Joe Tex "Show Me"

 

A live performance by Joe Tex of his soul song "Show Me" circa 1968.  Check it out.  This is the same tune that I shared the cover of by the Tedeschi Trucks Band, yesterday.  

Jeff Hirshfield with Dieter Ilg Quintet - Vic Juris - Bob Belden

 

Another edition of Full Concert Friday this week.  with Dieter Ilg Quintet - Vic Juris - Bob Belden - Mark Copland - Jazz Open Stuttgart - 1994 - more here at https://www.drummerworld.com/drummers...

Tedeschi Trucks Band "Show Me"

 

The Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks Band performs Joe Tex's "Show Me" at the Wang Theater on 10/4/24 in Boston, MA.  Brought to you by Less Than Face Productions.  Audio by Casey C.

OUTLAWS Ghost Riders in the Sky 2007 Live

 

The opening tune from The Outlaws' Volunteer Jam performance along with, I believe, the Charlie Daniels Band and the Marshall Tucker Band, from 2007, in Gilford, New Hampshire, and their rock and roll version of the classic cowboy song "Ghost Riders In The Sky".  

OUTLAWS There Goes Another Love Song / Hurry Sundown 2007 Live @ Gilford

 

Another song from The Outlaws' 2007 concert in Gilford, New Hampshire, at U.S. Cellular Pavilion.  This one is the band's medley of "There Goes Another Love Song" and "Hurry Sundown".  

OUTLAWS Green Grass and High Tides 2007 Live @ Gilford

 

From a 2007 performance at U.S. Cellular Pavillion in Gilford, New Hampshire, here are The Outlaws, with what is probably their best-known song, from an underrated southern boogie rock band.  This is "Green Grass and High Tides".

SRV - I Tried Pretty Baby - [`75 - The Cobras, TX]

 

This week's Sunday Special featuring very early Stevie Ray Vaughan, circa 1975 when he was 21 years old and had started becoming well known on the Texas blues scene with the band The Cobras.  The song the band plays here is "I Tried Pretty Baby".  Dig it.  

I Tried Pretty Baby -

1975 - Austin, TX - Studio Registrazione - SRV, Cobras.

Dave Brubeck - Gods Love - 14/07/1979 • World of Jazz

 

This number is called 'Gods Love". This recording is from July 14, 1979, at the PWA Zaal, North Sea Jazz Festival. Dave Brubeck, born on December 6, 1920, in California, was an influential American jazz pianist and composer known for his innovative approach to time signatures and his role in popularizing modern jazz. In 1951, he formed the Dave Brubeck Quartet, a groundbreaking ensemble. The quartet, featuring Paul Desmond on alto saxophone, Eugene Wright on bass, and Joe Morello on drums, gained widespread acclaim for their distinctive sound and complex, polyrhythmic compositions.

One of the quartet's most iconic albums, "Time Out" (1959), showcased Brubeck's fascination with unusual time signatures. The album's signature track, "Take Five," composed by Paul Desmond in 5/4 time, became a jazz standard and a crossover hit, reaching a broad audience and introducing many listeners to the world of modern jazz. Brubeck received numerous accolades, including a Kennedy Center Honor, Grammy Awards, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Dave Brubeck's legacy includes a vast discography of over a hundred albums, collaborations with jazz luminaries, and a profound influence on the evolution of jazz. He passed away on December 5, 2012. Dave Brubeck dedicated the song "Take Five" to Paul Desmond who died in '77.

Tedeschi Trucks Band "Tangled Up In Blue" 10/1/24 Boston, MA

 

The Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks Band performs Bob Dylan's "Tangled Up In Blue" at MGM Fenway on 10/1/24 in Boston, MA.  Brought to you by Less Than Face Productions.  Audio by Casey C.

Tedeschi Trucks Band - "Mr. Charlie" (Grateful Dead) | 10/08/24 | The Capitol Theatre | Relix

 

Tedeschi Trucks Band performing the Grateful Dead classic "Mr. Charlie" at The Capitol Theatre on 10/08/2024.  Video Directed by Ehud Lazin.

