By John D'Aquila
tipitinas.com

Like many true blues-men, Jimmie Vaughan has spent time living and playing the blues.

You will excuse him if he is only doing the latter of late.

Vaughan plays at Tipitina's Uptown Friday, September 27, along with special guest

Lou Ann Barton.

After years of playing with The Fabulous Thunderbirds and his more famous younger brother, the legendary blues guitarist, the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie has found his niche as a solo artist.

Following his cathartic first solo album, Strange Pleasure, a tribute to his brother, the 47-

year old Jimmie thought he was "back on the other side of the street," a quote from a 1998 interview with the Boston Globe when he released Out There.

With his latest effort, Do You Have The Blues?, Vaughan has clearly moved to a an entirely different street as the record is described as a more "honed" effort than anything he has done in the past.

That is reflected in the fact the record earned him his fourth Grammy Award, for Best Traditional Blues Album at the 2002 Grammy show.
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Scofield still learning after all these years

While considered a jazz player, his influences include rock, R&B, soul, jazz, old players like Miles Davis and young players like Medeski, Martin and Wood.

That cornucopia of musical fruit will be on display at Tipitina's Uptown Saturday, September 28 with Topaz opening a promising night of music.

Scofield's sound is described by the All Music Guide as "somewhere between post-bop, fusion, and soul jazz." His most recent work has had a clear focus on a return to jazz mixed with the music of sixties R&B,