Lachy Doley Live at Studio 301, Sydney, Australia

The full concert by Lachy Doley for Full Concert Friday on this New Year's Eve.  Here are all the show details, as written by the man himself, about the show.  

On April 21, 2021 (my 43rd B'day) I put on a very special show at Sydney's iconic STUDIOS 301 whereby I invited 20 local fans to come and witness. I got together 13 of my favourite musicians/friends to create this dream lineup including a horn section, a vocal section and more. It was an unforgettable celebration spanning music from almost every album plus a few new ones. The concert turned out so amazing I decided to release it as an album. You can purchase this album here on VINYL/CD or download at https://lachydoley.com/301 or Download my free best of album at https://lachydoley.com/freelp Lachy Doley - Hammond Organ, Whammy Clav, Lead Vocals Joel Burton - Bass Jackie Barnes - Drums, Backing Vocals Bek Jensen - Backing Vocals Juanita Tippens - Backing Vocals Ray Cassar - Trumpet Matt Keegan - Tenor Saxophone Anthony Kable - Trombone Andy Bickers - Baritone Saxophone Vincent Sebastion - Percussion SPECIAL GUESTS Mahalia Barnes - Backing Vocals and Lead Vocals on 'Love Come Around' Karen Lee Andrews - Lead Vocals on 'Get It While You Can' Clayton Doley - Piano Franco Raggatt - Guitar 00:00:00 *Introduction 00:01:42 Give it (But You Just Can't Take It) - written by Lachy Doley, Joel Burton, Jackie Barnes 00:07:59 Betcha I'll Getcha - written by Lachy Doley 00:11:57 Voodoo Child - written by Jimi Hendrix 00:17:56 Make It Up - written by Lachy Doley 00:23:05 *Talking 00:24:11 Get It While You Can (feat. Karen Lee Andrews) - written by Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman 00:32:30 *Talking 00:33:05 Only Cure For The Blues Is The Blues - written by Lachy Doley 00:40:24 I'm A Man - written by Steve Winwood and Jimmy Miller 00:45:22 *Talking 00:46:10 Right Time (feat. Clayton Doley) - written by Clayton Doley 00:54:27 The Greatest Blues - written by Lachy Doley, Joel Burton, Jackie Barnes 01:00:26 A Woman - written by Lachy Doley, Joel Burton, Jackie Barnes 01:05:29 *Talking 01:06:13 Love Come Around (feat. Mahalia Barnes) - written by Lachy Doley and Roxanne Lebrasse 01:11:30 *Talking 01:12:38 Six Feet Under - written by Lachy Doley 01:17:33 Conviction - written by Lachy Doley 01:24:52 *Talking 01:25:32 I Can See Clearly Now - written by Johnny Nash

Lachy Doley "Conviction"

 

The last tune from the Studio 301 Sessions by Lachy Doley.  Here is the epic soul ballad "Conviction".  A great way to round out the record and the journey of discovery a great band as we are close to rounding out the year that was 2021.  Dig this.  Let the soul wash over you.  Lachy Doley, preach it, man!  

Lachy Doley "Betcha I'll Getcha"

 

Lachy Doley's Hammond organ shuffle "Betcha I'll Getcha" featuring Matt Keegan on tenor saxophone.  Another tune from the Studio 301 Sessions.  

Phish "Mountains In The Mist"

 

From their show, two months ago, on October 26th, 2021, at the Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara, California, here is Phish with the ethereal, Grateful Dead-esque tune "Mountains In The Mist", featuring the foursome of Trey Anastasio on guitar and vocals, Page McConnell on piano and vocals, Mike Gordon on bass and vocals, and Jon Fishman on drums and vocals.  

Denny Zeitlin "What Is This Thing?"

 

Another video from Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.  From the 1983 Berlin Jazz Festival, here is solo piano by Denny Zeitlin, and his composition "What Is This Thing?"  

Frank Gambale "Sunny Summer Christmas"

 

I have always wanted to write a Christmas song in the traditional song style of the 40’s and 50’s. 

I grew up in Australian where Christmas was never snowy or cold but instead it was always summer and sunny! 

Many Christmas' in L.A. however, began to feel that way with its endless sunshine! 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of you. Here is my holiday gift especially for you 

‘A Sunny Summer Christmas’ . 

Enjoy! 

FG

Joe Bonamassa "Christmas Date Blues"

Merry Christmas!  Here is a stocking stuffer.  A boogie woogie for Christmas.  Joe Bonamassa performing "Christmas Date Blues".  

Vince Guaraldi Trio "The Best of Christmas"

 

Merry Christmas!  Full Album Friday on this Christmas Eve, and in that spirit, here is the Vince Guaraldi Trio with "The Best of Christmas".  So, this is also if there are any Peanuts or Charlie Brown fans out there.  The track listing is:

1. Hark The Herald Angels Sing

2. My Little Drum

3. O Tannenbaum

4. What Child Is This

5. Christmas Time Is Here (vocal)

6. Linus & Lucy

7. Skating

8. Fur Elise (Ludwig von Beethoven composition)

9. The Christmas Song

10. Christmas Time Is Here (vocal)

11. Christmas Time Is Here (instrumental)

Marshall Royal "The Midnight Sun Never Sets"

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.

The lead alto player from Count Basie's New Testament Band of the 50s and 60s, Marshall Royal, is featured on Quincy Jones' The Midnight Sun Never Sets.  From a 1965 BBC performance by the Count Basie Orchestra.

Wallace Davenport, Sonny Cohn, Al Aarons, Phil Guilbeau – trumpet

Grover Mitchell, Henderson Chambers, Al Grey – trombone

Bill Hughes – bass trombone

Marshal Royal – alto saxophone, clarinet

Bobby Plater – alto saxophone, flute, arranger

Eric Dixon – tenor saxophone, flute, arranger

Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis – tenor saxophone

Charlie Fowlkes – baritone saxophone

Count Basie – piano

Freddie Green – guitar

Norman Keenan – bass

Rufus Jones – drums

Lachy Doley "Make It Up"

 

A signature Lachey Doley tune, here is "Make It Up" once again from the Studio 301 Sessions.  Prepare for another explosion of Hammond organ virtuosity.  