Maynard Ferguson - Maria - RAI 1970

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.  

Maria (Bernstein) - Maynard Ferguson on RAI, Italian television in 1970. Maynard recorded Maria on Maynard '62.

Rory Gallagher "Cradle Rock"

 

The late, great, Irish blues guitar legend Rory Gallagher, performing one of his best-known songs, "Cradle Rock", circa 1975 at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland.  

Joe Bonamassa "Cradle Rock" (revisited)

 

Revisiting Joe Bonamassa paying tribute to Rory Gallagher and playing Gallagher's song "Cradle Rock", actually at a venue in Cork, Ireland, Gallagher's hometown.  This is a performance captured on video in around 2010 I believe.  The video was captured for The Southern Star by cameraman/videographer Niall O'Driscoll.  

American blues guitar legend Joe Bonamassa was in Cork this morning for the announcement of two very special Rory Gallagher tribute shows that he will perform Live At The Marquee in 2025 on July 1st and 2nd.  Also in attendance at the press conference held in The Oliver Plunkett in Cork city were Donal and Daniel Gallagher (Rory's brother and nephew), Gallagher's long-time bassist Gerry McEvoy and Peter Aiken of Aiken Promotions.

Phil Lesh & Friends "Cryptical~Other One~Feedback~Caution" Atlantic City 12/10/2005

 

This week's Sunday Special.  More memories of the late, great Phil Lesh, bassist, and principal songwriter for The Grateful Dead.  Here he is playing with another band of his.  Phil Lesh & Friends, from a concert in Atlantic City, New Jersey, 20 years ago, dating back to 2005.  Phil Lesh & Friends (Barry Sless, Larry Campbell, Chris Robinson, John Molo, Mookie Siegel) perform "Cryptical Envelopment ~ The Other One ~ Feedback ~ Caution ~ Feedback" on December 10, 2005 at the House of Blues in Atlantic City, NJ.  Look out for Big Brown during the Feedback ~ Caution section.  Brought to you by Less Than Face Productions.

Mongo Santamaría - Theo's Ofrito - 12/07/1981 • World of Jazz

 

Ramon “Mongo” Santamaria Rodriguez (07 April 1922 - 01 February 2003) was born in Havana, Cuba, and became throughout the years the world's most famous conga-player. After spending 30 years of his life in Cuba, in the early fifties he fled to New York. He started to play in the band of Tito Puente, that he left after about a year. He developed a music style that mixed Afrocuban rhythms with jazz and soul.  His song “Afro Blue”, written in 1958, is commonly referred to as jazz standard, and was recorded by a lot of artists, e.g. John Coltrane. Mongo’s version of Herbie Hancock's “Watermelon Man” was also a worldwide success. 

In 1981 he played in the Congeshal in The Hague at the North Sea Jazz Festival.  In the band we mean to recognize Trevor Gale on drums, Tony Villarini on trumpet, and Doug Harris on flute. Please inform us if you have more information.

Song For Strayhorn - Gerry Mulligan

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.

Song for Strayhorn (Mulligan) Gerry Mulligan's concert at the Casinò di Campione, Campione d'Italia. re-recorded in 1989. Harold Danko piano, Rich DeRosa drums, Frank Luther bass.

The Most Underrated Saxophonist in Jazz

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack. 

