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No idea when this was released; I came across it tonight. https://cleanfeed-records.com/product/an-evening-in-houston/ Patty Waters is a living legend and every record with her voice is, in consequence, a preciosity. Unanimously considered the main singer of the free jazz tendency since the release of her historical ESP-Disk albums “Sings” and ‘College Tour” in the Sixties, and widely known (Diamanda Galas and Patti Smith pointed her as their main reference) for her impressive interpretation of the traditional “Black is the Color (of My True Love’s Hair)”, her influence resisted to a 30 years disappearance from the stages and the studios. The return happened in 1996, but only to a couple more albums and a few concerts. “An Evening in Houston” marks Waters re-encounter with pianist Burton Greene in a 2018 special gig, along with the greats Mario Pavone and Barry Altschul. A repertoire of folk songs, jazz standards (including “Strange Fruit”, a song we all know because of Billie Holiday, Patty Waters’ idol) and compositions by Thelonious Monk and Ornette Coleman show us why this mysterious personality was, and still is, one of the most astonishing innovators of the voice expressive capabilities in music, either singing or using it as an instrument. Yes, it’s that important.

Patty Waters interviewed here.

Looking for a "reasonably" priced CD of this. Everything I see is $30+, when you add tax & shipping. Any help??

I searched for this book here, and just found an announcement for it, and then some knee jerk sexism put-downs by the usual suspects... While there is a lot of material on the Bunnies (PF was a former model and Bunny) which I just skipped over, there''s some interesting jazz content, and a portrait of the 'Hef' as one of the few civil rights activists in the entertainment biz in the 50s. People such as Dick Gregory, Freda Payne, Aretha Franklin, Al Jarreau, Maurice and Gregory Hines and Ramsey Lewis were given their first steady, decent paying gigs and exposure to a larger white audience at Playboy Clubs, resulting in all of them becoming nationally recognized in their fields. Gregory, Payne, Hines and Lewis were interviewed in the book, and gave Hef's courage in hiring and defending them from racism, credit for their success as artists. Great jazz artists such as Monty Alexander, Gene Bertoncini, Earl May, Al Foster, Al Belletto, Larry Willis and Al Gafa were given steady gigs that lasted for years, playing uncompromising jazz. Willis would get pianists like Chick Corea, Albert Dailey, Herbie Hancock and Roland Hanna as subs if he had another gig. Jim Hall and Ron Carter recorded the groundbreaking duo album Alone Together at the NYC Playboy Club, and Bill Evans had a week's engagement there. In the South, they established a New Orleans Club in 1961, where Al Belletto led an integrated house band with musicians like Richie Payne, and Ellis Marsalis had his own trio that played there for many years. HH had two TV shows, one in 1959, where he featured Dick Gregory, and another one in 1969.where he featured Dick Gregory. The '59 show featured jazz singers such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughn, Ray Charles, June Christy, Dakota Staton, Beverley Kenney, Carmen McRae, Joe Williams and Billy Eckstine. Jazz groups included Woody Herman, Cal Tjader, Dizzy Gillespie and Buddy Rich. Pianists featured were Earl Hines, Count Basie, Ahmad Jamal Eddie Higgins and Dave Brubeck. Crooners such as Tony Bennett, David Allen and Frank D`Rone plus pianist/vocalists Buddy Greco and Nina Simone were also featured. You can find some of these shows on YouTube, and Frank D'Rone's 'Joey,Joey,Joey' knocked me out, accompanying himself on guitar back in 1959!

Patty Duke died today. RIP. I think her hit "Please Don't Just Stand There" qualifies her for a place in the Artists forum. I remember when she followed Ed Asner as head of the actors' union.

