Where: Lizard Lounge
Cambridge
MA
02138
United States
Boston
What: Jon McBride @ Lizard Lounge
When:
$15 adv/$20 door 7 doors Jon McBride’s Big Easy traverses the roots of funk music–early jazz, blues, gospel, and Caribbean styles–playing songs that have entertained audiences for generations, and exciting fans across many genres, bringing raw talent and irresistible swing to contemporary roots music. Laissez les bons temps rouler! Featuring Jon McBride on soprano saxophone, Ted Perry on piano, Marty Ballou on bass, and Dwight Ritcher on drums, and joined by special guest Ryan Montbleau. Ryan Montbleau has spent the better part of thirty years cultivating a devoted audience on the strength of his ecstatic live shows and exhilarating sonic versatility. He’s collaborated with artists as diverse as Trombone Shorty, Galactic, Steel Pulse, Tall Heights, Martin Sexton, Anders Osborne, and George Porter, Jr; shared bills with the likes of Tedeschi Trucks Band, Ani DiFranco, Todd Snider, The Wood Brothers, Rodrigo y Gabriela, and Mavis Staples; and racked up more than 150 million streams on Spotify alone. The Boston Herald raved that “he’s made a career of confident, danceable positivity.” Eisenhower Brothers From The early days , when Milt was producing and playing “coloring” guitar on Dwight&Nicole’s first album, the whole crew living in the house over Rear Window Studio, Dwight and Milt noticed they had a natural “weave” when the two guitars played together. That’s a word Keith Richard uses to describe what happens with him and Ron Wood. It’s a sympatico conversation between guitars, finishing each other’s thoughts, creating a whole, just a wee bit larger than the sum of its’ parts. Turns out this is kinda rare to find, and when you do find another player who hears it the same way you do, then you’re onto something. The instruments can be the same, or different, f’rinstance a guitarist and a drummer. It’s a feel thing. Hard to describe, but you know it when you feel it. So for years, these two, now living in different states, still get the weave going whenever they can. We can’t say exactly what’s gonna happen at an Eisenhower Bros. session, uncharted territory, but it’ll probably feel pretty good. Why Eisenhower? Well, Milt’s long run with Four Piece Suit digs deep into influences from the 1950s-60s, somebody called it Eisenhower music. That era has become even rosier, as it represents a decency in public life that has become increasingly elusive. Plus one of the guys is named Dwight, and guess what! …”Ike” had a brother named Milton. And by an even more unlikely auspicious synchronicity, Milton Eisenhower, during his tenure as president of Johns Hopkins University, was a mentor to a fledgling Freshman, playing bass in an Acid Jazz band (before the term had been coined) for strippers on Baltimore’s notorious “Block”… Milt Reder. So full circle. Could be good…ya never know.
How Much:
www.bandsintown.com InStockCambridge
MA
02138
United States
Who: Jon McBride
New Orleans Second Line
Jon McBride likes having fun with New Orleans roots music. Whether it’s hard-driving soul jazz fueled by the blues, funk, and second-line street beats or bringing a seasoned and fiery edge to a repertoire of American roots music, including traditional jazz, ragtime, acoustic blues, and gospel, he brings a high-energy spontaneity and relentless search for the perfect groove that keeps audiences large and small on the edge of their seat or the middle of the dance floor.