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".