{"id":311,"date":"2014-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2014\/2014\/04\/01\/soulives-bowlive-v-at-brooklyn-bowl\/"},"modified":"2014-04-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T00:00:00","slug":"soulives-bowlive-v-at-brooklyn-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2014\/2014\/04\/01\/soulives-bowlive-v-at-brooklyn-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Soulive’s Bowlive V at Brooklyn Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday March 22nd and Saturday March 23rd, Soulive<\/a> took to the Brooklyn Bowl<\/a> stage to finish off their eight night “Bowlive” residency. The coveted residency is in its fifth year, and always brings out special guests from all over the musical spectrum. Each night features The Shady Horns, which currently consists of Ryan Zoidis (alto and tenor saxophone), James Casey (tenor saxophone) and Eric Bloom (trumpet). In addition, each night has its own special guests. Friday night featured Marco Benevento (keyboards) and Sonya Kitchell (vocals), and Saturday featured Bill Evans (saxophone) and Scott Metzger (guitar). This was just what was on the bill, but Soulive brought plenty of unannounced guests of their own.<\/p>\n

\"Bowlive<\/p>\n

Friday night\u2019s show started off with Soulive sans The Shady Horns for a few burning classics, \u201cShaheed\u201d and \u201cAladdin.\u201d \u201cAladdin\u201d is a track in which Neal Evans’ precision becomes obvious. He uses a gritty, distorted tone for this one that causes just about everybody in the audience to display their own version of the \u201cwince-y funk face.\u201d Soulive then brought The Shady Horns to the stage, dropped a Lettuce cover called “The Dump” and proceeded into a sultry cover of \u201cLenny\u201d by Stevie Ray Vaughan. It\u2019s always a treat when you get to hear Soulive play this cover, because it always brings out the best of Eric Krasno\u2019s improvisation, with bends and licks that you can feel touch your soul. After this relaxed \u201cLenny\u201d, Soulive brought it way up with a cover of Jimi Hendrix\u2019s \u201cManic Depression.”<\/p>\n

Marco Benevento came out for this one, and didn\u2019t leave the stage the rest of the night. This wasn\u2019t just any version, but a version that included the first unannounced sit-in of the night, Brandon \u201cTaz\u201d Niederauer. The 11 year-old guitar prodigy shredded through solos and didn\u2019t slow the band down one bit. Krasno got the sound guy to boost him up in the mix and the kid completely stole the show. As the song came to a close, the crowd went wild and as he left the stage Alan said, \u201cSee this is why we need more instruments in schools, y\u2019all.\u201d Building on the high energy, Soulive brought out Felix Pastorius (son of the legendary jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius) for a jazz standard. This version of Billy Cobham\u2019s \u201cStratus\u201d was the highlight of the night and included solos by Pastorius and Benevento.<\/p>\n