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Northeast Jazz & Wine Festival (Day 2)

Sunday, July 30th, 2017
Solazzo, Tamar, Kininger, Brown and Lorick of Brownskin (World Beat Pavilion, Northeast Jazz & Wine Festival)

Solazzo, Tamar, Kininger, Brown and Lorick of Brownskin (World Beat Pavilion, Northeast Jazz & Wine Festival)

Northeast Jazz & Wine Festival, Day 2: Sound Familiar

Sunday, July 31st, 2016
Jamel Lorick (right) and Tamar Smithers sang with Brownskin in the World Beat Pavilion on Saturday.

Jamel Lorick (right) and Tamar Smithers sang with Brownskin in the World Beat Pavilion on Saturday.

The Brownskin Band did three shows for Day 2 of the Northeast Jazz & Wine Festival last weekend. The band featured several interchangeable members, but we noticed that the trio of Jamel Lorick, Tamar Smithers and TC Carter also formed a nucleus for one of our all time favorite bands from back in the day, Electric Relaxation. We saw ER for the first time at the old OnaJava Cafe. On Saturday Brownskin slowly built an audience inside the World Beat Pavilion until it became a sweatbox, sort of like Electric Relaxation used to do at OnaJava. The more things change, the more they can often sound the same.