It doesn't hurt that so many exceptional bands play this little venue that's not even really a venue.
Sometimes it seemed less like a revue or a collaboration, and more like an exceptional bar band: in versions of Lowell George's "20 Million Things" and "I've Been the One," and a faithful run-through of Led Zeppelin's epic "10 Years Gone," with a rhythm section, including the bassist Tony Maimone, doing it plush justice.
What brings Mr. N'Dour to Manhattan is the GREAT AFRICAN BALL, featuring his exceptional working band, Le Super ?oile.
In this well-produced concert film by Jacques Goldstein, just out on DVD, the trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith fearlessly leads his exceptional working band, which prominently features the pianist Vijay Iyer.
And while their lives were sometimes compromised by life on the bus, the Smithereens carved out a reputation as an exceptional live band of brothers with an authentic blue-collar aesthetic.
Delta was the exceptional individual band classifier when analysed during EO.
Among the band's exceptional, if gloriously unruly, soloists are Michael Moore, on woodwinds, and Tristan Honsinger, on cello.
Among the band's exceptional, if gloriously unruly soloists are Michael Moore, on woodwinds, and Tristan Honsinger, on cello.
"More Than Human" is a sci-fi novel, published in 1953, in which a band of exceptional people "blesh" (that is, blend and mesh) their consciousness to create a kind of super-being.
The entire band is exceptional and their jazzy Brazilian flair adds a different perspective to every song, especially those by Cole Porter and Irving Berlin.
Her female nature was credited with her ability to elicit exceptional performances from the band, more so than any of her record producer counterparts who worked with Howling Bells previously.
