Soulive -Instant Live @ The Beachland Ballroom 9/28/04

Brothers Alan and Neal Evans, on drums and Hammond B-3 organ, respectively, form two-thirds of the soul/groove trio Soulive. Rounding out the group is Eric Krasno on guitar. The band was formed in the late '90s when all three members were under 25 years old. However, each already had a substantial background in the "jam band" scene. Alan and Neal are former members of Moon Boot Lover, and Alan also played with the Greyboy Allstars. Krasno founded the super-funky Lettuce, a wildly popular Boston-based band.

Though originally from Vermont, Soulive is essentially Boston-based as well. The band toured with and opened for a number of notables (including John Scofield, Maceo Parker, Los Lobos, Derek Trucks, and Robben Ford) before headlining their own shows and releasing their introductory EP, Get Down, in 1999. Their debut full-length release, Turn It Out, followed the next year. Doin' Something, featuring John Scofield, was issued in March 2001.

Soulive is all about danceable, organ-driven instrumental groove-jazz. Their success is a result of fusing the soul-jazz of the past with a modern hip-hop feel. Krasno's spidery yet very direct guitar lines recall Grant Green. The rhythmic concepts employed date back to those learned from artists such as James Brown, Stevie Wonder, and Sly Stone.

Their first release was a self-pressed EP entitled Get Down! The band's full-length debut, Turn It Out (featuring John Scofield), was released on the Velour label in 2000. That release generated such a buzz that they were promptly picked up by Blue Note, which released Doin' Something in early 2001. About a year later, Next was released, followed by Soulive in 2003. Breakout appeared from Concord in 2005, while a series of individual concerts were made available on Instant Live Records in 2004 and 2006, followed by No Place Like Soul on Stax in 2007. by Ann Wickstrom

Alan Evans -Drums
Eric Krasno -Guitar
Neal Evans -Organ, Bass Keys, Clavinet
Rashawn Ross -Trumpet
Ryan Zoidis -Tenor Saxophone

Some Brief Notes
I Took The Liberty of Joining Tracks One And Two Into Just One Track (so there's only 11 files)
Also I Have NOT Changed The Tags..(each disc has different tags)They Were Retrieved That Way From Gracenote/CDDB
Disc One
1-Intro/Aladdin   8:18
2-Aladdin (Cont'd)     :29
3-Kraz Fast   9:37
4-One in Seven 12:24
5-J-Live           5:40
6-Uncle Junior   8:14
7-Azucar        10:20
8-Steppin'         13:05
Disc Two
9-Tuesday Night Squad 12:00
10-Liquid           6:23
11-Cross Town Traffic  -Hendrix- 6:31
12-Fast Maceo 5:36

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