Beco Do Choro Trio house concert

Its a new era! Not an arrival ... we have some ground to cover. Wherever we are headed its sure going fast, the steep part of the curve. So while we are bivouacked here on this face, stuck between a rock and thin air... might as well take a Saturday night off and enjoy some great music. Sadly we have to choose, luckily we have choices.

How about an evening in Brazil? January heat in Recife, Rio, São Paulo. Beaches packed, escolas de samba in full swing, carnaval is almost here. Turn down the alley and suddenly its Dan and Dianne's living room. Smiling faces, good food, friends old and new – a house concert with Beco Do Choro!

João Junqueira is stirring the pot, turning a bossa to a baião, a samba to a frevo. Francisco Marques is turning up the heat, seven string melodies, rocking the rhythm on pandeiro and cavaquinho. Here comes Dexter Payne's clarinet, everyone is up - dancing, singing. Dont miss out!

SAT Jan 31 2009 6:00 PM	House Concert- Dan & Dianne... Boulder, CO	With Beco Do Choro Trio: Joao Junqueira, Francisco Marques, Dexter Payne Age Limit: All ages Tickets: Donation Details: 6pm potluck 8pm music RSVP: dhf2000@comcast.net
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SUN Feb 1 2009 2:30 PM	Lola Denver, CO	Salem: Todd Anders Johnson, Rob Garland, Dave Devine, M Vinvent M, Dexter Payne Age Limit: All ages Details: Hip hop, Latin, Funk, Jazz fusion. All original, see www.salem-music.com

Judy Roderick & the Forbears with special guest Mac Rebennack (aka Dr John)

How excited can you get about a 24 year old recording? Pretty excited, as I see peoples faces light up and hear exclamations over the phone... this is fun! Yes, there are people who still remember and get nostalgic about the good old days - reminiscing about Judy and others who are no longer with us. Funny how a recording brings someone back to life!

But even more fun are folks who cant really tell you what they were doing in 1983. Watching their eyes get big and their jaws drop ... then comes a big smile, "Wow! That rocks!"

Here is the first review of the new year:

http://www.buffalonews.com/gusto/story/538321.html

Judy Roderick & the Forbears

When I’m Gone

[Dexofon]

When blues musicologist Dick Waterman first saw Judy Roderick take the stage of Cambridge’s Club 47 back in the 1960s, he expected to hear something prim and preppy — like maybe “Greensleeves” — from this petite musician, dressed in plaid skirt and sensible shoes.

What Waterman heard was an inspired blues belter, fluent in the form and so much more.

Roderick, who died in 1992 just shy of 50, left behind a modest but remarkable body of work, born of the ‘60s folk revival and enriched by a contagious respect for myriad styles, from vintage jazz to country blues. Her commercial high-water mark was “Woman Blue,” released by Vanguard Records in 1965 and still available in retail racks to this day.”

Her extended family, including notable musicians scattered hither and yon, fans of long memory and kin at Sardinia’s Olmsted Camp, continue to fly the flag for Roderick, who could perform in any company, bar none, and quite admirably.

Longtime collaborator Dexter Payne, witness to this unique talent, has reassembled and re-released “When I’m Gone,” a 1982 recording of Roderick and her incredibly tight band, the Forbears: Washboard Chaz Leary, Don DeBacker, Tim Martin and Payne. The recording, which includes several guest slots by Mac Rebennack, aka Dr. John, is a rollicking reward from the git-go to git-gone.

Extended-play honors go to the title cut, “When I’m Gone,” an achingly clever, slyly hip musing on being here — and not being here. Roderick soulfully surfs the crest of a strong horn section and Dr. John keyboards on three other barn-burners: “Surprises,” “Denver to Dallas” and Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup’s “Shout Sister Shout.” She turns on the slow heat in a slinky and sultry take on Jimmie Lunceford’s “Dream of You.” The disc ends in a folkie mode, mining a late 1970s track of “Floods of South Dakota,” back in the days when Roderick and Payne kept company with a group called The Big Sky Mudflaps.

“When I’m Gone” is a clear view of an amazing artist who deserves much more recognition. It is fresh and vital.

— Randy Rodda

And now, here is a technology that definitely was not here in 83. This is for when you are just to tired or too busy to punch your way over to www.dexofon.com and listen to the these great sounds. Just hit this and you are at a "Judy Roderick tune-pak". Youll see what I mean.
Go ahead... Click it! Nudge it! Enjoy!!!

And then, once your energized... come on over! www.dexofon.com

Its a Whole New Year

Starting mellow, as far as gigs go...
But Im quite busy - mailing out CD orders and getting ready for my class at Naropa. Thats right, just call me professor, well, instructor, actually, of Afropop Ensemble. Its gonna be a great band - I can feel it!

And Ive had some great times sitting in with friends: the Corvettes, Boulder Acoustic Society, Os Malandros. Im the lucky guy! Meanwhile, stirring it up for the new season:

FRI Jan 9, 9pm @ Appaloosa Grill. 535 16th St. (16th&Welton, Denver) 720-932-1700
Todd Johnsons SALEM (www.salem-music.com)
wi Dave Devine on guitar

Come on out for some righteous funky original stuff.

Did I say CDs? Judy Roderick & the Forbears wi Dr John WHEN IM GONE is getting some great airplay, like WWOZ, New Orleans! Big thanks to Washboard Chaz, now of "playingforchange.com" fame. And my latest: OUR TIME to REMEMBER CD with Thiago de Mello - right here at home on KUVO! Check em BOTH out!
Til then,
Dexter