Another live Brecker Brothers performance at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland. This one is from 30 years ago, in 1992. The tune is "Spherical" featuring the following band lineup.
From the 1980 North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland, on July 11th, 1980, here are The Brecker Brothers with "Tee'd Off". The band lineup is:
From the 1989 Charlie Daniels Band album "Simple Man", here is a great boogie woogie rock and roller. Mama, call the doctor 'cause your boy's got the rockin' "Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues". Happy 86th birthday, Charlie Daniels. Rest In Peace, legend.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack. Elvin Jones, drums; Joe Farrell, tenor saxophone; Jimmy Garrison, bass, Live in Suffolk, England, 1968.
Elvin Jones, in full Elvin Ray Jones, (born September 9, 1927, Pontiac, Michigan, U.S.—died May 18, 2004, Englewood, New Jersey), American jazz drummer and bandleader who established a forceful polyrhythmic approach to the traps set, combining different metres played independently by the hands and feet into a propulsive flow of irregularly shifting accents.
Jones was mostly self-taught, though he came of a musical family that included siblings Hank and Thad, jazz pianist and trumpeter, respectively. Jones played drums in school and army bands before beginning his professional career in Detroit in 1949. In 1956 he moved to New York City, where he performed with Donald Byrd, Pepper Adams, and others, and in 1960 he joined saxophonist John Coltrane’s quartet with McCoy Tyner, pianist, and Jimmy Garrison, bassist. The highly acclaimed group became one of the most influential jazz combos of the 1960s. During this time Jones perfected his powerful polyrhythmic style, recording a series of albums with Coltrane that influenced jazz substantially, including My Favorite Things (1960) and A Love Supreme (1964). Rather than merely keeping time, the drummer, through Jones’s example, became an improviser of equal importance to the lead melodic instrumentalist. After the addition of a second drummer, Rashied Ali, to the Coltrane group, Jones left in 1966 to lead his own small bands, featuring such saxophonists as Joe Farrell, Frank Foster, Dave Liebman, and Pat LaBarbera. Jones’s recordings include The Ultimate Elvin Jones (1968) and It Don’t Mean a Thing (1993).
Check out this tune. Charles Lloyd and his quartet playing "Sombrero Sam". It features Charles Lloyd on tenor saxophone and flute, Keith Jarrett on piano, Cecil McBee on bass, and Jack DeJohnette on drums.
A bonus, and here's the live version from the 1999 Jazz a Vienne festival in France on July 5th, 1999, with Charles Lloyd on percussion, and flute, John Abercrombie on guitar, Jeffrey Littleton on bass, and Billy Hart on drums.
Ry Cooder and the Chicken Skin Band play 'Smack Dab In The Middle' (written by 'Charles E. Calhoun' (a pen name of Jesse Stone)) live at Shepherd's Bush Television Theatre, London in 1977. Band Lineup: Guitar, Vocals - Ry Cooder, Alto Saxophone - Pat Rizzo, Drums - Isaac Garcia, Bass - Henry 'Big Red' Ojeda, Bajo Sexto - Jesse Poncé, Accordion - Flaco Jimenez, Vocals - Eldridge King, Terry Evans, Bobby King
Hitting the stores this month, a live, five-disc concert recording by Phish from their 1998 performance at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington. "Tube" → "Slave To The Traffic Light" from 7/16/98 at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA. The Gorge '98, a new 5-CD box set, hits stores this December. Pre-order next week.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
00:00 Intro
02:40 Music begins
A House is Not A Home (Bachrach) Kongsberg Jazzfestival, Oslo Norway, June 2, 1975. Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone; Rufus Harley, bagpipes and soprano saxphone; Masuo, guitar; Bob Cranshaw, bass and David Lee on drums.
Three songs from Phil Lesh & Friends and their recent October 15th, 2022, gig at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York. The band lineup includes:
"Unbroken Chain"
"Jack Straw"
"Bird Song"
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
Born Archie Vernon Shepp on May 24, 1937, in Fort Lauderdale, FL; married, 1959. Education: Bachelor's degree in drama from Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, 1959; further studies at Hunter College and New School for Social Research, New York City. Addresses: Office--W.E.B. DuBois Department of African-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003. E-mail--archie@archieshepp.com. Website--Archie Shepp Official Website: http://www.archieshepp.com.