2 CD Set Dual Jewel case, booklet and CDs all Mint $9 shipped U.S.

My god, does singing get any more honest than this? A collection of material from Waters' own personal collection, this set includes a 1964 Jax Beer jingle (w/Joe Newman!), a 1963 demo session for Columbia (produced by Tom Wilson, whose between-take chatter is priceless, a 1960 cut recirded in San Diego (when Waters was still singing, quite well, too, in a "traditional" "torch song" style, and, the real news, pieces recorded in 1970, 1971, 1972, and 1979, years which Waters was allegedly "lost" a la Henry Grimes. The material is a collection of standards and originals. The latter are very, VERY personal in their lyrics. Some might even call them obsessive. They focus on lonlieness and love for somebody who's not there any more (possibly Clifford Jarvis?), and they are at once compelling and disturbing, although Waters' delivery is very, VERY low-key. There's also a long solo piano piece that is simply beautiful. Nothing at all "difficult" about it, but the timing and the sensitivity of the playing makes it difficult not to get pulled in/wrapped up in it. Highlight of the disc for me is a version of "For All We Know" from 1979 - just a vocal-piano duet (all the vocal numbers save for the Jax thing, are piano (either Waters herself or somebody else) and vocal only). This song has a pretty intense lyric anyway, but Waters sings it with a mixture of resignation, sadness, loss, and quiet (VERY quiet) desperation that is the definitive reading of it, at least that I've heard. There's none of the groundbreaking extended vocal techniques of the ESP albums, btw. This is just a collection of songs by a woman who sounds like she's been there and back, and if she hasn't yet begin to find all the piecesto put back together yet, she definitely knows what it'll be like when she does. IF she does (and reports are that she has, thank God). Certainly not for everybody in these less-than-vocalist-friendly parts, but those inclined to get into singers and songs that are totally devoid of artifice and cut straight to the bone of what's going on inside are advised to check it out. It's frighteningly intimate and vulnerable, at times maybe even "unhealthily" so, but I can handle that. BTW - There's a nude photo from 1970 inside the booklet. But it's not nearly as naked as the singing.

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A buddy sent me this link to a 1964 Jax Beer jingle featuring Patty Waters of ESP fame. Check it out! http://stasick.org/pattywaters.mp3 I actually think that I remember hearing this on the air regularly in 1964. We were living in Shreveport, La then, and the airwaves were pretty full of Jax beer commercials. The first play of this file "sounded familiar", I can tell you that! PATTY WATERS!!!!!

where to start? sadly no mosaic. recommendations please!

living waters

I'm intruiged with this singer some may know from the (cult)album she made with Tom Talbert (Wednesday's Child, Atlantic, 1956). As pleasing as the album is (my opinion), I'm most of all curious about her songwriting skills. On the album with Talbert she sings two of her own songs; "Love isn't everything" (Jeanne Lee sang it again on her debutlp) and "I Like Snow". A couple of weeks ago I was looking at some items on ebay. One of them, George Wallington Trio + Eddie Costa Trio Workshop (Verve), took my attention especially 'cause one of the numbers was credited to Patty McGovern... I can't recall the title of the number, but I'm sure it wasn't one of the two I mentioned above. Can someone help me with the title? Anyone familiar with other songs of her? And most important what became of her? Thank you. j.

Check out the lyrics starting at 1:43

April 29, 2008 Lost: Roger Waters' Pig By REUTERS Filed at 5:16 p.m. ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Organizers of a major California music festival are offering a $10,000 reward and four festival tickets for life in exchange for ex-Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters' two-story inflatable pig, which was lost on Sunday night. Waters' signature pig was seen floating away during his closing set at the three-day Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival, held in the desert east of Los Angeles. The giant flying pig, part of Pink Floyd's stage show since their 1977 album "Animals" featuring the song "Pigs on the Wing," broke free from its tethers above the Coachella crowd and drifted off. It's not the first time Waters has lost his flying pig. Back in 1977, it floated away on the second day of a photo shoot at the Battersea Power Station in London and was later recovered and used for an album cover. Waters was a member of British rock band between 1965 and 1985. He and the band continued to use the pig as a stage prop even after he quit, and at Coachella Waters played classic Pink Floyd songs including "Mother," "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," "Have a Cigar" and "Dark Side of the Moon." Coachella was named one of the top three festivals in the country by music magazine Billboard. Last year, the festival attracted more than 186,000 music and art lovers, and grossed $16.2 million, according to the magazine. Anyone with information on the lost pig, should email lostpig@coachella.com.

Ethel Waters, Hawk, Roy, and Jo Jones were guest stars on an episode of the long-gone television series "Route 66". Does anyone know whether the soundtrack to that show ever made it onto LP or CD?

