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SAN FRANCISCO EXCLUSIVE SHOW:
“JOE RUSSO & MARCO BENEVENTO ”
with: “WILL BERNARD”
&: the “CANNONBALL HORNSECTION”
& DJ Zeph
“Move over Medeski! Move over Martin! (And eventually, we'll ask you to step aside, too Mr. Wood.) The Russo/Benevento duo is taking over downtown NYC with a weekly gig that is not-to-be-missed. New York City music junkies and seekers of that something special here and beyond: consider yourself warned.”
The Marco Benevento & Joe Russo Duo might just have developed the City's greatest live music gig. Let me set the scene: first off it's free! It's every single week (Thursday, 11pm-2am) so if you miss it once it's easy to get to the next time or the next time, etc. It's in the railroad-apartment-tiny-but-cozy Tap Bar, located in the (dreaded) Knitting Factory; actually one of the better rooms for an intimate night of music. And of course, the MUSIC.
Ah, the music... what can be said about that? Well, we can say that it's a duo. Rare to see just two guys making enough music to inspire, the way Joe and Marco do. The stage is the gap of floor space between the end of the bar and the end of the room; it's set up so the audience is actually ON the stage, no matter where they stand in the room. On that stage are two instruments, as bare as could be: a no-bells-or-whistles drum kit and a well-traveled organ jerry-rigged with a variety of pedals and gadgets.
Of course, we must mention the musicians who make up the twosome. Joe Russo on drums might flat-out be the best drummer in the City, or the best I've ever seen. (And this time those "bests" mean something, I swear!) His talent belies deeper intuitions about the status of live music. Joe has spent the last year or so hopping from residency to residency, hitting some of the cooler venues in town, always reinventing himself and creating something altogether refreshing, inspiring and almost-always groovaliciously satisfying. His playing is an absolute blur of precision and passion: he plays as if basked in strobe lights, pulsing rhythms out of his unassuming visage like pulses of light momentarily freezing everything around him.
Joe has settled quite nicely on perhaps his soul-mate in the universe of creative spirit, his old friend Marco Benevento. Every so often a pair of musicians comes along that were just MEANT to play together. Marco has filled that niche for Joe (and vice versa). His organ work is just phenomenal, recalling a melange of a cross-section of styles from Keith Emerson to Jimmy Smith to Medeski and beyond. He fills the role of bassist, lead guitarist, rhythm guitarist, horn section and of course organs, and believe me, you can hear all of that going on as he plays. But it's never the quantity, but the quality that matters, and Marco is a genius of alternately filling all the musical "space" available to him and then purposefully leaving empty gaps to punctuate the rest of it. If ever there was a reason God gave us two hands and two legs, it is because of the shit guys like Joe and Marco are doing with them for little more than the passion and the smiles on the crowd's face.
(funk fusion) $10 - www.boomboomtickets.com
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