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Post by whitefang on Sept 18, 2019 10:01:47 GMT -5
Fair 'nuff, but too you have to recall...... Many of the "giants" in jazz( as we now think them) had to go to Europe to find appreciation for the "American art form" by the early '50's. Diz, Bird, Prez, Mingus, Dex and more had spent time in France, Sweden and Belgium becoming "big names" over there and THEN finally got asked to return home to better gates than they were getting previous. And think of it..... With all the long established and existing venues in NYC, WHY did they go to TORONTO to record what since has been called "The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever"? At Massey Hall. And it is a matter of opinion. Just a like of some particular genre(s) doesn't mean one has to be obligated to like ALL of it's artists. But too,IMHO, this sounds "bluesy" to me! Whitefang
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Post by whitefang on Sept 19, 2019 9:56:57 GMT -5
So, this guy, supposedly Robert Johnson's stepson, kept into his '90's! Died at 91 in 2006.
But truly, his Mother just lived with Johnson off and on for about ten years. Whitefang
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Post by whitefang on Sept 22, 2019 9:37:56 GMT -5
And WOW! As luck would have it, my sister called me last night. Said she found an old box of "junk" our Mom left her when she died, and going through it, found this copy of an old ('56) B. B. King LP I bought in an old, tiny record shop in an out of the way location in downtown Detroit back in '68. I still have and use an old turntable for old vinyl I have of LPs that havn't yet(for some reason) been re-issued on CD. I'll have to hunt down a CD of this as my old vinyl sounds worse for wear. I thought I grabbed the "entire LP" clip, but just got this one tune lookslike Whitefang
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Post by jbone on Sept 22, 2019 18:04:30 GMT -5
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Post by whitefang on Sept 23, 2019 9:42:12 GMT -5
I don't know if I posted anything by this guy already, but it too is another example of how his instrument gets overshadowed in the genre by the guitar and harmonica. Eddie also dabbled in jazz.....
Whitefang
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Post by jbone on Sept 23, 2019 13:24:21 GMT -5
I used to do a version of this in the last band I worked with. Harp instead of sax. Worked very well!
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Post by jbone on Sept 23, 2019 13:25:44 GMT -5
Another one we did with the rhythm section.
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Post by jbone on Sept 23, 2019 13:27:14 GMT -5
This one is the FIRST song I ever learned to play on a chromatic harp. Plus sang.
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Post by whitefang on Sept 24, 2019 9:58:33 GMT -5
Is that "sang" in past, or present tense? (see the facetious reference in my "country music" post of today ) Back To B.B.----- I hunted down that LP due to really liking it after hearing a buddy of mine play it relentlessly the year before('67), and having liked B.B. for years due to another of my stepsisters having some of his late '50's, early '60's singles. I had to continually shake my head in amusement in '69 when "The Thrill Is Gone" wound up on Top 40 AM radio and the "straight" guys( meaning "non-hippie types") in my high school went about feeling they "discovered" B.B. King. Hell. In '67 the basement band I was in, for laughs, would do a "blues" version of the Herman's Hermits song "Henry The 8th". Whitefang
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