McCoy Tyner “Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit”

Another version, of McCoy Tyner's "Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit", different from the one posted in 2018, which was from 1970.  This particular rendition of the tune shared by Jazz Video Guy (Bret Primack), is from the 1973 Montreux Jazz Festival and features McCoy Tyner on piano, Azar Lawrence on tenor saxophone, Arthur "Juini" Booth, on bass (he has spelled his nickname a number of different ways over the years and may be referred to as Junie Booth on some recordings), and Alphonse Mouzon on drums.  This recording is taken, from June 7th, 1973. 

Soft Machine "Bundles"

For Full Album Friday, this week, it is Soft Machine, and the "Bundles" record, their eighth studio release that dropped back in 1975.

1. Hazard Profile Part 1
2. Hazard Profile Part 2
3. Hazard Profile Part 3
4. Hazard Profile Part 4
5. Hazard Profile Part 5

Grant Green "Idle Moments"

The title track to jazz guitar legend Grant Green's 1963 Blue Note record, this is "Idle Moments".  The band lineup for this chilled out jazz masterpiece is:

Grant Green: guitar
Joe Henderson: tenor saxophone
Bobby Hutcherson: vibraphone
Bob Cranshaw: double bass
Duke Pearson: piano
Al Harewood: drums

Blind Faith "Had To Cry Today"

Another song from their first live performance at Hyde Park in London on June 9th, 1969, here's Blind Faith with "Had To Cry Today".

Jan Garbarek "Hasta Siempre"

Jan Garbarek plays his composition "Hasta Siempre" live in concert. 

Joe Bonamassa "Blues of Desperation"

From his CD/DVD release "Live at The Sydney Opera House" in Sydney, Australia, here's Joe Bonamassa with "Blues of Desperation". 

Skip's Spotify Sunday 11-24-19

Ghost-Note "Fortified"

1. Conversations
2. Ewe (ay-way)
3. Deep Felix
4. Reduction
5. Go Go Gadget
6. Joshua Johnson
7. Galaxe Interlude
8. Beastie
9. Jungle Boogie
10. Ja-make-ya Dance
11. Frogger
12. Can't Get Right
13. Thing of Gold  

Ghost-Note "Swagism"

Disc 1

1. Jibble Jabble
2. Swagism (feat. Nigel Hall: keyboards & vocals)
3. Pace Maker (feat. Bobby Sparks: keyboards)
4. Fragile (feat. Phil Lassiter: trumpet)
5. Weedie B. Good (feat. Karl Denson: tenor saxophone, & Weedie Braimah: djembe)
6. Milkshake
7. Smack 'Em (feat. Brandon "Taz" Niederauer: guitar)
8. Lookin' at The World (feat. So So Topic: rapping)
9. Shrill Tones (feat. Justin Stanton: trumpet)

Disc 2

1. Dry Rub
2. Bawllz
3. No More Silence (feat. Kamasi Washington: tenor saxophone & Prudence TheAuset Sneed: poetry)
4. What's Next (feat. Rico Sisney: rapping)
5. Funk You Mothafunka
6. Nod to Dilla (feat. Ernie G.: rapping)
7. The Lone Angel (feat. Elise Testone: vocals)
8. Nigel Duke
9. Trifelife

The String Cheese Incident (feat. Jim Lauderdale) “Stories For Another Day”

Another new tune from String Cheese Incident, and the SCI Sound Lab.  This is called “Stories For Another Day”, featuring Jim Lauderdale on vocals.

Airto "Identity"

Airto Moreira's 1975 record "Identity" in full.  Check it out on another edition of Full Album Friday.  The track listing:

1. The Magicians
2. Tales From Home
3. Identity
4. Encounter (Encontro No Bar)
5. Wake Up Song (Baiao Do Acordar)
6. Mae Cambina
7. Flora On My Mind

Elvin Jones "The Children's Merry Go Round"

Jazz drumming maestro Elvin Jones, and his quartet, featuring two saxophones, plays "The Children's Merry Go Round".  The band lineup is:

Elvin Jones, drums; Steve Grossman, saxophone; David Liebman, saxophone, Gene Perla, bass.

The video is from Jazz Video Guy, Brett Primack, on YouTube.  

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown & Carlos Santana "The Drifter"

From the 2004 Montreux Jazz Festival, here's Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, playing his blues shuffle "The Drifter", with Carlos Santana.

Frank Zappa "The Black Page"

From a performance in Barcelona, Spain, in 1988, here is Frank Zappa with "The Black Page".