Paul Gonsalves (July 12, 1920 – May 15, 1974) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his association with Duke Ellington. At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves played a 27-chorus solo in the middle of Ellington's "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue," a performance credited with revitalizing Ellington's waning career in the 1950s. Born in Brockton, Massachusetts, to Portuguese Cape Verdean parents, Gonsalves' first instrument was the guitar, and as a child he was regularly asked to play Cape Verdean folk songs for his family. He grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and played as a member of the Sabby Lewis Orchestra. His first professional engagement in Boston was with the same group on tenor saxophone, in which he played before and after his military service during World War II. He also played with fellow Cape Verdean Americans in Phil Edmund's band in the 1940s. Before joining Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1950, he also played in big bands led by Count Basie (1947–1949) and Dizzy Gillespie (1949–1950). At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves' solo in Ellington's "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue" went through 27 choruses; the publicity from this performance is credited with reviving Ellington's career. The performance is captured on the album Ellington at Newport. Gonsalves was a featured soloist in numerous Ellingtonian settings. He received the nickname "The Strolling Violins" from Ellington for playing solos while walking through the crowd. Gonsalves died in London ten days before Duke Ellington's death, after a lifetime of addiction to alcohol and narcotics. Mercer Ellington refused to tell Duke of the passing of Gonsalves, fearing the shock might further accelerate his father's decline. Ellington and Gonsalves, along with trombonist Tyree Glenn, lay side by side in the same New York funeral home for a period of time. Gonsalves is buried at the Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale, New York. January 9, 1962. The Duke Ellington Orchestra Trumpet: Ray Nance, Shorty Baker, Cat Anderson, Bill Berry, Ed Mullens Trombone: Lawrence Brown, Leon Cox, Chuck Conners Alto-saxophone: Russell Procope, Johnny Hodges Tenor-saxophone: Paul Gonsalves Clarinet (and tenor-saxophone): Jimmy Hamilton Baritone-saxophone: Harry Carney Piano: Duke Ellington Bass: Aaron Bell Drums: Sam Woodyard Video courtesy Storyville Records: https://storyvillerecords.com #dukeellington STORYVILLE RECORDS IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST JAZZ RECORD LABELS AND THE OLDEST INDEPENDENT JAZZ LABEL IN EUROPE. Named after the notorious New Orleans district where jazz was born, the label was launched in Copenhagen in 1952 by jazz fanatic Karl Emil Knudsen. Storyville originally sold imported American records but when the burgeoning post war jazz scene attracted the American jazz artists to tour in Europe and Scandinavia Knudsen seized every opportunity to record his jazz heroes for the label. By late 2003 when Karl Emil Knudsen, the self-styled “Doctor of Jazz Archaeology”, passed away, his Storyville label was considered by the jazz cognoscenti to be the Scandinavian equivalent to America’s Blue Note Records. The Storyville archive includes recordings by Louis Armstrong, Ben Webster, Duke Ellington, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis and Benny Carter, to name but a few. Storyville Records was also instrumental in launching the career of some of the most influential Danish jazz artists including Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Fessor’s Big City Band and the legendary Papa Bues Viking Jazz Band. In 2005 Edition Wilhelm Hansen, a Danish company with over 150 years in music publishing and part of the Wise Music Group acquired Storyville from Knudsen’s family. Anders Stefansen and Mona Granager, both long standing associates who worked with Knudsen to build the label, have stayed on with Storyville and will preserve the label’s unique identity. As part of Wise Music’s family of companies Storyville Records is ideally placed to bring its wealth of classic recordings to new generations of jazz fans through CD re-releases, special collectors’ CD edition of rare jazz recordings and digital downloads. We are sure that Karl Emil would be delighted to know that his label lives on within a fiercely independent music company that shares the same passion for great music.

Times Square - Dave Frank Solo Piano

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.  

Dave Frank solo - Times Square. Join Dave for a Vamp in 17 based on the pace of life in the Big Apple. http://davefrankmusic.com

Son House "Death Letter Blues"

 

From a 1965 performance, the great Eddie "Son" House playing "Death Letter Blues".  House is one of the founders of delta blues music and has certainly had an influence on me as a guitar player.  

🥬 Lettuce - "Sun Goddess" Live at Pacific Amphitheatre - Costa Mesa, CA (7.18.24)

 

🥬 Lettuce - "Sun Goddess" Live at Pacific Amphitheatre - Costa Mesa, CA (7.18.24).

"Sun Goddess" was originally performed as a collaboration by jazz piano legend Ramsey Lewis, and Earth, Wind & Fire.

