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Been Around the Block? He is the Block

Brooklyn rock'n'roll/soul man Garland Jeffreys on just about anything - from Jackie Robinson to Lou Reed to Sonny Rollins - you ever wanted to know about everything

by Shayne Gryn
17.11.2011

Garland Jeffreys isn’t known for pulling his punches. The Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter, who’s been recording since the late ’60s, made a name for himself by painting honest, and sometimes bleak, portraits of the world around him. From the anthemic Wild in the Streets to the intimate and personal Spanish Town, Jeffreys has sung about murder, racial [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Crowd Controlled

Audience doesn’t do any favours for Weird Al’s mixed-bag musical comedy show Amp’d, at Just For Laughs

by Daniel Salama
03.08.2011

Last year’s Amp’d show, a collection of musical comedy, was widely praised as one of the better shows at Just For Laughs. It’s unlikely this year’s show, at Club Soda (July 28), will leave the festival with a similar legacy. The revue, hosted by the legendary Weird Al Yankovic, was hobbled by a palpable lack [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

The Sum of all Parts

REVIEW: The Dears put one in the "win" column despite uneven set and weird crowd at their Jazz Festival appearance

by Dave Jaffer
02.07.2011

Unlike everyone else on Earth, I don’t have a smartphone. I have a dumbphone. I have a Nokia C1. On the Fido website, the copy brags that this phone has a “large keypad for easy dialing and navigation,” which I put to the test at The Dears’ latest Jazz Festival appearance, at Club Soda, June [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

What Could Have Been, and What Was

REVIEW: Lee Fields and The Expressions take Club Soda concertgoers to soul school at their 2011 Jazz Festival appearance

by Jamie O'Meara
01.07.2011

Despite giving a shout-out to all womankind via the women in attendance at Club Soda on Wednesday night – observing that without their unique birthing abilities, none of us would be around (hardly Pulitzer-prize winning science, but hey…) – when Lee Fields started singing about all the “lovely ladies, beautiful ladies, you’re so fine,” I [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

You Want It? Hugh Got It!

REVIEW: Legendary trumpeter Hugh Masekela had the whole world in his hands at Club Soda

by Brenna Baggs
29.06.2011

“Damn, you’re a funky lot!” No, Hugh, you are. At least you’re an awful lot of funky. South African trumpet legend Hugh Masekela took the stage on Monday night, June 27, with characteristic charm and energy. Swaying, bantering and repeatedly telling the Jazz Festival concertgoers how beautiful they were, he flirted with the audience in [...]

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