So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Peter Friedman]

1 hour ago, BillF said:

I saw him in the 1960s accompanied by the youthful Yardbirds in a very small club in Leeds with a tiny audience and a few couples on the dance floor.

My wife and I saw him in a small club in Detroit in about 1965. 

 

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[duaneiac]

2 hours ago, BillF said:

I saw him in the 1960s accompanied by the youthful Yardbirds in a very small club in Leeds with a tiny audience and a few couples on the dance floor.

I saw John Lee Hooker perform only once, about two or three years before his passing.  It was an outdoor concert here in San Jose.  For most of the show, he left much of the heavy lifting to his band of the time, the Coast to Coast Blues Band.  It was kind of an underwhelming show until . . .  Near the end of the show, on one number (it might have been "Boom Boom"), as the song progressed, Mr. Hooker's vocal built and gained strength and momentum until there was a brief 30-45 second segment which was absolutely and literally spell-binding.  In that brief time it seemed he had total command of both his abilities and that audience.  It was a memorable musical experience.

[Rabshakeh]

Mario Schiano - De Dé (Splasch)

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

[JSngry]

5 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

Groove Hut CD reissue that also includes Willette's other Argo LP, Mo' Rock

 

Edited August 15, 2021 by HutchFan

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

You know the OG Exodus gatefold LP cover of that one, right? One of the true natural wonders of it's time!

[HutchFan]

 

 

 

58 minutes ago, JSngry said:

You know the OG Exodus gatefold LP cover of that one, right? One of the true natural wonders of it's time!

Yessir, I do.  

 

[JSngry]

There ya' go!

[BillF]

20 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

My wife and I saw him in a small club in Detroit in about 1965. 

 

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And I saw the Muddy Waters band in 1969 at the unlikely setting of the Batley Variety Club as part of a triple package with a gospel group (Stars of Faith?) and the Horace Silver Quintet with the Brecker brothers and Billy Cobham. Liked the Silver group so much I travelled 200 miles to London to see them again at Scott's later that week.

Edited August 15, 2021 by BillF

[Rabshakeh]

Tony Scott - Golden Moments (Muse, 1982)

[BillF]

[HutchFan]

Hodges on "Multicolored Blue" ... Sublime.

 

[Peter Friedman]

[Joe]

[Teasing the Korean]

19 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

That album cover terrified me the first time I saw it!  

On 8/13/2021 at 4:19 AM, BillF said:

Eat that chicken!  

It has become a Thanksgiving tradition to spin this album on Wednesday night during dinner prep. 

[BillF]

18 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

That album cover terrified me the first time I saw it!  

Eat that chicken!  

 

When I hear that track I recall that during one of Roland Kirk's seasons at Ronnie Scott's in the 60s he spend a lot of time in Dobell's Jazz Record shop, leaning on the counter and demanding to hear one Fats Waller record after another. 

[Teasing the Korean]

1 hour ago, BillF said:

When I hear that track I recall that during one of Roland Kirk's seasons at Ronnie Scott's in the 60s he spend a lot of time in Dobell's Jazz Record shop, leaning on the counter and demanding to hear one Fats Waller record after another. 

Wow!

Some quiet, rainy day jazz is on deck for today:

• Paul Desmond - Polka Dots & Moonbeams (RCA)
• Phones Newborn - While My Lady Sleeps (RCA)
• Stan Getz Plays for Lovers (Concord Jazz)
• Guitar Moods by Mundell Lowe (Riverside)

[jazzcorner]

MGM Records MM 2084 - Leonard Feather presents " Hot Versus Cool (A)" & "Cats versus Chicks (B)" - rec. A 1952 & B 1954

 

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, BillF said:

When I hear that track I recall that during one of Roland Kirk's seasons at Ronnie Scott's in the 60s he spend a lot of time in Dobell's Jazz Record shop, leaning on the counter and demanding to hear one Fats Waller record after another. 

Wow ....

Edited August 15, 2021 by soulpope

[jazzcorner]

12 hours ago, BillF said:

   great LP

Bill Holman was in the 1980ies one of the leaders of the WDR Big Band in Cologne along with Mel Lewis and played many of his great  compositions the first time here in Germany, sometime  first a rehearshed studio version and then a public concert. Everything transmitted by german radio Cologne (WDR)

At that time the WDR big band had no regular drummer so Mel sat in very often also with other US guests. Great times will never come back!

Edited August 15, 2021 by jazzcorner
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[Peter Friedman]