Showing posts with label vince foster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vince foster. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Adrian Hibbs & Company : Sarah Reich Taps Out!!

Adrian Hibbs brings it. He's got a sound that reminds me of some of the 70s biggest like Pablo Cruise, Boz Scaggs and Steely Dan and he's similar in vocal tone to British soul star Jamiroquai. All the notes are within his reach and he's as smooth as butter.  He plays the keyboards with equal ease and his originals are radio friendly slices of nice-ness. Kasi Jones has the strongest voice I've heard in sometime, and with her confident nonchalance and on-point delivery she plays a nice foil to Hibbs' sly, slick and wicked master of ceremonies.  
Sarah Reich is a professional tap dancer, who, at the very young age of 22 is at the forefront of the modern reinvention of the art form. Her mix of salsa with traditional tap in her group Tap Con Sabor, has in-effect, created a new school of tap dancing and with it, a renewed interest worldwide in this style of dance. Her performances around town with Magnolia Memoir, at The Floor, The Libertine, with Big Willie's Burlesque and tonight with Adrian Hibbs, cause audible audience expressions of joy and disbelief at the stamina and artistry of Miss Reich. The "in-demand" dancer - who's been dancing since age 5 - travels the world teaching tap in places as far off as China and Costa Rica. 

Tonight she's laying it down (see video below) as only she can!


Rounding out the band were oft-seen Harvelle's musicians Frank Abraham (The Endangered, Abbot Kinney) on bass and Vince Foster (Just Dave, Payote) on drums, along with the very funky Angie Swan (The Toledo Show, Nicole Scherzinger) on guitar.


Here's the incredible tapping of Miss Sarah Reich::

Friday, December 10, 2010

JSB : Johnny Stachela Band

The Johnny Stachela Band (JSB) is like a bad moon on the rise. JSB is Johnny Stachela (guitars guitars guitars), Jessie Payo (vocals) Vince Foster (drums) and Jason Benfield (bass). Johnny - his bad self - and that Gibson SG shredding up and down in his southern fried style is the model of a guitarist's guitarist. Seeing this band play is a reminder of why I love music. Jessie Payo never fails to impress with her soul wrenching singing and lovely prescence. The yin/yang duo provide hard and soft, sweet and sour, aggressive and gentle while Vince and Jason hold down the bottom end. Catch 'em live!!