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| Taron Lockett, Jay Mack, Caleb Sean McCampbell. (Photo: Monica Saunders) |
Caleb Sean McCampbell is usually accompanying other musicians
around Dallas, but last night he headlined his own group – the Caleb Sean Trio –
at the Balcony Club. It was a spirited event with McCampbell on keyboards, Taron
Lockett on drums and Jay Mack on bass.
Great variety of music: they played some standards, some
classics and some contemporary hits. McCampbell, a graduate of a famous music
school in Dallas (Booker T. Washington High School for the Visual and
Performing Arts), took this opportunity to tell stories about and perform one
of the songs about one of the school’s famous graduates, Norah Jones.
Over all, it was a swinging night of music with party-goers
from the East Dallas community and other musicians dropping in. McCampbell
plays in a jazz group Funky Knuckles which has released a couple albums to great
acclaim.
He is in demand most nights of the week accompanying other
groups on the keyboard. He puts in work as a side-man on recording sessions and
even produces other artists, most famously a song for pop star Beyonce.
Taron Lockett was able to show the breadth of his skills on drums by minimalizing his playing on the slower, jazzier numbers and then opening up and tearing up the drums on his solos. Lockett is known around Dallas as the percussionist for the group R.C. and the Gritz, a band in itself but also the backing band of Erykah Badu. Lockett was seen on TV recently playing drums for Liv Warfield.
Jay Mack was laying down the grooves on bass. Jay Mack can
be seen all over the Dallas area playing at Buttons, Club Memphis, Brickhouse
and more.
The Caleb Sean Trio was well-received at the Balcony Club.
The crowd called out for an encore and seemed excited about a possible return
in the near future.
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