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Pop: hot ticket
By Times staff
© St. Petersburg Times
published March 14, 2002
A fast-rising jam band
Jazz and fusion guitarist John Scofield's 1999 CD Bump helped introduce wider audiences to Deep Banana Blackout, whose drummer, Eric Kalb, and percussionist, Johnny Durkin, played on the disc. But the fast-rising jam band has been kicking around since 1995, when DBB was organized as a side project featuring bands from Long Island and Connecticut. The moonlighting turned into the main gig, and the eight-piece band has since gained a large following, thrilling crowds across the country with a fluid mix of jazz, funk, soul, Latin and psychedelia. Feel the Peel, DBB's latest disc, released last year on (Allman Brothers drummer) Butch Trucks' Flying Frogs Records, features recent addition Hope Clayburn on vocals and saxophone. The grooves are deep, and the ensemble work is tasty.
Deep Banana Blackout performs at 8 p.m. Sunday at Jannus Landing, 16 Second St. N., St. Petersburg. $15. (727) 896-1244
C'mon, shed a tear for Nelly Furtado
Nelly Furtado -- poor kid. What does she have going for her? What kind of future?
Furtado is 23 and all she has done is release a critically acclaimed debut, Whoa, Nelly! that sold a kerjillion copies and scored a hit with the dainty I'm Like a Bird.
That tune won Furtado a Grammy last month.
Furtado writes her own material, sings -- in three different languages, mind you -- and also knows how to play guitar, ukulele and trombone. She has already logged time onstage, during a Lilith Fair tour, with such luminaries as Chrissie Hynde, Sarah McLachlan and Beth Orton. Her collaboration with Missy Elliott on Elliott's monster hit Get Ur Freak On -- another Grammy winner -- ate up radio last year.
To top it all off, look at her.
Poor thing could be a supermodel, or she could at least play the kid sister to one of those girls on Friends.
What's Furtado's personality like, you ask? By all accounts, Furtado is super bright, humble, proud of her Portuguese background, funny and compassionate. (She probably bites her nails!)
Check out an interview with poor Nelly this weekend in Sunday Arts.
Nelly Furtado performs at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Jannus Landing, Second Street between Central Avenue and First Avenue N, St. Petersburg. $25-$27.50 (727) 896-2276.
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