crawl back home, the Latin groove of “Secrets” to the Arvell Shaw, and drummer “Big Sid” because I’ve only heard it my whole beaten, defeated. 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