

Drummer Gabriel Strange has the best touch I’ve heard in years: imaginative and varied, capturing the audience’s attention with creativity rather than volume. At one point he was left alone onstage to solo a Jimi Hendrix tune and nailed it. Iridium Jazz Club - email id & phone of top management contacts like Founder, CEO, CFO, CMO, CTO, Marketing or HR or Finance head & all company details. Bassist George Potsos may think he’s on guitar, because that’s the way he plays: fast, furious and tunefully. Live music 7 days a week in heart of Times Square, Manhattan.

His voice shifts effortlessly from a gruff bluesy shout to a full-throated soulful wail, then down to a clear whisper without sounding contrived. Article Contributed by press Published on Friday, November 27, 2009. The Iridium, home of Les Paul, is New York Citys best music venue featuring Jazz and Rock. He plays excellent, gutsy guitar, but Allman’s vocals really stand out. That first location, known as the 'Iridium Room Jazz Club', was a basement room below the Merlot restaurant across from Lincoln Center and initially booked 'traditional, swinging jazz musicians. Devon Allmanĭevon Allman’s Honeytribe upped the pace a few notches with rockin’ blues, R&B and rockin’ soul in a well-paced set which lasted long into the night. The club opened in January 1994 at its original location, at 63rd Street and Broadway in the basement of The Empire Hotel, with a minimal cover charge. 45 in a Crown Royal bag/Wiped the fingerprints off, handed me the rag.” Priceless. Still, my favorite of the night remains “Never Going back to Memphis,” a well-crafted rockin’ blues tune about a good woman and a bad man which incorporates lyrics like “He kept a. Shemekia Copelandĭrawing heavily from her latest CD Never Going Back, Copeland delivered Buddy and Julie Miller (“Dirty Water”), Paul Thorn’s “Rise Up” and her father Johnny Copeland’s “Circumstances” with equal authority. Swinging seamlessly from old-time-blues to rock, gospel and a smattering of soul, Shemekia Copeland tied her set together with confident and charming patter which ranged from serious thoughts in her head to the trendy shoes on her feet.
