Tag Archives: Keb Mo
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Q&A: Keb’ Mo’ channels MLK’s dream, finds a ‘marvelous’ future
Keb’ Mo’, courtesy. When he’s working on his albums, Keb’ Mo’ likes to give them personal working titles so that he can keep himself on target and true to the message he wants to make. The working title for his newest, Good To Be? Keb’ Mo at SFJAZZ 7:30 p.m.,…
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REVIEW: Keb’ Mo’ offers up some feel-good blues on ‘Good To Be’
Much like the poet Walt Whitman, the blues contains multitudes. Seemingly a genre dedicated to searing guitar solos and feedback-drenched suffering, the blues also spans gentler acoustic moods. American bluesman Keb’ Mo’ (born Kevin Roosevelt Moore) has made this mellower branch of the blues family tree his home for…
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B.B. King, Herbie Hancock, Bono perform in all-star Thelonious Monk show
Keb’ Mo’, Wayne Shorter, Bono and others jam with B.B. King at an Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz event at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on Oct. 26, 2008. Photos courtesy: Alexandra Wyman/Getty Images for Thelonious Monk Institute). This story originally appeared in the Oakland Tribune. Some of…
