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ite band putting out some admirably funky stuff with a fine version of al green s love and happiness and an arrangement of pick up the pieces concocted for awb s appearance at the montreux jazz festival by their great producer arranger arif mardin and featuring the non nonsense tenor saxophone of jim hunt next came kokomo their five original members singer frankie collins singer pianist tony o malley saxophonist mel collins guitarist jim mullen and percussionist jody linscott supplemented by those who have replaced the fallen along the way including the singers charlotte churchman and helena may harrison and bass guitarist jennifer maidman this was a classic kokomo mini set including quincy jones s stuff like that stevie wonder s so what the fuss the band original third time around and bobby womack s i can understand it attention turned to the screen behind the musicians where we were shown a little film of hubbard in the home where he is currently living playing his gibson es 355 with a young friend on an acoustic guitar as neil s golden retriever lay at his feet he strummed the intro to bill withers lovely day which the live band picked up and flew with carrack was next with how sweet it is to be loved by you stand by me and of course ace s immortal how long pub rock s finest hour its chorus sung back at him by the audience by this point the love in the room was overflowing finally the stage was cleared for roxy music two original members andy mackay and phil manzanera joined by chris spedding and chester kamen on guitars guy fletcher on keys guy pratt on bass guitar andy newmark on drums and jody linscott the night s most valuable player plus the kokomo singers with dionne collins replacing churchman kamen sang love is the drug louise marshall arrived to deliver avalon and mackay s soprano saxophone was featured on a sultry instrumental that i think might have been tara then came a real coup de théâtre as we watched back projected film of a roxy concert from fréjus in 1982 with hubbard featured alongside ferry doing my only love synched up via a click track in newmark s headphones i d guess to the live band two people who were unable to be with us on the night were nevertheless making their contribution the technical manipulation worked beautifully to close almost the entire company crowded on to the stage to go back almost to where neil s story began with joe cocker s gospellised version of with a little help from my friends the lead vocal bravely taken by o malley the perfect end to a night that felt like a meeting of old friends an evocation of old glories and an affirmation of well something or other something good anyway roxy music 1982 2026 at bush hall mar 25 12 comments the other fab four between 1965 and 1968 the lovin spoonful were the nearest america came to producing a beatles of their very own their string of hits took in irresistibly winsome folk rock jingle jangle do you believe in magic did you ever have to make up your mind younger girl you didn t have to be so nice wistful sunshine pop daydream rain on the roof a brilliant homage to then unfashionable country pickers nashville cats and a widescreen urban anthem that lives with the finest and most ambitious 45s of the mid 60s summer in the city where the beatles came from skiffle the spoonful took their initial inspiration from jug bands but they shared an inquisitive spirit and a breadth of range that made their early albums released on the newly formed kama sutra label full of pleasant surprises unlike the beatles at that stage they only had one main songwriter john sebastian who was always rather more than the tie dyed cartoon figure of woodstock legend it was sebastian who laced his songs with lines such as it s like trying to tell a stranger about rock and roll you didn t have to be so nice i would have liked you anyway and the more i see the more i see there is to see and could come up with the entire brilliant lyric of nashville cats they also had an eccentric in the ranks zal yanovsky the canadian lead guitarist with the goofy ringo type presence who blotted his copybook in 1966 after he and steve boone the bass guitarist had been busted for marijuana possession threatened with deportation he co operated with the police the fact that it happened in san francisco headquarters of the counter culture only deepened the disfavour into which the group as a whole suddenly fell with the influential alternative press they were from new york too which probably didn t help for a while they pressed ahead with soundtracks to two movies by young directors woody allen s what s up tiger lily and francis ford coppola s you re a big boy now the latter including two classics in sebastian s swooning darling be home soon and the title song with its interludes of michel legrand style orchestration and there was a brilliant third album hums of the lovin spoonful on which joe butler the drummer stepped forward to take the lead vocal on a power pop classic called full measure which ended up on the b side of nashville cats but yanovsky soon left to be replaced by jerry yester formerly of the modern folk quartet an old associate who had actually played piano on theie first hit do you believe in magic with yester on board they recorded a fourth album called everything playing that sank without trace on its release at the end of 1967 despite being crammed with absolute gems including sebastian s she is still a mystery six o clock younger generation and money boone s lovely forever butler s poignant old folks sebastian and yester s close your eyes and most impressive of all butler and yester s only pretty what a pity if hums was their rubber soul this was their revolver but it had been a year since their last album the bad smell from the bust lingered and soon sebastian was gone claiming that his experience of the group had been two glorious years and a tedious one all that remained was yanovsky s wacky solo album titled alive and