From Jazz Video Guy (Bret Primack), on YouTube, here is the trio of John McLaughlin on guitar, Joey DeFrancesco on Hammond organ, and Elvin Jones on drums, playing their rendition of “My Favorite Things”, the tune from The Sound of Music written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, that was made famous by John Coltrane. The performance is taken from the 1994 Antibes Jazz Festival in France.
Another one from the "Layla: Revisited" album, live at the Lockn' Festival, with Tedeschi Trucks Band featuring Doyle Bramhall II. and Trey Anastasio. This is "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out", first interpreted by Derek & The Dominos, but going way back to 1923 when Jimmy Cox wrote the tune
For Full Album Friday this week, rediscovering Cameroon born jazz and funk saxophonist, Manu Dibango. The late, great, Manu Dibango, who died last year, from the cursed Coronavirus. This is his "African Voodoo" record released in 1972, and the uploader has ripped it straight from a vinyl LP record. The track listing.
Happy 95th birthday, Miles Davis. A tribute by Jazz Video Guy (Bret Primack), done ten years ago. Today, Miles would have been 95! He left us in 1991 but his music is eternal. Thanks to Sonny Rollins and Gary Bartz for speaking with me about Miles for this video, produced way back in 2011.
From the album "Layla: Revisited", here is the Tedeschi Trucks Band live at Lockn' Festival in Arrington, Virginia, with guest guitarists Doyle Bramhall II. and Trey Anastasio, playing "Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad." This record is obviously a tribute to Derek & The Dominos.
From Jazz Video Guy and from one legendary tenor saxophone player, to another. Michael Brecker playing John Coltrane's "Naima", solo. Coltrane, I believe really would have dug Michael Brecker's performance. Two jazz greats, two masters of the tenor saxophone, gone way too soon.
From Jazz Video Guy. Jackie McLean would be 90 years old this year. He passed away in 2006 at the age of 74, having had a career that lasted from 1951-2004. McLean played with such jazz greats as Miles Davis, Celebrating the 90th birth anniversary Jackie McLean. A House is Not A Home (Bachrach). October, 1990. Jackie McLean, alto saxophone; Hotep Galeta, piano; Nat Reeve, bass and Cindy Blackman on drums.
Another Full Album Friday featuring the Chick Corea Elektric Band. This is their 1990 record “Inside Out”. The band lineup is:
Check out the Dave Stryker Organ Trio, playing Billie Holiday's "God Bless The Child". This video is from Jazz Video Guy (Bret Primack) on YouTube. The performance is taken from early in 2012. Live at JEN 2012, Louisville, Kentucky, and the trio is Dave Stryker on guitar, Bobby Floyd on Hammond organ, and Jonathan Higgins on drums.
Back on May 8th, we lost another jazz great with the passing of trombonist, Curtis Fuller. Here is a tribute, from Jazz Video Guy (Bret Primack), to Curtis Fuller through a video of him playing "In The Wee Small Hours of The Morning", with Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers.
Curtis Fuller plays In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Curtis DuBois Fuller (trombonist) was Detroit, Michigan in 1934. Fuller’s Jamaican-born parents died when he was young, and he was raised in an orphanage. He came to music late, playing the baritone horn in high school and switching to the trombone at age 16. Detroit, at the time, was the breeding ground for an astonishing pool of fresh, highly individual talent. He was a schoolfriend of Paul Chambers and Donald Byrd, and also knew Tommy Flanagan, Thad Jones and Milt Jackson.
In 1953, Curtis left the local scene to serve his two-year stint in the army, where he met and played with Paul Chambers, Cannonball Adderley and Junior Mance among others. When he returned home, he began working with Yusef Lateef’s quintet. The Lateef quintet came to New York in April 1957 to record two albums for Savoy and a third produced by Dizzy Gillespie for Verve.
Word of Curtis’s talent spread rapidly around New York. Although he initially came under the spell of J.J. Johnson and listed Jimmy Cleveland, Bob Brookmeyer and Urbie Green among his favorites, Fuller came to New York at the age of 22 with a unique style and sound. In May, after being in town for about a month, he recorded with Paul Quinchette and made his first albums as a leader: two quintet albums for Prestige with Sonny Red featured on alto. Like the Blue Note debuts by Kenny Burrell and Thad Jones the prior year, he used mostly transplanted Detroit players.
