The 35th Tropical Heatwave, hosted by WMNF 88.5 Community-Conscious Radio, swept through Ybor City again Saturday night (April 30). Mother Nature decided to cooperate, making it a lovely night to maneuver among the nine locations where music (and poetry) bubbled out into the streets. Once again, WMNF brought an incredible range of genres and talents…
This Saturday’s Tropical Heatwave, the 35th annual hosted by WMNF 88.5 Community Conscious Radio, features more than 50 on ten stages across Ybor City, with music from 5 PM to 2 AM. We’re disappointed to inform you that you simply won’t be able to hear them all (perhaps you guessed that already). While you are…
Have you ever had a CD get stuck in your player? Not physically, but because it is so darn good you need to hear it over and over again? That’s what happened when I popped the new recording from Acme Jazz Garage into the player. I’ve seen these guys in different settings, from purely straight…
The Tampa Bay area has a vibrant music scene, but there is always room for more live jazz. There are some regular outlets, such as Tuesday nights at The Amsterdam in St. Petersburg. And sometimes, when it rains, it pours… jazz. There are three, count ‘em, three outstanding jazz events happening this Sunday, January 31st,…
There are many great shows for your consideration this weekend in the Tampa Bay area. Here are just a few. THURSDAY (THANKSGIVING) Row Jomah @ Ringside Cafe, St. Pete, 9 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 The Third Kind @ Ella’s, Tampa, 10 Jah Movement, Ringside, 10 Brent Byrd Band, Dunedin Brewery, 9 . SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 Come…
Who the heck is Joe Marcinek, and why is he playing at the Dunedin Brewery Thursday night (October 8th)? Inquiring minds wanted to know. Specifically, mine. So I got educated. Did I ever! Turns out, Joe Marcinek is a magnet. He attracts incredible musicians from across the country to play with him. His website notes:…
I was looking back at some of my writing about music. I’ve been scribbling for a long time, but I didn’t really start posting show reviews on e-mail and Facebook until May of 2013, and things were percolating when my son gave me a blog for my birthday (May 2014). And that explosion paled compared…
I love it when a plan comes together! Actually, I never watched that show, but Hannibal’s catch phrase from The A-Team applies here nonetheless. The opportunity presented itself to see two groups I had only seen once each at two venues I had only visited once each, less than a mile apart! SCORE! Two days…
Seemingly forever, Bryan Lewis has been trying to get me to check out Acme Jazz Garage at Timpano in Hyde Park (Tampa). I’m a Serotonic regular, and I really wanted to hear Bryan in a straight-ahead jazz setting. Whatever expectations I had, this exceeded them by a light-year or two. The evening started out as…