Stan Kenton & his Orchestra - Malagueña - 01/04/1976 • World of Jazz

 

Big band leader and pianist Stanley Newcomb “Stan” Kenton (1911-1979), a progressive and back in the 50’s also a controversial musician, is nowadays looked upon as one of the biggest bandleaders of all time. Already in the 40’s he toured around the world, and he gave his famous Concert in Progressive Jazz in Carnegie Hall. In the early fifties he founded a 43-member orchestra, Innovations in Modern Music.  After two tours it seemed financially not possible to continue this project, 

He also recorded lots of albums, and in 1970 he started to cooperate with the “Creative World” label. This led to several concerts around the world, including the performance in Rotterdam. In this material we also recognize:

Bass:   John Worster
Trumpet:  Dick Shearer
Percussion: Ramon Lopez

Kenton is also known for his talent scouting and his “nose” for talent, he worked with big shots like Maynard Ferguson and Stan Getz.

I have corrected the labeling of this post to reflect that this concert truly happened in 1976, not 1972 as indicated on the video title.  This was a later concert performance than many people may think.

David Sanborn & Joey DeFrancesco "Let The Good Times Roll"

 

From a performance in Burghausen, Germany, circa 2010, two of the best jazz musicians that have ever been.  David Sanborn and Joey DeFrancesco, playing "Let the Good Times Roll".  The trio includes Joey DeFrancesco on Hammond B3 organ and vocals, David Sanborn on alto saxophone, and Gene Lake on drums.  

Illinois Jacquet Big Band - Stompin At The Savoy featuring Duffy Jackson on drums

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.

llinois Jacquet was a pioneering jazz tenor saxophonist, known for his powerful, honking sound that helped shape the development of both rhythm and blues (R&B) and rock and roll. He gained fame with his explosive solo on “Flying Home” while playing in Lionel Hampton’s band in 1942, a performance often considered one of the first rock and roll sax solos. Jacquet’s aggressive, energetic playing style had a huge influence on later saxophonists in jazz, R&B, and rock. His work bridged the gap between swing and more modern jazz styles, and he was a key figure in popularizing the saxophone as a leading instrument in American popular music. Stompin' At the Savoy - Illinois Jacquet Big Band Live at Vienne, 1993

Illinois Jacquet (ts), Saxophones: David Glasser, Sayyd Abdul Al Khabyyr, Arthur Daniels, John Simon, Tom Olin; Trumpets: Irvin Stokes, Riley Mullins, Ravi Best, Mark McGowan; Trombones: Jamal Haynes, Brad Shigita, Charles Stevens: Piano: Larry Ham; Bass: Billy Johnson and Duffy Jackson on drums.

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers "Little Girl"

 

From the 1966 record John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton, known by fans as "The Beano Album" as Clapton is seen reading a copy of The Beano comic book in the album cover photo, here is the original version of their tune "Little Girl" from 1966.  The band lineup is John Mayall on vocals and Hammond organ, Eric Clapton on lead guitar, Jack Bruce on bass, and Hughie Flint on drums.  

Joe Bonamassa "Little Girl"

 

From his live record and DVD concert video "British Blues Explosion", here is Joe Bonamassa and his band performing "Little Girl", a cover of a 1966 tune by John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton on their self-titled debut record affectionately known as "The Beano Album" as in the cover art, Clapton has a copy of The Beano comic strip and is reading it.    

Dave Frank Solo Piano - Prayer at St Patrick's

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.

Prayer at St. Patrick's - Dave Frank, solo piano. Recorded live in concert at Dave's loft in Peekskill NY 8/23/24. Join Dave in Germany for a 3-day jazz immersion program, email Dfrnkjazz@aol.com for info.

Mel Tormé - (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 - 13/03/1976 • World of Jazz

 

From World of Jazz.  It is Mel Tormé singing his tail off on the classic standard "Route 66" from a performance with his big band on March 13th, 1976.  Get yo' kick, up and down Route 66!