FZ--lead guitar
Ike Willis--guitar
Mike Keneally--guitar/synth
Bobby Martin--keyboards
Ed Mann--percussion
Walt Fowler--trumpet
Bruce Fowler--trombone
Paul Carman--alto sax
Albert Wing--tenor sax
Kurt McGettrick--baritone sax
Scott Thunes--bass
Chad Wackerman--drums

Lettuce "Get Greasy"

A live performance on the eTown podcast by Lettuce of "Get Greasy", the second track from their 2015 "Crush" record, that was featured in the listing for Spotify Sunday, yesterday. 

Skip's Spotify Sunday 11-17-19

Lettuce - Singles

"Yakitori"
"Don't Be Afraid To Try" (feat. Alecia Chakour: vocals)

Lettuce "Lost In Flight (The Fly Outtakes)"

1. Double Header
2. Dr. Digglesworf
3. Pep 'n Step

Lettuce "Shhh/Peaceful" (Miles Davis cover)

"Shhh/Peaceful"

Lettuce "Krewe"

Krewe

Lettuce "Everybody Wants To Rule The World"

Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Tears For Fears cover)

Lettuce "Outta Here"

1. Outta Here
2. The Dump
3. Squadlive
4. Back In Effect
5. Twisted
6. Superfred
7. Reunion
8. The Flu
9. Nyack
10. Hang Up Your Hangups (Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters cover)
11. Nyack - Live

Lettuce "Live In Tokyo"

1. Intro
2. Nyack
3. Break Out
4. The Dump
5. Kron Dutch
6. Reunion
7. Flu the Coop
8. 4 on 6 (Wes Montgomery cover)
9. Squadlive
10. Breakout Reprise

Lettuce "Rage!"

1. Blast Off!
2. Sam Huff's Flying Ragin' Machine
3. Move On Up
4. King Of The Burgs
5. Need To Understand
6. Last Suppit
7. Dizzer
8. Makin' My Way Back Home
9. Salute
10. Speak E.Z.
11. Express Yourself
12. Relax
13. By Any Shmeeans Necessary
14. Mr. Yancey

Lettuce "Fly"

1. Fly
2. Lettsanity
3. Ziggowatt
4. Madison Square
5. Bowler
6. Jack Flask
7. Do It Like You Do
8. Play
9. Let It Gogo
10. Slippin' Into Darkness (War cover)
11. The Crusher
12. Ghost of Jupiter

Lettuce "Crush"

1. The Force
2. Get Greasy
3. Chief
4. 'Lude 1
5. Phyllis
6. Sounds Like A Party (feat. Nigel Hall: keyboards & vocals)
7. The Lobbyist
8. 'Lude 2
9. Trillogy
10. Pocket Change
11. The New Reel
12. 'Lude 3
13. He Made A Woman Out of Me (feat. Alecia Chakour: vocals)
14. Silverdome
15. 'Lude 4
16. Let Bobby 

Lettuce "Whit's Picks Vol. 1 Live"

1. Blast Off (Live) 10/20/15, Omaha, NE
2. The Last Suppit (Live) 10/21/15, Lawrence, KS
3. Nyack (Live) 10/16/15, St. Louis, MO
4. Trillogy (Live) 10/17/15, Eureka, CA
5. Squadlive (Live) 1/22/16, Boston, MA
6. Chief (Live) 1/22/16, Boston, MA
7. Harmonic Jam: Slippin' Into Darkness (Live) 10/21/15, Lawrence, KS
8. Elephant Walk: Madison Square (Live) 10/24/15, Placerville, CA
9. Do It Like You Do (Live) 10/20/15, Omaha, NE

Lettuce "Mt. Crushmore"

1. Mt. Crushmore
2. 116th St.
3. 'Lude 5
4. Elephant Walk
5. Ransome
6. The Love You Left Behind
7. 'Lude 6

Lettuce "Witches Stew"

(This is a tribute album to Miles Davis' electric music from the 1960s and '70s)

1. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
2. Sivad
3. Shhh/Peaceful
4. Jean Pierre
5. In A Silent Way/It's About That Time
6. Right Now
7. Black Satin

Lettuce "Elevate"

1. Trapezoid
2. Royal Highness
3. Krewe
4. Shmink Dabby
5. Everybody Wants to Rule The World (Tears For Fears cover)
6. Gang Ten
7. Ready To Live
8. Larimar
9. Love Is Too Strong (feat. Marcus King: guitar & vocals)
10. Purple Cabbage
11. Trapezoid Dub

The Spencer Davis Group "When A Man Loves A Woman"

The Spencer Davis Group, with Steve Winwood on lead vocals, covering "When A Man Loves A Woman", a classic soul song, originally made famous by Percy Sledge, and written by the duo of Andrew James Wright and Calvin Houston Lewis. 

