Warren Haynes Band performs the Allman Brother's hit "Whipping Post" alongside Derek Trucks and Joe Russo at the 2024 Soulshine benefit concert held at Madison Square Garden on November 24th. The band lineup is:
Eric Clapton performs "Makes No Difference" at the 2023 Crossroads Guitar Festival. RHINO and Eric Clapton will release the new live album and concert film Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023 on November 29, 2024. It will be available in various configurations, including 4CD/2Blu-Ray, 6LP Vinyl, 2DVD, and Digital (streaming & Dolby ATMOS mix).Pre-order/Pre-save here: https://EC.lnk.to/CGF2023
Today is the day of the video and album release. Do check it out.
Happy Thanksgiving! Always thankful, every single day, for music.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack. Minority (Gryce) from the 1988 Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival Jam Session. Ralph Peterson, Phillip Harper, trumpets; Steve Wilson, alto saxophone; Billy Pierce, tenor saxophone; Michael Petrucciani, piano; Curtis Lundy, bass and Lewis Nash on drums.
My local jazz radio station in the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jazz 88, has several favorite records they have been playing by newly discovered jazz artists, who happen to be nominated in the jazz categories for the 2025 Grammy Awards. Check out the records, as listed, in the article recently published by the radio station, last week.
Released in September, another single from Joe Bonamassa featuring his lead guitar and vocal talents along with those of keyboard legend Reese Wynans on Hammond organ and piano. The tune is "Scarlet Town".
From Live Under The Sky in Japan, in 1989, here are The Four Sleepers playing "Pools" by Steps Ahead.
The band lineup is:
This week's Sunday Special. From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
I am crowdfunding my Horace Silver documentary currently in production, as I’ve done with my three previous documentary features. If you’d like to help, please visit: https://www.gofundme.com/its-got-to-b... Song for My Father (Silver) - Bob Berg's solo and Horace Silver's coda from their performance the Umbria Jazz Festival, July 20, 1976. Horace had some great front lines, including Blue Mitchell/Junior Cook, Woody Shaw/Joe Henderson, and Tom Harrell/Bob Berg. Bob Berg was known for his exceptional technical skill on the saxophone. He had a strong command over the instrument, allowing him to express himself fluently and creatively in his music. He was influential in blending elements of traditional jazz with more contemporary styles, such as fusion and post-bop. His playing incorporated elements of bebop, hard bop, and funk, creating a unique and dynamic sound. Bob collaborated with many prominent musicians throughout his career, including Miles Davis, Horace Silver, and Cedar Walton, among others, and he recorded numerous albums both as a leader and as a sideman.
A clip from a video of B.B. King playing a concert in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1974, 50 years ago. The song is a jazzy blues instrumental.
Full Concert Friday this week, once again featuring The Brecker Brothers. This show is taken from the 1993 Jazzfestival Lugano in Switzerland. The band lineup includes Michael Brecker on tenor saxophone, Randy Brecker on trumpet, Dean Brown on guitar, George Whitty on keyboards, James Genus on bass, and Lenny White from Return to Forever, on drums.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
Waves of Dreams (Fortune) The Sonny Fortune Quartet: Sonny Fortune - soprano saxophone; Michael Cochrane - piano; Gerald Cannon - acoustic bass and Steve Johns on drums. Live at the Kitano NYC 11/19/2010 Steve plays on two new CDs that have reached the top 10 on the national jazz radio charts, Greg Murphy’s “You Remind Me” and Peter Hand’s “Blue Topaz” https://whalingcitysound.com/recordin... https://whalingcitysound.com/recordin... For more Steve, please visit: http://www.stevejohnsjazz.com
The classic performance of Sonny Boy Williamson and Elmore James' "One Way Out" by The Allman Brothers Band on what would be Duane Allman's 78th birthday. We remember not just Duane and Gregg Allman, but also, Dickey Betts, who we lost earlier this year, as well as Berry Oakley and Butch Trucks. Jaimoe, the second drummer for the Allman Brothers, is now the only surviving original member of the band. The Allman Brothers Band have indeed secured their place in the canon of American music history and in the history of the blues. That is for sure.
