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Grimes was also in Tatum's trio earlier as well as recording w/Bird
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02-16-2020 06:57 PM
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Now tell me that Charlie here doesn't sound like he's coming out of the blues?
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Originally Posted by wintermoon
tatum trio with tiny and slam!! great stuff
tiny played a 4 string tenor...with the guitar like d-g-b-e tuning
cheers
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Speaking of Slam, he had the bowing humming thing down. Others did it, like Major Holley but Slam was the man, perfect intonation.
Caught him when he came through as part of the Lionel Hampton All Stars and he stole the show!
Here he is in Red Norvos band in '45 w all star lineup including Bird and Diz....
Last edited by wintermoon; 02-16-2020 at 08:39 PM.
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Another cut...these cats are flyin!
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Can't leave out the legendary Slim Gaillard, Jack McVea takes the 1st chorus and then Bird just....flies!
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Bill Jennings. "Big Boy" may be his best known number among jump blues lovers.
Two versions of "Glide On" here.
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Originally Posted by joelf
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Some blues from Herb Ellis.
The intro to this one, "Sweetheart Blues" always reminds me of Horace Silver
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Big Bill Jennings fan here!!! Enough Said is a great album- the title track and Blues Jams are full of tasty stuff !! Jack McDuff on organ too!!!
watch out Hendrix - Jennings was there first with the upside down git
Will
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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02-16-2020, 11:27 PM #87joelf Guest
Teddy Bunn is on this recording, with the fabulous singer and human Hadda Brooks.
(I myself spent a very memorable month give or take accompanying Our Ms. Brooks at Michael's Pub back in Autumn '93).
If you've a mind to go to youtube and punch in Hadda Brooks and The Thrill is Gone. (Go for the one w/the pic of Bogart and a woman in a car). She gave me chills singing this every night, rubato w/light strumming and bass bowing. This one will, too. (Might be Sinatra's guitarist Al Viola on it if there's guitar).
Brief bio: she started as a boogie woogie pianist with 'race record' hits in the early '40s---then someone with some sense listened and realized what a special ballad singer she was. Appeared w/Bogie in In a Lonely Place, had more hits with That's My Desire and Out of The Blue, worked for some years in Australia, and was the first woman of color in the US to host her own TV show...
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02-16-2020, 11:29 PM #88joelf Guest
Oh, what the hell:
(Dig especially how she's just about crying on the bridge, then comes way down to finish. What a moment!
(Edit) No doubt about it---Hadda and Al Viola throughout, with some discreet piano at the very end...Last edited by joelf; 02-17-2020 at 12:09 AM.
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02-16-2020, 11:32 PM #89joelf GuestOriginally Posted by MarkRhodes
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cc with teddy bunn (and slam stewart on bass!!) circa 1940...often attributed as being some sort of gibson promotional event!
bunn looks pleased..cc pensive!!! telling
cheers
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MINGUS BLUES & ROOTS, Crying the Blues
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Man.... I just feel better. Thanks for all the posts. (dang I’m old)
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02-17-2020, 12:28 AM #93joelf Guest
Lest we forget:
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Originally Posted by rahsaan
to play one horn as well as he..well ok..but to play 2 or 3 ..simultaneously...and with taste & panache!!
cheers
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My favorite version of "Down the Road Apiece."
"Man, it's better than chicken fried in bacon grease!"
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Tab Benoit, a Tele man from Lousiana. Used to see him at the old Rock'n'Bowl in NOLA. Good times.
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I learned the hard way that R&B is Gospel on vacation. All that's left of me is the gambler's blues.
And the lonesome blues
The old gigolo blues
The Vegas blues
The counting California license plate blues
The gas station blues...
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^ never too late to end the vacation
bluesmen extraordinaires--cooder & lindley
cheers
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hooker n van
cheers
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I started on harmonica, that's all I could afford. Sonny Boy Williamson, James Cotton, Sonny Terry, got me on my way in the blues. When I could afford a cheap shitbox guitar, learning to play slide seemed the logical thing to do to make it sound better and play easier. Robert Johnson, Fred McDowell, and all those delta players were my first teachers, and my first love was the delta blues. That's what started it for me as a player.
Remember everyone, for us older guys, pre-internet was a big challenge to get your hands on stuff to listen to, and the old blues records were not just waiting in the record stores for us to discover. You really had to be a diligent explorer, just like jazz.
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