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...perfect introduction to Longhair's eldritch dexterity. It is also as good a working definition of funk as you will ever find. The professor died in 1980, but there is a whole generation of peerless piano players, like Huey ("Piano") Smith, Allen Toussaint and Mac ("Dr. John") Rebennack, forever in his debt. He was the tap source of New Orleans rock...
Listen to Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack and you hear one of the best albums of the year, solo piano at its funkiest and most soulful. Take in one of the Doctor's appearances on his summer concert tour and you get a brilliant initiation into one of the most enduring American musical traditions: rhythm and blues, New Orleans-style. Mac Rebennack-known since 1963 for his professional appearances as Dr. John-has been a first-class musician, a cabin-class superstar and a keyboard boogie man, keeping the tradition of his native city alive and treating it proud...
...Morrison is neither the rock 'n' roller of his early Belfast days, nor the melismatic improviser he has been through much of the 1970s. A Period of Transition leans toward streetgritty rhythm and blues, and Morrison is backed up by New Orleans Gumbo Rocker Mac ("Dr. John") Rebennack, who is the album's keyboard player and coproducer. Somewhat weakened by repetitiveness (one bit of business is repeated 38 times), the record has little meat but plenty of motion...
...more intimate spots of the Boston area. Intimacy, unfortunately, must sometimes be sacrificed for exposure, thus being the reason for Springsteen's performance scheduled in the Music Hall. Tickets are available for the October 29 appearance at Minuteman, Mainline, Ticketron, and Soundscope. Also on tap will be Mr. Mac Rebennack, the good Dr. John himself, whose rasping voice and rich piano rhythms have made the gris-gris sound classic to rockophiles everywhere...
...Gumbo, is a personal nostalgia trip, a rollicking pastiche of voodoo, rumba, Dixieland and good old Mardi Gras stomp. If his high skill shows the inventive, assimilative style of a virtuoso studio musician, it is because Dr. John used to be just that under his real name, Mac Rebennack...