The String Cheese Incident performs "New York Jam" into "Howard" on night two of their two-night run at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY on 11/02/2024.
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Cover Image by Dino Perruci
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone; Jimmy Owens, trumpet; Gary Burton, vibes; Cedar Walton, piano; Larry Ridley, bass, Roy Haynes, drums.
This week's Sunday Special. Another tribute to the late, great jazz drummer, Roy Haynes.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
Dick Gibson’s Jazz Parties were annual gatherings initiated in 1963 by Denver businessman and jazz enthusiast Dick Gibson. These events brought together prominent jazz musicians and fans for weekend-long jam sessions in intimate settings, fostering a unique and collaborative atmosphere. The inaugural party took place at the Jerome Hotel in Aspen, Colorado, over Labor Day weekend. Due to its success, the event was held the following year at Casino Vail in Vail, Colorado. Over the years, the parties moved to various locations, including the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs and venues in Denver. These gatherings featured a roster of jazz legends, such as Clark Terry, Zoot Sims, and Eubie Blake, performing in spontaneous and diverse ensembles. The format of these parties was instrumental in revitalizing the jazz scene during a period when other music genres were gaining prominence. The success of Gibson’s Jazz Parties inspired similar events across the United States, contributing to a broader jazz revival. The parties continued annually until 1992, leaving a lasting impact on the jazz community. Here, a Roy Haynes solo performance from the 1977 party.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
Impressions (Coltrane). Ravi Coltrane, tenor saxophone; Alice Coltrane, piano; Reggie Workman, bass and Roy Haynes, drums.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
Round Midnight (Monk). Roy Haynes, drums; Miroslav Vitous, bass, and Chick Corea, piano. Live Under the Sky: Tokyo, 1983.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack. Ron Jefferson and John Lewis interview Roy Haynes, 1988.
We will always remember, the great jazz drummer, Roy Haynes.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
Roy Haynes remembers meeting Sonny Rollins, talks with Sonny about their first session, plays with Stan Getz and Gary Burton, and with Chick Corea and Miroslav Vitous. Also, an extended conversation with Nasar Abadey from the 2012 MidAtlantic Jazz Festival. There has been a long-standing misperception about Roy Haynes – one that the influential jazz drummer wants cleared up once and for all. “Everything you read about me says I was born in 1926, but that’s wrong. I was born in 1925, so I’m 73 now, not 72,” Haynes says, proudly. “When you’re younger, you want to stay young, but now that I’m older, I just want to be myself.” Haynes has certainly been his own man in terms of his drumming. With solid roots in the swing style, his early gigs established him as a master of bebop playing, and as his career progressed, Haynes was able to adapt his playing to a variety of styles including avant-garde jazz and fusion, without ever losing his own identity. “My biggest influence was Jonathan – “Papa Jo” [Jones],” he says. “I also listened to Chick Webb a lot when I was a teenager, but I never got to hear him live; I just had the records. And then there were people like Shadow Wilson and Kenny Clarke, and of course Max [Roach] and Art [Blakey]. I tried to listen to everybody. I didn’t try to do what everyone else had done, but I listened. My ears were always open.” Haynes own style was characterized by crispness and finesse, as well as a tremendous sense of drive. His drumming always sounded modern and very, very hip. Jack DeJohnette is one of many who credits Haynes as paving the way for the drumming of Elvin Jones and Tony Williams. “A lot of people describe my drumming as ‘snap, crackle’,” Haynes says. “I think George Shearing and Al McKibbon were the first to use that term in reference to my playing, and I can understand that. I never analyzed it, though. That was just a sound that I liked and felt comfortable with. I did a little bit of drum and bugle corps drumming in school, but I was never really a rudimental drummer, so I think my sound comes from my mind more than my hands. “Every time I read something about myself it usually says ‘bebop.’ I recently had a review in The Village Voice about my week-long gig at the Village Vanguard, and they called me ‘hard bop.’ I would have liked it more if they had said ‘hard swing.’ I’m not always comfortable with those labels that people use. I’m just an old-time drummer who tries to play with feeling.” A career that spans more than fifty years might well indeed qualify someone for the term “old-time drummer,” but Haynes’ playing has never sounded dated. On the contrary, in every decade he has been associated with musicians on the cutting edge, having worked with such artists as Lester Young and Charlie Parker in the 1940s, Bud Powell, Sarah Vaughan and Thelonious Monk in the ’50s, Stan Getz and Gary Burton in the ’60s, Chick Corea in the ’70s and ’80s, and Pat Metheny in the ’80s and ’90s. “Once when I was touring with Chick and Miroslav Vitous,” Haynes recalls, “we did a gig in Detroit. J.C. Heard was still living, and he was a drummer I had always admired because he was a lot like Jo Jones – he even looked like Jo. Some young drummers came to hear us, and then they went to see J.C. and told him that there was a new, young guy playing with Chick Corea. When they told J.C. that this new drummer’s name was Roy Haynes, J.C. said, ‘What are you talking about? Roy Haynes is almost as old as me!’ But even though I’m older than a lot of the people I play with, when we’re on stage, we’re the same age. “A lot of times over the years, when I wasn’t getting too much credit for what I was doing, people would look at me like a new guy until they started checking me out and finding out what I had done. So for a long time, I felt like one of the best-kept secrets in jazz.” Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Haynes began playing professionally in Boston nightclubs when he was a teenager, working with such leaders as Sabby Lewis, Pete Brown, Frankie Newton, and Felix Barbozza. After moving to New York in 1945, he spent two years working with the big band of Luis Russell. “They told me I changed the style of Luis Russell’s band,” Haynes says. “I didn’t know that, but that’s what people in the band told my brother. I was just trying to catch all the figures and make the band swing.” During that time, Haynes also subbed with Louis Armstrong’s big band. In 1947 Haynes landed a gig with saxophonist Lester Young, whose band often backed vocalist Billie Holliday. Haynes spent two years with Young, and then did a “Jazz at the Philharmonic” tour in 1949, after which he returned to New York and played with a number of prominent musicians on the famed 52nd St., including Miles Davis, Bud Powell and Kai Winding, before joining Charlie “Bird” Parker’s band, where he stayed for three years.
We fondly remember jazz alto saxophonist, Lou Donaldson.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
Whisky Drinking Woman. Europa-Park Jazz Festival Germany 2000, Lou Donaldson (as), Dr. Lonnie Smith (org), Randy Johnston (g), Danny Burger (dr).
2004 Branford Marsalis - All That Jazz TV Program
Michael Brecker
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
He certainly looks familiar. And that sound, I know I've heard it before. Anybody have an ideas? He certainly picked a good rhythm section.
Answer. The Daily Double. Who is... John Coltrane.
Full Concert Friday this week, paying tribute to Quincy Jones.
QUINCY JONES PRESENTS THE GLOBAL GUMBO PROJECT FEATURING ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ AND THE INVASION PARADE, NIKKI YANOFSKY AND ANDREAS VARADY
Date & location: SATURDAY 12 JULY 2014 • AMAZON • Ahoy Hall, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Musical titan Quincy Jones, the composer and producer who added his tasteful polish to recordings by everyone from Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, has died, according to his representatives. He was 91.
Jones died Sunday night November 3, 2024, at his home in Bel Air, California, surrounded by his children, siblings and other family members, his publicist told CNN in a statement.
“Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” the Jones family said in the statement. “And although this is an incredible loss for our family, we celebrate the great life that he lived and know there will never be another like him. He is truly one of a kind and we will miss him dearly; we take comfort and immense pride in knowing that the love and joy, that were the essence of his being, was shared with the world through all that he created. Through his music and his boundless love, Quincy Jones’ heart will beat for eternity.”
The oeuvre of musician, composer and producer Quincy Jones, who died yesterday, November 3, 2024, at the age of 91, is extensive and versatile. Jones started out as a jazz musician and worked with giants such as Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and Frank Sinatra. He became much better known than for his own work as an arranger and producer for stars such as Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan and Michael Jackson. Quincy Jones is the most nominated artist for a Grammy Award in history. He was nominated 80 times over a period of six decades and earned 28 of those nominations.
LINEUP
NIKKI YANOFSKY (vocals); Cale Hawkins (keyboards); Stephen Maxwell, Marc Rogers, Alfonzo Cleveland III, ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ (piano); Reinier Elizarde (double bass); Michael Olivera, ANDREAS VARADY (guitar); Bandi Varady (bass); Adrian Varady (drums).
ABOUT this concert:
Nikki Yanofsky Genre: VOCAL JAZZ/POP
Ella Fitzgerald is the idol of twenty-year-old Canadian singer Nikki Yanofsky. At a very early age she was able to sing the old jazz diva’s songs down to the smallest detail; an art that took on a serious form when the beautiful tribute album Ella… Of Thee I Swing was released in 2008. Since then, Yanofsky has been standing more and more on her own two feet. She has worked with famous names like Elton John and Wyclef Jean, in 2010 she sang in her own country at the opening of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver and now she is ready, under the wing of her mentor Quincy Jones, to take the next step in the direction of world fame.
On the intercession of music icon Quincy Jones, the young, classically trained pianist Alfredo Rodriguez is coming to North Sea Jazz once again. In 2009, Rodriguez, who is in his twenties, left Cuba for the US where he sought political asylum. In 2014, he explored his roots in his abandoned homeland on his album The Invasion Parade, produced by Quincy Jones.
Andreas Varady Genre: Bebop/Fusion Slovakian-Irish guitarist Andreas Varady is a mere sixteen years old but his mentor Quincy Jones calls him one of the most talented musicians on the planet. Jones is bringing his protégé to the North Sea Jazz Festival this summer so that the teenager can introduce Dutch audiences to his gifted playing. The guitarist in jeans and sneakers was born in Slovakia in 1997 and later moved with his Romany family to Ireland where he made a name for himself on the streets of Cork and Limerick as a seven year-old child. His star has risen rapidly since then. Varady, who is often compared to George Benson, has played with well-known guitarists like Lee Ritenour and Frank Vignola and has performed at prestigious festivals like the Montreux Jazz Festival. Young Varady is a talent to keep an eye on.
Here at the bottom of the post is more about the North Sea Jazz Festival if you want to check it out.
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From ZZ Top's "Rio Grande Mud" record released in 1972, their second studio record, here is one of my favorite tunes they play. This is "Just Got Paid" and it showcases Billy Gibbons' prowess as a slide guitar player, backed, by the late, great, Dusty Hill on bass, and Frank Beard, on drums.
Quincy Jones conducting the Metropole Orchestra on his hit song "Soul Bossa Nova" from a performance at the North Sea Jazz Festival a decade ago, in 2014. Enjoy.
We have lost a maestro, a cornerstone of the modern music industry, with the passing of Quincy Jones, who contributed so much to the world of music at large. Quincy Jones did so much for the music world and wore many, many hats. Musician, songwriter, producer, arranger, artist, record label entrepreneur and owner, executive producer for television and film, a magazine publisher, and a humanitarian. Wow. What a life!
