This year's annual Houston International Jazz Festival was headlined by two very non-jazz but very dope artists, Eric Roberson and Anthony David. First of all, on a grading scale, this year's festival gets a big, fat, red "F" just on scheduling alone. Here's why. The festival website said the concert would begin at 7pm. So, I get there a few minutes after 7 and Terisa Griffin was already onstage doing her thing. Let me tell you, that gal can SANG!!! She sang her natural ass off. Seriously, it was so hot in this Texas heat that we all lost a few pounds. Really though, Terisa was excellent. Her voice was flawless and she completed an excellent set that included some of her original songs like 'Cigarette In The Rain' and some great covers as well like Phyllis Hyman's 'Living All Alone'. It was also great to see one of Houston's premier musicians and guitarist extraordinaire Corey "FunkaFangaz" Stoot performing with her. When her set finished sometime after 8pm, the announcer then says that the headliner Eric Roberson was coming up next. Well, I'll be damned!!! It turns out that the concert actually started at 5pm and by the time 7pm came, Anthony David had done his thing and was long gone! (Florida Evans - "Damn, damn, DAMN!!!!") That really, really sucked. I've been waiting to see A.D. for a while now and to know that I could have shown up earlier but was mislead, although unintentially, is just bad policy and straight up foul. Fuck it. At least I didn't miss Erro.
About 8:45, Roberson hits the stage opening with 'Evening' from his latest cd "Left". Dude's voice was well-churned butta and he ripped through a super combo of old and new joints like 'Please, Don't Leave Me', 'Softest Lips', 'Rock Wit U', 'Only For You', 'Pretty Girl', and alot more. This cat puts on a great show. He even finished his set singing MiJac's 'Beat It'! That was crazy! All in all, it was a great concert (the part I saw anyway.) I really can't complain, seeing as I didn't have to buy a ticket. But that's not the freaking point! It's principalities involved. I would've started a damn riot if I had purchased a ticket. Them joints were a smooth $50 bucks a piece!! I got in free and I was STILL ready to kick some ass! Anyway, I've posted a few pics below along with a short video clip of Erro's opening song 'Evening'. The audio on it is kind of shitty because I was taping right next to the huge speaker on the stage, so, my bad for that. Still a cool lil' clip for true Eric Roberson fans, though. Enjoy.
Terisa Griffin tore it up! She was a pleasant surprise.
Eric Roberson took the stage and proceeded to kill it like usual.
Here's a short clip of Erro's 'Evening' -
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