Gov't Mule "Blues Before Sunrise"

 

Another track (performed live at soundcheck), by Gov't Mule from their "Heavy Load Blues" record.  This is their take on Leroy Carr's "Blues Before Sunrise".  

The String Cheese Incident “Blue Bossa”

 

From a concert in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1999, The String Cheese Incident tackle a jazz classic, a jazz standard, playing “Blue Bossa” composed by Kenny Dorham who also happened to be a trumpeter and vocalist.  

John Coltrane "Lazy Bird"

 

From "Blue Train" released in 1957, here is John Coltrane with "Lazy Bird".  The band lineup is:

John Coltrane: tenor saxophone

Lee Morgan: trumpet

Curtis Fuller: trombone

Kenny Drew: piano

Paul Chambers: bass

Philly Joe Jones: drums

The Black Crowes "1972" EP Premiere Live from the Whisky a Go Go in L.A.

 

The Black Crowes premiered their latest EP after the band got back together and this is that concert.  "1972" is the name of the EP.  It is a mix of originals and covers that are well chosen, which is something The Black Crowes have done their entire career, writing their own material and playing very well chosen covers from the golden age of rock & roll in the '60s and '70s.  The second set also includes very well known songs from throughout their career.

This is Full Concert Friday for this week.  Enjoy.  

The Black Crowes EP premiere '1972' Live from the Whisky A Go Go 00:43 Rocks Off 6:12 The Slider 10:45 You Wear It Well 16:24 Easy To Slip 20:09 Moonage Daydream 25:32 Papa Was A Rollin Stone 30:57 band intros 35:54 Thorn In My Pride 46:38 By Your Side 52:05 She Talks To Angels 58:44 Ballad In Urgency 1:05:05 Wiser Time 1:13:28 Remedy

Before Miles - Gary Bartz

 

We continue to celebrate Miles Davis' birthday today.  From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.

Happy Birthday Miles.

Alto saxophone master Gary Bartz discusses his career before he joined Miles Davis in 1970.  Also, a performance by the Miles Davis Group from Oslo, 1970, featuring Miles Davis, Gary Bartz, Keith Jarrett on piano, Michael Henderson on bass, Ndugu on drums, Don Alias and M'Tume on percussion. 

Gary's interview 0:00 Directions: 8:22 

A native of Baltimore, Gary Bartz ventured to New York City to attend the Juilliard School in 1958. At the time, performers such as Thelonius Monk, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis were playing at Birdland and the city’s other premiere clubs every night, and Bartz regularly snuck in to see them.

A native of Baltimore, Gary Bartz ventured to New York City to attend the Juilliard School in 1958. At the time, performers such as Thelonius Monk, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis were playing at Birdland and the city’s other premiere clubs every night, and Bartz regularly snuck in to see them.  

In the 1960s, Bartz joined the Max Roach/Abbey Lincoln Group and the Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop, quickly earning a reputation as the greatest alto saxophonist since Cannonball Adderley. In 1965, after meeting the group at his parents’ nightclub, Bartz joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and recorded Soulfinger, his recording debut. Around the same time, he began working with McCoy Tyner, and their relationship deepened the influence of John Coltrane on Bartz.

In 1970, Bartz received a call from Miles Davis, who asked Bartz to perform with his band at the historic Isle of Wight Festival. In the same year, Bartz also formed his own group, Ntu Troop, after the Bantu word for “unity.” Ntu blended soul, funk, African folk music, hard bop, and avant-garde jazz on such albums as I’ve Known Rivers and Other Bodies, based on the poetry of Langston Hughes, as well as Music is My Sanctuary, Love Affair, Another Earth, and Home.

Overall, Bartz has recorded more than 40 solo albums and over 200 as a guest artist. More recently, he released Coltrane Rules: Tao of a Music Warrior, Live at the Jazz Standard Volume 1 and Volume 2, and several others, on his own label, OYO, which is named for the Nigerian tribe and the acronym “Own Your Own.” He was also spotlighted in the “Blindfold Test” section of DownBeat magazine in January 2008, and he continues to perform with McCoy Tyner in such cities as Tokyo and Los Angeles.

Miles Davis "My Ship"

 

Happy 96th birthday, Miles Davis.  Here is his cover on 1957's "Miles Ahead" with Gil Evans, Miles Davis + 19 covering "My Ship", from the 1941 Broadway musical "Lady in The Dark" with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.   

Jim Ridl, Dean Johnson, & Michael Pedicin "You Don't Know What Love Is"

 

Another credit to Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack for this one.  

Jim Ridl, piano, Dean Johnson, bass and Michael Pedicin on tenor saxophone. live at Soapbox Gallery.  https://www.soapboxgallery.org/    Michael Pedicin is a second-generation saxophonist. His dad, alto saxophonist and singer Mike Pedicin, was an extremely popular entertainer and bandleader in the Philadelphia area for more than six decades until his retirement at age 80.