Teddy Wilson

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.  A profile of swing era pianist, Teddy Wilson.  

Teddy Wilson was one of the swing era's finest pianists, a follower of Earl Hines' distinctive "trumpetstyle" piano playing. Wilson forged his own unique approach from Hines' influence, as well as from the styles of Art Tatum and Fats Waller. He was a truly orchestral pianist who engaged the complete range of his instrument, and he did it all in a slightly restrained, wholly dignified manner at the keyboard.

Raised in Tuskegee, Alabama, Wilson studied piano at nearby Talladega College for a short time. Among his first professional experiences were Chicago stints in the bands of Jimmie Noone and Louis Armstrong. In 1933, he moved to New York to join Benny Carter's band known as the Chocolate Dandies, and made records with the Willie Bryant band during 1934-35. In 1936, he became a member of Benny Goodman's regular trio, which included drummer Gene Krupa, and remained until 1939, participating on a number of Goodman's small group recordings. Wilson was the first African- American musician to work with Goodman, one of the first bandleaders to integrate a jazz band. Wilson later appeared as himself in the cinematic treatment of The Benny Goodman Story.

During his time with Goodman, Wilson made some of his first recordings as a leader. These records featured such greats as Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, and Ella Fitzgerald. Wilson's arrangements with Holiday in particular constitute some of the singer's finest work, mostly due to Wilson's ability to find the right sound to complement Holiday's voice and singing style.

Following his Goodman days, Wilson led his own big band for a short time, but most of his work came with his own small groups, particularly a sextet that played regularly at the famous Cafe Society in New York. In 1946, he was a staff musician at CBS Radio, and also conducted his own music school. During the early 1950s, he taught at the Juilliard School, one of the first jazz musicians to do so. Wilson's relationship with Goodman was his most noted, and was an ongoing factor in his work. He was part of Goodman's storied Soviet tour in 1962, and continued to work occasional festival gigs with the clarinetist.

Phish "Ruby Waves"

 

From their October 20th, 2021 show at the Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene, Oregon, here is Phish with their composition "Ruby Waves".  Trey, Page, Mike, and Jon, take it away.  

Phish "NICU"

 

From Phish's October 23rd, 2021 show at the North Island Credit Union Amphitheater in Chula Vista, California, here is "NICU" (maybe named for the acronym of the venue).  Some zany lyrics in this one.  

Mahavishnu Orchestra "Birds of Fire"

 

Re-posting what is the quadrophonic stereo mix of Mahavishnu Orchestra's legendary "Birds of Fire" record from 1973.  John McLaughlin on guitar, Jan Hammer on keyboards and synthesizers, Jerry Goodman on violin, Rick Laird on bass, and Billy Cobham on drums, make up the quintet that is Mahavishu Orchestra. Credit is due to John McLaughlin for composing all of the songs.   The track listing is:

1. Birds of Fire

2. Miles Beyond

3. Celestial Terrestrial Commuters

4. Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love

5. Thousand Island Park

6. Hope

7. One Word

8. Sanctuary

9. Open Country Joy

10. Resolution

Jimmy Owens Plays the Blues

 

From Highlights in Jazz, a tribute to Charlie Parker, in 1973, trumpeter Jimmy Owens plays the blues in a band that features, along with Owens, Richard Davis on bass, Roy Haynes on drums, and others.  

Lachy Doley (feat. Clayton Doley) "Right Time"

 

Lachy Doley's brother Clayton Doley joins him on piano for a tune the two of them wrote together for a band they had called The Hands, between 2002 and 2010.  This one is called "Right Time" and again it is from "The Studio 301 Sessions".  

Dizzy, Monk, and Blakey "Tin Tin Deo" (Tin Tin Deo, revisited)

 

Revisiting Dizzy Gillespie's composition, "Tin Tin Deo", which was also highlighted here, in 2019.  From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack, on YouTube.  

Tin Tin Deo (Gillespie) Giants of Jazz: Lucerna Hall, Prague, 10/30/71. Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet; Kai Winding, trombone; Sonny Stitt, saxophones; Thelonious Monk, piano; Al McKibbon, bass and Art Blakey, drums.

Widespread Panic (feat. Mike Mills) "Starman"

 

Another song from their 2019 show in New Orleans.  Here is Widespread Panic at the UNO Lakefront Arena playing a cover of David Bowie's "Starman" which is the last track from Bowie's 1972 seminal record "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars".  This performance features multi instrumentalist, Mike Mills, a founding member of the band R.E.M.  Mills plays guitar, piano, and bass, and is a vocalist.  Here, Mills plays rhythm guitar with Widespread Panic on this Bowie composition.  

In Memoriam: Barry Harris

 

We have lost another great of jazz piano, a week before what would have been his 92nd birthday.  Rest In Peace, Barry Harris.  From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack, here is the description of the video and who Barry Harris was.  Note, if you wish to dig this whole performance with Barry and his trio, the link is there in the description for you.  