Joe Bonamassa - "The Last Matador Of Bayonne" - Live At The Hollywood Bowl With Orchestra

 

This week's Sunday Special.  The second single from Joe Bonamassa's latest release, in 2024, "Live at The Hollywood Bowl With Orchestra".  This tune is called "The Last Matador Of Bayonne".  

Joe Henderson, Al Foster & Dave Holland - Serenity (Live, 1993)

 

From the Munich Philharmonie, Tenor saxophonist and composer of some jazz classics as “Inner Urge” performs with the drummer Al Foster and the bassist Dave Holland at the Münchner Kalviersommer Joe Handerson - saxophone Dave Holland - bass Al Foster - drums Joe Henderson - Serenity Click here to watch the full concert at the Munich Philharmonie by the Joe Henderson Trio: https://goo.gl/2QcfMS Click here to watch Joe Henderson's concert with his quartet in 1993:    • Joe Henderson Quartet - Live in Munic...   Click here to enjoy more Jazz Music: https://goo.gl/vKsRXt Subscribe to LOFTmusic: https://goo.gl/wwlZl8 Jazz saxophonist and composer Joe Henderson, winner of four Grammy awards, at his concert in Germany at the Münchner Kalviersommer 1993.

Watch the video on YouTube.

🥬 Lettuce - "Moksha" Live at Meow Wolf - Santa Fe, NM (2.7.24)

 

 

🥬 Lettuce - "Moksha" Live at Meow Wolf - Santa Fe, NM (2.7.24) From the album 'Resonate' All Things Lettuce: https://ffm.bio/lettuce

RAPHAEL WRESSNIG & Soul Gift feat. Donniele Graves | TURNING POINT

 

RAPHAEL WRESSNIG & Soul Gift feat. Donniele Graves Raphael Wressnig - Hammond B-3 organ Igor Prado - guitar Eric Cisbani - drums Donniele Graves - vocals "TURNING POINT" from the album 'The Soul Connection':   / the-soul-connection-captured-live-deluxe-v...   Order on CD and vinyl at http://raphaelwressnig.com/music/ ©2024 All rights reserved. For more info visit https://raphaelwressnig.com

Portrait of a Jazz Blogger - Jazz Wax's Marc Myers

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.

From 2008, a Portrait of Writer, Marc Myers. His jazz blog: http://jazzwax.com Marc is a regular contributor at The Wall Street Journal, where he writes on music and the arts, and interviews leading film and TV actors and pop musicians for his weekly "House Call" column. In 2007, he founded JazzWax.com, which won three Jazz Journalists Association's "Blog of the Year" awards. In addition to "House Call," he writes a monthly essay on rock and soul albums that changed music history for the Arts in Review/Opinion section. He lives in New York City with his wife and his pet iguana, Maynard.

Janis Joplin "Piece of My Heart"

 

From a 1968 concert in Germany, here is the one and the only, Janis Joplin, with what is probably her most famous tune, "Piece of My Heart".  Check it out.  By the way, the band lineup is in the credits at the end.  It is:

Sam Andrew: guitar

Richard Kermode: organ

Bradley Campbell: bass

Roy Markowitz: drums

Terrence Clemons: tenor saxophone

Cornelius Flowers: baritone saxophone

Terrence Hensley: trumpet 

A very young Joey DeFrancesco

 

Joey DeFrancesco live at The Blue Note with Byron Landham on drums.  

Joey DeFrancesco “I Put a Spell on You” (solo) @ St.Louis Jazz 2012

 

This week's Sunday Special.  

