04 Jul 2001

Saffire Still Shines in a Man's Blues World

By Administrator
Gaye Adegbalola doesn't want it getting out that if it hadn't been for the departure of her high-school music teacher, "I probably would have gone into classical music." But fortunately for us, Adegbalola withdrew from music when her mentor left, taking science classes instead of playing her flute.
04 Jul 2001

Bluesfest Lands on Solid Ground

By Jeff Ignatius
For far too long, the 2001 edition of the Mississippi Valley Blues Society Bluesfest was a topnotch lineup in search of a venue. It was late last week that festival organizers finalized details on where more than 30 performers would play this weekend.
04 Jul 2001

After Four Decades, The Holmes Brothers Get Their Due

By Jeff Ignatius
It's a grand understatement when Wendell Holmes says of himself and his sibling Sherman, "We have a great rapport and a great bond that a lot of brothers don't have." The two brothers have been performing as a team for 45 years, which is pretty amazing when you consider that Sherman is a mere 61 and Wendell a spry 57.
06 Jun 2001

Can Monster Magnet Save Rock?

By Jeff Ignatius
Dismiss Monster Magnet at your peril. It's certainly not difficult, but it's unwise. The band might be all that rock and roll has left. The five-piece New Jersey outfit has taken the Black Sabbath/Led Zeppelin torch that Soundgarden carried in the early 1990s and stripped the 1970s-style heavy metal of its grungier self-loathing and self-importance of the past decade.
15 May 2001

Hornucopia 2001 Boasts Wide Variety Friday and Saturday in The District

By Jeff Ignatius
The Hornucopia festival this weekend in The District of Rock Island could fall into a pattern of sameness - with the requirement that all bands feature horns and with several outfits making repeat performances.
15 May 2001

Jazz Festival Mounts Strong Field

By Jeff Ignatius
Probably the smartest thing the organizers of the Eighth Annual Quad Cities Jazz Fest can do is leave Jim Widner to his own devices. Widner, the musical director of the festival and leader of the St.
10 Apr 2001

Symphony Captures Pain, Horror, and Redemption

By Zach Carstensen
Giuseppe Verdi originally wrote only a portion of his Messa da Requiem (conceived to honor Rossini) with the hope that other composers would join in him in completing it, but the project never materialized.
03 Apr 2001

Praise Meant for Smoky Bars

By Jeff Ignatius
New York City legends The Holmes Brothers bring a preacher's fervor and faith to boogie blues, something apparent in the music and vocals as well as the lyrics. These guys believe, and you will, too, damn it. The tight trio - with Holmes brothers Wendell and Sherman along with drummer Willie "Popsy" Dixon - will be making a stop this week at CSPS in Cedar Rapids, but even if you can't make it out Wednesday night, you shouldn't miss an early candidate for the best album of 2001: Speaking in Tongues, on Alligator Records.
20 Mar 2001

The Blue Band Finds Its Way — After 20 Years

By Jeff Ignatius

Bob Dorr has a self-effacing way, with something serious and true behind it. "I'm like all the dot-coms that are going under but on a much smaller scale," he said. One of his favorite lines is that the genius of The Blue Band is its persistence.

06 Mar 2001

Orchestra-Schmorchestra

By Jeff Ignatius
The goal was something young. Young performers. Young audience. Young composer. Those were the parameters the Quad City Youth Symphony Orchestra set two years ago when it asked for composers to apply for a commission, its first in more than a decade.

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