Another BN Trivia Question

[JSngry]

What sideman on a fairly obscure late-1960s BN album went on to be featured quite prominently on a very high-profile Motown album from the early 1970s?

[JSngry]

Ok, I don't want no trouble with the Trivia Police, so let me add that the hit album in question was on a Motown subsidiary label, not the Motown label per se.

But the artist whose album it was was/is easily, readily, and ubiquitously refered to as a "Motown" artist, and justly so, matters of actual label notwithstanding.

[CJ Shearn]

Earl Van Dyke? played organ on Fred Jackson's "Hootin and Tootin" (haven't heard the record tho)

[JSngry]

Good guess in terms of the Motown connection, but no.

The person in question was featured throughout the hit album not as a section player, rhythm or otherwise.

And the time frame is late-60s for the BN album, early 70s for the hit album.

[scottb]

Is it Tito Jackson? (I always was a good guesser!)

[JSngry]

Not this time!

[Big Wheel]

Did this person play on only one BN album, or were there more?

[JSngry]

Only one, and it's one that to the best of my knowledge has not yet been reissued on CD. Definitely not American CD, anyway.

[Big Wheel]

Hm, I was going to guess Lamont Johnson, as there's a guy by that name who did some R&B work on bass and vocals (dunno if it was a Motown label tho). But that Jackie CD has already been issued...

[Big Wheel]

Trevor Lawrence?

[JSngry]

Trevor Lawrence?

Bingo!

Now, for bonus points, name both albums in question.

AND...

For even more bonus points, weave the tale of interrelation between Lawrence's recordings and the Motown artist's songs as they relate to BN! (Hint: it starts with the BN album in question and continues beyond the BN label proper).

This is one of those coincidental things that falls into the category of "meaningless yet fascinating", or-vice versa.

[JSngry]

Up for the night shift.

Bonus points await!

[doubleM]

"On Broadway" on Blue Note, and "Trouble Man" on Motown? I googled it.

[JSngry]

You googled yourself some bonus points. Those are indeed the albums in question. The first by Reuben Wilson, the second by, of course, Marvin Gaye.

Now, the final frontier (and I'll answer it myself, since ON BROADWAY is a pretty obscure side) - the final Trevor Lawrence/Marvin Gaye/Blue Note "loop" (such as it is).

ON BROADWAY feature Lawrence on a take of Gaye's "Ain't That Peculiar" (in an arrangement strongly modeled after John Patton's on GOT A GOOD THING GOIN'). A few years later, Lawrence pops on on Gaye's TROUBLE MAN album, being featured throughout the album as soloist/obbligatoist. One of the tunes on that album is "Don't Mess With Mister T", which is covered as the title tune of a fairly successful CTI album by former Blue Note star Stanley Turrentine in an arrangement strongly modeled after Gaye's & Lawrence's version.

So you can draw a direct line from a specific Marvin Gaye song to Blue Note (twice, in fact...) back to another specific Marvin Gaye song back to somebody who was a prominent Blue Note artist not too long before (and who might well have recorded the tune for Blue Note if he had stayed with the label...). Like I said, ultimately meaningless, but nevertheless interesting, albeit in a totally geeky kind of way. But hey - what are we if not geeks?

Now, how many more degrees until we get to Kevin Bacon?

[sidewinder]

Funny, the initial thought that came into my head when I saw this thread was Reuben Wilson 'On Broadway'. I had absolutely no idea what the artist, other album and the connection might be !

[Guest ariceffron]

THIS IS BULLSHIT. WHAT THE HELL BN LPS WAS THAT GUY ON ANYWAY. I BET ALL OF THEM COMBINED ARENT AS GOOD AS HOOTIN 'N TOOTIN. IS THAT OOP STILL? BLUE NOTE IS CRAZY IF THAT ISNT REISSUED. E.V.D. IS ONE OF THE ONLY PEOPLE EVER TO MAKE A BN ORGAN LP W/ THAT WET TYPE OF SOUND ALA S. SCOTT

[JSngry]

NO ARIC, THIS IS NOT BULLSHIT. THIS IS FACTS.

Trevor Lawrence played on Reuben Wilson's ON BROADWAY (BST-84295).

THE REST YOU CAN CONFIRM YOURSELF.

And if I'm wrong, you can have my list of hot redhead female jazz fans across the USA. There's more than you think...

But if I'm right, I get to come to your house and take all your tapes. Every last one of them.

Deal?

[sheldonm]

Up for the night shift.

Bonus points await!

...can these "bonus points" be redeemed for anything ?

[sheldonm]

But if I'm right, I get to come to your house and take all your tapes. Every last one of them.

Deal?

...don't forget to find that copy of Money Jungle !

[JSngry]

Up for the night shift.

Bonus points await!     

...can these "bonus points" be redeemed for anything ?

Bonus points are their own reward!

(you're not buying that, are you....)

[danasgoodstuff]

RW's On Broadway is a fine slab o' grease....just wanted to make sure that didn't get lost in all this fun trivia mongering.

[JSngry]

Indeed it is!

[Joe G]

And if I'm wrong, you can have my list of hot redhead female jazz fans across the USA. There's more than you think...

What a wonderful world!

[Brad]

DUDE! CAN I GET THE BLONDES?

*****

I have some nagging thought in the back of my head that Blue Mitchell was involved in the pop area. Or am I wrong

[Guest ariceffron]

I WANT THE LIST NOW YOU BETTER HAND IT OVER OR I AM GOING TO KILL YOU JSNGERY!