randyhersom Posted September 4, 2009 Report Posted September 4, 2009 I was browsing the web and found an enthusiastic review of Johnny Guitar Watson by a jazz lover. I definitely considered his music ultracommercial when it was first released and did not check it out. But after the review a band was listed with Paul Dunmall on sax. This is precisely the situation that the acronym WTF was coined for. Sometime or other I'll have to give that a listen. It did bring to mind George Adams stay in the Fatback Band and Arthur Rhames in Slave. My mind flashes to Sonny Rollins with the Stones and I realize we''ve done this thread before. But still, Paul Dunmall was a pretty unexpected name to find there. Quote
AllenLowe Posted September 4, 2009 Report Posted September 4, 2009 (edited) well, I once played for a show of Female Impersonators, in Bridgeport, Connecticut - and Dave Schildkraut played for strip shows near 52nd street in the middle 1950s - and Bill Triglia was playing an Orthodox Jewish wedding with Wilbur Ware when Charlie Parker showed up and sat in - and when I was 16 I played with a little jazz group at the graduation ceremony for a Home for Unwed Mothers. And Jelly Roll Morton played in whorehouses. Larry Gushee told me how he and his band once got booked for what they were told was Polish wedding, and when they got there it turned out to be a Puerto Rican wedding, and they knew no appropriate tunes. Edited September 4, 2009 by AllenLowe Quote
JSngry Posted September 4, 2009 Report Posted September 4, 2009 Johnny Guitar Watson was a baaaaad man, going back to the 1950s and all the way up to the end. Ignore him (but not necessarily all of his records) at your peril! Now speaking of George Adams, him & Byard Lancaster were both on a Johnny Copeland album about 25 or so years ago...Copeland Special I think it was...and they both sound just fine, which really should not be a surprise or in iny other way unexpected. My favorite response to these type threads will always be Whitney Houston & Archie Shepp together on a cut from one of the old Material albums. Freakin' surreal... Quote
ep1str0phy Posted September 4, 2009 Report Posted September 4, 2009 (edited) Edited September 4, 2009 by ep1str0phy Quote
sidewinder Posted September 4, 2009 Report Posted September 4, 2009 Just been listening to Nathan Davis on flute with a Turkish pop band from 1973. Works suprisingly well ! Quote
sidewinder Posted September 4, 2009 Report Posted September 4, 2009 with Paul Dunmall on sax. The 'flyer' given out for this year's Cheltenham performance by Dunmall with Henry Grimes and Andrew Cyrille mentions that early experience he had touring with Watson. Quote
ep1str0phy Posted September 4, 2009 Report Posted September 4, 2009 Also, all of the Blue Notes have popped up in some crazy places. My favorite is probably Dudu Pukwana's guest stint on A Tent's prescient electronic album Six Empty Places. The most famous instance is Chris McGregor's appearance on Nick Drake's Bryter Layter, which inexplicably gets McGregor into as many history books as his unbelievable run in jazz/improv. Quote
paul secor Posted September 5, 2009 Report Posted September 5, 2009 Archie Shepp played on a Johnny Copeland album - Texas Twister, I believe. Quote
JSngry Posted September 5, 2009 Report Posted September 5, 2009 I gotta wonder when it became "unusual" for a "jazz musician" to be on a blues record, and to/for whom it is "unusual"... Quote
danasgoodstuff Posted September 5, 2009 Report Posted September 5, 2009 it's not unusual to have with anyone...unleass you're a 'serious jazz player' apparently. Quote
umum_cypher Posted September 5, 2009 Report Posted September 5, 2009 The weirdness will only be comprehensible to British members I imagine, but Evan Parker on an album by Vic Reeves is hard to beat. Quote
JohnS Posted September 5, 2009 Report Posted September 5, 2009 David Murray guesting with the Skatalites is perhaps not too much out of the ordinary but I do have him playing with the Gypsy Cimbalom Band and with an Australian folk group on ethnic instruments. Ron Carter was probably on countless pop sessions. Quote
.:.impossible Posted September 5, 2009 Report Posted September 5, 2009 Evan Parker is also on a Scott Walker record. Quote
newsboy Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 The Boss, Bags, Little Jazz and Pee Wee (Crayton) on Pablo. Terrific! Quote
AndrewHill Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 Richard Davis on the Bruce Springteen's Born to Run album; David Murray guesting with the Grateful Dead and I think Ornette did something faintly similar, but can't recall the circumstances. Quote
paul secor Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 Ornette plays on Joe Henry's Scar and on Lou Reeds' The Raven - one track on each, I believe. Haven't heard either - I'm not enough of a completist for that. Perhaps I should be. Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 Melvin Sparks (who follows Islam) on Dorothy Norwood's album "Look what they've done to my child" (Savoy). He's credited as Melvin Hassan. MG Quote
freeform83 Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 Chick Corea with the Foo Fighters at the Grammys, although it wasn't particularly impressive. Quote
king ubu Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 Ronnie Ross turns in a fine baritone solo on Lou Reed's "Transformer"! Scott Walker is very much worth checking out! I'd go for "Drift" - not sure what to call that, but it's clearly some kind of avantgarde! I think "Climate of Hunter" is the one with Evan Parker? French "Jazz Magazine" have a little story (an excerpt of an upcoming book) about Robert Wyatt and his jazz connections. Not a person, but Gil Evans' wonderful "Las Vegas Tango" turns up opening and closing Wyatt's album "The End of An Ear". Sidemen there include Marc Charig and Elton Dean. Quote
mikeweil Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 Richard Davis on ... Davis played a lot of pop sessions, I have albums of Laura Nyro and the Rascals with him. He even toured with Nyro. Ron Carter played countless pop dates, too, like a Hirth Martinez album. Quote
mikeweil Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 I also remember Andrew Cyrille early in his career in Montego Joe's Calypso band, not to mention all those saxists passing through Olatunji's bands. Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 The whole Dizzy Gillespie quintet accompanying Katie Bell Nubin on an album of traditional Gospel songs. MG Quote
AndrewHill Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 Chet Baker had Elvis Costello and Van Morrison as guests at Ronnie Scotts. Quote
flat5 Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 Cannonball Adderley played a character on the TV series "Kung Fu". Other musicians did too. Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 Cannonball Adderley played a character on the TV series "Kung Fu". Other musicians did too. Coo! Was he breaking rocks on a chain gang (building the railway)? MG Quote
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