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One Month to Mardi Gras @ Le Poisson Rouge feat. Eric Krasno and Chapter 2 & Big Sam’s Funky Nation, February 5
When people think of Mardi Gras, they think of N’awlins. And when people think about the music associated with the Crescent City, jazz and funk come to mind. Saturday night, on the site of the old Village Gate where jazz and soul greats from The Duke and Coltrane to Nina and the Queen of Soul once performed, two bands of slightly different minds came together to tear the roof off the sucker.
[All photos by Marc Millman]
Around 10PM, Eric Krasno (guitar & vocals) and Nigel Hall (keys & vocals) took the stage with Chris Loftlin (bass) & Nikki Glaspie (drums, backing vocals) for 90 minutes of tight jazz, funk and soul…or what in the ’70s came to known as fusion. After opening with ’76 and Be Alright, Krasno led Chapter 2 into an instrumental cover of Get Back keeping in line with what he and Hall recently did with one of their other bands on Rubber Soulive.
From there, the band worked their way through a ten song set that featured four tunes from Krasno’s latest offering, Reminisce. Highlights of the set included a killer version of Band of Gypsys’ Power of Soul that clocked in at just over 10 minutes (during which keyboardist James Hurt sat in for a solo near the end where he left it all on the stage. He also returned during their last song before the encore) and an incredible version of Stevie Wonder’s beautiful composition Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers made famous by Jeff Beck on his album Blow By Blow – the album that defined the Fusion era. It was here that Krasno showed just how good he is. You don’t attempt to cover the greatest living guitar god unless you have some serious chops of your own.
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