Joey DeFrancesco “I Put a Spell on You” (solo) @ St. Louis Jazz 2012 Jeremy Thomas - Drums Paul Bollenback - Guitar

🥬 Lettuce - "Pocket Change" Live at The Vogue - Indianapolis, IN (1.15.19)

 

🥬 Lettuce - "Pocket Change" Live at The Vogue - Indianapolis, IN (1.15.19) From the album 'Crush' All Things Lettuce: https://ffm.bio/lettuce * * *

🥬 Lettuce - Live at First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN (11.8.19) [Full Show]

 

Full Concert Friday this week takes me back, as I attended this concert with my brother Charlie, in person, on November 8th, 2019, at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Lettuce, funk band from Boston, Massachusetts.  This was a fun show to witness, and I will always remember it.  The band lineup is:

Eric "E.D." Coomes: bass

Adam Deitch: drums, percussion

Adam "Shmeeans" Smirnoff: guitar

Nigel Hall: vocals, keyboards (Hammond B3 organ, Rhodes & Wurlitzer electric pianos, Hohner Clavinet, synthesizers)

Ryan Zoidis: alto & tenor saxophones

Eric "Benny" Bloom: trumpet

The set list (mostly instrumentals):

1. Blaze

2. Shmink Dabby Kane

3. Nyack

4. Let's Straighten Out (O.V. Wright cover, feat. Nigel Hall: vocals)

5. Royal Highness

6. Gang Ten

7. Trillogy

8. Trapezoid

8. By Any Shmeeans Necessary (feat. Adam "Shmeeans" Smirnoff: guitar)

9. Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Tears for Fears cover) (feat. Nigel Hall: vocals)

10. Sam Huff's Flyin' Ragin' Machine (feat. Ryan Zoidis: alto saxophone, Eric "Benny" Bloom: trumpet, & Nigel Hall: Hammond B3 organ)

11. Sounds Like a Party (feat. Nigel Hall, Eric "E.D." Coomes, and Adam "Schmeeans" Smirnoff: vocals, Eric "Benny" Bloom, trumpet, & Robert "Sput" Searight: electric piano)

Encore:

12. Do It Like You Do (feat. Nigel Hall: vocals, Robert "Sput" Searight, Hammond B3 organ & Clavinet, & Xavier Taplin: Wurlitzer electric piano)

Funk band Ghost Note were the opening act.

Jethro Tull "Song for Jeffrey"

 

Here is an offbeat and interesting performance.  It is rock band Jethro Tull with their lead vocalist and flautist, Ian Anderson, playing the blues on "Song for Jeffrey" as part of the 1968 "Rock and Roll Circus" concert put on by The Rolling Stones that was released as a movie in 1996.  The music was recorded specifically for a lip sync for the show.  That is what makes it zany.  Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath fame is featured on guitar in the video.  But it is clearly the band's original guitarist, Mick Abrahams who is playing the slide guitar part we hear in the song itself.   

James Brown - Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby / Please, Please, Please (live) - 11/07/1981 • World of Jazz

 

From a performance at the 1981 Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, on July 11th, 1981, James Brown and his band bring the soul and the funk playing a medley of "Baby, Baby, Baby" and "Please, Please, Please".  Give a big round of applause to Soul Brother Number One, Mr. Dynamite, the King and the Living Legend of Soul.  The one and the only... James Brown!

  

Lee Morgan and John Hicks - Theme for Stacy

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.  

Theme for Stacey (Morgan) Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Jazz 625, BBC, 1965 featuring Lee Morgan, trumpet; John Gilmore, tenor saxophone; John Hicks, piano; Victor Sproles, bass and Art Blakey on drums.

My Funny Valentine Live at the Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival - Herbie Hancock

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.  Herbie Hancock, piano; Ron Carter, bass  and Tony Williams, drums.  Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival, 1986.

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - I'm Leaving You (Commit A Crime) (Video)

 

This week's Sunday Special.  Music video by Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble performing I'm Leaving You (Commit A Crime). (C) 1986 Sony BMG Music Entertainment.

Joe Henderson & Calvin Keys, February 1, 1984

 

Full Concert Friday this week, featuring the duo of guitarist Calvin Keys and tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, a true jazz legend.  This is jazz at the art gallery.  February 1st, 1984, at the Eye Gallery in San Francisco, California.  The jazz being played by Calvin Keys and Joe Henderson represents and accompanies the photography, framed in the background, that was done by photographer Tom Copi.  

