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Roomful of Blues To Perform at Ross Farm On August 7th
(BASKING RIDGE, NJ)
Roomful of Blues, the horn-powered, houserocking blues band, will perform as part of The Ross Farm Music Series at The Ross Farm in Basking Ridge on Saturday, August 7, 2021. The Rhode Island-based group has been delighting audiences for over 50 years.
Blues Music Magazine calls them “the best little big band in the blues.” Gates open at 5:30pm. Tickets are $35.
The group has earned five Grammy Award nominations and a slew of other accolades, including seven Blues Music Awards. Twice, the prestigious
DownBeat International Critics Poll selected them as Best Blues Band. The band’s latest Alligator Records release is
Blues Beat: Live music scene comes alive
Domenic Forcella
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The live music scene continues to grow its return. Check the venues as the weather will determine some shows.
Friday, Orb Mellon Brings his Trio To Jerry s Pizza and Barroom. The Trio Performs Original boogie and blues. Orb Mellon, the master picker, is backed by blues drummer Mark Hennessy and Dave Robbins on harp.
Orb Mellon mines the raw energy of 20th Century American roots music, particularly whiskey fueled house party delta blues. Influenced by the likes of Bukka White, Junior Kimbrough, and John Fahey, Orb Mellon performs pure, sonically aggressive, and ever transforming original folk blues, free from any quaintness or historicism, prompting one early reviewer to identify Orb Mellon’s work simply as blues in all its primeval glory. Mark your calendars for a nice hot pizza with a dash of blues.
The New York Times, and the only “jazz release” in
Rolling Stone’s list of the 50 best records of 2017. Iyer’s Sextet was voted 2018 Jazz Group of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association.
Iyer’s previous ECM releases include
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (2016), a collaboration with Iyer’s “hero, friend and teacher,” Wadada Leo Smith, which
The Los Angeles Times calls “haunting, meditative and transportive”;
Break Stuff (2015), with a coveted five-star rating in
DownBeat Magazine, featuring the Vijay Iyer Trio, hailed by
PopMatters as “the best band in jazz”;
Mutations (2014), featuring Iyer’s music for piano, string quartet and electronics, which “extends and deepens his range. showing a delicate, shimmering, translucent side of his playing” (
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