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  5. Blue Note

    in Re-issues

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    Still lots of unissued stuff in the vaults. I run across sessions all the time I'd love hear. A Freddie Roach unissued I was just looking at. Also, some John Patton I'd like to see...

  6. Charlie Earland

    in Artists & Recordings

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    I always return to the earthy simplicity of his early Prestige sides and the few LPs he did with Lou Donaldson. Black Talk is just about a perfect recording. His playing on that, his breakout masterpiece, is a marvel of swinging, lean simplicity. Simplicity, NOT simplistic. There's a huge difference that gets lost. I also dig his early 45s and pre-Prestige albums such as Black Power.

    Black Talk just blows my mind EVERY time. The horns, Idris, Melvin and the Mighty Burner welding it all together like he's at a shipyard. More Today Than Yesterday deservedly gets all the attention from that album, but my personal favorite has always been The Age Of Aquarius.

  7. Charlie Earland

    in Artists & Recordings

    Posted · Edited by Soul Stream

    I know there are a few Earland threads floating around. That said, it would be nice to see a general thread on the man himself. Over the years I've come back over and over again to albums like Black Talk, Live at the Key Club as well as some of his earlier singles. He needs to be rethought, reaccessed, re-everythinged! Charlie was a true master of the B3. Man, his lines were SO in the pocket. His concept was SO his own. He had about a dozen licks that he loved to play, but the way and WHERE his played them... were so right on. He had a STYLE. Yes, a STYLE all of his own. THAT ain't easy. I love Charlie and I'm not afraid to say I get as much enjoyment from Black Talk as I do Unity by LY. It's no joke. Earland was as good, great as any. Always I guy I come back to and love to hear over and over again. The human freight train.

  10. Someone at iTunes doesn't like Dustygroove

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    So I get my Dustygroove CD reissue they did of Brother Jack McDuff's "Gin & Orange". I pop it into my Mac and load it into iTunes. When iTunes finds the album, it loads up all the song titles...this is how the song titles came up....

    1 Mac-Duffin 3:04 Brother Jack McDuff Gin And Orange Jazz

    2 Dusty Groove Is Lame 5:02 Brother Jack McDuff Gin And Orange Jazz

    3 On The Case 3:00 Brother Jack McDuff Gin And Orange Jazz

    4 Channel One 5:57 Brother Jack McDuff Gin And Orange Jazz

    5 Get It Up 3:02 Brother Jack McDuff Gin And Orange Jazz

    6 Gin And Ornage 4:19 Brother Jack McDuff Gin And Orange Jazz

    7 Beep-Bo-Boo 7:23 Brother Jack McDuff Gin And Orange Jazz

    8 D-G-D-R (Dusty Groove Doesn't Remaster) 6:46 Brother Jack McDuff Gin And Orange Jazz

  12. Organ dates with SIDEMEN who rarely did Organ dates

    in General Discussion

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    I know Lee Morgan recorded quite a bit with organists, from early Jimmy Smith to his final recording with Charles Earland. That said, I don't think of him obviously as a typical organ sideman. But his contributions are always beautiful with the B3....especially love Flamingo with JOS and his work with Lonnie Smith. Love Bug is damn close, even though he didn't seem to be in great shape on that session he had a lot of soul that makes that album.

  14. Organ dates with SIDEMEN who rarely did Organ dates

    in General Discussion

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    Not sure if these have been mentioned yet...

    George Coleman on Patton's "Memphis NY Spirit" and the extra cuts on the CD of "Accent on the Blues" (all from the same session) (he also did that Joey live CD recently)

    Tommy Turrentine's stint with Lou Donaldson produced some nice sessions like The Natural Soul and Patton's Blue John

    Trumpeter Irvin Stokes on Lou's "A Man With A Horn"

    LeRoy Williams was Patton's drummer for a long time, and I think John was the only organist he recorded/played with to my knowledge.

    Outside of those Patterson Prestige dates, I don't think of Booker Ervin as an organist's tenor.

  15. John Patton Video

    in Artists & Recordings

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    My comments about John "dragging them along" was probably a bit of an over exagerration. These all seem like good players who keep good time and try and serve the music. John isn't doing it all by himself, but I think Eddie Gladden would have made a big difference here. Anyway, GREAT to see John playing again!

  16. John Patton Video

    in Artists & Recordings

    Posted · Edited by Soul Stream

    Gohdamhm, BJP is up there with 4 no-swingin' mofos who sound like they're taking an exam or something, this guy's outnumbered 4-1 not just in quantity but quality, and the shit still swings like a big dog!

    That's mojo, bay-bee, & BJP be haddin' it!

    My thoughts exactly Jim. That drummer was diggin' coal the whole time. Horns were fine in a do-no-harm kind of way, but the rhythm section...yeah, John drug them along. John was so dead-on that none of it mattered. That whole cliche'-tired-of-hearing-it "saying a lot with a few notes"...well, Big John just showed you what that REALLY means. You gotta know that was a thrown together band of workman-like players (nothing wrong with that) that John just made sound like a million bucks (that's when you know who the real STAR of the show is : )

  17. John Patton Video

    in Artists & Recordings

    Posted · Edited by Soul Stream

    Glad everyone's digging the video! To answer a couple of questions....yeah, I was disappointed in that it wasn't a whole concert, just this one song. Guess he just did one song on some TV show over there. I don't know who the band is. I'm sure just musicians that were provided to him for the gigs he played there. I'm in contact with the guy from London who sent me this, I'll ask him if he knows anything else. Anyway, what a great find this was/is/will be. To see John finally represented on YouTube alongside Jimmy Smith, McGriff, Lonnie, ect... is wonderful.

    P.S.-John never said much about the "Big" title except that anything that helped you get over in the music business was good. I think that's how he looked at it... advertising.

  18. John Patton Video

    in Artists & Recordings

    Posted · Edited by Soul Stream

    I've just received a DVD that I've since posted on YouTube. It's, to my knowledge, the only taped live broadcast of John Patton performing. It's from the BBC 2 in the 1990's....John's playing Funky Mama. John Patton Lives!

  19. RIP Rudy Ray Moore

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    what was his show like? did he do his comedy bits or did he sing too? i almost saw him once but didnt, i am regretful.

    The show I did with him was him mostly singing and doing some of his most famous bits.... He was THE king of merchandising, I think he bought some cheap clocks...cut out some pictures of himself and put them in the clocks...then sold them for 20 or 30 bucks! Rudy lives....

  22. Big John: accent on the blues

    in Artists & Recordings

    Posted

    so when i do it, its mocked, but when jsngry does it, is praised- oh well, well ask him how he met big john, and what big john told him about what he wanted from the music, and if they played any live shows, and what it was like making music with big john, and his whole expierence dealing with the great BJP

    I'll ask him those things. I do know he, John and LeRoy Williams were together as a band for something like 5 or 6 years more or less. So they did travel and play live shows constantly. I did ask Marvin if he had any live recordings of that band, and he regretted to say he didn't.

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