Alfred Lion of Blue Note Records first heard him playing with Miles Davis in the late 1950s, and featured him as a sideman on record dates led by Sonny Clark and John Coltrane; Fuller’s work on the latter’s Blue Train album is probably his best known recorded performance. Fuller led four dates for Blue Note, though one of these, an album with Slide Hampton, was not issued for many years. Other sideman appearances over the next decade included work on albums under the leadership of Bud Powell, Jimmy Smith, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan and Joe Henderson -a former roommate at Wayne State University in 1956.
Curtis Fuller was also the first trombonist to be a member of the Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet, later becoming the sixth man in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in 1961, staying with Blakey until 1965. In the early 1960s, he recorded two albums as a leader for Impulse! Records, having also recorded for Savoy Records and Epic after his obligations to Blue Note had ended. In the late 1960s, he was part of Dizzy Gillespie’s band, that also featured Foster Elliott. He went on to tour with Count Basie and also reunited with Blakey and Golson.
During the ’70s, he experimented for a time playing hard bop arrangements in a band featuring electronic instruments, and heading a group with guitarist Bill Washer and Stanley Clarke. He concluded that phase with the 1973 album Crankin‘. Fuller toured with the Count Basie band from 1975 to 1977, and did dates for Mainstream, Timeless, and Bee Hive. He also co-leader of the quintet Giant Bones with Kai Winding in 1979 and 1980, and played with Art Blakey, Cedar Walton, and Benny Golson in the late ’70s and early ’80s. During the ’80s, Fuller toured Europe regularly with the Timeless All-Stars, and performed and recorded with the revamped Jazztet in addition to leading a fine session for Savoy in 1993.
Fuller continued to perform and record, and is currently a faculty member of the New York State Summer School of the Arts (NYSSA) School of Jazz Studies (SJS).
Taken from a performance at the Lockn' Festival, the band tears through the classic album with help from Trey Anastasio.
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From their 1985 record "Samurai Samba" here's The Yellowjackets with the tune "Daddy's Gonna Miss You". The band lineup is:
From their June 24th, 2016 concert at Red Rocks in Morrison, Colorado, here is Widespread Panic with "Radio Child".
From their "Live at the Classic Center" concert DVD, here is Widespread Panic with the song "Worry" performed on night two of the 25th anniversary Widespread Panic celebration concerts, on February 11th, 2011.
From the 1977 "Slowhand" album, here is Eric Clapton with the jam tune on that record, "The Core" featuring his backing band of that era, so, the band lineup is:
Widespread Panic performs "Rebirtha" live at Grand Targhee Resort Amphitheater in Alta, Wyoming on July 3, 2011.
Tony’s final song with TAB, and the first song we ever wrote and performed together. We love you Tony. "First Tube" from Trey Anastasio's 11/27/2020 show at The Beacon Theatre in New York, NY. Rest In Peace, Tony Markellis, bassist for the Trey Anastasio Band. You will be missed.
Meant to post this one on March 26th, the 52nd anniversary of the Allman Brothers Band, but found the 1991 Live at Great Woods concert instead which was part of one of the reunion tours. Here it is, then, for Full Album Friday. This is probably the best live rock album of all time, the Allman Brothers Band Live at Fillmore East from 1971.
The track listing:
From his appearance on Rockpalast at the Grugenhalle in Essen, Germany, in 1979, here is Johnny Winter with his trio (Johnny Winter: guitar & vocals, Jon Paris: bass, & Bob Torello: drums), performing his rendition of The Rolling Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash".
Studio and live versions of The Black Crowes' "My Morning Song". The studio track is from their 1992 record "The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion", and the live version of the song is a performance at the Glastonbury Festival in England, circa 1995.
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, playing the tune "Cosmik Debris". The band lineup is:
Another song from Page McConnell (Phish keyboardist) and his new solo record called "Maybe We're The Visitors". This one is called "Terra Incognita".
