So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

[BillF]

2 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

 

[HutchFan]

More Basie:

[Bluesnik]

Great David Stone Martin cover art.

[Peter Friedman]

[ghost of miles]

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

Some of my favorite OP comes from that particular run of MPS albums.

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

[BillF]

[Referentzhunter]

[BillF]

[BillF]

[John Tapscott]

7 hours ago, BillF said:

 

Now:  

w. Jim Hall, Steve Swallow, Pete La Roca    - excellent    

[Big Beat Steve]

28 minutes ago, BillF said:

Amazing to see how often this photograph has ben recycled.

Below:

Top - cover of JAZZ HOT, January 1960 (the original issue of that pic),
bottom - cover of SOUL BAG special issue with John Lee Hooker discography (published in October 2001)

Does the ACE booklet cedit the photographer (Jacques Demêtre)? Hope they pay his estate the royalties due.

 

Edited August 14, 2021 by Big Beat Steve

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

[ghost of miles]

2 hours ago, BillF said:

A favorite! Most of the recordings made in the backroom of a record store, iirc?

Right now: Paul Bley’s Reality Check.

Edited August 14, 2021 by ghost of miles

[Chuck Nessa]

[jlhoots]

Henry Franklin: The Skipper At Home (Black Jazz CD reissue)

[kh1958]

Brandee Younger, Somewhere Different (Impulse)

Edited August 14, 2021 by kh1958

[John Tapscott]

[BillF]

3 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.

Edited August 14, 2021 by BillF

[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.