{"id":557,"date":"2011-10-14T14:25:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T18:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/?p=557"},"modified":"2011-10-14T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T19:24:25","slug":"funky-freqs-and-other-blues-derivations-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2011\/10\/funky-freqs-and-other-blues-derivations-in-nyc.html","title":{"rendered":"Funky freqs and other blues derivations in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s not enough hard-core blues ‘n’ funk in New York City — that’s the premise of my new City-Arts column<\/a>, prompted by the Free Form Funky Freq<\/a>s (Vernon Reid, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, G. Calvin Weston) performing at the Stone two Fridays ago.<\/p>\n

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If this kind of power trio (or quartet — whatever) is happening somewhere I haven’t heard about, please let me know! Must have great blues\/rock guitarist, very imaginative and active bassist plus drummer with swing and drive. <\/p>\n

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There’s not enough hard-core blues ‘n’ funk in New York City — that’s the premise of my new City-Arts column, prompted by the Free Form Funky Freqs (Vernon Reid, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, G. Calvin Weston) performing at the Stone two Fridays ago. If this kind of power trio (or quartet — whatever) is happening somewhere I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-8Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":142,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2008\/11\/ten_best_of_2008_and_more_reco.html","url_meta":{"origin":557,"position":0},"title":"Ten top of 2008 and many more recommendations","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"November 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"So much music, so little time -- it's absurd to whittle down this year's \"best\" recordings to 10, an act that merely bows to convention. 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