Jerry Garcia Band live. Clarence Clemons on the sax. Cool ass Heaven's Door!
Humble Pie - Rock On, their last studio album with Frampton. Man, I love that'70s guitar sound!
Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Jazz in Silhouette (Expanded Edition)
"In tomorrow's world, men will not need artificial instruments such as jets and space ships. In the world of tomorrow, the new man will 'think' the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there."
— Sun Ra, Jazz in Silhouette album notes (1959)Jazz in Silhouette is the quintessential record of Sun Ra's Chicago period during the late 1950s. Recorded in 1958 and issued in 1959, the album—Ra's third—offers a coda for the bandleader's bebop/hard-bop periods, as his interstellar traveler persona began to vividly evolve at the close of the decade. Sunny's compositions here reflect his talent for writing memorable works in the jazz idiom, even as arrangements like "Ancient Aiethopia" point to new directions in amalgamated primitive-futurism. After Ra moved to New York in 1961, he began to explore musical terrain away from jazz conventions. Yet Jazz in Silhouette is resplendent with adventure.
Many of these early works, including "Images," "Enlightment," and "Saturn," would remain staples in Arkestra set lists for the rest of Sunny's life. These recordings showcase the brilliant tenor sax stylings of John Gilmore and introduce the iconic playing of Marshall Allen and Pat Patrick; all three would remain with Ra for decades (as would bassist Ronnie Boykins). On the extended “Blues At Midnight,” each horn soloist stretches out as in a live club performance. Here, Sun Ra and the band radiate the period's Chicago jazz sound, with lilting melodies, intertwining chords, and surprising dynamic shifts.
This expanded edition, issued in vinyl, CD and digital formats, features additional material from the 1958 sessions, along with non-album bonus tracks from the period, some never-before issued, as well as rare stereo mixes. The CD and digital editions feature the full original album in the widely known monophonic mix. The eight album tracks are followed by four bonus tracks, "State Street" "Blues From Saturn," the single version of "Hours After," and another single, "Great Balls of Fire"; all are in mono.
The rest of the deluxe edition—call it Part 2—is in stereo, starting with the album Sound Sun Pleasure (which includes the stereo mix of "Enlightment," a title that appeared in mono on Jazz in Silhouette). This short collection wasn't issued on Saturn until 1970, but the works originated at the same Chicago recording sessions as Jazz in Silhouette. Two tracks feature the sultry vocal stylings of Hattie Randolph, sister of early Arkestra trumpeter Lucious Randolph. The rest of Part 2 features the premiere LP/CD release of five Jazz in Silhouette album tracks in full stereo. Every prior edition of the album had been monophonic. A stereo session tape was discovered by Michael D. Anderson of the Sun Ra Music Archive; five tracks were salvaged (although one is incomplete). The album's second stereo reel, unfortunately, cannot be located.
[NOTE: The 2-LP expanded vinyl edition does not include the full original mono album. Because of time limitations on each side, the four full stereo mixes were substituted for the mono versions; however, the track sequence has been preserved. The CD and vinyl editions also include a lengthy historical essay by Ra scholar John Corbett and additional illustrations.]
This deluxe package also features the original space nymph cover art, which only appeared in cropped and washed-out reproductions on Saturn releases. John Corbett found and preserved the original painting by an artist identified only as "Evans." The colors are more vibrant, and the expanded edition gatefold LP presents previously omitted artwork at the periphery of the untitled painting.
Finally, all formats of this expanded edition restore the track sequence of the earliest Saturn versions of Jazz in Silhouette; every subsequent reissue has reversed the original sides A and B.
—I.C.
Levon Helm & Rick Danko 1/28/83 Portland
"Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?"
ABB 6/9 & 6/10/73 RFK Stadium Capt. Skipper Remaster
"Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?"
Dead from 7/5/81. Some goodies here. Enjoying Lost Sailor right now.
Don't hear this one much anymore
Gov't Mule
Dose
Playing some Tony Bennett. He died this morning at age 96. RIP.
ABB Get On With Your Life January 28 1992 Sapporo, Japan
"Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?"
Jimi going Blues...
@stratdal Jimi was an amazingly good guitar player!! This first blues song is played as well as B. B. King or Albert King could play the blues.
Eddie Van Halen and Steve Vai can't touch Jimi Hendrix here. They simply didn't have the feel and emotion from the heart.
Grateful Dead, Brent Midland's last show.
Playing some ORIGINAL LINEUP Eagles. Just saw on the news the Eagles' original bass player Randy Meisner died today at age 77. RIP.
I took a girl who had just discovered the Eagles to see them during the original lineup period.
Randy is on the left. P. S. Timothy Schmidt replaced Randy in Poco when Randy quit to help form the Eagles with Glen Frey, Don Henley and Bernie Leadon. Then when Glen Frey got pissed at Randy for refusing to sing Take It To The Limit saying " Randy we have people here tonight who've been waiting for more than a year to hear that song live", Randy continued to say he wasn't in the mood to sing lead tonight. So Glen Frey cussed him out and told him to quit. To get the hell OUT!!
So Randy quit that night and Glen and Don stole Poco's replacement for Randy, Timothy Schmidt, to quit Poco and join the Eagles.
One I've never heard of!
Enjoying Cap'n Trips birthday! Jerry would've been 81 today. Cheers!
The "newest" release from Little Feat....The Waiting for Columbus, 4 disc box set, 3 previously unreleased shows from 1977 and the original remastered. Lisner in D.C., The Rainbow in London and Manchester City Hall. Good stuff.
Elton John
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Mountain
Climbing!
The album that got me sent to the principal's office as a 12 year old (1970)! Last day of school - we were allowed to bring records and have Coke-a-cola etc. Everybody else brought typical top-40 stuff of the day. When it was my turn, I put on Climbing! and twisted the volume knob way up. We got about 15 seconds into Mississippi Queen before the tone arm was yanked up and I was drug to the office. "We're very concerned about you!", was the lecture I got.
I met Leslie West a few years late (when I was 17). He was nice to me.
One of my favorite posts on this thread! Come get me Mr. Principal!
Just a shoutout to Vince, good to see a BigV visit, it’s been awhile🤙
love the Mountain story - & the album too
@stratdal Wow StratDal!! Your dad must have been an amazing trumpet player to be second in line to the great Chet Baker, one of the best players ever!!
I was in college in the late 1960's and became friends with a young man who's uncle on his mother's side I think it was played first chair saxophone in Buddy Rich's band and we would see his uncle on TV some.
Said Buddy was tough to work for and liked to say "I've played with the greatest f***ing musicians in the world and you ain't one of them".
This is the uncle playing the saxophone solo!
