Jon Cleary sounds like New Orleans. He’s was born across the water a ways, but he walks the walk and talks the talk of the natives. Although he calls Cranbrook, Kent, home, Cleary has been working on his New Orleans […]
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It takes a lot of guts for songwriters to let us inside their hearts and minds – but of course that’s where some of the best songs come from. Waxahatchee’s new album throws open the doors and windows and beckons […]
Jon Cleary is the funkiest Englishman you’ve ever heard. Emigrating from his hometown of Cranbrook, Kent, in 1980, Cleary became the embodiment of the New Orleans R&B pianists he’d been soaking up since childhood. Taking up a residence as a painter […]
Jon Cleary was the Guest of Honor with his Absolute Monster Gentlemen (consisting of New Orleans natives Derwin “Big D” Perkins on guitar, Cornell C. Williams on bass and A.J. Hall on drums) at this year’s 40th Annual Telluride Jazz […]
This week, I’m featuring one photgrapher, Mark J Smith. He also provided the descriptions you’ll read below. Mark started in photography in 1970, when he worked with a college-oriented newspaper in Philadelphia. The paper — mostly focused on the local […]
Since he was 17, Kent, England native Jon Cleary has been soaking up New Orleans culture. Thirty-six years later, Cleary exudes the sound and spirit of the Crescent City, the music bubbling out of him, a fountain of second line […]
Last Friday, the Funky Biscuit celebrated its fourth anniversary by bringing in Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen to perform. Cleary is an English piano player and guitarist who’s lived in New Orleans for the last 30 or so years. […]
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