{"id":228,"date":"2007-06-28T12:06:30","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T16:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2007-06-28T12:20:20","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T16:20:20","slug":"soul-of-the-blues-june-27-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"Soul of the Blues, June 27 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night featured one of the most wide-ranging <a href=\"http:\/\/www.souloftheblues.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soul of the Blues<\/a> lineups in recent months, and it was a smash.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/numillenniumonline\" target=\"_blank\">Nu Millennium<\/a>, a talented and funny four-man <i>a capella<\/i> singing group from Brooklyn, opened the night with a set of classic soul (and a touch of disco).  The crowd at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corneliastreetcafe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cornelia Street Cafe<\/a> whooped so loud they threated to drown out the gentlemen on stage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30536365@N00\/649429791\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1028\/649429791_5fd4eb671e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" alt=\"Nu Millenium\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then Florida&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/erniesouthern.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ernie Southern<\/a> and his two shiny steel guitars rocked the crowd &#8211; quite a few of whom came specifically to see him &#8211; with a solo set of high-energy Delta blues.  That primed our audience for a smooth, funky set from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthonyrobustelli.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Robustelli Band<\/a>, which featured saxman extraordinaire Deji Coker.  Keyboardist and singer-songwriter Robustelli runs a super-tight and soulful New York City act reminiscent of Steely Dan.  Coker blew fire from his alto and the band was seriously cookin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Best thing was the good feeling that comes out of these shows.  No one makes a ton of money, but the vibe is sweet.  Nu Millennium&#8217;s fans stayed to hear Ernie, and Ernie&#8217;s fans stayed to hear Anthony and his band.  All is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night featured one of the most wide-ranging Soul of the Blues lineups in recent months, and it was a smash. Nu Millennium, a talented and funny four-man a capella singing group from Brooklyn, opened the night with a set of classic soul (and a touch of disco). The crowd at Cornelia Street Cafe whooped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=228\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Soul of the Blues, June 27 2007&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}