Lee Ritenour "Wild Rice"

From his debut 1976 recording "First Course", here is the track "Wild Rice" by Lee Ritenour.  It is the next to last cut on the album.  The musicians who played on the record include:

Rhythm section:

Lee Ritenour: classical & electric guitar, synthesizer, vocals
Bill Dickinson: bass
Chuck Rainey: bass
Louis Johnson: bass
Ian Underwood: synthesizer programming
Ed Green: drums
Harvey Mason Sr.: drums
Jerry Steinholtz: percussion
Dave Grusin: organ, piano, synthesizer & Clavinet
Larry Nash, Jerry Peters, Michael Omartian & Patrice Rushen: keyboards, Clavinet

Horns:

Chuck Findley: trumpet
Frank Rosolino: trombone
Tom Scott: tenor saxophone
Jerome Richardson: baritone saxophone

 

Passport "Iguacu"

Once again, we look at a song from the German jazz fusion band, Passport.  This is the title track of their 1977 album, recorded on Atlantic Records.  The band lineup is:

Wolfgang Schmid: bass
Curt Cress: drums, berimbau
Kristian Schulze: piano, electric piano, organ
Klaus Doldinger: organ, flute, tenor saxophone, & soprano saxophone
Roy Louis: guitar
Elmer Louis: percussion (including: atapaques, surdo, pandeiro, cuica, berimbau, & percussion whistles)

Widespread Panic (feat. The Dickinson Brothers), "Me & The Devil Blues"

From the 2015 New Orleans Jazzfest, here is Widespread Panic, with guests Luther and Cody Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars, playing their version of Robert Johnson's "Me & The Devil Blues".  Dig it!

Tedeschi Trucks Band (feat. Luther Dickinson) "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"

More music in memory of Butch Trucks in St. Louis, as Tedeschi Trucks Band pays tribute to Derek's uncle, playing a 31 minute version of "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" with Luther Dickinson sitting in on guitar. 

Tedeschi Trucks Band "Statesboro Blues"

Paying tribute to Derek's uncle, Butch Trucks, Tedeschi Trucks Band plays "Statesboro Blues" as the show opener of their January 25th gig in St. Louis, Missouri. 

Dickey Betts & Butch Trucks on Rock Influence, Interview, November 4th, 1984

We continue to remember Butch Trucks, and here, he and Dickey Betts are interviewed for the TV show Rock Influence about the early years of the Allman Brothers Band.

In Memoriam: Butch Trucks

Yours truly is shocked and saddened writing this post this morning.  One of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band, has died.  Rest In Peace, Butch Trucks.  A man, who yours truly, had the pleasure to see play his thunderous style of drums, with the Allman Brothers Band, four times.  He was known as "the freight train" for good reason, as his steady drumbeat was as powerful as a locomotive while his partner behind the second drum kit, Jaimoe, was a jazz driven drummer.  After the Allman Brothers said farewell in 2014, Butch began his own band called The Freight Train, and like the Allman's before them, they too, were on a roll.  We may never hear a drumming duo that had the power and finesse that Butch and Jaimoe did playing with the Allman Brothers, again.  It was something truly unique, and along with their third percussion master, Marc Quinones, in the latter part of the bands career, this triple drummer tour de force was a sight and a sound to behold.  Rest In Peace, Butch Trucks.  You will be missed.

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To honor Butch's legacy, and give you a taste of what he was all about, here is the drum solo from "Mountain Jam" from "Live at The Fillmore East" in 1971.  Butch and Jaimoe had something as drummers that just cannot be matched.  They were absolutely incredible.