Recently, after reading Robert Gordon's biography on Muddy Waters, I got to thinking about how until about 1965 most blues and r'n'b artists worked on singles rather than distinct LP projects. Gordon, alas, doesn't include a sessionography in his book and so I've been trying to piece together Muddy's sessions during the transitional period from 1959-1968 when he did singles sessions and LP sessions (I don't need to research his pre-1959 work because I have the MCA/Chess complete sets covering that period). As part of that project, I've been trying to figure out which songs were actually released as singles (either a or b sides). I'm finding that a bit tricky though because the only good discographical resource I have is a book of singles ('78s and '45's) that made the r'n'b charts, but Muddy's singles stopped charting around 1959. My question: does anyone know of a resource (book or online database) that would provide data on the complete list of blues/r'n'b singles released by various companies during say 1920-1970? Failing that, does anyone know about such a resource covering just Chess Records or just Muddy Waters? Just to share my work on 1959-1968, this is what I have so far. I would be grateful for any corrections or suggestions about where to find better data. Notes: (1)the undated tracks marked with "?" are on the Muddy Waters Chess Box set but I don't know exactly what year they are from; (2) In the case of a single that was also on an LP (e.g., I Feel so Good) I have listed it twice if I know it appeared in both formats). ========================================== Muddy Waters Discography 1959-1968 1959 She's Into Somethin' I Feel So Good Walkin' Thru the Park ?: Take the Bitter with the Sweet ?: Blues Before Sunrise Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill Broonzy LP Tell Me Baby Southbound Train When I Get to Drinkin'/Thinkin' Just a Dream (On My Mind) Double Trouble I Feel So Good I Done Got Wise Mopper's Blues Lonesome Road Blues Hey Hey 1960 I Got My Brand on You Tiger in Your Tank Soon Forgotten Meanest Woman 1961 Lonesome Road/Room Blues ?: Twenty-Four Hours, ?: Elevate Me Mama 1962 The Muddy Waters Twist You Shook Me You Need Love 1963 Five Long Years She'll be Coming Around the Mountain [More?] Folk Singer LP My Home is in the Delta Long Distance Call My Captain Good Morning Little School Girl You're Gonna Need My Help Cold Weather Blues Big Leg Woman Country Boy Feel Like Goin' Home My Love Strikes Like Lightning ?: So Glad I'm Living ?: You Don't Have to Go 1964 The Same Thing You Can't Lose What You Never Had Things That I used to Do My John the Conqueror Root Short Dress Woman Put Me in Your Lay Away 1965 1966 Muddy, Brass & Blues LP Corrina, Corrina Piney Brown Blues Black Night Trouble in Mind Going Back to Memphis Betty and Dupree Sweet Little Angel Take My Advice Trouble Hard Loser My Dog Can't Bark [session with Clarinets?] 1967They Call Me Muddy Waters (Tracks from many earlier sessions) LP When the Eagle Flies Crawling King Snake County Jail It's All Over Bird Nest on the Ground They Call Me Muddy Waters Find Yourself Another Fool Kinfolk's Blues Making Friends Blind Man Blues Two Steps Forward Howlin' Wolf 1968 Electric Mud LP I Just Wanna Make Love to You (I'm Your) Hoochie Koochie Man Let's Spend the Night Together She's Allright Mannish Boy Herbert Harper's Free Press News Tom Cat The Same Thing

From the Henry Grimes website: Saturday, March 4th: Henry Grimes & Patty Waters, Kunstencentrum Belgie, Burgemeester Bollenstraat 54-56+, 35OO Hasselt, Belgium, + 32 (O)11 22 41 61, www.kraak.net/festival2006, belgie@skynet.be; Tuesday, March 7th: Henry Grimes & Patty Waters, Les Sept Lezards, 1O rue des Rosiers, Mo St. Paul (le Marais), Paris, France, + 33 (O)1 48 87 O8 97, www.7lezards.com, info@7lezards.com; Wednesday, March 8th: Henry Grimes & Patty Waters, Marc Fevre & Benedicte Bucher's gallery, 14 rue Jules Valles, 75O11 Paris, France, + 33 (O)1 43 73 53 46, MoratLaurent@yahoo.com; That should be interesting!

A friend sent me this recently, so I thought I'd pass it on:

Has anyone heard anything about this? Sounds interesting. Muddy Waters Authorized Bootleg: Live at the Fillmore Auditorium - San Francisco Nov 04-06 1966

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For Sale or Trade: Chess Box sets, all in great condition and complete with box and book. Prices as marked, though I am very happy to trade instead. Chuck Berry $25 Bo Diddley $22 Muddy Waters $30

Muddy Waters Daughter Arrested in Fla. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: March 12, 2004 Filed at 4:36 p.m. ET GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- The daughter of blues artist Muddy Waters was arrested on murder charges Friday in the 1996 shooting of a man during a drug deal. Rosalind Morganfield, 34, surrendered to police after a warrant was issued for her arrest. Timothy Harrington, 19, was shot during a deal involving three pounds of marijuana, authorities said. His remains were found in 2000. The identification of Harrington's remains led detectives to focus on Waters' daughter and David Myhand, 38. Police did not say what tied them to the crime. Morganfield and Myhand were charged with first-degree murder and could get the death penalty. Myhand was arrested Wednesday and jailed without bail. It was not immediately known if Morganfield had a lawyer. Muddy Waters died in 1983.

... which color must have the label of the original usa lp muddy waters "electric mud" ?? i think the cover you find in black or white ?! (whats the difference?) it was released on the cadet concept label, right ? thanks for your help !!! tom