VIDEO: Bernie Worrell Orchestra 5/12/14 Louisville, Kentucky @ Zanzabar

Bernie Worrell - Zanzabar

Bernie Worrell brought his Orchestra through Kentucky recently and basically burned the house down. He added several songs to his normal setlist, including opening the set with Talking Heads‘ Burning Down The House and encoring with a jammed out impromptu version of Bob Marley‘s Stir It Up, before closing with The Beatles‘ Come Together. He was also joined by P-Funk Allstars alumni Rico Lewis on second drum kit for most of the evening. You could tell that Bernie was particularly inspired this night, which isn’t necessarily always the case.

The real highlight, though, is video 3 of 5 below, where Bernie started teasing That’s All by Genesis. But he didn’t stop with a tease, and the whole band joined him for a 10 minute jam. Check it out at the 7 minute mark, Bernie gets possessed! (Apologies that part 3 is lower quality, shot with my iPhone because it was faster to get going than the full video camera rig which was turned off and had the lens cap on. Little did I know that the tease would turn into a full on jam.)

Bernie Worrell Orchestra 5/12/14
Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar (PART 1 of 5)
Thugs

Bernie Worrell Orchestra 5/12/14
Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar (PART 2 of 5)
Thugs (continued)

Bernie Worrell Orchestra
5/12/14 Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar (PART 3 of 5)
impromptu performance of That’s All by Genesis

Bernie Worrell Orchestra
5/12/14 Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar (PART 4 of 5)
Get Your Hands Off

Bernie Worrell Orchestra
5/12/14 Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar (PART 5 of 5)
Super Stupid

Wild Fiya Super Jam brings black rock to the New Orleans Jazz Fest late night scene

WildFiya

Fiyawerx Productions put on an array of impressive “super jams” during the 10 days and nights of debauchery known as the New Orleans Jazz Festival. One of them was a dark amalgam of black rock heroes led by a musician who has been a staple of the Jazz Fest late night scene for no less than 10 years: Eric McFadden.

The group also included funk rock legends Bernie Worrell and Blackbyrd McKnight of Parliament Funkadelic, Doug Wimbish and Corey Glover of Living Colour, and Norwood Fisher of Fishbone, along with Stephen Perkins of Janes Addiction on drums and Mike Dillon on vibes and percussion.

Wild Fiya 5/2/14 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks (PART 1 of 5)
Funhouse > 1969 [Iggy & The Stooges covers]

Wild Fiya 5/2/14 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks (PART 2 of 5)
1969 (continued)

Wild Fiya 5/2/14 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks (PART 3 of 5)
Voodoo Child > Machine Gun [Jimi Hendrix covers]

Wild Fiya 5/2/14 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks (PART 4 of 5)
Machine Gun [Jimi Hendrix cover] > I Wanna Know If It’s Good To You [Funkadelic cover]

Wild Fiya 5/2/14 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks (PART 5 of 5)
Unknown Jam

AUDIO: Robert Glasper Experiment & Ledisi 4/26/14 Louisville, KY @ Louisville Palace

Robert Glasper Experiment - Louisville Palace

Robert Glasper Experiment
April 26, 2014
Louisville, KY @ Louisville Palace
internal mics > Tascam DR-2d > WAV > CD Wave Editor (tracking) > FLAC
Location: second row, right of center
Taped by FunkItBlog

TORRENT DOWNLOAD HERE

01. Intro
02. Cherish The Day [Sade cover] >
03. Get Lucky [Daft Punk cover]
04. Let It Ride
05. Lift Off
06. Bass solo > Lovely Day [Bill Withers cover]
07. banter
08. teases (Piano Man, ???, ???, ???, Time After Time)
09. Ah Yeah >
10. ??? >
11. Calls

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Ledesi
April 26, 2014
Louisville, KY @ Louisville Palace
internal mics > Tascam DR-2d > WAV > CD Wave Editor (tracking) > FLAC
Location: second row, right of center
Taped by FunkItBlog

TORRENT DOWNLOAD HERE

01. That Good Good
02. Rock With You
03. Bravo
song 4 is missing, batteries died
04. Acoustic Medley: Think Of You, Goin’ Thru Changes, Higher Than This, Stay Together
05. Anything
06. The Truth
07. Lose Control
08. Pieces of Me (cut short)
one song missing
09. Gonna Be Alright > (with Robert Glasper)
10. Alright (with Robert Glasper)
11. I Blame You

I’m not very familiar with Ledesi, mainly went to see Robert Glasper Experiment. She started out with a Beyonce-like bang with background dancers and all. Not what I expected but definitely entertaining. I can only imagine the record label pressures for her to cash in on this style of music. Throughout the course of the set I quickly realized that she has an amazing voice with amazing control, but she is also very humerous, a great performer, and full of old school soul.

Song 4 is missing because my batteries died, a shame since it was an old school soul number, probably from one of her older albums. I also stopped recording in the middle of Pieces of Me to conserve batteries, since I suspected Glasper would be coming out later and I didn’t want to miss that (his Rhodes was set up on stage and left empty during all of Ledesi‘s set). Glasper did come out for 15 minutes near the end, performing their collab, Gonna Be Alright (which is actually a rework of Glasper‘s composition FTB). Glasper stayed for the next song and an outro jam with the band.

Robert Glasper with Ledesi

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