Soul Stream

When do we get the answers Dan? (don't really remember the process...)

My thought is that when someone wants to do one...it's "alive".... If it lays dormant for a year and then someone posts they're doing one...cool. No sense "declaring" it dead or anything else. It exists when it does.... Interests in the BFT and AOW ebb and flow...they are as active as the members make them. That's all natural. We shouldn't collectively feel pressure about these things. It's individual interest, so let's keep it up to individuals....

Guess I'll throw out the ones I know for sure first... #3...won't give this one away since Dan actually sent me this a long time ago. Just a hint for the others, it's a well known organist's initial recording where he sang. So my advice would be to listen to the organ playing for hints! #5 is One Foot in The Blues..the title track to a great album by singer Johnny Adams with Dr. Lonnie Smith on organ....awesome (pick this CD up if it's still around) #6 is Next Time You See Me performed by the great Freddie Roach (Joe Henderson on tenor) from the Brown Sugar LP as for the others ummm... #1. No idea, dig it....all the hipster slang. Reminds me of that kookie hipster novelty material Anita O'day did early on, although it's obviously not her. #2. Sounds like some early Dr. John. If not, it's whoever Dr. John copied vocally... #4. B.B. King with a great orchestra...don't know who, sounds like Count Basie's... #8 Watermelon Man by Albert King's and Ike Turner's bastard son...must me from Texas whoever it is... #9 Shake by...ummm...got me...sounds like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band meets The Three Sounds on Funky Pullet. #10 Strollin'...dig it. Tenors like Illinois Jacquet and Gene Ammons...the bass sound is too direct for it to be an old recording...sounds like something on 80's Muse. Maybe it's one of those Gatortail Jackson albums on Muse... #11 & 12... like the cuts, but don't know who's playing at all...definately old guys playing...don't think young cats can do that in a convincing way. Againon 12...that bass sound I hate...too direct...why do engineers insist on recording an upright like that, sucking the life out of the bass. Dig the piano...like all the players. That bass solo SOUNDS like crap...I hate that sound....matter of fact, I hate the bass solo.

Trudy Pitts sings on some of her old Prestige dates. Also, Joey Defrancesco did an album with Joe Pesci aka "Joe Doggs" or something like that...he also did one with Jane Siegel (?)...don't know if it's still available or note. There's some albums with Groove Holmes and Dakota Stanton...Groove Holmes and Jimmy Witherspoon....Jimmy McGriff with Junior Parker....Jack McDuff with Jimmy Witherspoon. George Benson sings on a couple on his early Columbia recordings with Lonnie Smith. Lonnie Smith cut a great CD with Johnny Adams called "One Foot In The Blues"..... Bu Pleasant cut one album on Muse, she sings and plays organ on that....Rhoda Scott's early Prestige LPs have her vocal group on it that's pretty cool. Also, yeah...the Irene Reed is awesome, Charles Earland plays on one of those, killer. There's probably lots more.

Sweet!

How were the shows, Mike? I would have loved to have been there - I was in Austin on Friday, but had family commitments. They were really, really a blast. The Gallery only holds 49 people...so it was like having Jimmie Vaughan play in your living room. Sounded great too...organ, drums, guitar and tenor...It's got great acoustics up there so people were blown away to be that close and hear him in that environment. Greg Piccolo from Roomful of Blues played sax, and that was my first time playing with him...man, too much fun! We'll do it again soon and I'll let you know

Jimmie Vaughan is playing with my organ trio tonight and tomorrow night here in Austin at The Continental Gallery...starts at !0 o'clock, for any of our Austin area board members...come on down!

Today's club engineers will ALWAYS give you THE ROCK MIX. Kick drum 'til your heart skips a beat...snare and bass....the rest be damned. It's ridiculous.

Yeah...so many great unknowns. Sonny Phillips was a real revelation for me lately. I think I have his album on Muse, but don't remember much about it. Pete Fallico has a great interview with him on his Doodlin' Podcast site. Sonny seemed to be a person very involved in the community and outreach to young musicians. Wish he had lived longer.....yeah...The Brotherhood, check that track out! Reminds me a bit of Freddie Roach's Young-influenced work on some of his Prestige dates....

I've liked Sonny Phillips over the years quite a bit.... but today I picked up an LP of his on Prestige...BLACK MAGIC. I had never heard it.... well SHEEEEEEET! He is a serious, serious, serious player who surprisingly went in the Young tradition about as convincing as anybody at the time. There's a track...The Brotherhood...that just is so killer. Also, he does I'm An Old Cowhound...and his facility is so great...we'll have to say Jimmy Smith's version of the song isn't my favorite organ version any more! Yeah, Sonny Phillips...wow. But his other albums just don't sound like THIS one at ALL. They put him in a funk mode that he must just not have been interested in. Believe me...he's interested in THe Brotherhood. Check it out if you find this LP. (take note this album is not Black on Black...they look VERY similar but are miles apart music wise)

Still wish they'd do a real Mosaic on Freddie Roach (no damn select!)...and include the unissued sessions.