“I idolized my dad as a saxophonist,” Pedicin says. “I used to walk around with a saxophone strap around my neck before I could even play a C scale. I wanted to be like him and look like him. He was a matinee-idol-looking guy.”

Mike Pedicin and his combo worked nightly for decades around Philadelphia. He recorded prolifically for RCA Victor, 20th Century, ABC-Paramount, Federal, and other labels during the 1950s and early ’60s, yet he seldom toured. Even though his 1957 Cameo recording of “Shake a Hand” became a big hit, he started turning down offers to perform, preferring to remain in Philly and work there.

Michael received few pointers from his father. “He didn’t want to teach me,” he says. “He wanted to be my dad. He passed away in June [1916] at 98. He had a wonderful and very healthy life. Five weeks before my dad left us to join my mother, he was still driving his beloved convertible, and continues to inspire his family, including me.”

When Michael was 13, his father took him to the Harlem Club in Atlantic City to hear and meet the bluesy jazz saxophonist Willis “Gator Tail” Jackson, who became his hero on the horn. Then he heard records by John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, and he knew what he wanted to do for the rest of his life: play the saxophone.

Michael would later see and shake Coltrane’s hand at Pep’s in Philadelphia. “He was a gentle soul,” Michael recalls. He studied theory with guitarist Dennis Sandoli and saxophone with Philadelphia Orchestra clarinetist Mike Guerra, both of whom had once taught Coltrane, as well as with onetime Woody Herman saxophonist Buddy Savitt. While attending Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, where he majored in composition, he began competing—and winning—at collegiate jazz festivals around the country. Down Beat magazine raved about his playing on alto saxophone, and Stan Kenton, a judge at many of the festivals, offered him a job.

“Kenton harangued me for a year to go with his band,” Pedicin recalls. “I was in school, and I didn’t want to give up my education.”

Pedicin, who switched from alto to tenor as his main instrument at age 20, earned a living throughout the 1970s as a member of the horn section at Philadelphia’s Sigma Sound Studios, where he worked for producers Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, and Thom Bell, playing on countless sessions by such artists as the Spinners, O’Jays, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, and Lou Rawls. Don Renaldo, the contractor for the sessions, was kind enough to give Pedicin leaves of absence to go on the road with Maynard Ferguson, the O’Jays, Rawls, Stevie Wonder, and David Bowie. The saxophonist’s first album, simply titled Michael Pedicin Jr., was released in 1980 on Gamble and Huff’s Philadelphia International label.

Pedicin taught at UArts from 1976 to 1981, and during much of the ’80s, he juggled teaching duties at Philadelphia’s Temple University and two years of touring with Dave Brubeck (with whom he recorded one album for the East World Jazz label in Japan). At the same time, he was contracting musicians for his orchestras in five hotel/casino theaters in Atlantic City, and also played behind singers such as Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett.

Putting Atlantic City behind him gave Pedicin more time to focus on playing straight-ahead jazz. Besides leading his own quintet, he also toured from 2003 to 2006 with Pat Martino and in early 2011 with the Dave Brubeck Quartet in which son Darius Brubeck filled in for his ailing father. Pedicin continued his education, however, and in 2002 earned a Ph.D in psychology from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine/International University for Graduate Studies.

Pedicin was a professor of music at Richard Stockton College in Galloway, New Jersey, from 2008 until 2016. He currently divides his time between a home in Linwood, New Jersey and an apartment in New York City. While in Linwood, he sees patients in his Linwood office.

The shingle above his psychology office now reads “Dr. Michael Pedicino.” He recently had his last named changed back to the one that had been taken away from his grandfather when he arrived at Ellis Island from the Italian province of Foggia in 1906. He also is in the process of obtaining dual American-Italian citizenship. He has no plans, however, to change his name in the world of music.

R.I.P. Bernard Wright featuring Wayne Shorter

 

Remembering jazz keyboardist Bernard Wright, who played with Wayne Shorter.  Rest In Peace, Bernard Wright.

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.  

0:00 Endangered Species 4:27 Nard’s Keyboard Solo Wayne Shorter - Soprano Saxophone; Bernard Wright - Keyboards; Renee Rosnes - Keyboards; Keith Jones - Bass; Terri Lyne Carrington - Drums; October 3, 1988; Deutsches Jazzfestival Frankfurt.

Clifford Jordan Big Band Live in Tokyo: Status Quo

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.  

This gig was performed and documented the day Clifford Jordan passed.  Clifford Jordan Big Band Live in Tokyo, March 27, 1993.  Status Quo. Clifford Jordan (leader), Dizzy Reece (tp, cond), Don Sickler, Dean Pratt, Stephen Futado, trumpets;  Kiane Zawadi  (euphonium);  Brad Shigeta (tb); Jerome Richardson, Sue Terry, alto saxophone; Willie Williams, Lou Orensteen, tenor sax; Charles Davis, baritone sax;  Ronnie Mathews (p); Kenny Davis (b) and the great Vernel Fournier on drums.  