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Barry Harris Trio. Live at Clasijazz (Almeria, 25/10/2014) featuring Bori Albero on bass and Jimmy Castro on drums. The entire concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_3SA... Barry Harris, a pianist who carefully preserved the language of bebop throughout a seven-decade career as a brilliant performer and influential teacher, died Wednesday December 8, 2021 at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, N.J. He was 91 and lived in Weehawken, N.J. in the home of Pannoica de Koenigswater, the Jazz Baroness and friend to many musicians of the Bebop era. Thelonious Monk spent his final years in the same house, alongside Barry. Mr, Harris had been hospitalized for the last two weeks and died of complications due to Covid. Barry Harris would have turned 92 next week and taught his last class, via Zoom, on Nov. 20. Dr. Barry Harris was an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator who, as a musician, became known for his virtuosity, marked by complex chord structures and speed of play. An exponent of the bebop style that became popular after World War II, he played with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Yusuf Lateef, Coleman Hawkins, Cannonball Adderley, Dexter Gordon, and Sonny Stitt, among many other musicians. Thelonius Monk, a close friend, and Charlie Parker are considered to be among Harris’s chief influences. Harris began piano lessons at age four, under his mother’s tutelage. He studied classical music throughout his youth until coming under the influence of Parker, whom he first heard in Detroit in the late 1940s. Harris’s family home became a salon for jazz musicians, his mother encouraging his newfound interest. He worked as a sideman, session player, and lead player in Detroit in the 1950s, when he played with such stars as Davis, Parker, and Sarah Vaughan. In 1960 Harris moved to New York, where he played regularly with Adderley and Hawkins. There Pannonica de Koenigswarter—the British scion of the Rothschild dynasty and patroness of the New York jazz scene, which dubbed her the “Jazz Baroness”—befriended Harris and introduced him to many luminaries, including pianist Monk. Harris lived with Monk at Konigswater’s house in Weehawken, New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, in the 1970s. In 1982 Harris founded Manhattan’s Jazz Cultural Theatre, a performance venue featuring famed jazz musicians as well as jam sessions and music classes for musicians young and old; he ran it until it closed in 1987. Harris also became renowned as an educator, teaching courses in jazz theory, piano, and voice at several schools and institutions in the New York area and delivering master classes and lectures throughout the world.

Reviewing The Beatles "Get Back" movie

In lieu of a Full Album or Full Concert Friday, this is a concert/movie review.  Just saw The Beatles "Get Back" documentary, streaming on the Disney+ platform.  Yours truly has seen myriads of concert DVD's or movies, not the least of which is The Band's "The Last Waltz" recorded on November 27th, 1976, Thanksgiving Day, 1976, at Winterland in San Francisco, California.  While that is a great live concert, "Get Back" is probably the best overall music documentary I have witnessed.  Going inside The Beatles' preparations for what would become their final performance, and seeing what their world looked like, the tension between Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, proves that while musicians are capable of great things, they are indeed human, just like everyone else.  

Seeing inside the walls of the studio, the process they went through to make sure their songs were exactly right, was very intriguing.  Surely, everyone is familiar with The Beatles' repertoire of so many timeless songs.  But seeing them working through the arrangements and doing things that every band on the planet goes through to get their show right, to get their recordings to be spot on, is a very cool experience, especially for people such as myself, who do work in that industry, within a studio setting.  The tension in the studio at first, when they cut tracks trying for the live album at Twickenham Studios, not feeling entirely comfortable and confident in that space.  Then, of course, they take their ideas entirely to a new studio at Apple Studios.

It seems that they are far more confident of what their musical objectives are when they transition from Twickenham to Apple, and once at Apple, they start hitting a real groove, bringing in keyboard master, Billy Preston to assist with the sessions and play primarily on Rhodes piano.  This documentary, if you've not seen it, though long and drawn out, is definitely worth your time.  It will open the eyes of those who may be music fans, Beatles fans, who may not entirely be familiar with how being in a band, or making records, works.  This documentary, "Get Back" is an incredible display of not only The Beatles' musical prowess in songwriting, and in musicianship, but is also an illustration of the experience of what it is like to be in a studio.  

Definitely go through the whole thing and watch closely what happens.  You'll be pleasantly surprised at the quality of this documentary.  Again, of the musical documentaries I have seen that profile performances by major rock bands of the golden era, this has to be the best of the lot.  It is definitely worth your time.  It is indeed worth a look, and you may be so into it, you'll want to watch it again and again, for all the music diehards out there.  

Lachey Doley "A Woman"

 

More from Lachy Doley and the Studio 301 Sessions.  Here is the song "A Woman".  This is soul blues and rhythm & blues at it's best with Lachy Doley tearing it up on vocals, whammy Clavinet, and Hammond organ.  Dig it!  

Gregg Allman "Don't Mess Up A Good Thing"

 

Today we celebrate what would have been Gregg Allman's 74th birthday, featuring a single from the 1973 "Laid Back" record.  Here is "Don't Mess Up A Good Thing".  Whether Gregg was performing with the Allman Brothers Band, or with his solo groups, he will forever be one of the greatest blues singers of all-time as well as one of the greatest Hammond organ and keyboard players who ever lived.  Check out this tune.  

Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon - Four Songs

 

This video premiered on Tuesday, October 5th, 2021.  The tour begins tomorrow, December 8th.  Should you have tickets for any of these shows, enjoy them.  The trio features Leo Kottke on acoustic guitar, Mike Gordon on bass, and Phish drummer, John Fishman, on drums.  The songs are "Disco", "How Many People Are You?" (featuring Mr. Fishman on the drums), "Sheets", and "Rings".  

Herbie Hancock "Hang Up Your Hang Ups"

 

From Herbie Hancock's 1975 "Man-Child" record, here is the opening track "Hang Up Your Hang Ups".  The band lineup is:

Herbie Hancock: keyboards & synthesizers, (Rhodes piano, Clavinet, ARP Odyssey & Soloist synthesizers, Oberheim synthesizer, synthesizer strings), vocals

Henry E. Davis: bass

Mike Clark: drums

Elvin Jones "P.P. Phoenix"

 

From his 1971 album "Genesis" here is Elvin Jones on drums with "P.P. Phoenix".  The featured quartet on this recording is Elvin Jones on drums, Gene Perla on bass, Dave Liebman and Joe Farrell on tenor and soprano saxophones, and Frank Foster on tenor saxophone and alto flute.  