Thanks a lot Free! Love to see you...bring the horn! And yeah...Bill Frisell is playing downstairs at the Continental Sunday 8 to 10...I'm upstairs at the Continental Gallery that same night from 10-2. Pretty good odds Bill might come up and hang out for a while after his show with the Owner, since they're good friends.

Just an FYI.... I was playing at a place here in Austin called The Continental Gallery on South Congress several nights a week until the city closed it down almost a year ago. Well, last weekend we opened it back up, this time for good. My organ trio plays there Friday thru Sunday night from 10 til 2.... and Wednesday evenings 8 to 10. (Nice to have a place to keep the B and leave it again!). Fridays and Saturdays are basically funk nights, while Sundays are jazz. I'm gonna do Wednesday evenings there with a bass player and sax added...doing some early 70's organ stuff that had electric bass (stuff I always dug but couldn't really do playing organ bass...like later Groove Holmes, Johnny Hammond Smith...that stuff). Here's a link to my myspace page in case you ever want to check my calender..., but I'm always there for those days mentioned above... www.myspace.com/mikeflanigintrio

I think anybody who sits long enough at a B3 and tries to play it realizes how great Earland really was. He swung like hell, and....well, just put on Black Talk. That whole thing is a masterpiece, his solo on Age of Aquarius is also a favorite of mine. Don't EVER get confused... simple but not simplistic, that was Earland's genius. Also LOVE his playing on Say It Loud by Lou Donaldson. Amazing, amazing player. Wow.

Wow...too bad. Seems like with Waxpoetics issuing his highly acclaimed CD, he's now getting a lot of past due acclaim. Pete Fallico just posted an interview with him not long ago.

Guess I didn't notice that this was for the JazzTimes Before & After....my bad. Look forward to reading it. Long live Lou, he's the greatest.

Kind of lame....why didn't he just post the interview word for word. Lou deserves it...this guy is lazy.

Pete's putting TONS of great archived Doodlin' Lounge Shows up as podcasts there. Keep checking back. Amazing, amazing stuff. Pete was/is a saint. Thank God he had the forsight to talk to soooo many of the cats that made that music. Organists and the musicians who played with them....family and friends too. He's put a lifetime of work into it. CHECK IT OUT!!!!!

Used to see him a lot at the old Antone's on Guadalupe, with George Porter on bass. Amazing musician. Glad I got to see him as much as I did.

Really sad news and shocking for me. The first time I ever saw John Patton play live was at The Jazz Standard and Coleman Mellet was playing guitar. He also was in a trio that played together and recorded several CDs with drummer Ben Dixon and organist Adam Scone. He was a young guy and just amazing on guitar...definately took notes from masters like Grant Green, Kenny Burrell and Wes. He had a lot of soul. RIP

No...the alternate takes are not available anywhere. Don't feel comfortable telling you where I heard them, but I did hear them and they are all VERY VERY VERY unbelievable. Amazing to hear. All could have been master takes. Blue Note is sitting on plenty of these things, but instead of 'thinking out of the box' (i hate that expression)....they're doing the same stuff they've been doing. Come on, take ADVANTAGE of the new age BN.

I still think Blue Note is dropping the ball on downloads of unavailable alternate takes and unreleased tunes from sessions that are out there. I've heard 3 alternates of IF, alternates of Moontrane and Beyond All Limits from the Unity Album that all could have been released...alll wonderful...mindblowing. Why aren't they downloadable from iTunes? Stuff like that is loading down the vaults at Blue Note while they try and figure out how to package Blue Train for the zillionth time. Lots of opportunities to try and make things work in the new computer age...but all I see is ball dropping by top heavy corporations.

I'd take your favorite track/album. We all have ours...

Any band is only as good as the drummer. That's always been my thinking. So, by that standard, Ringo's gotta be pretty damn good. Plus, lot's of different beats happening with the Beatles catalog.

Thanks a lot Chris for the insight. It's amazing that he somehow seemed to know some sort of trick as to not get the loaded shell in the chamber of a certain make/model of pistol..., a trick that seemed to have cost him his life. When people say Russian Roulette, it brings to mind someone with a death wish. That's not the picture that you seemed to have painted. More of a gun trick gone bad. Anyway, thanks for the Deagan ad memory too. To me, he sounds like he's playing Deagans on those recordings as they have a certain ring to them. I know Freddie McCoy played Deagans as well and their recordings have a similar ring, although the playing is different. Lem was a real master and I love hearing him play. Do you have/or have heard his recording at the Birmingham Jazz Festival?