Dan Alford

Stormy Mondays: Covering The Band II

This week Stormy Mondays revisits the best Americana has to offer with the second volume of our covers of The Band series. The opening cut is from Kettle Joe’s Psychedelic

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Stormy Mondays: The Bad Plus NYE

To steal a shtick from Ethan Iverson, we at Stormy Mondays believe in recycling. And what better thing to recycle that The Bad Plus’s NYE set at the Village Vanguard,

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SM: 40th Anniversary of My Favorite Show

Welcome to a special Saturday edition of Stormy Mondays. It’s not everyday that the truly momentous anniversaries role around, and when they do, it’s worth celebrating a little. Today is

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Stormy Mondays: MMW + Marc Ribot

Guitarist Marc Ribot appeals to an eclectic taste, producing music characterized in no small way by his long standing relationship with John Zorn and the Lower East Side freak jazz

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Stormy Mondays: A moe.mentous Occasion

moe. is celebrating its 20th anniversary later this week with a pair of shows at Roseland in NYC, and such a momentous occasion seems like the perfect time for Volume

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Stormy Mondays: A Peak at ’10

We’ll kick off the new year at Stormy Mondays with a quick listen to a few bands you should watch in the coming months. First is Surprise Me, Mr. Davis

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Stormy Mondays: Happy New Years!

For the third annual John Coltrane edition of Stormy Mondays, we turn our attention to the very end of saxophonist Eric Dolphy’s tenure with the band. From November of 1961

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Stormy Mondays: Classic Kimock

For the second in the ongoing Steve Kimock series here at Stormy Mondays, we go right to the heart of his music with the classic pairing of Cole’s Law >

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