Masa Takagi "Take a Ten" (1974)

 

Full Album Friday this week, is taken from a playlist posted to YouTube, and pointed out to me, by a high school buddy who also happens to be a guitar player and music afficionado.  This is Masa Takagi, a Japanese singer/songwriter and her 1974 record "Take a Ten" and this record is filled with songs that are really a part of the country rock genre and the cannon of American music.  So, there's country and western, rock, pop, and rhythm & blues influence in a lot of this record.  The musicians on this record are also top-notch session players.  Plus, the producers and arrangers for this record really did it right.  It has stood the test of time for half a century, so you know the music is good.  Nice to finally introduce it to people, who like me, have only just recently heard of it.

https://www.discogs.com/master/1219796-%E9%AB%98%E6%9C%A8%E9%BA%BB%E6%97%A9-%E9%AB%98%E6%9C%A8%E9%BA%BB%E6%97%A9

The track listing is:

1. My City

2. Mardi Gras

3. Why

4. Love Clock

5. After The Rain

6. Goodbyes at Sunset

7. Colors of the Wind

8. Living The Lonely Life

9. Beat Seven

10. Song of Spring

11. My Shiny Bicycle

12. Surigarasu (demo)

13. Greeting Card (early demo, late 1974, early 1975)

14. (Fushigi na Kibun) Mysterious Mood (demo, 1974/'75)

15. Song of Spring (English version)

16. Too Many Memories (live, '74)

Steppenwolf "Magic Carpet Ride"

 

American rock and roll band Steppenwolf, named after the title of a Herman Hesse novel, with one of their biggest hit songs, "Magic Carpet Ride", recorded and released in 1969, with bandleader John Kay on guitar and lead vocals, Michael Monarch on lead guitar and backing vocals, the late, great Rushton Moreve on bass, Jerry Edmonton on drums, and the late, great Goldy McJohn on Hammond organ and vocals.  It is McJohn who plays the epic Hammond solo.  Check out "Magic Carpet Ride".  

🥬 Lettuce - "Lettsanity" feat. Cory Wong - Blue Note Napa Summer Sessions (8.24.24)

 

🥬 Lettuce - "Lettsanity" feat. Cory Wong - Blue Note Napa Summer Sessions (8.24.24) All Things Lettuce: https://ffm.bio/lettuce * * * 🥬 Follow / Listen to Lettuce: Bio Link: https://ffm.bio/lettuce Website: https://www.lettucefunk.com/ Store: https://merchandise.lettucefunk.com/ Tour Dates: https://www.lettucefunk.com/tour Instagram:   / lettucefunk   Facebook:   / lettucefunk   Twitter:   / lettucefunk   TikTok:   / lettucefunk   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1fZXj... Apple Music:   / lettuce   YouTube:    / lettucefunk   Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/artists/B001... YouTube Music:    / lettuce - topic   Soundcloud:   / lettucefunk   Bandcamp: https://lettuce.bandcamp.com/ Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/artist/3918323 Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/artist/398787 Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/artist/lettuc...

🥬 Lettuce - “Vámonos” Live at Santa Barbara Bowl - Santa Barbara, CA (7.21.24)

 

🥬 Lettuce - “Vámonos” Live at Santa Barbara Bowl - Santa Barbara, CA (7.21.24) From the album ‘Unify’ Stream/Download ‘Unify’: https://orcd.co/lettuceunify All Things Lettuce: https://ffm.bio/lettuce * * * 🥬 Follow / Listen to Lettuce: Bio Link: https://ffm.bio/lettuce Website: https://www.lettucefunk.com/ Store: https://merchandise.lettucefunk.com/ Tour Dates: https://www.lettucefunk.com/tour Instagram:   / lettucefunk   Facebook:   / lettucefunk   Twitter:   / lettucefunk   TikTok:   / lettucefunk   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1fZXj... Apple Music:   / lettuce   YouTube:    / lettucefunk   Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/artists/B001... YouTube Music:    / lettuce - topic   Soundcloud:   / lettucefunk   Bandcamp: https://lettuce.bandcamp.com/ Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/artist/3918323 Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/artist/398787 Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/artist/lettuc... * * *