Jimmy Herring Band

Jimmy Herring is wrapping up his 2010 fall tour in the next week or so, and I've been listening to a few of the shows that have turned up on the torrent sites.

Jimmy's 2008 release "Lifeboat" was a real treat of modern fusion.  The guy has some serious guitar chops, and with a top notch band (the core band consists of Oteil Burbridge on bass, Jeff Sipe on drums, Kofu Burbridge on keys and flute, and guest appearances by Greg Osby and Derek Trucks), the album cooks from start to finish. Kofu's flute provides some nice texture as an offset to the more aggressive guitar, I don't know why there isn't more flute in fusion as I love that instrument in jazz (Charles Lloyd comes immediately to mind).


Herring is "taper-friendly", so the shows surfacing on the torrent sites sound great as the tapers don't need to work with stealth set ups.  My favorites so far (links to etree or dime trackers):

11/14/10 - Portland ME
11/18/10 - Charlotte NC
12/2/10 - Athens GA

The band this tour is a little different, Jeff Sipe remains on drums, with Matt Slocum on keyboards and Neal Fountain on bass.

If you like what you hear from the live shows, then by all means pick up Lifeboat!

Jimmy Herring - Lifeboat
01. Scapegoat Blues - 6:37
02. Only When It's Light - 6:08
03. New Moon - 6:10
04. Lifeboat Serenade - 6:00
05. One Strut - 7:31
06. Jungle Book Overture - 6:34
07. Lost - 6:18
08. Transients - 5:32
09. Gray Day - 7:02
10. Splash - 6:27