Plus: Smoking Popeage
1. How Vermont’s Rebel Yell Shaped the New Record From Chicago’s Into It. Over It.
Here they are playing a song from that record in Orlando on Sunday night:
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2. “[Chicago-born jazz saxophonist Jon] Irabagon will open his fascinating box of musical tricks at the Levontin 7 club in Tel Aviv on Sunday and Monday (both 8 p.m.), alongside a couple of heavyweight collaborators in the form of bassist Mark Helias and drummer Barry Altschul.”
Here he is in Brooklyn in February:
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3. Smoking Popes Drummer Excited About New Band.
Here they are in Barrington in February:
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4. “A Chicago beatmaker/producer, a New York bassist, a global TV star, and a Kiwi guitarist – they didn’t entirely mean to form a band, but the music they made while hanging out as friends was too exciting to leave alone.”
Here they are in London last month:
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5. Watch The Orwells Fight With The Sound Man At Dallas Gig.
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6. How Three DePaul Students Became Concert Photographers.
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7. “The concept for Chicago-based band Sidewalk Chalk sounds almost gimmicky at first blush: eight musicians, including a jazz vocalist, a rapper, a tap dancer and a horn section, joining forces to fuse the genres of hip-hop and jazz.”
Here they are in Durham last October:
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8. Love Of Music Leads To Teaching Career In Chicago For Gibson City Man.
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On the road . . .
* Negative Scanner is in San Diego next week.
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Comments welcome.
Posted on April 13, 2016