well in argentina and full of psychedelic whimsy and a strange effort called revelation revolution 69 by the lovin spoonful featuring joe butler which included a powerful anti war sound collage called war games and a gorgeously lush version of me about you written by garry bonner and alan gordon of happy together fame which outdoes other treatments of the ballad by the turtles jackie deshannon the mojo men the walker brothers and others all of this and more including the four tracks they recorded as a kind of audition tape for elektra in 1965 and which got released the following year alongside tracks by paul butterfield eric clapton al kooper and tom rush on an album titled what s shakin can be found in a new seven cd box set called what a day for a daydream the complete recordings 1965 69 not the least of the set s merits is a thorough sleeve note by mojo s lois wilson if you ve forgotten about the lovin spoonful or never really got beyond the hits i can t recommend it too highly the lovin spoonful s what a day for a daydream box set is on strawberry records the photo of the original group from left yanovsky butler sebastian and boone was taken in 1965 by henry diltz mar 21 1 comment mike westbrook at 90 mike westbrook turns 90 today to celebrate that milestone the master of long form compositions for large ensemble has released the latest in a series of solo piano albums in which he explores music that means a great deal to him in the process exposing the roots of his own creative journey some of those albums paris starcross bridge the several volumes of the piano and me juxtapose jazz standards gospel tunes melodies from the opera broadway hits and more recent pop tunes in combinations that sometimes seem surprising but always work the latest of them is devoted to a single theme made explicit in its title the piano in the room and the blues assembled from recordings made in 2006 at falmouth arts centre in devon where the paintings of mike s wife kate were on show this is a homage to the blues at its most plain spoken taking bessie smith and jimmy yancey as its reference points the former s young woman s blues and good old wagon and the latter s death letter blues are used as texts on each of which westbrook builds several variations given a steinway grand and unlimited time to set his thoughts down on a sony dat walkman with no live audience to think about the pianist settles into a mood of calm reflection using the tonality and cadences of the blues to explore an emotional register ranging from stoicism to quiet joy there are no sharp edges here no attempt to bend the material into unfamiliar forms and most of all no hurry a gentle pace enables westbrook to distill a lifetime s attention to the blues and what its deep song has meant to him mike westbrook s the piano in the room and the blues is released on the thingamajig label and is available via bandcamp https mikewestbrook bandcamp com album the piano in the room and the blues the photograph of westbrook at falmouth arts centre is by kate westbrook mar 19 5 comments a night at wigmore hall the roots of the trumpet and piano duo in jazz go back to the day in december 1928 when louis armstrong and earl hines recorded a piece titled weather bird it became a classic one of the keystones of jazz history i was thinking about it when ambrose akinmusire and sullivan fortner took the stage at the wigmore hall last night so i was thrilled when it turned up in the first section of their 90 minute concert they began with variations on two akinmusire compositions grace and weighted corners before weather bird made its appearance on the way to stablemates benny golson s hard bop favourite by that time around 20 minutes in it was obvious that we were being exposed to something special the liquid clarity and endless enventiveness of akinmusire s trumpet had clearly found a perfect match in fortner who was born in new orleans and displays all the elegance associated with the city s great pianists as well as his own ability to create strong and deep currents which guide the music s flow a rarely glimpsed peak was reached with the next section which opened with a fortner tune called aerobatics written specially for akinmusire leading into an investigation of something that revealed itself to be all the things you are that s a tune i ve heard played hundreds of times by players of all kinds including some of the greats but never like this it emerged in fragments twisted and disordered fortner s allusion to the familiar dark hued intro from the various charlie parker versions came several minutes in but recombined by the two musicians into a constantly shifting mosaic completely new while somehow seeming to carry the weight of all previous versions it was like hearing the tune in a hall of mirrors each set at a different angle throwing its shapes from different perspectives and trajectories the third section of the set was devoted to akinmusire s owl song 1 a ballad whose astonishing tenderness beautifully enunciated in fortner s solo provided a platform for the trumpeter s occasional fondness for finding a quickfire motif and repeating it with elaborations and variations of tone until it exhausts itself and is absorbed by the prevailing tide it s an example of the sense of dramatic architecture that characterises his work even at its least superficially emphatic for the encore there was a return to armstrong with a vigorous reinvention of west end blues recorded by the hot five six months before louis and hines got together akinmusire and fortner were showing that musicians who belong to the 21st century can understand how to draw from the past to help create the future what they did last night blending joy humour lyricism compassion represented the highest refinement of the improviser s art creating something in the moment that will stay with you forever older entries follow blog via email enter your email address to follow this blog and 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