Zoot Sims (feat. Scott Hamilton) "It Had To Be You"

 

A double whammy.  A combo this week, of Full Album and Full Concert Friday, featuring two great tenor saxophonists from two different jazz eras.  Here's Zoot Sims with special guest Scott Hamilton and their live performance at Hagaskolans aula Bortange, Sweden, on November 24th, 1984.  The track listing is:

1. It Had To Be You

2. I Gone With The Wind

3. Indiana

4. Easy Living

5. Sunday

6. Broadway

7. Just You, Just Me

The band lineup is:

Zoot Sims: tenor saxophone

Scott Hamilton: tenor saxophone

Claes Crona: piano

Arne Wilhelmsson: bass

Per Hulten: drums

Widespread Panic "Arleen"

 

From their New Year's Eve 2008 performance in Denver, Colorado, here is Widespread Panic with "Arleen".  

Lachy Doley "Six Feet Under (S.O.S.)"

 

Lachlan "Lachy" Doley describes this tune as "a sweet brass and backing vocal fueled reboot of my Hammond/Spy/Pop Tune "Six Feet Under" taken from the new album "Studio 301 Sessions".  

The Horace Silver Sextet "Tokyo Blues"

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack, here is the Horace Silver Sextet playing "Tokyo Blues" at the 1987 Berlin Jazz Festival.  The band lineup here is the sextet itself, minus vocalist Andy Bey.  Horace Silver on piano, Brian Bromberg on double bass, Carl Burnett on drums, Dave Douglas on trumpet, and Vincent Herring on saxes (alto and tenor).  You will notice Herring plays his solo on alto, and switches to tenor for the remainder of the tune as the band finishes the solos and returns to del cappo (the head) of the composition, and the horns play out with the rest of the band after Brian Bromberg's wicked double bass solo.  Great tune.  Dig it.

Bud Powell "I Want To Be Happy"

 

Here is Bud Powell once again, with "I Want To Be Happy" live in Paris, France in 1961, with his trio.  The trio is Bud Powell on piano, Jean Marie Ingrand on bass, and Kenny Clarke on drums.  

B.B. King, Billy Preston, & Bruce Willis "Sinner's Prayer"

 

Not exactly sure where or when this performance takes place, but it is a good one.  The blues standard "Sinner's Prayer" performed by two of the late, great giants of music, the late B.B. King and Billy Preston on guitar and organ, and (still with us), actor and blues harmonica player, Bruce Willis.  Check out this performance.  

Jack DeJohnette, Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, & Herbie Hancock Mellon Jazz Festival, 1990

 

Full Concert Friday this week, takes us back to the 1990 Mellon Jazz Festival and a performance by a quartet of jazz royalty.  Herbie Hancock on piano and keyboards, Pat Metheny on guitar, Dave Holland on bass, and Jack DeJohnette on drums.  The show was performed on June 23rd, 1990, at the Mellon Jazz Festival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  The set list.

1. Shadow Dance (Dave Holland)

2. Indigo Dreamscapes (Jack DeJohnette)

3. 9 Over Reggae (Jack DeJohnette & Pat Metheney)

4. Solar (Miles Davis)

5. Silver Hollow (Jack DeJohnette)

6. The Good Life (Ornette Coleman)

7. Blue (Jack DeJohnette)

8. Hurricane (Herbie Hancock)

9. The Bat (Pat Metheny)

10. Cantaloupe Island (Herbie Hancock)

Erroll Garner "I Get A Kick Out of You"

 

Happy Thanksgiving!  Always thankful for music.  Here's jazz piano legend, the one and the only Erroll Garner, playing "I Get A Kick Out of You".  

Lachy Doley (feat. Mahalia Barnes) "Love Come Around"

 

Continuing to enjoy Lachy Doley and "Studio 301 Sessions", here is "Love Come Around" featuring Mahalia Barnes on lead vocals.  

R.I.P. Slide Hampton - 4/21/32 - 11/20/21

 

What follows are Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack's recollections of the late, great jazz trombone master, Slide Hampton.

I heard Slide live once, at a Salsa Meets Jazz program at the Village Gate, where Jazz artists would sit in with a group of Latin musicians. Slide came out and his solo was, in a word, incredible. I went up to him after the set, to compliment him. He said to me, "there's one thing you should know about the trombone, it's impossible." Slide Hampton's distinguished career spans decades in the evolution of jazz. At the age of 12 he was already touring the Midwest with the Indianapolisbased Hampton Band, led by his father and comprising other members of his musical family. During these tours, Hampton encountered jazz musicians such as J.J. Johnson and Wes Montgomery, who became early influences. By 1952, at the age of 20, he was performing at Carnegie Hall with the Lionel Hampton Band. He then joined Maynard Ferguson's band, playing trombone and providing exciting charts on such popular tunes as "The Fugue," "Three Little Foxes," and "Slide's Derangement." As his reputation grew, he soon began working with bands led by Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, and Max Roach, again contributing both original compositions and arrangements. In 1962, he formed the Slide Hampton Octet, which included stellar horn players Booker Little, Freddie Hubbard, and George Coleman. The band toured the U.S. and Europe and recorded on several labels. From 1964 to 1967, he served as music director for various orchestras and artists. Then, following a 1968 tour with Woody Herman, he elected to stay in Europe, performing with other expatriates such as Benny Bailey, Kenny Clarke, Kenny Drew, Art Farmer, and Dexter Gordon. Upon returning to the U.S. in 1977, he began a series of master classes at Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, De Paul University in Chicago, and Indiana University. During this period he formed the illustrious World of Trombones: an ensemble of nine trombones and a rhythm section. In 1989, with Paquito D'Rivera, he was musical director of Dizzy's Diamond Jubilee, a year-long series of celebrations honoring Dizzy Gillespie's 75th birthday. Hampton's countless collaborations with the most prominent musicians of jazz were acknowledged by the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Arrangement with a Vocalist for Dee Dee Bridgewater's recording "Cotton Tail." Most recently, he has served as musical advisor to the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band. A charismatic figure, master arranger, and formidable trombonist, Hampton holds a place of distinction in the jazz tradition.

