Saturday, March 31, 2012
Saturday Night At The Liberal Curmudgeon: Dr. John Live
Dr. John, New Orleans piano master and songwriter, begins a three-week series of nine concerts this weekend at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In celebration, let's listen to his renditions of the jazz standard "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" and, appropriately, given his current venue, "New York City Blues." The performance took in 1996 or 1997 on French TV; one could also imagine it taking place in one of the Greenwich Village clubs he sings about in the latter song.
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Perhaps you can join me in the campaign to bring this man's music to the attention of a wider audience. To paraphrase the words of Colonel Sherman T. Potter: there aren't enough 'o's in 'smooooooooth' to describe teh music of Dr. John. For those who are not familiar, I'd suggest a crash course...and there's plenty of material to choose from. Thanks for the reminder.
My pleasure. Dr. John is in the pantheon of the greats.
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