Luther Johnson "Woman Don't Lie" & "Loan Me A Dime" (1973)

 

TV gig in France - two numbers - the second is a great cover of a Fenton Robinson number. With Sonny Thompson on piano - a solid Chicago blues player that you don't hear much about.

Zappa Plays Zappa

 

Full Concert Friday this week features Zappa Plays Zappa.  Dweezil Zappa and his band playing his father Frank Zappa's revolutionary music in a live concert.  I had a chance to see the band open for Return to Forever on their 2011 world tour and the show was incredible!  That opened me to the world of Frank Zappa's music, the arcane art of the absurd yet with plenty of reality.  The set list for this show is:

DVD Disc 1

1. Andy

2. Call Any Vegetable

3. Tell Me You Love Me

4. Florentine Pogen

5. Cosmic Debris

6. I'm The Slime

7. Pound For a Brown

8. Don't Eat the Yellow Snow

9. St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast

10. Father O'Blivion

11. Inca Roads

12. Eat That Question

13. I'm So Cute

14. Tryin' to Grow a Chin

15. Punky Whips

DVD Disc 2 

1. Black Page #1

2. Black Page #2

3. Regyptian Strut

4. Peaches En Regalia

5. Montana

6. Village of the Sun 

7. Echidna's Art (Of You)

8. Zomby Woof

9. Black Napkins

10. The Torture Never Stops

11. Oh No

12. Son of Orange County

13. Trouble Every Day

14. Sofa

The band lineup is:

Dweezil Zappa: lead guitar

Scheila Gonzalez: keyboards, alto saxophone, flute

Jamie Kime: rhythm guitar

Aaron Arntz: keyboards, trumpet, & vocals

Pete Griffin: bass

Billy Hulting: percussion, marimba, mallets, manic ranting monologues

With Special guest band members:

Steve Vai: lead guitar

Napoleon Murphy Brock: vocals, tenor saxophone, & flute

Terry Bozzio: drums & vocals

Count Basie on the Milton Berle Show, 1959, Bleep Blop Blues

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.  Count Basie and his Orchestra on the Kraft Music Hall hosted by Milton Berle, March 1959.

Phish - 8/30/2024 - Ruby Waves → What's The Use? (4K HDR) Commerce City, CO

 

"Ruby Waves" → "What's The Use?" from Phish's 8/30/2024 show at Dicks Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO. 

Phish "Sand" (revisited)

 

"Sand" from Phish's 8/30/2024 show at Dicks Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO.

Phish "Pillow Jets" (revisited)

 

Another live performance version of the song "Pillow Jets" by Phish.  This one is from their August 29th, 2024, concert at Dicks Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado.  

Stan Kenton & his Orchestra - Opus In Pastels - 01/04/1972 • World of Jazz

 

This week's Sunday Special featuring Stan Kenton & His Orchestra.

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 co-operate 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
Drums:  John von Ohlen
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.  The song here performed is “Take the A-train” a jazz standard by Billy Strayhorn, that became the signature tune of Duke Ellington. A-train refers to a subway service in New York.