It’s a big week for the Stacy Jones Band
Published 4:50 pm Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Local favorite the Stacy Jones Band is celebrating a new recording, “No Need to Spell It Out.”
The band is fronted by Stacy Jones, who won Best Female Vocalist of 2010 award from the Washington Blues Society.
Their new album is heartfelt, soulful and catchy.
The band will play a live CD-release party to be broadcast at 10 p.m. Thursday on KSER 90.7 FM.
Then catch the band at 9 p.m. Nov. 19 at the Oxford Saloon, 913 First St., Snohomish.
The show is 21-and-over and there’s a $5 cover.
British Indie-rock band Noah &The Whale hasn’t been around that long: Three years, three albums, three different sounds and approaches to music.
The first change was the loss of female singer Laura Marling, who left the band when she broke up with frontman Charlie Fink.
So the band continued, not by replacing her, but by doing without her voice.
Then Fink’s brother, Doug, the band’s drummer, left to go to medical school and Noah &The Whale chose to use a drum machine to fill in percussion instead of hiring a replacement.
The twists and turns have forced an already creative band to up the ante. The results are absolutely worthwhile.
“Last Night on Earth,” its latest release, is full of great songs.
The band fits into the renewed interest in stripped down, straight-forward music (like Seattle’s The Head and The Heart and Fleet Foxes).
They’re appearing with Nikki Lane.
The concert is scheduled for 8 p.m. Thursday at the Neptune, 1303 NE 45th St., Seattle.
Tickets are $16 in advance, $18 at the door. Buy them at stgpresents.org or 877-784-4849.
The Triple Door, an intimate venue in downtown Seattle, is hosting back-to-back concerts this weekend featuring tribute bands.
The first group will remember George Harrison, a decade after his death.
Seattle’s Apple Jam has built a following for its love affair with the Beatles and its fine ability to recreate the band’s sound.
For this concert, the band members will dive into Harrison’s songbook, playing his solo material and songs made famous during his time with the Fab Four.
Their concert is scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday, Triple Door, 216 Union St., Seattle.
Tickets are $29 in advance, $34 at the door. Buy tickets at thetripledoor.com or 206-838-4333.
On Sunday night, AJ Swearingen and Jonathan Beedle perform their remarkable show featuring the songs of Simon &Garfunkel.
For more than 10 years, the duo have toured with a guitar and two microphones, recreating the famous folk duo’s early sound.
It’s a throwback to the heady coffeeshop days of the ’60s.
But it’s also great fun to hear the harmonies and melodies live.
The Simon &Garfunkel Retrospective is scheduled for 8 p.m. Sunday at the Triple Door.
Tickets for this show are $22.50 in advance, $25 at the door.
Fresh from what’s become an annual stint at New York City’s famed jazz club Birdland, the Django Reinhardt Allstars are checking into Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley from Tuesday through Thursday.
This is another group that pays tribute to musical stylings and compositions from the past. Django Reinhardt was a French gypsy jazz guitar player who helped jazz evolve and invented the “hot jazz” style of guitar play. Reinhardt died in 1953 of a brain hemorrhage
The Allstars are a high-caliber ensemble made up of gypsy guitar legend Dorado Schmitt, Ludovic Beier on the accordion and accordina (a hybrid between an accordion and a harmonica), Pierre Blanchard on violin, Franco Mehrstein playing rhythm guitar, and Xavier Nikq on double bass.
The concerts start at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave., Seattle.
Tickets are $24.50 at www.jazzalley.com or 206-441-9729.
Jackson Holtz: 425-339-3447; jholtz@heraldnet.com.