Although his style is wildly diverse, saxophonist Archie Shepp is best known as a pioneer of free jazz, a branch of the musical form originating in the late 1950s that centered around such concepts as collective improvisation, dissonance, layered sound, fragmented melody, and unorthodox rhythms. Shepp, who is also a playwright, critic, composer, and teacher, is equally known for his outspoken political views, especially with regard to race, which came to the fore both in interviews and on such albums as Poem for Malcolm, Attica Blues, and Cry of My People. While always highly regarded by critics, Shepp has never gained popular success and has attributed his lack of mainstream appeal to both his political candor and his refusal to bow to the demands of the music industry or funding bodies which, for example, often required that written scores accompany grant proposals.
Shepp was born on May 24, 1937, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but spent most of his youth in Philadelphia, where he attended Germantown High School. He credits his parents as his earliest musical influences--his father played banjo and his mother sang, exposing him to the music of jazz masters like Duke Ellington, Oscar Pettiford, Ben Webster, and Illinois Jacquet. The Shepps also enrolled their son in music lessons, where he learned to play both piano and clarinet. While still a teenager, his aunt and grandmother bought him an alto saxophone; he has been playing the instrument ever since.
Called John Coltrane a "Mentor"
Equally profound was Coltrane's influence, which Shepp credits with bringing up a generation of jazz artists. "Trane is the guy that created us, in a way. He believed in us. He was our mentor," he told Cashman. The influence was enduring. "John has always been a great experience for me," he said in a 1982 issue of Down Beat. "Now, I listen to his music constantly, and study it as one would the works of Beethoven or Bach."
Shepp played in Taylor's quartet from 1960 until 1962, when he released Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet with trumpeter Bill Dixon on Savoy Records. The following year Shepp formed the short-lived New York Contemporary Five with cornetist Don Cherry, alto saxophonist John Tchicai, bassist Don Moore, and drummer J.C. Moses. The group released a critically acclaimed self-titled debut. Shepp began to draw greater notice after the quintet dissolved and he struck out on his own, releasing 1964's Archie Shepp and Four for Trane, 1965's Fire Music, Further Fire Music, and On This Night. He also played on Coltrane's 1965 release Ascension.
Fire Music offered a taste of Shepp's growing concern with politics and race, featuring the poetry-infused track "Malcolm, Malcolm--Semper Malcolm," a tribute to the slain Malcolm X, which Gary Giddings in The Black Composer Speaks called "almost certainly the best poetry-and-jazz side ever made." Shepp elaborated, explaining, "In terms of my own social-political being, I've tried for example to include poetry as an adjunct to the music because I feel that at some point we have to be more specific in addressing ourselves to a racist society."
Created Single Style from Many Influences
Shepp's vast influences and singular style drew widespread critical notice. "Quite a few people hear 'a new-wave Ben Webster,'" wrote LeRoi Jones in a 1965 issue of Down Beat. "Others hear a strong Sonny Rollins influence; still others hear Coltrane's presence in the Shepp approach to the tenor saxophone. But it seems certain that what these listeners really hear is a musician whose emotional registrations are so broad that he is able to make reference to anybody's 'style,' even though finally all the ideas and images that make up his playing are completely his own.... In listening to Shepp, the only real influence one can discern is 'everything.'"
Townes van Zandt playing his hit song "Pancho & Lefty" which Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard made famous. Van Zandt performs this one at Uncle Seymour's Place. An extra from a DVD called "Heart Worn Highways".
Soulive featuring at this time, guitarist Eric Krasno, keyboardist Neal Evans, (on Hammond organ and Clavinet), bassist Oteil Burbridge (who would go on to play with The Allman Brothers Band, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and Dead & Company, among others), and his brother, the late, great, Kofi Burbridge, on flute, (who was also part of the Derek Trucks Band and Tedeschi Trucks Band), and Alan Evans, on drums. Here they are playing their jam “Butter Biscuit”.
Another performance from Phish's September 3rd, 2022, gig at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado. This is "Walls of The Cave".
From Phish's September 2nd, 2022, show at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado, here is their medley of "Tweezer" and "What's The Use?"
