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This week at The Camel

There’s going to be lots of good stuff at The Camel this week, including the second installment of the club’s Tuesday night jazz series (this time featuring JC Kuhl) and the next in the VCU Jazz @ The Camel series, an opportunity for VCU students to take their ensembles off campus. This time, groups led by drummer David Greer and trumpeter (and series curator) Lucas Fritz will perform. Then on Friday night, No BS! Brass hosts their annual canned food and coat drive between gigs in New York City and Philadelphia.

Tuesday: JC Kuhl, 9pm, $5

Wednesday: VCU Jazz @ The Camel featuring David Greer Trio, Lucas Fritz Quintet, 8pm, free

Friday: No BS! Brass Band’s 2nd Annual Food and Coat Drive (discounted admission for bringing canned goods or winter coats), 9:30pm, $6

The Camel is located at 1621 W. Broad St. in Richmond, VA. Visit them online at thecamel.org

December 13, 2010 0

Warm up on Tuesday nights this winter

The Camel’s new weekly Jazz @ The Camel series begins tonight — in a few minutes actually — with SCUO (guitarist Scott Burton and drummer Scott Clark) followed by Jason Scott Quintet. It should be a strong start to a very solid weekly series this winter. Check out the line-up below and come out for inexpensive but always high quality jazz.

December 7, 2010 0

Christmas cheer for all to hear (vol. 2)

Here our jazz editor encourages you to broaden your holiday music horizons and offers up five new Christmas albums that are ready to accompany your eggnog sipping and gift giving.

December 7, 2010 2

Meschiya Lake can wail…

…and she’ll be wailing with her Little Big Horns at Balliceaux on Saturday night. It’s no surprise that the singer got her start in New Orleans. It is, however, a surprise that before hitting New Orleans she was part of a circus sideshow, eating glass and insects and twirling fire. Lake and the instrumentalists (including trombone, clarinet, tuba, banjo, and piano to name a few) spew with New Orleans soul. It’s a traditional sound that’s capable of grabbing on to you whether you tend toward the poppier end of jazz vocalists or the real deal. If it’s the former, hopefully you’ll realize there’s something in Lake that other singers just don’t have.

Meschiya Lake & The Little Big Horns perform at Balliceaux on Saturday, December 4 at 10pm. Balliceaux is located at 203 N. Lombardy St., Richmond, VA. $10, ages 21+. More info at balliceauxrva.com.

November 30, 2010 3

Search and Restore

Search and Restore founder Adam Schatz set out in 2007 to create a vibrant online community for jazz and new music happening in New York City. He got what he wanted, in a way, but he thinks he has a long way to go.

November 29, 2010 0

Christmas through song

‘Tis officially the season. Christmas is right around the corner and some music is starting to reflect that. You either love Christmas music, hate Christmas music, or totally ignore it, and I choose to love it.

November 26, 2010 0

Cheer-Accident this Thursday

Our good friend Ed Ricart from DC is a guitarist and show promoter, presenting great free jazz in the district that otherwise might be overlooked. On Thursday, he brings his own guitar/drums duo Matta Gawa to Richmond with Cheer Accident and Richmond’s New Loft.

About Cheer Accident:

This band simply needs to be seen! Bountiful musicianship, crafty songwriting, satisfyingly counfounding time signature changes, well-developed ideas. One of the most creative and solid rock bands you could possibly watch, anywhere. 30 year veterans of the underground, always ahead of their times. They’ve had a number of different incarnations (including members of Chicago noise rock bands Dazzling Killmen, US Maple, etc.) and accordingly, their sound has been wildly eclectic over the year. In fact, from tune to tune (and even verse to verse!) on their albums. Their live performances and recordings range from unforgettable pop music to complex progressive rock composition to “pointless theatrics” to noise.

About Matta Gawa:

MATTA GAWA is an improvising drums+guitar duo hailing from Washington DC. Building with time and texture, their music is deeply connected to the methods and spirit of jazz, while retaining the electric backbone of creative rock music. Loosely translated, MATTA GAWA means river of moments- an apt description for their spontaneously composed flow of singing guitars, free-form drumming, howling feedback, sub-blasting bass, stagger-stepped odd-time signatures, polyrhythmic beatrock + guitar solos.

November 15, 2010 1

Stephen Norfleet: Fond farewell

The saxophonist and founder of the one-time Richmond super group Devil’s Workshop Big Band is heading to the west coast for good.

November 10, 2010 3

One more once for Mingus

If you thought last Sunday was your only chance to catch the Richmond Mingus Awareness Project, you thought wrong.

November 5, 2010 1

WRIR kicks off its fund drive

WRIR’s Fall Fund Drive begins today, and there’s quite a bit in store. As Richmond’s only community-based volunteer-driven radio station, Richmond Independent Radio (“radio for the rest of us”) is truly one of a kind. It boasts the most eclectic programming that spans every genre imaginable as well as features great syndicated shows during the day. It’s completely operated by volunteers. And it depends on donations from its listeners to survive year after year.

I’ve been a volunteer at WRIR for almost two years, assisting Mike “Mr. Jazz” Gourrier of WWOZ (New Orleans) fame and Bill Thomson on Sunday mornings and occasionally hosting their shows as a substitute. I’ve been a part of a small community that is loved by the bigger community surrounding it. I hear music I’ve never heard before in my life. When I visit other cities, I wonder what they have that’s like WRIR, and often times it’s nothing.

I’ll be answering phones and greeting visitors at the studio (1621 W. Broad St.) this evening while Rattlemouth performs live on Global A Go-Go from 5-7. Sunday morning makes another great time to listen and pledge your support: Jason Jenkins Trio with guitarist Alan Parker and drummer Keith Willingham will be performing from 10am to noon.

Please take a moment this week to support a great station, whether it’s by giving to it monetarily or checking it out for the first time.

Visit wrir.org for more information on the fund drive

October 29, 2010 0

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