ROBBY KRIEGER JAZZ BAND
Good Hurt, West L.A.
December 7, 2010

Robby Krieger Jazz Band took to the stage at Good Hurt last evening at 8:40 p.m. to a pretty filled room!  With him on stage were Larry Klimas on woodwinds, Arthur Barrow on bass, Tom Brechtlein on drums, and Tommy Mars on keyboards.  They started with a song I did not recognize; it may have been a Zappa tune (Barrow and Mars both played with Frank Zappa).

'Let It Slide' from Grammy-nominated "Singularity" followed, and then 'Snake Oil' from Robby's previous CD, "Cinematix". 

As introduction to 'House of Bees', Robby explained that while that song was being worked on, a wall of his house had to be torn out to remove the bees which had moved in between the walls ... and so, he named the song after that adventure.

Horn players Chuck Manning and Sal Marquez joined the band onstage for 'Event Horizon' and 'Russian Caravan', both from "Singularity".

Vocalist Evan Marshall joined the growing ensemble on stage for 'Touch Me'.  Evan, Chuck and Sal left the stage for the next song, my personal fave from the CD:  'Southern Cross.'

'You're Lost Little Girl' followed, with Robby's caution that "we might not recognize it".  Indeed it started out as the lovely instrumental that appears on Robby's 1989 album "No Habla" ... but keyboardist Tommy Mars eventually starts some unique free-form vocals that I probably do not describe properly, but it seemed to be like 'scat' singing and very free-form and jazz-y.  I saw this same song performance in October in New Hope, PA at Havana ... it's unusual and haunting.

Chuck and Sal returned to the stage and the music segued into another song I did not recognize.  Then Robby called Evan back to the stage for 'Riders On The Storm'. 

Evan, Chuck and Sal left the stage again as the surprise of the evening was Robby's introduction of his friend, PGA tour golf pro Tim Petrovic, who took center mic for 'Light My Fire' and did a damn fine job on it!

That ended the set at 10:20 but instead of leaving the stage for an encore call-back, they stayed put for one more song.  'Roadhouse Blues' was sung by the club's manager, a guy named Alex, who also did a great job and took us up to 10:30.

As Robby thanked the crowd for coming, he mentioned that Good Hurt was going to be the band's "home club" and that they would be playing there every few months.

A good time was had by all!   I'll add some pictures as soon as I get the chance.

Ida
December 8, 2010

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