A special edition of Full Concert Friday.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
00:00 Ronnie Cuber on Michael Brecker 04:14 Music Begins
Baritone saxophone legend Ronnie Cuber remembers Michael Brecker and the gig he played with the Brecker Brothers at Lush Life, a Greenwich Village Jazz club, back in 1983. And then we hear two sets from the actual gig. Ronnie Cuber at Lush Life, March 23, 1983, Ronnie Cuber - Baritone Saxophone, Randy Brecker - Trumpet, Michael Brecker - Tenor Saxophone, Eliane Elias - Piano, Chip Jackson - Bass, Richie Morales - Drums.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
00:00 Intro 03:36 Music From the 1979 Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival, two former Miles Davis keyboardists, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock offer a piano duo version of, All Blues, composed by their musical father. Please help me keep Jazz visible: Click on the "Thanks" button to make a contribution. Or send via Paypal: https://paypal.me/jazzvideoguy
Remembering fondly, another legend who has left us way too soon. Rest In Peace, baritone saxophone legend Ronnie Cuber.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
I first encountered Baritone Sax legend Ronnie Cuber when he was playing with Maynard Ferguson's Big Band in the mid-60s on Manyard's Cameo-Parkway recording, "The New Sounds of Maynard Ferguson." He was ferocious. I caught the band live in '65 at Lake Compounce in Bristol, Connecticut and his playing totally blew my mind. After I moved to NYC and eventually the Upper West Side, I met Ronnie and his wife at the time, Roberta Arnold, who was his greatest supporter. And I heard him play live a number of times. He never failed to play amazingly.
Ronald Edward Cuber was a jazz saxophonist. He played in Latin, pop, rock and blues sessions. In addition to his primary instrument, baritone sax, he also played tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet and flute, the latter on an album by Eddie Palmieri as well as his own recordings. As a leader, Cuber was known for hard bop and Latin jazz. As a side man, he played with numerous musicians, such as B. B. King, Paul Simon, and Eric Clapton.Furthermore, Cuber can be heard on Freeze Frame by the J. Geils Band, and one of his most spirited performances is on Dr. Lonnie Smith's 1970 Blue Note album Drives. He was also a member in Saturday Night Live Band.
Cuber was in Marshall Brown's Newport Youth Band in 1959, where he switched from tenor to baritone sax. His first notable work was with Slide Hampton (1962) and Maynard Ferguson (1963–1965). Then from 1966 to 1967, Cuber worked with George Benson. He was also a member of the Lee Konitz nonet from 1977 to 1979.[2] He can be heard playing in Frank Zappa's group in the mid-1970s, including the album Zappa in New York. He has been a member of the Mingus Big Band since its inception in the early 1990s. He was an off-screen musician for the movie Across the Universe.
He is missed, big time.
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I swear I had posted this one before but cannot remember. Will post it again, for your viewing and listening pleasure. A 1987 concert, and a performance of Elmore James' "The Sky Is Crying" by four blues legends. Guitar heroes B.B. King, Albert King, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, along with harmonica ace and bandleader Paul Butterfield. These four legends are sadly no longer with us. But the music will always live on.
From a performance at the Beacon Theater in New York City, here is Joe Boanamassa playing "Young Man Blues".
Another tune from Marcus King's new record "Young Blood". This one is called "It's Too Late", and as with other performances from this series of songs that are on the record, this one was recorded at Easy Eye Sound.
Full Concert Friday this week, featuring The Charlie Daniels Band performing live on Austin City Limits in Austin, Texas, in 1981, on PBS. The set list is:
Joe Bonamassa performing his song "If Heartaches Were Nickels" live at the Beacon Theater in New York, New York.
Another remarkable performance from Phil Lesh & The Midnight Ramble Band from their performance on August 20th, 2022, at Bethel Woods Performing Arts Center in Bethel, New York. I can provide the full band lineup this time. Phil Lesh, Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams, Grahame Lesh, Jim Weider, Connor Kennedy, Tony Leone, Shawn Pelton, Brian Mitchell, Adam Minkoff, Steven Bernstein, Jay Collins, and Eric Lawrence.
From "The Complete Reprise Studio Albums, Volume 1" also titled "Rarities 1983-1998", here is Eric Clapton with his cover of Booker T. Jones' "Born Under A Bad Sign".
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack. Alain Derbez, soprano sax, Manuel Viterbo banjo, and Luis Miguel Costero on tablas, cajón and additional percusion. Jazzatlán, Roma Norte, Ciudad de México, August 22, 2022.
From a performance at Bethel Woods Performing Arts Center in Bethel, New York, on August, 20th, 2022, here is Phil Lesh and The Midnight Ramble Band (introductions of the musicians in the video), playing "The Weight". Check it out.
