Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Miles Bonny and Friends
- When: Saturday, Dec. 30, 2006, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
- Where: The Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Mass., Lawrence
- Cost: $5
- Age limit: 18+
As half of Kansas City’s beloved hip-hop unit SoundsGood, Miles Bonny wore a producer’s uniform, arranging outlandish, infectious beats behind Joe Good’s eloquent raps. For his solo debut, maestro Bonny slipped into something sexy and strode to the front of the stage.
“Smell Smoke?” is a smart and sassy compendium of hip-hop sonnets mashed up with deep orchestral grooves, Brechtian theatrics and twittering electronics. Languid melodies, voluptuous horns and midnight vibraphones shiver and shimmy over Bonny’s trademark arsenal of eccentric, rump-teasing rhythms—but wait! That voice! Is that Bonny singing? And how: Bonny croons, moans and growls his way through the dazzling “Smell Smoke?” like Barry White at a butt-naked seafood buffet.
Street Level ambles downtown to meet Mr. Bonny at a sunny outdoor café for a chat about electronic highways, feeling sexy and the evolution of hip-hop in Cans Ass City.
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