First dug Tootie on Herbie Hancock's 'Prisoner' (April, '69) and 'Fat Albert Rotunda' (May-June, '69).
On both albums, Tootie showed he could play 'outside' and straight down the middle.
(After taking more than a year off, 'Mwandishi' Herbie went with Billy Hart.)
Max Raabe und der Palast Orchester tonight at UGA. Can't believe they chose my little college town to start their 7-city tour which includes Symphony Halls in Chicago and Boston, prior to Carnegie.
In 1971, when visiting a relative in Vernal, Utah -- and bored as hell in a cowboy town -- I walked into a music shop. They'd gotten a shipment of cut-out LPs and Riedel's 'Jazz Ballet' (U.S. Philips, 1964) really stood out. A favorite ever since.
When I walked the driveway at 8:15 to get the paper it was 16-degrees and I Phrygian my ass. When it gets up to 32, I'll celebrate with a gin and pentatonic.
Also from '79: Andre Crouch with Jay Graydon ('Peg'), Michael Omartian, and David Hungate (Toto) -- much like EW&F and Steely Dan's 'FM'. Check how the band takes it out after the sax solo at 3:13
This contemporary gospel might get me de-frocked by the Soul Pope
During the search among assorted books, magazines, and records, once-forgotten characters and 'persons of interest' can pop up unexpectedly. Such side-tracking has its rewards -- if you've got the time to spare.
Doris Duke and 'Congratulations Baby, 1969 recorded in Macon, GA.
(19-year-old Robert 'Pops' Popwell is bassist.)
Tina Turner had a problem with her man in 1969.