Some of NOLA’s brightest young proponents, in the form of Naughty Professor, are taking Crescent City jazz and future funk up and down the East Coast, starting with Florida, working their way up to New England before heading back south for home. Naughty Professor are: Bill Daniel, guitar; Noah Young, bass; Sam Shahin, drums; Nick…
Five down, 13 to go. Naughty Professor is in the midst of a tour that will take them through 10 states and the nation’s capital, up and down the East Coast and over to Texas before returning home to the Crescent City. The tour resumes tonight (Wednesday, October 12) at The Hamilton in Washington, DC….
Seriously, I was not going to post about the performance of Naughty Professor last night at the Dunedin Brewery. MusicFestNews had recently posted a review from Virginia Beach (read it here) and an On the Rise feature in May (read it here). But last night was so over-the-top astounding that I have no choice. Really….
Listening to Naughty Professor is an opportunity to time-travel through the history of jazz, especially the musical roots of New Orleans. In the process of research for a review of a recent show in Tampa, I noted this: Currently, there is no Wikipedia listing for Naughty Professor (not the band, anyway), so here is a…
Currently, there is no Wikipedia listing for Naughty Professor (not the band, anyway), so here is a suggestion: “Naughty Professor is a New Orleans-based sextet of young musicians in the present respecting the jazz traditions of the past while playing the music of the future.” The Naughty Professor boys just completed another Florida swing that…
In my recent review of the Bobby Lee Rodgers Trio, I said people might start accusing me of cutting and pasting. I’ll call myself out. That’s the only way I could compile this: from old reviews. This is too late for Thursday, but here is a look at most of the participants at the Dunedin…
Captain Green and his/their/its invading navy/army was just about finished plundering Florida. They played a number of venues around the state, pairing up with some of the very best funky jazz bands (jazzy funk bands?) in Florida. They played with Displace in Gainesville, Serotonic in Tampa, and Holey Miss Moley in Orlando at a crammed-in-like-sardines…