Brent Mason, Seymour Duncan, & James Burton "Workin' Man Blues" (All Star Guitar Night 2011)

 

From the 2011 concert, Muriel Anderson's All Star Guitar Night, three awesome pickers, jamming on the legend Merle Haggard's "Workin' Man Blues".  Brent Mason, Seymour Duncan, and James Burton, pay tribute to the working man, showcasing their chicken pickin', and bringing the Telecaster country and western twang in spades.  Check it out.   

Michel Petrucianni "So What"

 

The late, great, Michel Petrucianni on piano, playing "So What" by Miles Davis.  Petrucianni is joined by Michael Bowie on bass and Wilby Fletcher on drums.  Credit for the video goes to Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.  

Buzz Feiten & Neil Larsen Full Moon "Full Moon"

Time for another Full Album Friday.  From 1972, Buzz Feiten and Neil Larsen with their band "Full Moon" and the full self-titled record.  YouTube user Robert Harmon, who has uploaded this video, describes the band.  Full Moon....A Classic Album from 1972 Buzzy Feiten, Neil Larson, Gene Dinwiddie, Philip Wilson, Freddie Beckmeier. A Terrific, Rare and hard to find Album of Jazz, Rock, Blues and R&B all mixed together.

The track list:

1. The Heavy Scuffles On
2. To Know
3. Malibu
4. Take This Winter Out of My Mind
5. Midnight Pass
6. Need Your Love
7. Selfish People

The band lineup is:

Buzzy Feiten - Guitars, Vocals, Percussion
Neil Larson - Piano, Organ, Synthesizers
Gene Dinwiddie - Saxophones, Flute, Mandolin, Vocals
Philip Wilson - Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Freddie Beckmeier - Bass
Robin Clark, Tasha Thomas - Backround Vocals

Guest Performers:

Airto Moriera - Percussion
Dave Holland - Bass
Randy Brecker - Trumpet
Ray Baretto - Percussion

Recorded at Media Sound Studios Recording Engineers - Jeffrey Lesser / Toni Bongiovi Produced by Alan Douglas w/help from Ron Alexenburg.

Charles Earland "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"

From Charles Earland's "Scorched, Seared & Smokin' The Best of The Mighty Burner" album, here is his incredible cut of "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy".  

Lachy Doley "I Can See Clearly Now"

 

More from Lachy Doley and the Studio 301 Sessions.  Here is their vibrant cover of Johnny Nash's (and Jimmy Cliff's) reggae infused pop hit, "I Can See Clearly Now".  

Piano Legend Lenny Tristano

 

Piano legend Lenny Tristano performing at the 1965 Berlin Piano Workshop.  

Berlin Piano Workshop, 1965. Lennie Tristano, byname of Leonard Joseph Tristano, (born March 19, 1919, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died November 18, 1978, New York City, New York), American jazz pianist, a major figure of cool jazz and an influential teacher. Tristano, who became totally blind as a child, began playing piano in taverns at age 12. He grew up in Chicago, where he studied at the American Conservatory of Music (B.Mus., 1943) and was a noted performer and teacher before moving to New York City in 1946. There his advanced concepts of improvisation and of harmony soon brought him dedicated followers, most notably saxophonists Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh and guitarist Billy Bauer. They played in Tristano’s noted 1949 sextet recordings, which included “Wow” and “Crosscurrent” and were characterized by brilliant ensemble melodic interplay. The recordings also featured two free-form collective improvisations, “Intuition” and “Digression,” which predated the free jazz of Ornette Coleman by nearly a decade. In 1951 Tristano opened a school of jazz, which he ran until 1956, after which he spent most of his time teaching privately. He performed and recorded rarely; his last public appearance in the United States was in 1968.

Widespread Panic "Chainsaw City"

 

Widespread Panic covering a Jerry Joseph composition, the reggae flavored "Chainsaw City" from their 2010 performance at The Fox Theater in Oakland, California, on October 15th, 2010.  

A Musical Conversation - David Sanborn and Jan Prax - Budapest, 2015.

 

From Jazz Video Guy (Bret Primack) on YouTube.  Alto saxophonists David Sanborn and Jan Prak covering jazz bass legend Marcus Miller's composition "Run For Cover".  Yet another fabulous version of this song showcasing the styles of the two alto saxophonists on their solos.  Run For Cover (Marcus Miller) - David Sanborn Band - Live in Budapest, Hungary, April 15, 2015. David Sanborn - alto sax, Nicky Moroch - guitar, Ricky Peterson - keyboards, Andre Berry - bass guitar, Chris Coleman - Drums and Guest: Jan Prax - sax.

Jan Prax Quartet - Leverkusener Jazztage 2020

 

Full Concert Friday this week features alto saxophonist Jan Prax and his quartet performing at the 2020 Leverkusener Jazztage, doing a tribute set to Charlie Mingus.  The set list is:

1. Boogie Stop Shuffle

2. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

3. New Now Know How

4. Opus 4

The band lineup is:

Jan Prax: alto saxophone

Martin Soros: piano

Tilman Oberbeck: upright bass

Dominik Raab: drums

Chick Corea performing at The White House

 

From 1982, at The White House, performing for then President Ronald Reagan, First Lady Nancy Reagan, Vice President, George H.W. Bush, and his wife, Barbara Bush, and other dignitaries.  Violinist Itzhak Perlman is also in the audience here.  The trio is three legends.  Chick Corea on piano, Miroslav Vitous on upright bass, and Roy Haynes on drums.  The video is credited to Jazz Video Guy (Bret Primack).  Watch the video on YouTube.  Check it out.  

Lachy Doley (feat. Franco Raggatt) "The Greatest Blues"

 

More from Lachy Doley and the Studio 301 Sessions.  Here is "The Greatest Blues" featuring Franco Raggatt on lead guitar.  

