ghost of miles Posted July 31, 2003 Report Share Posted July 31, 2003 I'm pretty sure we had a thread like this back on--where the hell did we come from again?? Anyway--I started compiling a list this morning: Hugh Masekala on the Byrds' "So You Wanna Be a Rock 'n Roll Star" Sonny Rollins on the Rolling Stones' "Waiting on a Friend" Phil Woods on Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" Chet Baker on Elvis Costello's "Shipbuilding" Curtis Amy on the Doors' "Touch Me" (is this correct? I know he or somebody else from the Pac Jazz scene showed up on some Doors' records) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted August 1, 2003 Report Share Posted August 1, 2003 Two Lou Reed recordings spring to mind. Don Cherry on "The Bells" and Ornette Coleman on the recent "The Raven". Lou obviously has an affinity for the free jazz giants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted August 1, 2003 Report Share Posted August 1, 2003 Tony Williams, Ernie Watts, John Klemmer, Larry Carlton & Milt Holland, among others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 1, 2003 Report Share Posted August 1, 2003 Zoot Sims on Laura Nyro's 'Lonely Women'. Ornette Coleman on French singer Claude Nougaro 'Gloria' Chet Baker on French singer Jean-Jacques Goldman 'Parler d'mavie' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted August 1, 2003 Report Share Posted August 1, 2003 Talking of Cameos - Miles is on Cameo's - Machismo LP - i think the tracks called 'In the Night' & hes on a Scritti Polliti LP i think its called Provision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie87 Posted August 1, 2003 Report Share Posted August 1, 2003 The Steely Dan comment above reminded me that Chris Potter played on "Two Against Nature". John Scofield was on Gov't Mule's "Deep End" Volumes I & II, and on Lettuce's "Lettuce Outta Here". Herbie Hancock has been on a few things. He was on the Duran Duran spinoff album, Arcadia. And he was also on some Neil Diamond records, as well as Mick Jagger's "She's the Boss", and Bonnie Raitt's "Nick of Time". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted August 1, 2003 Report Share Posted August 1, 2003 I remember a Johnny Nash record with Herbie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catesta Posted August 1, 2003 Report Share Posted August 1, 2003 Stan Getz on a 1988 Huey Lewis record "Small World." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catesta Posted August 1, 2003 Report Share Posted August 1, 2003 Paul Desmond with Art Garfunkel in 1977 on Watermark. Chet Baker did some shit with Elvis Costello. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catesta Posted August 1, 2003 Report Share Posted August 1, 2003 You can find McCoy Tyner on this one. Might not be a huge stretch since it is supposed to be blues, but Jim Belushi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 2, 2003 Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 Zoot on Phoebe Snow's "Poetry Man". Very nice. Curtis Amy can also be heard on Carol King's "It's Too Late". Fathead - too many to mention, but his half-chorus obligatto on Donny Hathaway's version of "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" (on EXTENSIONS OF A MAN) is beyond my capacity to describe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 2, 2003 Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 Oh yeah - Stan Getz on "Girl From Ipanema"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted August 2, 2003 Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 Speaking of Tim Hardin - "Bird on a Wire" - Joe Zawinul - Sam Brown - Ralph Towner - Glen Moore - Miroslav Vitous - Al Mouzon - Mike Manieri - Colin Wolcott I have this album, but not knowing it that well, it certainly appears that there are one or more cuts each with [early] Weather Report and Oregon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted August 2, 2003 Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 Richard Davis, Connie Kay, and a few others on Van Morrison's Astral Weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted August 2, 2003 Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 While Shorter was mentioned with Joni Mitchell, you forgot to mention that Jaco Pastorius played bass on "Hejira," "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter," and "Mingus." Jaco really makes those albums, by the way. Chet Baker was mentioned on Costello's "Shipbuilding." Ray Brown played bass on parts of the Costello "King of America" album. Costello's recollection of meeting Brown is pretty funny. In the liner notes to the Rykodisk reissue of "KoA," Costello talks about how he and producer T-Bone Burnett met Brown after a long flight to LA. Burnett mentioned that the airplane had been playing some of the Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong Verve recording during boarding, and mused aloud that no one made records that good anymore. Brown mentioned that he had played on those recordings. "Oh, yeah," Costello said, "And now we're going to make my stupid little record." Costello figured that most of these musicians who guested with him regarded him as some "limey millionaire who just liked playing with his musicial heroes." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swinging Swede Posted August 2, 2003 Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 Hubert Laws on Morcheeba's version of Summertime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate Dorward Posted August 6, 2003 Report Share Posted August 6, 2003 If I remember rightly the point of the anecdote in connection with King of America was that Costello & Burnett were wondering aloud how the rhythm section & Ella were so tight on those discs.....without cluing in to the fact that Ray Brown & Ella were married at the time. Re: the thread topic: Rhodri Davies with Charlotte Church & the Cinematic Orchestra. Evan Parker has racked up a few pop appearances with Robert Wyatt, Scott Walker & others, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted August 6, 2003 Report Share Posted August 6, 2003 Baritonist Ronnie Ross on Lou Reed's 'Take a Walk on the Wild Side'. Great solo ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted August 6, 2003 Report Share Posted August 6, 2003 Lee Konitz is on the the new Elvis Costello CD - North. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted November 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2005 Noticed a couple of folks viewing this thread this morning... I ended up doing a Night Lights show called "Jazz Cameos", and will probably do a sequel sometime in the next year: Jazz Cameos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted November 28, 2005 Report Share Posted November 28, 2005 It's probably been mentioned before, but Victor Feldman played on several 70's Steely Dan albums, and Phil Woods, I believe, did the sax solo on "Dr. Wu." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted November 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2005 It's probably been mentioned before, but Victor Feldman played on several 70's Steely Dan albums, and Phil Woods, I believe, did the sax solo on "Dr. Wu." Yep--I'll be playing a cut or two of SD on the sequel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosco Posted November 28, 2005 Report Share Posted November 28, 2005 I remember a couple of years back a friend of mine playing a David Sylvian (ex of 80s New Romantic band Japan) album when my ears were drawn to some beautiful trumpet playing. Unmistakably Kenny Wheeler. Don't remember the name of the Sylvian album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 28, 2005 Report Share Posted November 28, 2005 after comming across this posting, i was obiligated to sign up simply to post: why hasnt anyone mentioned Mr. Barney Kessel? he not only made many jazz lps for my favorite record label, but also recorded with Elvis on all his early RCA sides, such as love me tender; with Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys on their Pets sounds lp and during the legendary Smile sessions; he also was THE key elment to phil spectors wall of sound- playing on most of the Phillies label hits (as well as the more jazz orientied b-sides)- Phil even once said: "no barney, no phil"!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertrand Posted November 29, 2005 Report Share Posted November 29, 2005 (edited) Wayne Shorter on: Steely Dan - Aja Rolling Stones - one track from Bridges To Babylon (possibly How Can I Stop?) Don Henley - The End Of The Innocence Also, tracks with Bruce Hornsby and Colin James Hay And of course, he's been on every Joni Mitchell album since 1978 (Don Juan's Reckless Daughter) Bertrand. Edited November 29, 2005 by bertrand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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