The Doctor was in Saturday night at Jazz Alley in downtown Seattle. Jazz Alley is a great venue, a throw back to the classic dinner clubs that is just the right size so you don't feel crunched in and yet you're close enough for interaction with the performers. We always enjoy ourselves there (saw Lee Ritenour in December, Tower of Power next month and Chick Corea in May). And the food ain't bad.
Mac was in his usual
voodoo form...funky & mysterious. Ran through a lot of his standards
(Iko Iko, Right Place, Wrong Time, Monkey Puzzle & Mos' Scocious)
and then a lot from the new album Locked Down that included a tune that
Mac went back to his roots on lead quitar. I must say the Doctor is
startin' to show his age although he will probably out live me and
already has outlasted the late, great Johnny Gumbo. The voice isn't
quite as crisp, he's got the old man shuffle, and the back is a little
bent over but he's still "The Nite Tripper" in all his regalia.
Now
that he's split with the Lower 911, his "All New Band" is pickin' up
the slack...Buddy Floyd on organ, Joel Jackson on guitar, Dwight Basley
on bass, and Reggie Jackson (no not him) on drums. The star, however, is
Sarah Morrow left over from the Lower 911 on a very hot and bluesy
trombone. She can really get it goin and is the current band director.
She and the Doctor sync well together. I don't think the "All New Band"
has quite the charisma and group soul that the Lower 911 had but maybe
the Doctor just wanted a younger group of guys backin him up. And maybe
it was just the laid back Seattle crowd (home to Amazon, Starbucks,
Microsoft and Costco) that seemed to enjoy themselves but never really
let go (like being at the end of a hot day drinkin beer at JazzFest!!).
And he says he wants to do new things...whatever that means. I guess
that's how you hang in there in the music business. Just keep
re-inventing yourself.
Anyway, we enjoyed ourselves and it was good to come home again to that wonderful NOLA R&B.
JR
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