Widespread Panic "Imitation Leather Shoes"

 

Studio and live versions of Widespread Panic's cover of David Byrne's (Talking Heads), "Imitation Leather Shoes".  The studio track is from their 2001 record "Don't Tell The Band" while the two live performances come from The Classic Center in Athens, Georgia during their 2011 run of shows there, and from their 2000 show at Oak Mountain in Pelham, Alabama.  Two different guitarists were in the band at these times of course.  In 2011, Jimmy Herring is playing lead guitar, and in 2000 at Oak Mountain, their original lead guitarist, Michael Houser was still in the band before his passing in 2002.  

Randy & Michael Brecker, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, George Duke, Joe Farrell, & More "Homestretch Blues"

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack on YouTube.  

Homestretch Blues - Aurex Jazz Festival, Japan, September 7 1980. Freddie Hubbard, Randy Brecker, trumpets; Michael Brecker, Joe Henderson, Joe Farrell, tenor saxophones; Robben Ford, guitar; George Duke, piano; Alphonso Johnson, bass and Peter Erskine on drums.

In Memoriam: Pat Martino

Continuing our tribute to the late, great Pat Martino, a giant of jazz guitar, who the world of jazz lost back on November 1st.  The first tribute video in his memory of a couple, from Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack, on YouTube, is titled R.I.P. Pat Martino, August 25, 1944 - November 1, 2021.  

This video is a performance, in a duo, with Pat on guitar and pianist Dave Frank, playing "Alone Together" from the DVD "Dave Frank's Master Class with Pat Martino".  

The second performance is also from the same master class on playing jazz with Pat Martino on guitar and Dave Frank on piano, a composition entitled "Lean Years".  

Born Pat Azzara in Philadelphia in 1944, Pat Martino was first exposed to jazz through his father, Carmen "Mickey" Azzara, who sang in local clubs and briefly studied guitar with Eddie Lang. He took Pat to all the city's hot-spots to hear and meet Wes Montgomery and other musical giants. "I have always admired my father and have wanted to impress him. As a result, it forced me to get serious with my creative powers." He began playing guitar when he was twelve years old. and left school in tenth grade to devote himself to music. During Visits to his music teacher Dennis Sandole, Pat often ran into another gifted student, John Coltrane, who would treat the youngster to hot chocolate as they talked about music. Besides first-hand encounters with `Trane and Montgomery, whose album Grooveyard had "an enormous influence" on Martino, he also cites Johnny Smith, a Stan Getz associate, as an early inspiration. "He seemed to me, as a child. to understand everything about music," Pat recalls. Martino became actively involved with the , early rock scene in Philadelphia, alongside stars like Bobby Rydell, Chubby Checker and Bobby Darin. His first road gig was with jazz organist Charles Earland, a high school friend. His reputation soon spread among other jazz players, and he was recruited by bandleader Lloyd Price to play hits such as Stagger Lee on-stage with musicians like Slide Hampton and Red Holloway. Martino moved to Harlem to immerse himself in the "soul jazz" played by Earland and others. Previously, he had "heard all of the white man's jazz. I never heard that other part of the culture," he remembers. The organ trio concept had a profound influence on Martino's rhythmic and harmonic approach. and he remained in the idiom as a sideman, gigging with Jack McDuff and Don Patterson. An icon before his eighteenth birthday, Pat was signed as a leader for Prestige Records when he was twenty. His seminal albums from this period include classics like Strings!, Desperado, El Hombre and Baiyina (The Clear Evidence), one of jazz's first successful ventures into psychedelia. In 1976, Martino began experiencing the excruciating headaches which were eventually diagnosed as symptoms of his aneurysms. After his surgery and recovery, he resumed his career when he appeared in1987 in New York, a gig that was released on a CD with an appropriate name, The Return. He then took another hiatus when both of his parents became ill, and he didn't record again until 1994, when he recorded Interchange and then The Maker.

Pat Martino Trio (feat. Joey DeFrancesco & John Scofield) Umbria Jazz 2002

 

A special Full Concert Friday to pay tribute to the late, great jazz guitar legend, Pat Martino, who just passed away on Monday of this week, November 1st, at the age of 77.  More tributes to Pat will come.  Stay tuned for that.  We begin the remembrance of his life and musical legacy on this Full Concert Friday with a performance from the 2002 Umbria Jazz Festival with Pat and his trio, playing a gig there with special guests Joey DeFrancesco on Hammond organ and fellow jazz guitar legend, John Scofield.  Rest In Peace, Pat Martino.  We remember your legacy and your gift to the world of jazz.  Your music will live on forever, in our hearts.  

There will be more tributes to Pat Martino to come.  Stay tuned.

Herbie Hancock "Spank-A-Lee"

 

Re-posting a song that was posted a long, long time ago, and then disappeared.  But it is back now.  Once again, from Herbie Hancock's "Thrust" album from 1974, here is "Spank-A-Lee" featuring Herbie Hancock on Rhodes piano, Clavinet, and ARP 2600, Odyssey, and Soloist synthesizers, Bennie Maupin on tenor and soprano saxophones, Paul Jackson on bass, and Mike Clark on drums.  The live version is also from 1974 during the Headhunters' tour, recorded in November of that year, 47 years ago, at Musikladen in Bremen, Germany.  

Lachy Doley "Get It While You Can"

 

More from Lachey Doley as they cover Howard Tate's "Get It While You Can" featuring Karen Lee Andrews on vocals and Clayton Doley on piano and vocals.  

A John Coltrane Tribute featuring Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner ("Blues Minor")

 

From Jazz Video Guy (Bret Primack) on YouTube, a 1988 tribute to the one and the only John Coltrane in Japan.  Coltrane's composition "Blues Minor" played by the quintet of McCoy Tyner on piano, Richard Davis on bass, Elvin Jones on drums, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, and Sonny Fortune on tenor saxophone.  Mr. Richard Davis on bass is the only surviving member of this quintet, but the music is eternal, living forever.  Dig it.  