James Carter Quartet "Jurassic Classics"

Another one for Full Album Friday.  Here is the James Carter Quartet with the record "Jurassic Classics" released in 1994, 25 years ago.  These are his interpretations on classic jazz standards.  The track listing:

1. Take The "A" Train

2. Out Of Nowhere

3. Epistrophy

4. Ask Me Now

5. Equinox

6. Sandu

7. Oleo

The Quartet lineup:

Bass – Jaribu Shahid

Drums – Tani Tabbal

Piano – Craig Taborn

Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – James Carter  

Jaco Pastorius (feat. Mike Stern) "Mood Swings"

From the Jaco Pastorius Anthology, and featuring Mike Stern on guitar, Bob Berg on tenor saxophone, Mitchell Forman on keyboards, and Steve Jordan on drums, here's the track "Mood Swings".

The Black Crowes Reveal New Lineup and 2020 Tour Dates

A band that yours truly saw in concert, on a couple of occasions, over a decade ago, The Black Crowes, are back in business.

https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/29629-the-black-crowes-reveal-new-lineup-and-2020-tour-dates?utm_source=Premier+Guitar&utm_campaign=6143f6ff41-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_12_09_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93db14e670-6143f6ff41-66082997&goal=0_93db14e670-6143f6ff41-66082997&mc_cid=6143f6ff41&mc_eid=da7d09ee5c

Van Morrison & John Lee Hooker "Serves Me Right To Suffer"

From their album "The Blues Sessions", here's the late, great John Lee Hooker, and Van Morrison, with "Serves Me Right To Suffer".

Larry Coryell "The Great Escape"

Another great tune, from the late, great jazz guitar maestro, Larry Coryell.  This is "The Great Escape", composed by Coryell and released on his 1971 BMG album "Barefoot Boy".

Larry Coryell - Guitar
Steve Marcus - Alto Sax
Lawrence Killian - Congas
Roy Haynes - Drums
Harry Wilkinson - Percusion
Mervin Bronson - Bass

Armando Peraza Septet "Call To Arms"

From the album "Soul of Jazz Percussion" released in 1960, here's the Armando Peraza Septet, with the tune "Call To Arms".  Peraza was a Latin Jazz percussionist, who later on after this record was made, was also a member of Carlos Santana's band.  Stay tuned, as there is at least one more tune from this record that yours truly will share. 

Sounds Like A Party: Ghost Note & Lettuce at First Avenue 11-8-19

A nod to a tune they did not play in their repertoire Friday night at First Avenue, but, nonetheless, the famed Minneapolis venue was the place to be for some real funk, as Ghost Note and Lettuce played a double bill show.  Ghost Note, was up first, a group yours truly has heard of for the first time.  They are a funky sextet, made up of the rhythm section from Snarky Puppy, percussionists Robert "Sput" Searight and Nate Werth. So many of the musicians in this group, have played with some real heavy hitters in the world of music, from the genres of pop, hip hop, jazz, and more.  Members of Ghost Note have played with the likes of Prince, Snoop Dogg, Erykah Badu, Herbie Hancock, Kendrick Lamar, Toto, Justin Timberlake, and Marcus Miller.

Their instrumental jams, including a tight rhythm section, layered with a horn section, got the crowd into dance mode and made for an energetic opening set for at least 45 minutes if not more.  Yours truly, plans to check out, Ghost Note, so, you will be hearing lots more about them on the blog in due time.  "Swagism", the title track of their new record, had to be the major tune of the evening.  Here is the band's website.  Take a look at the rotating cast of members of the group, and you will see that they've played with a massive variety of different artists.

https://www.ghost-note-official.com/#band-section

After Ghost Note's explosive opening set, the funk was brought even more, with Lettuce.  They too, have had a revolving cast of musicians through the group.  The band name comes from three definitions of Lettuce (i.e., the vegetable, and prime ingredient in a salad, slang for both cash, and a green herb that can be smoked (i.e. marijuana), and a genre bending, funky, jam heavy band that brings it's fans to the party, and last night at First Avenue, delivered the funk, in spades.  There have been rotating casts of members of the group.  Last night's concert at First Avenue, included the current core lineup.  Adam Deitch on drums, Adam "Shmeens" Smirnoff, on guitar, Eric "Jesus" Coomes on bass, the horn section duo of Ryan Zoidis on saxophones (alto, tenor, and baritone) and synthesizer (Zoidis plays a Korg X-911 synth, and occasionally, an ARP Odyssey), and trumpeter  Eric "Benny" Bloom, and on vocals and keyboards (Hammond B3, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Clavinet, synths), the one and the only, Nigel Hall.

