This week's Sunday Special post. From back when Fleetwood Mac was a stone-cold blues band, led by guitarist and vocalist, Peter Green, here is their medley of "Please Find My Baby" and Elmore James' via Robert Johnson and others, "Dust My Broom" from a performance on New Years' Eve, 1968, in Paris, France.
From "Live at The Sydney Opera House" in Sydney, Australia, here is Joe Bonamassa and his band with the song "No Good Place for The Lonely".
Full Concert Friday once again this week featuring Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, in Paris, France, on November 15th, 1959.
Blues March 00:00 Are You Real 08:45 A Night in Tunisia 19:42 Close Your Eyes 28:47 Goldie 41:03 Drum solo 52:18 Bouncing with Bud 55:47 No problem 01:04:59
The band lineup includes Art Blakey on drums, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Lee Morgan on trumpet, Walter Davis Jr. on piano, and Jymie Merritt on bass.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
Nutville (Silver) - Horace Silver, piano; John Williams, bass; Billy Cobham, drums; Bill Hardman on trumpet and Bennie Maupin on tenor saxophone. Drummer Billy Cobham's first regular gig when he was discharged from the Army was with Horace Silver's Quintet in 1968. Two years later, he would join the Mahavishu Orchestra and make a dramatic impact on the percussionists worldwide.
From the 1965 American Folk Blues Festival in England, here are a couple of encore performances with blues and blues harmonica legends Big Mama Thornton, Big Walter Horton, and Dr. Ross are jamming with John Lee Hooker on guitar, on the instrumental blues "Down Home Shakedown".
From a concert in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1992, here is Frank Gambale on guitar with the Alain Rieder Band and the tune "Spending Sunday With You". A great band featuring Gambale on guitar, Tom Coster of Carlos Santana fame on keyboards, Mike Fahn on valve trombone, Jimmy Earl on bass, the bandleader, Alain Rieder, on drums.
Released way back in March, and now, I finally find out. Better late than never, I suppose. Here is the latest single from blues rock band Robert John & The Wreck. This one is called "Dragging Me Down".