Phish "Seven Below"

 

From their October 28th, 2021 show at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas, Nevada, here is Phish with the tune "Seven Below".  Once again, the ever present lineup of Trey Anastasio on guitar, Page McConnell on piano and keyboards, Mike Gordon on bass, and Jon Fishman on drums, takes you on a musical journey through time and space.  

Phish "Frankie Says"

 

From their October 16th, 2021 show at the Chase Center in San Francisco, California, here is Phish with the tune "Frankie Says", featuring Trey Anastasio on guitar and vocals, Page McConnell on keyboards, synthesizers, and vocals, Mike Gordon on bass and vocals, and Jon Fishman on drums.  

Dexter Gordon, Denmark, 1967

 

Full Concert Friday this week features Dexter Gordon on tenor saxophone, performing in Denmark on July 31st, 1967.  The set list.

1. Dear Old Stockholm

2. Soy Califa

3. The Shadow of Your Smile

4. Medley: Society Red/Watermelon Man

5. For All We Know

6. The Blues Up And Down

The quartet band lineup is:

Dexter Gordon: tenor saxophone

Kenny Drew: piano

Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen: bass

Albert "Tootie" Heath: drums

  

Charlie Daniels "Can't Beat The Damned Ole Machine"

 

From his 2016 album of cowboy songs, we celebrate what would be Charlie Daniels' 85th birthday, as he was born on this day, in 1936, in Wilmington, North Carolina.  Cowboy, patriot, guitar slinger, fiddler, and a man of wise words, whose writings had as much impact as his music, here is Charlie performing "Can't Beat The Damned Ole Machine".  

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers "Along Came Betty"

 

A live version of "Along Came Betty" by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers.  This performance is from Nuremberg, West Germany, at the Jazz Ost-West Festival in 1988.  The band lineup is:

Art Blakey: drums

Robin Eubanks: trombone

Philip Harper: trumpet

Javon Jackson: tenor saxophone

Bennie Green: piano

Peter Washington: bass

Lachy Doley "Voodoo Child" - Studio 301 Sessions

 

More from Lachy Doley and the Studio 301 Sessions, performing Jimi Hendrix's, "Voodoo Child" not on guitar, but on whammy Clavinet.  Dig this!  

Santana "Evil Ways"

 

Live from Woodstock, New York, at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, here is the one and the only, Carlos Santana, with "Evil Ways".  

Gordon Lightfoot "The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald"

 

Singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot's tribute to the Edmund Fitzgerald and her brave crew, the iron ore boat that sank in Lake Superior, on the Michigan side of the lake on November 8th, 1975, which is probably his best known song.  

Tony Williams Antibes Jazz Festival, France, 1979

 

Tony Williams and his band playing the 1979 Antibes Jazz Festival in France, is the subject of this week's Full Concert Friday.  The quintet includes:

Tony Williams: drums

Tod Carver: guitar

Bunny Brunel: bass

Bruce Harris: keyboards & synthesizers

Tom Grant: keyboards & synthesizers 

Roy Haynes Drum Legend

 

From Jazz Video Guy (Bret Primack), a video of a performance in London, circa 1966, with a quartet of legends led by jazz drummer extraordinaire Roy Haynes, along with Stan Getz (the one and only) on tenor saxophone, Steve Swallow on upright bass, and Gary Burton on vibraphone.  

Lynyrd Skynyrd "Swamp Music"

 

From their 1974 record "Second Helping" which also featured one of their biggest songs in "Sweet Home Alabama", here is Lynyrd Skynyrd with "Swamp Music" as we celebrate the band, and especially the original members who lost their lives in a plane crash in McComb, Mississippi, on this day in 1977, original members, lead vocalist Ronnie van Zant, lead guitarist Steve Gaines, his sister and backup vocalist Cassie Gaines, and road manager, Dean Kilpatrick.  May their music live forever in our hearts.  

Lachy Doley "Give It But You Just Can't Take It" Studio 301 Sessions

 

More from Lachy Doley and the Studio 301 sessions.  This tune is called "Give It But You Just Can't Take It" 

Bob Dylan "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright"

 

A great song by a great songwriter.  Bob Dylan with "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" that he wrote on November 14th, 1962, and then released on his 1963 record "The Freewheeling Bob Dylan".  Check it out.  

Roland Kirk, McCoy Tyner, Stanley Clarke & more, from the Downbeat Magazine Awards circa 1975

 

A snippet that I believe I have shared the full concert of before.  This is a performance at the 1975 Downbeat Jazz Awards by Roland Kirk on saxophones, McCoy Tyner on acoustic piano, Chick Corea on Rhodes electric piano, Stanley Clarke on double bass, and I believe either Tony Williams or Lenny White on drums.  This is a fine and pure example of what Roland Kirk referred to as black classical music... nee, jazz.  This is a remarkable performance.  

Herbie Hancock VSOP II. Tokyo 1983

 

Full Concert Friday this week features Herbie Hancock with VSOP II. live in Tokyo, Japan in 1983.  The band lineup is:

Herbie Hancock: grand piano

Wynton Marsalis: trumpet

Branford Marsalis: tenor & soprano saxophones

Ron Carter: double bass

Tony Williams: drums

The track listing:

1. Riot

2. Ringo Oiwake

3. Well, You Needn't

4. The Sorcerer

5. New Song #3

6. Opus 1.5

7. Jitterbug Waltz

8. Sister Cheryl

9. Arboretum

10. Hesitation

Tedeschi Trucks Band (feat. Warren Haynes) "Dreams"

 

Tedeschi Trucks Band live at the Beacon Theater in New York City, from this past Sunday night, (October 9th) covering The Allman Brothers Bands' "Dreams".  

Lachey Doley "Only Cure For The Blues (Is The Blues)"

 

Another tune from the Studio 301 Sessions and Lachey Doley.  Here is "Only Cure For The Blues (Is The Blues)".  In case you are wondering.  Here's the band lineup for Lachy Doley.