Bringing the funk is one part of Lettuce, but, like many bands that have come before them, jamming is the other part, and that's what they did.  A fair number of the tunes, were instrumental jams.  Yours truly went with the flow in digging the show last night and just listened to the funk the guys were putting down for the whole evening, which got the crowd on it's feet and dancing.  One of Lettuce's songs (which they did not play at First Ave.), is called "Sounds Like A Party".  Well, it was a party indeed, and fans seemed to really, really dig it.  If you want to boogie, get down and dance the night away, with a mega dose of funk, Lettuce, is definitely your band and your jam.

https://www.lettucefunk.com/

It was a fun evening of music at First Avenue, to be sure.  Stay tuned.  There's lots more to come from Ghost Note, and from Lettuce, in the coming weeks.  Yours truly, has been inspired.

Friendship (feat. Lee Ritenour) "Friendship" (1979)

40 years ago, this album was released.  The band is called Friendship.  The poster on YouTube, Viniciustlc explains.

There is a lot of confusion with the classification of Friendship as a band, everything I can find indicates this is mainly a Lee Ritenour's album, even in his official site is registered as a continuation of his first "Friendship" solo album ( http://leeritenour.com/cds/friendship-2/ ), but in the back-cover of the album it says they are an actual stand-alone band and calls this a "debut album", so who knows.

The audio was converted from 320kbs MP3 tracks (it was the best quality available for this album, it is kinda hard to find) into a single FLAC and it was combined with the video using MKVToolNix to assure the best audio quality by avoiding any possible losses by re-compressing in the video editor, I know YouTube might downgrade the quality (which I think is not the case anymore since they adopted the opus codec) but I want to be sure.

Taken from this release: https://www.discogs.com/Lee-Ritenour-...

1. Bullet Train 0:00
2. Tighten Up 5:24
3. The Situation 10:36
4. Let's Not Talk About It 15:11
5. Here Today Here Tomorrow 20:08
6. Waterwings 25:31
7. The Real Thing 32:26

Lester Young "Mean To Me"

A rare Lester Young performance of "Mean To Me" on "Art Ford's Jazz Party", September 25, 1958. Broadcast by Danmarks Radio.  Sound portion originally released as Enigma 301.

Joe and Sco: Joe Henderson Meets John Scofield

From Jazz Video Guy on YouTube, an interview with two jazz legends.  The late, great, Joe Henderson, and guitarist extraordinaire, John Scofield.

9/3/96: Guitarist John Scofield and Joe Henderson met with Bret Primack for an interview that would become an article for JazzTimes magazine. Bret documented the interview on a Sony High 8 camcorder and the tapes sat in his archives for fifteen years. While transferring some content for another video, Bret discovered the lost interview, found the content quite interesting, and decided to post it here, in its entirety, even though the technical quality is not up to today's standards.

For more Sco: http://www.johnscofield.com
For more on Joe Henderson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hend...

Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention "King Kong"

The title of the video speaks for itself.  The featured song in the video is "King Kong" with keyboardist, Tom Dewilde, playing the role of the monster.  From Colour Me Pop, October 23, 1968.

Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder "Statesboro Blues"

Nashville, Tennessee, September, 2014 - Ry Cooder (Lead Guitar), Buddy Miller (Guitar), Don Was (Bass), Joachim Cooder (Drums), Tim Lauer(Piano), Taj Mahal (Guest Performer).

The Brecker Brothers "Sneakin' Up Behind You"

From their 1975 self-titled record here's The Brecker Brothers with "Sneakin' Up Behind You".

In Memoriam: Paul Barrere

We fondly remember, one of the founding members of Little Feat, the one and the only Paul Barrere, who passed away this past Tuesday, October 26th, at the age of 71.  Yours truly, saw Little Feat perform in Minneapolis, on October 7th, but sadly, it was without Paul Barrere's presence, as he was still fighting his illness at the time.  He will be remembered fondly as a founding member of Little Feat, a great singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

https://jambands.com/features/2019/10/30/remembering-paul-barrere-for-best-results-play-it-loud/

If you look at YouTube, you will see many, many full live Little Feat performances from their 2019 tour, featuring Paul.  Here, they play at the 2018 Peach Music Festival, performing "Spanish Moon" with moe., the Turkuaz horns and the Midnight Ramble Band horns.  This one is in remembrance of you, Mr. Paul Barrere.  We will miss you, but your music, lives on, forever.  

Stanley Clarke & George Duke "The Clarke/Duke Project II."

The second of a trilogy of albums including collaboration between George Duke and Stanley Clarke.  The Clarke/Duke Project II. was released in 1983.

The track listing:

1. Put It On The Line
2. Heroes
3. Try Me Baby
4. Every Reason To Smile
5. Great Danes
6. The Good Times
7. You're Gonna Love It
8. Trip You In Love
9. Atlanta

This is the LP record version of the album.