Sam Rivers On A Joe Cocker Record?

[JSngry]

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=Aae91z87ajyv2

Does he solo?

[Man with the Golden Arm]

Might be nice too start up a thread of famous jazzers on pop albums...ie:

Ronnie Ross on Transformer

Sonny Rollins on Tattoo You

Shorter on Aja

and, argh why do i know this?, Junior Walker on a Foreigner album. eek.

and on and on...

[PHILLYQ]

Freddie Hubbard was on a Billy Joel album.

[jlhoots]

Chris Potter has recorded with Steely Dan.

[Dmitry]

Chet Baker on Elvis Costello's Shipbuilding. Not bad either.

[sal]

And didn't Sonny Rollins play on the Rolling Stones' "Waiting on a Friend"?

[Adam]

I swear this thread already exists.

Ornette Coleman on Joe Henry's "Scar" Other jazz players as well, on both of his albums, including Brad Mehldau, I think.

[JSngry]

Howzabout Stan Getz on "Girl From Ipanema"?

[JSngry]

But seriously, folks...

I'd like to know the confluence of events, connections, etc. that led to Sam getting contracted for a Joe Cocker date, especially if it was just as a section player.

[AfricaBrass]

My wife and were watching TV one night and there was a Joe Cocker concert on PBS. We were laughing about the fact that he sang his biggest hits early in the show.

I could just see being at the concert and turning to her saying "He's done a Little Help From My Friends", "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" and "You Are So Beautiful" - Are you ready to go?"

"Yup!"

It kind of reminded me when I saw Paul McCartney in 1993. The place was packed when he was doing the Beatles and Wings numbers, but when he started doing the material from his newest album, there was a constant stream of people going to the bathroom, etc...

[chris olivarez]

As long as Sam wasn't on that pukey song that Cocker did with Jennifer Warnes.

[Harold_Z]

But seriously, folks...

I'd like to know the confluence of events, connections, etc. that led to Sam getting contracted for a Joe Cocker date, especially if it was just as a section player.

I suspect that Sam Rivers appearance was limited to an overdubbed soprano solo on THE JEALOUS KIND and that probably he was there as a result of arranger and Co Producer Richard Tee's contracting the horns for a sweetning date.t There are 3 or 4 studios mentioned in the credits. The Rhythm tracks at least were apparently done in Jamaica and finishing touches added in Manhattan....and that is where I suspect Sam entered and the horns were added. I wouldn't be surprised if some research turned up an earlier album of some sort where Tee and the other Stuff guys worked with Sam. Those guys recorded with everybody in Manhattan in the 60s and 70s.

[JSngry]

Thanks Harold. That makes sense.

Now, do you know if Sam had a "side career" going on doing session work, perhaps uncredited? No shame in paying the bills, know what I mean?

[chris olivarez]

That's true if even if it was the Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes "song". You gotta do what you gotta do.

[Harold_Z]

Not positive, but a lot of guys took whatever dates came their way and I don't see why Sam would be an exception. Easy bucks and often during the day.