At the recording session for the new Elton John/Leon Russell album, how did producer T Bone Burnett break the ice in the studio? He played this clip (“Didn’t It Rain,” 2:20). Mahalia Jackson, “Everybody Talkin’ ‘Bout Heaven,” “Didn’t It Rain,” “The Lord’s Prayer,” live, Newport Jazz Festival (Newport, Rhode Island), 1958 Want more? Here. ********** [...]
Archive for October 2010
Sunday, 10/31/10
10/31/2010Saturday, 10/30/10
10/30/2010Happy Birthday, Brownie! Clifford Brown, October 30, 1930-June 26, 1956 “Oh, Lady Be Good,” “Memories of You,” live (TV broadcast [Soupy's On, Detroit]), 1955 ***** Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet (Clifford Brown, trumpet; Max Roach, drums; Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone; Richie Powell, piano; George Morrow, bass) Live, “Get Happy” ***** Live, Virginia (Norfolk, Continental Restaurant), 6/18/1956 [...]
Friday, 10/29/10
10/29/2010two takes Hockey, “Song Away” [T]he video . . . is one of the funniest, warmest, and most socially accurate (the way the geeky kid looks at a row of the coolest girls in school as if they’re from another planet) high-school movies ever made. —Greil Marcus, The Believer, 9/10 ***** Live, England (Reading), 2009
Thursday, 10/28/10
10/28/2010So many ideas and so much feeling, so much energy and so much technique—it’s a wonder he doesn’t burst apart at the seams. Jaki Byard, June 15, 1922-February 11, 1999 Live (with Reggie Workman, bass; Alan Dawson, drums), Germany (Berlin), 1965 Part 1 (“Free Improvisation”) *** Part 2 (with Earl Hines, “Rosetta”) Want more of [...]
Wednesday, 10/27/10
10/27/20101961 Newton Minow, Chair of the FCC, proclaims TV a “vast wasteland.” 1964 CBS News asks, with a straight face, what jazz “reveals” about “the nature of man” (God, too). Lennie Tristano Quintet (Lennie Tristano, piano; Lee Konitz, alto saxophone; Warne Marsh, tenor saxophone; Sonny Dallas, bass; Nick Stabulas, drums), “Subconscious Lee,” live, New York [...]
Tuesday, 10/26/10
10/26/2010two takes “Exit Music (For A Film)” Radiohead, live *** Brad Mehldau Trio, live, San Francisco
Monday, 10/25/10
10/25/2010The story behind their new album is a sweet one. Elton John & Leon Russell Making The Union (2010) ***** Live (TV broadcast [Good Morning America], with Marc Ribot, guitar), New York (Beacon Theatre), 10/20/10 Part 1 (music begins at 4:10), “If It Wasn’t For Bad” *** Part 2, “Hearts Have Turned To Stone,” “Tiny [...]
Sunday, 10/24/10
10/24/2010Here’s more of the late Albertina Walker. “Lord, Remember Me,” live *** “I’m Still Here” (joined by Delores Washington), live, 1998, Philadelphia Want more? Here. ********** lagniappe Here’s a better clip from this service than the one posted last Sunday (now deleted). Aretha Franklin, “I’ll Fly Away,” live, Homegoing Service for Albertina Walker, Chicago (West [...]
Saturday, 10/23/10
10/22/2010Your 16-year-old daughter dies, suddenly, in a car accident. What do you do? If you’re pianist/composer Kenny Werner, what you do is create music. Kenny Werner, No Beginning No End (featuring Joe Lovano, tenor saxophone), recording session, New York (NYU), 2009
Friday, 10/22/10
10/22/2010two takes “Driftin’ Blues” Paul Butterfield Blues Band (including Elvin Bishop, guitar), live, California (Monterey), 1967 ***** Charles Brown, 1945 ********** lagniappe mail Thanks so much for sending me this link. It was a thrill for me to be a part of the tribute concert for Albertina. I really dig the Blackwell clips also! —Juli [...]