Lachy Doley - Hammond Organ, Whammy Clavinet, Vocals Joel Burton - Bass Jackie Barnes - Drums Vincent Sebastion - Percussion Ray Cassar - Trumpet Matt Keegan - Tenor Sax Anthony Kable - Trombone Andy Bickers - Baritone Sax

Tedeschi Trucks Band (feat. Warren Haynes) "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"

 

From their concert at The Beacon Theater in New York City on October 9th, 2021, (this past Saturday night), here's Tedeschi Trucks Band (with special guest, Warren Haynes), covering a song these two guitar greats have played numerous times together, with the Allman Brothers Band, "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed".  

Gov't Mule "Snatch It Back And Hold It"

 

Another track from the new Gov't Mule record "Heavy Load Blues" that will be released next month.  This is "Snatch It Back and Hold It".  Once again, the band lineup includes Warren Haynes on guitar and vocals, Danny Louis on keyboards (Hammond organ), Jorgen Carlson on bass, and Matt Abts on drums.  

Gov't Mule "Heavy Load"

 

Set to be released on November 12th, here is the title track from Gov't Mule's latest record.  A pure blues record, called "Heavy Load Blues", here's "Heavy Load".  Gov't Mule is Warren Haynes on guitar and vocals, Danny Louis on keyboards, Jorgen Carlsson on bass, and Matt Abts on drums.  

Oscar Peterson, The Quartet featuring Joe Pass

 

Full Concert Friday this week features Oscar Peterson and his quartet performing at Kan-I Hoken Hall in Tokyo, Japan in 1987.  The quartet is:

Oscar Peterson: piano

Joe Pass: guitar

David Young: bass

Martin Drew: drums

The set list:

1. Cool Walk

2. I Can't Get Started

3. Come Sunday

4. Reunion Blues

5. If You Only Knew

6. Sushi Blues

7. Blues Etude

Erroll Garner "Lullaby of Birdland"

Jazz piano legend Erroll Garner performs the jazz standard "Lullaby of Birdland", co-written by another great jazz piano legend, George Shearing, along with George David Weiss.  Check it out.  

Gerry Mulligan & Johnny Hodges "Shady Side"

 

Some Cool Jazz from two saxophone masters of different eras of jazz.  Gerry Mulligan and Johnny Hodges, performing "Shady Side".

Lachy Doley "I'm A Man" (Studio 301 Sessions)

 

From a new record by Australian blues rock and soul music band Lachy Doley, here is their vibrant cover of "I'm A Man" by The Spencer Davis Group with Steve Winwood.  This is from their new release (likely only in Australia save for the videos), "Studio 301 Sessions".  You will hear more from Lachy Doley in the coming weeks.  Stay tuned.  

Widespread Panic "Goodpeople"

 

From their show at Oak Mountain Amphitheater in Pelham, Alabama, on April 16th, 2011, here is Widespread Panic performing the tune "Goodpeople".  

Landau, Klein, Tavaglione, & Colaiuta "Dog Cheese"

 

From a band called Five Storks, and recorded in 1985 live at The Baked Potato in Los Angeles, California, here is the instrumental composition "Dog Cheese" by the quartet of Michael Landau on guitar, Larry Klein on bass, Steve Tavaglione on saxophone and keyboards (tenor saxophone), and Vinnie Colaiuta on drums.  

Sonny Rollins Live in Tokyo March 30, 1988

 

Full Concert Friday this week, featuring Sonny Rollins performing live in Tokyo, Japan, circa 1988.  I don't know if there is a track listing for this show, but I can definitely provide a band lineup.  The band includes Sonny Rollins on tenor saxophone, Clifton Anderson on trombone, Jerome Harris on guitar, Mark Soskin on piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass, and Al Foster on drums.  

In Memoriam: Dr. Lonnie Smith

 

We fondly remember one of the great jazz organists, Dr. Lonnie Smith, who passed away on Tuesday, September 28th, at the age of 79 from pulmonary fibrosis. 

 

https://www.stereogum.com/2162362/legendary-jazz-hammond-organist-dr-lonnie-smith-dead-at-79/news/

To honor his memory in this post, two songs from the same performance, taken from his show at the 2013 Iowa City Jazz Festival.  Smith and his trio open with a gospel influenced, uptempo number, and the centerpiece of the performance is trombonist Slide Hampton's "Frame For The Blues".  Dr. Smith on Hammond organ is joined in a trio by guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg and drummer Joe Dyson.  Rest In Peace, Dr. Smith.  You will be missed.  But your musical gift you've given to this world, shall live forever.  

Earl Hines and Jaki Byard

 

From the Berlin Piano Jazz Festival in 1965, via Jazz Video Guy (Bret Primack), here are two of the best in the business playing a duet, who have been featured on the blog before.  Earl "Fatha" Hines, and Jaki Byard.  Dig it.  

Eric Burdon & War "Spill The Wine"

 

Live on Beat Club on September 26th, 1970, here is Eric Burdon (formerly from The Animals), and funk rock band War, with "Spill The Wine".  The band lineup for War on this, one of their best known songs is:

Eric Burdon: vocals

Lee Oskar: harmonica

Charles Mille: saxophone

Howard Scott: guitar

Bee Bee Dickerson: bass

Lonnie Jordan: Hammond organ

Harold Brown: drums

"Papa" Dee Allen: congas

Watch the video on YouTube.  

Widespread Panic Medley: "Cotton Was King", "Protein Drink", Drums, "Sewing Machine"

 

Another Widespread Panic medley.  Here is one from their June 24th, 2016 concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado, starting with "Cotton Was King" morphing into "Protein Drink", the drum solo, and "Sewing Machine".  

Sonny Rollins on what jazz is

Back on September 7th, we celebrated the 91st birthday of the legendary jazz tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins.  Here is an interview with him, about his ideas of what jazz and art are.  

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