Without any warning, the theatre went dark as the lights went off. It was the moment I had been waiting for so long. It was after four long years that I had been attending a live jazz concert. My adrenaline sharply increased. It was the concert of one of the most famous multi genre American band- ‘Tedeschi Trucks’. It was held at Beacon Theatre, Manhattan, New York City on 10th October 2017(Band and Park, 2017). The venue was large enough for such a concert but on the concert day it was completely packed up with the hall full of audiences and it was very difficult for me to stand at the entrance queue with the rapidly expanding crowd. After couples of minute, I was snuck down to the fifth row. The stage decoration was lucrative and amazingly eye catching. Susan, Derek and their super fantastic band are such a wonderful treat and it was the third time that I have seen them. Maybe it was the best concert I have ever seen. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. There is no band other than the one leading by this husband and wife team (Tillotson 2016). The level of power between the voice of singer Susan Tedeschi and guitarist Derek Truck was from another world. Their vocals are frequently searing. Jesse Aycock, the hard working multi-instrumentalist ha added guitar to cover the famous traditional song of Sleepy John Estes “Love about it” and Oliver Woods’ “Ball and Chain” (Wells 2012). Later, Todd Snider along with Dave Schools covered The Rolling Stones’ “Sweet Virginia” (Rickert 2013). Several other fabulous musicians were packed onto the stage as a part of the band. The whole concert satisfied the ears of the listeners who came for a multitude of musical rationale, be it relentless rhythms, lyricism or visceral harmonies. The taste of music was filled with varieties of colors produced by the mix and match retinue and the audio stokes. The rest other songs includes “Are You Ready?”, “Made Up Mind”, “Sticks and Stones”, “Do I Look Worried ”, “Bird on the Wire” by Leonard Cohen, “Had to Cry Today”, “Swamp Laugh About It”, “Sweet Mama Janisse”, “Anyday” covered by Derek and Dominos, “Done Somebody Wrong” by Oliver Wood and Elmore James, “Let Me Roll It”, Billy Taylor’s soulful anthem “ For My Friend” (setlist.fm, 2017).
In all, the band had played eighteen songs and Tedeschi’s voice was like a soulful angel. She was featured on vocals and she did that with grace and commanding power. All the twelve members of the band were passionate contributors to the entourage. Adding to the mix was their new released songs “Shame” and “All the World”. Trombonist Elizabeth Lea and Alecia Chakour was the crowd favorite. They mostly provided the backing vocals. Alecia shined brightly when she covered the “Idle Wind”. It had a great fun with the version of Wings’ “Let Me Roll It” and the most stunning song was the Tedeschi/Trucks’ original- “Midnight in Harlem” (Kolleritsch 2015). There was also a horn-section, made up of Lea, Trumpeter Ephraim Owens and saxophonist Kebbi Williams. The thing I left out is that there was also an opening act by the famous band ‘The Greyhounds’ and it was worth arriving on time. The show was then ascended by David Luning. He played harmonica and guitar, and with his stunning quartet, he delivered a bluesy country rock that was set with the songs of jail, bar scenes, whisky, dangers and lost love. The message of the quartet was ‘searching for hope’. The drummers J.J. Johnson and Tyler Greenwell, the bassist Tim Lefebvre and the keyboardist Carey Frank did fine work constructing a foundation. However, there were only two male vocals, Mark Rivers and Mike Mattison who relished their few opportunities. On the other side of the stage, there was Derek, calmly spending the evening by delivering supersonic excursions with a slide guitar work and mixing, strumming, picking, and plucking on his left side in order to produce a dynamic range of music to please the audience. He literally made his guitar scream.
The Friday show that lasted for just a couple of hours of music has left a great mark in the heart of music lovers. I really enjoyed the band performance. The performers played several tunes and few of them were not familiar to me. However, Later, I came to know that they were also a type of music genre and eventually I developed an interest in it. To be straight, I enjoyed the concert until the last minute.
References:
Band, T. and Park, M. (2017). Tedeschi Trucks Band. [online] Dallas Observer. Available at: https://www.dallasobserver.com/event/tedeschi-trucks-band-9417999 [Accessed 9 Nov. 2017].
Kolleritsch, E., 2015. Jazz In Totalitarian Systems (Nazigermany And Former Ussr): The Life Of The Trumpet Player Eddie Rosner. European Scientific Journal, ESJ, 11(10).
Rickert, T., 2013. Ambient rhetoric: The attunements of rhetorical being. University of Pittsburgh Pre.
setlist.fm. (2017). Tedeschi Trucks Band Setlist at Music Hall at Fair Park, Dallas. [online] Available at: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/tedeschi-trucks-band/2017/music-hall-at-fair-park-dallas-tx-1be26500.html [Accessed 9 Nov. 2017].
Tillotson, A.R., 2016. Risky Business: Race, Risk and Real Estate in the Development of the Home Ownership State.
Wells, S., 2012. Choosing the future. Routledge.