Gov't Mule - Wake Up Dead (Soundcheck)

 

"Wake Up Dead" appears on the Gov't Mule album, Heavy Load Blues.

Widespread Panic “The Last Straw”

 

Being released today, May 20th, is the latest record from Widespread Panic entitled “Miss Kitty’s Lounge”, here is the lead single, “The Last Straw”.  Posting this in lieu of a Full Album or Full Concert Friday this week.  

Gov't Mule - "You Know My Love" (Music Video)

 

"You Know My Love" is from the new deluxe edition of the Gov't Mule album, Heavy Load Blues. 

Gov't Mule "If Heartaches Were Nickels"

 

Recorded live at Levitt Pavilion Steelstacks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, during a tour stop on September 14, 2021.

Heavy Sounds - Richard Davis and Elvin Jones Live in Japan

 

Another one from Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.  Tokyo, 1981.  Elvin Jones, drums, Richard Davis, bass and Fumio Karashima on piano.

Denny Zeitlin "Celebration"

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.  Celebration (Zeitlin): Denny Zeitlin, piano; Peter Donald, drums; Joel DiBartolo, bass.  From "In The Moment", Windham Hill Jazz, 1989.  For more Zeitlin:  http://dennyzeitlin.com

Denny Zeitlin "Requiem"

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.  Requiem: Zeitlin -- Denny Zeitlin, piano; David Friesen, bass.  Recorded live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, CA.  From "In The Moment," Windham Hill Jazz, 1989.  For more Zeitlin: http://dennyzeitlin.com.

Don Grolnick Quintet - Pori Jazz Festival 1991

 

Full Concert Friday this week featuring a video or two of the Don Grolnick Quintet at the 1991 Pori Jazz Festival.  

Don Grolnick Quintet - Pori Jazz Festival

July 19, 1991

Finland

1 Nothing Personal

2 Night Town

Don Grolnick: Piano

Joe Henderson: Tenor

Randy Brecker: Trumpet

Eddie Gomez: Bass

Victor Lewis: Drums

Junior Wells "Give Me One Reason"

 

Junior Wells' cover of Tracy Chapman's tune "Give Me One Reason" which he released on his "Come On In This House" record.  Not sure of the year of that release.  Tracy Chapman had released the original on her 1995 "New Beginning" record but had performed it as early as 1989, according to a commenter on YouTube.  Fascinating, the histories of certain songs and how they develop over time performed by the original writer, or as a cover, and this is a prime example.  

Junior Wells "Snatch It Back And Hold It"

 

Junior Wells playing "Snatch It Back And Hold It" with his Chicago Blues Band, featuring the one and the only Buddy Guy on guitar.  This one was released on Delmark Records, I believe in 1965 or so.  

Junior Wells "Hoodoo Man Blues"

 

In a performance from 1966, the one and the only Junior Wells on harmonica and vocals, performs "Hoodoo Man Blues".  Check it out.  

Jeff Healey "See The Light"

 

Jeff Healey performing "See The Light" on "Night Music" with Jools Holland and David Sanborn.  The band lineup for this performance is Jeff Healey on guitar and vocals, Mac Rebbenack "Dr. John" on piano, Marcus Miller on bass, and Omar Hakim on drums.  

Guitar Shorty "Irma Lee"

 

The B-Side of Guitar Shorty's 1957 record "You Don't Treat Me Right", here is "Irma Lee".  Dig it.  

Jack McDuff "Screamin' "

 

Full Album Friday this week features legendary jazz Hammond organist, Brother Jack McDuff with his 1962 quartet album "Screamin' ", recorded on October 23rd, 1962 in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.  The quartet lineup is:

Brother Jack McDuff: Hammond B3 organ

Kenny Burrell: guitar

Leo Wright: alto saxophone

Joe Dukes: drums

The track listing is:

1. He's a Real Gone Guy

2. Soulful Drums

3. After Hours

4. Screamin'

5. Cover The Waterfront

6. One O'Clock Jump (Count Basie composition cover)

Jimi Hendrix Room Full of Mirrors Live Royal Albert Hall 02/24/1969 (Remastered)

Another tune from Jimi Hendrix's February 24th, 1969 Royal Albert Hall concert.  This one is "Room Full of Mirrors".  

 

Jimi Hendrix Foxy Lady Live Royal Albert Hall 02/24/69 (Remastered)

 

From his performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England, on February 24th, 1969, here is Jimi Hendrix with "Foxy Lady".  Dig it.  

Jerry Lee Lewis (feat. Buddy Guy & Ronnie Wood) "Hadacol Boogie"

 

From his "Last Man Standing Live" concert at Sony Music Studios in New York, New York, on September 28th, 2006, here is Jerry Lee Lewis with Buddy Guy and Ronnie Wood playing "Hadacol Boogie".  

Chick Corea Meets Stan Getz

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.

Windows (Corea).  Stan Getz, tenor saxophone, Chick Corea piano, Stanley Clarke, bass and Tony Williams, drums.  Montreux Jazz Festival, 1972.