Last year, Soulive helped to celebrate the month of March with a ten-show, guest-laden residency at Brooklyn Bowl that was cleverly dubbed Bowlive. For the second year in a row,
Royal Family Ball @ Terminal 5, October 2
Last Saturday night saw New York City’s Terminal 5 play host to the 3rd annual Royal Family Ball presented by Royal Family Records. With a huge sound and a stage that was bursting at the seams, fans were able to partake of a rotating set of jazz and hip-hop artists that included the members of Soulive, Lettuce, The Shady Horns, Nigel Hall, Talib Kweli and John Scofield.
Highlights included tracks from Soulive’s homage to the Beatles, Rubber Soulive, with Come Together, Something, Eleanor Rigby and I Want You (She’s So Heavy). A surprise appearance by Warren Haynes sealed the night for most, as he traded verses with Nigel Hall and blistering guitar licks with John Scofield on Born Under a Bad Sign.
Nigel Hall Setlist:
Intro – Hang It Up, Wait Till I Get Home, Too Sweet, Never Know, Gimme A Sign, Baby I Do Love You, Never Gonna Let You GoLettuce Setlist:
Intro, Blast Off, Sam Huff, Last Suppitt, King of the Bergs, Move Somethin w/ Talib Kweli, The Blast w/ Talib Kweli, Get By w/ Talib Kweli, Break Out, Relax, The Flu w/ John Scofield, Move On Up w/ John Scofield, Makin My Way Back HomeSoulive Setlist:
Come Together, Something, Eleanor Rigby, I Want You, El Ron, What You See Is What You Get w/ John Scofield, Hottentot – w/ John Scofield, Born Under a Bad Sign w/ John Scofield, Warren Haynes, Do The 2, Too MuchEncore: James Brown Medley w/ John Scofield
[Setlists courtesy of jambands.com]
READ ON for Jeremy’s fabulous pics from the Royal Family Ball…
The stage is set for one of the summer’s best concerts this coming Saturday. Soulive, and their record label Royal Family, has assembled an incredible lineup of talent to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the band’s inception.
The Royal Family Get Down is taking place at the Pines Theatre in Look Park in Northampton Massachusetts this Saturday September 12th.
The schedule is as follows:
1:00 Gates Open
2:00 Nigel Hall
3:00 Charlie Hunter
4:15 Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
6:00 Sharon Jones & the DAP Kings
7:45 Soulive with special guest John Scofield
While VIP tickets are sold out, $40 reserved and $32.50 G/A ducats are still available as of press time. Reserved seating rows shouldn’t take up too much space at The Pines, only 13 rows to be exact. READ ON for more…
As John Scofield’s career has evolved, he has turned into almost as much of a musicologist as a musician. The transformation has occurred, however, without slighting the latter most and significant role: “Sco” remains one of contemporary jazz’s most distinctive guitar players.
his Meets That is as guitarist John Scofield describes, “real jazz music,” and he’s not exaggerating. With so many albums being tagged with some variation of the jazz label (acid, free, smooth), it is refreshing to hear an album that recalls the classic jazz greats: Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, and Chet Baker.
Setting up camp for a five night stand at Yoshi's, the Bay Area’s premier jazz club, John Scofield enlisted the likes of jazz heavyweights Eddie Henderson, Bill Steward and Dennis Irwin for what he pegged “The April Band.”