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/quincy-jones-dead-at-91-7318782/
At his 90th birthday celebration in 2023, he was honored by such artists and musicians as George Benson, Jennifer Hudson, John Mayer, Angelique Kidjo, Patti Austin, Ibrahim Maalouf, Sheleah, Siedah Garret, and many, many others. He not only produced, composted, arranged, and recorded his own work, but recorded with such artists, on his records, as Miles Davis, Bill Cosby (the comedian), and as a sideman for such jazz legends as Lionel Hampton, Cannonball Adderley, Clifford Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Farmer, The Jones Boys with Thad Jones, Jimmy Jones, Eddie Jones, and Jo Jones, Lucky Thompson, Toots Thielemans, Dinah Washington, Willis "Gator" Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Herb Alpert, Benny Bailey, Count Basie Orchestra, Don Elliott, Tony Bennett, Paul Quinichette, Ray Brown, Betty Carter and Ray Bryant, Jimmy Cleveland, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, Milt Jackson, Bob James, James Moody, Joe Newman, Terry Gibbs, Julius Watkins, Sonny Stitt, Billy Taylor, Clark Terry, George Benson, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Gene Krupa, Roy Eldridge, and Anita O'Day (he collaborated with them on a 1956 Krupa album, "Drummer Man Gene Krupa in Highest Hi Fi".
These are just the jazz artists he worked with. His career extended entirely into the realm of both rhythm & blues, and popular music through his producing, arranging, contributions as a musician/keyboardist/pianist through many, many singles beginning with "Soul Bossa Nova" in 1962 and "Killer Joe" in 1970 plus more. Names in the realm of popular music including rhythm & blues, funk, and more, he worked with are endless. Among them, Brook Benton, Emily Bear, Tony Bennett, Big Maybelle, David Carroll, Diahann Carroll, Ray Charles, Sonny Parker, Sammy Davis Jr., Lesley Gore, Donny Hathaway, Lena Horne, Michael Jackson, James Ingram, Little Richard, Peggy Lee, Terrace Martin, Billy Preston, Amy Winehouse, Barry White, Babyface, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Donna Summer, Tamia, Andy Williams, and American gospel quartet, The Winans.
16 studio records, 24 soundtracks, three live records. He is also one of a handful of record producers to have number one hit records in three different decades between the 1960s and the 1980s. He contributed to many, many movie soundtracks as well particularly between the years of 1961 and 1985 and again in 2009. What more can be said about one of if not the best musician on the planet. Rest In Peace, Quincy. Forever in our hearts, and always remembered.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
Steve Johns remembers joining Billy Taylor's Trio. And then Billy's trio plays "My Country 'Tis of Thee, featuring bassist Chip Jackson. Steve Johns is a renowned American jazz drummer, known for his versatile and dynamic playing style. He has performed with numerous jazz legends, including Sonny Fortune, Randy Brecker, and Stanley Turrentine. Johns has also contributed to various recordings and has been praised for his ability to adapt to different jazz subgenres, making him a respected figure in the jazz community. He has also been involved in jazz education, sharing his expertise and passion for the genre with aspiring musicians. Steve plays on two new CDs that have reached the top 10 on the national jazz radio charts, Greg Murphy’s “You Remind Me” and Peter Hand’s “Blue Topaz” https://whalingcitysound.com/recordin... https://whalingcitysound.com/recordin...
This week's Sunday Special.
Steve Kimock & Friends Feat: Jeff Chimenti, Reed Mathis & John Morgan Kimock
Ice Cream
Sweetwater Music Hall 2.13.19
Full-length version of Steve Kimock classic, performed in The Session Room, Hopmonk Tavern, Novato, CA on March 31, 2013. Steve Kimock (guitars), Bernie Worrell (keys), Wally Ingram (drums), Andy Hess (bass).
From their performance at the 1979 Knebworth Festival at Knebworth House in Knebworth, England, here is Led Zeppelin with their song "In the Evening" with Robert Plant on vocals, Jimmy Page on guitar, John Paul Jones on bass and keyboards, and John Bonham on drums.
