@benfinlay74.bsky.social
MA Cultural History, BA (hons) History. Former history and politics lecturer at University of Chichester. Historian, writer, reader, musician, talker, blues and jazz obsessive. https://bsky.app/profile/lionunicorn.bsky.social
Remembering the great tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin, born OTD 1930 in Denison, Texas. He had a wonderful blues/gospel tone, and notably played with Charles Mingus between 1959 and 63, appearing on such classics as 'Mingus Ah Um' and 'Blues & Roots'.
#mingus #jasszky #musicsky #vinylcommunity
2) Jacquet's wild, full-toned, swinging solo heralded a new approach to playing the tenor saxophone, an approach that became known as the "Texas tenor style." The tune was deemed a classic, and was later described as one of the first rock 'n' roll records.
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1) Remembering the great Illinois Jacquet, born OTD in 1922 in Broussard, Louisiana...
In 1942, during a recording with Lionel Hampton's band, the 19-year-old Jacquet created one of the most famous jazz solos ever recorded, in the tune "Flying Home"...
#jazzsky #musicsky
'Photographs of Clifford reveal some of his inner self; the shots in which he is depicted in a playing attitude show his intensity, utter concentration and total connection with his instrument'- Ira Gitler
Remembering the great Clifford Brown, born OTD in 1930 and gone too soon..
#jazzsky #musicsky
Electric Miles! Released OTD 1970, 'Miles Davis at Fillmore', a live album recorded at the Fillmore East in June 1970, featuring Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, bassist Dave Holland and the great Jack DeJohnette who passed away on Sunday.
#MilesDavis #JackDeJohnette#jazzsky #musicsky #classicalbums
Farewell Jack DeJohnette, one of the greatest ever drummers. I was lucky enough to see him in the early 90s and he was absolutely phenomenal. We won't see his like again.
#jazzsky #jackdejohnette #RIP #musicsky
Jazz OTD: I would think most artists would be pleased if their first recording on an instrument came out as well as John Coltrane's soprano saxophone debut: his legendary version of "My Favorite Things," from October 21, 1960 (other tracks for the album recorded at later sessions). #jazzsky
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"And come the moonrise when the dew falls
Don't be the sun that fades away
Don't leave me darkness, she's no lover, she hides the day"
Remembering Brent Mydland of the Grateful Dead
Born OTD 1952 and gone far too soon...
#nowplaying 'To Swing or Not to Swing' (Barney Kessel Volume 3) from 1956. A few years ago I picked up an original UK copy from 1958 for a good price, so I'm revisiting it this morning...
#jazzsky #vinylcommunity #musicsky #classicalbums
"I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence"
Remembering the great Barney Kessel, born OTD in 1923 in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
#jazzsky #jazzguitar #musicsky #barneykessel
"All you have to do is be able to feel."
Art Blakey
October 11, 1919 - October 16, 1990
2) The total effect of this incredible apparatus produced the most buzzing, sizzling, African-sounding music I have ever heard..." - Barry Lee Pearson.
Remembering Big Joe Williams born OTD 1903 in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi-I still have my mums copy of 'Blues on Highway 49'
#oktibbehacounty
1) "Williams was playing an electric nine-string guitar through a small ramshackle amp with a pie plate nailed to it and a beer can dangling against that. When he played, everything rattled but Big Joe himself...
#blues #musichistory #mississippi
โโWake of the Floodโ was kind of a real departure. It was like a new era in the Grateful Dead. It started something different.โ - Donna Jean Godchaux
โWake of the Floodโ was released OTD in 1973. Gorgeous stuff, and one of my favourite Dead albums.
#gratefuldead #musicsky #classicalbums
*My New Article*
Light the lanterns, situate yourself at a nearby hearth and check out my autumn almanack, the top ten British albums for the golden season..
#writing #topten #autumn #musicsky #folk #folkjazz #british
10/14/72: Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris
w/Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider (Varda & Trintignant in on screenplay)
More:
The legendary Kael rev: criterion.com/current/post...
Must-read @szacharek.bsky.social: time.com/5464020/bern...
Also @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
2) I first bought the album on double cassette from Debenhams, Southampton in 1987. The band are at their peak here, and I've come back to it time and again.
#Genesis #musicsky #vinylcommunity
1) Released OTD in 1977, 'Seconds Out' by Genesis, the band's second live album, predominately recorded in June 1977 at the Palais des Sports in Paris. It was the last album to feature guitarist Steve Hackett and the first to feature the American powerhouse drummer Chester Thompson.
#musicsky
#nowplaying recorded OTD in 1960 at the Renaissance club in Hollywood, but not released until 1985, a great live album by Ben Webster, featuring Jim Hall on guitar, Jimmy Rowles on piano, Red Mitchell on bass and Frank Butler on drums. Beautiful.
#jazzsky #musicsky #vinylcommunity
#nowplaying 'Love In Us All' (1974), an underrated gem by Pharoah Sanders, who was born OTD 1940 in Little Rock, Arkansas
#jazzsky #musicsky #freejazz
2) which I purchased in Mole Jazz records, Kings Cross in the late 1990s... 'Miles & Carlos: Music and Philosophy of the Street', by Ralph J.Gleason in Rolling Stone, October 1972 is pictured below...
#jazzsky #musicsky #santana #milesdavis #fusion #classicalbums #RalphJGleason
1) Jazz-fusion-tastic! 'On the Corner' by Miles Davis and 'Caravanserai'by Santana, were released OTD in 1972 - I found the review of both (and other very rare cuttings) inside a second-hand copy of Miles Davis' 'Get Up With It'...
#jazzsky #musicsky #santana #milesdavis #fusion #classicalbums
"America is in fact a dictatorship. Your President has total power, unlike the leaders of the Soviet Union. He is your Commander-in-Chief. Also he is in charge of foreign affairs."
Today we shall mostly be reading Derek Lambert, born 10 Oct 1929.
thelionandunicorn.com/2018/05/16/r...
'Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy'.
'Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture'...
Remembering the High Priest of Bebop, Thelonious Sphere Monk, born OTD 1917 in Rocky Mount, Carolina.
#jazzsky #musicsky #legends #musichistory #monk
Done and dispatched, an autumnal themed top ten which will be coming soon...
@lionunicorn.bsky.social #topten #autumn #classicalbums #folk #jazz #britishmusic #writingcommunity #musicsky
Remembering guitarist Mel Brown, born OTD 1939. As well as backing Bobby Bland, Etta James and Johnny Otis he made several albums for ABC Impulse! and was a member of the house band at Antone's Night Club in Austin for many years. A wonderful player, with a rich, deep tone.
#musicsky #blues #jazz
"Jo Jones, an elegant, swinging dude, always had a style of his own. When he was with us, you could hear him, feel him โ everything was right there." - Count Basie
Remembering one of the greatest ever drummers, the impeccable Papa Jo Jones, born OTD 1911 in Chicago
#jazzsky #musicsky
Led Zeppelin III was released OTD in 1970. Conceived in a remote cottage in Snowdonia, it is one of the great records that came from the era of bands 'getting it together in the country'. Read about Zep 3 and other albums made in that fashion here: @lionunicorn.bsky.social ๐
#musicsky #ledzeppelin
#nowplaying OTD in 1972 Freddie Hubbard recorded the first of two sessions for what was to become the album 'Sky Dive', released in Jan 73. It featured CTI alumni Ron Carter, Billy Cobham, Hubert Laws & George Benson, who notably plays some great guitar, particularly on 'Povo'
#jazzsky #musicsky
