JSngry Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 If you have RealPlayer, here's one scene: http://www.cannonball-adderley.com/filmo/hymn2.ram The other can be viewed here: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/...-met-feliciano/ The first is my choice, but the Real format...not exactly wildly popular these days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim R Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 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. Not to pile on (as JSngry already pointed out the flaw in the above), but just to add more detail, Watson really was an important guitar stylist, and a huge influence on a lot of blues guitarists who came later (I mean real serious blues players, not just the likes of Steve Miller, who copped the "Gangster Of Love" thing from Watson). Assuming he was strictly a commercial artist is like assuming Wes Montgomery was strictly a commercial artist (or any number of others who managed to make some money via a more commercial approach at one point or another in their careers). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL0OWZTzwis Guitar solo starts at 3:30. Neither blues nor jazz, just Johnny Guitarwatson, a truly BAAAAAAD man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 Mr. Dunmall playing "Mister Magic" with Mr. Watson in 1977: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBg0Yp4V6U Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0tF8LxpAKA BAAAAAAAAAAADEST man ever? He's in the gene pool, that's for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 Organist Perri Lee (you've heard her on "Sonny Stitt & the top brass") appeared in Doris Day's "Pillow talk" film and Bette Davis' "Dead ringer". MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeCity Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 There's Med Flory (L.A. saxophonist, leader of Supersax) who appeared in the original "Nutty Professor" as well as dozens of TV shows in the '60s-'80s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 (edited) Mr. Dunmall playing "Mister Magic" with Mr. Watson in 1977: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBg0Yp4V6U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqngiG7THSs has the same band playing Chameleon ... At the time A Real Mother was a hit, I played in a band whose guitarist said he almost had to vomit whenever he heard Johnny Guitar sing ... I liked it, and that groove with the Moog bass line was a killer. I will dig out the LP later. Yes he was commercial, but in a straight, unpretentious way - and he was natural born entertainer. I several respects, he was the Prince of his day. Fooling y'all with one of his jazzy piano tracks on my first BFT was of the more pleasureable moments in my life Edited October 26, 2009 by mikeweil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat5 Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 If we are going to list musician/actors we must include Jack Sheldon. I'll let others list the rest :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks" (Warner, 1968) has quite a band: Jay Berliner (g), Richard Davis (b), Connie Kay (d), Warren Smith Jr. (perc,vib), John Payne (fl,ss) - I don't know Payne and am not sure what corner Berliner is coming from, but having Richard Davis/Connie Kay is quite a treat (same rhythm section as on Lucky Strikes by Lucky Thompson)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Warren Smith also played on Jerry Moore's Life is a Constant Journey Home LP on ESP. Also a folky sort of thing. Jay Berliner was on some Gil Evans discs, IIRC. Maybe Mingus too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Warren Smith also played on Jerry Moore's Life is a Constant Journey Home LP on ESP. Also a folky sort of thing. Jay Berliner was on some Gil Evans discs, IIRC. Maybe Mingus too. Yes, Berliner's doing those acoustic intros/interludes on "Black Saint and the Sinner Lady", I think! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Jay Berliner would be a good example for guys that did work all over the place... Solomon Ilori, Charles Mingus, Harry Belafonte/Miriam Makeba, Laura Nyro, Dick Hyman, George Benson, Milt Jackson (Sunflower on CTI), Airto, Grover Washington, Deodato, Burt Bacharach, Frank Sinatra, Helen Merrill w/Gil Evans, Van Morrison, Harry Connick, Peggy Lee, Don Byron, Eartha Kitt, Barbara Carroll, Bette Midler, Blossom Dearie, Ithamara Koorax, Ute Lemper, Peter Paul & Mary, Astrud Gilberto... various soundtracks, as well as - on AMG at least - two albums under his own name, one that looks like a classical (of the easy kind, I guess), and this one here, with a cover so cool I got to attach it here: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 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. Dudu Pukwana also did some afro pop stuff... remember Assagai? Dudu, Mongezi Feza and Louis Moholo were members of that band. Some more info here: http://www.radagast.org/assagai/ You can hear a track from an album here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S38YBnm_UuY Not bad at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Some of that Assagai stuff is pretty rare. Saxophonist Sean Bergin was in a psychedelic prog band from SA called Abstract Truth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 (edited) Lots of jazzers on Robert Wyatt albums...Evan Parker, Gilad Atzmon, Annie Whitehead, Mongezi Feza as well as the above mentioned Charigs etc. In that vein you might include the Tippett/Evans/Charig axis that turned up on a couple of early King Crimson albums. Here's an odd one...the first solo album by someone who came to be loathed by the hip and fastidious in the 80s and 90s: Ronnie Scott turns up on that album (which I rather like (I don't do hip or fastidious)...never got round to the rest). And I believe Humphrey Lyttleton turns up on a Radiohead album somewhere. John Martyn has the likes of Jon Stevens and Tony Coe on some of his albums. And I believe Tubby Hayes is on one of the early Family albums. Not to mention Henry Lowther who you'll find on all sorts of late-60s/early 70s rock albums...he was even at Woodstock with Keef Hartley. Edited October 27, 2009 by Bev Stapleton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Oh, Ronnie was on some Beatles stuff, too, I think. "All you need is love" maybe. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 That's him on "Lady Madonna". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 That's him on "Lady Madonna". Which was based on Humph's 'Bad Penny Blues' which was based on.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Kenny Wheeler is fairly prominent on at least one Paul Weller album, IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Uncle Skid, Ann (my wife) and I were spotted in a "Buffalo Wild Wings" a while back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doneth Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Lots of jazzers on Robert Wyatt albums...Evan Parker, Gilad Atzmon, Annie Whitehead, Mongezi Feza as well as the above mentioned Charigs etc. In that vein you might include the Tippett/Evans/Charig axis that turned up on a couple of early King Crimson albums. Here's an odd one...the first solo album by someone who came to be loathed by the hip and fastidious in the 80s and 90s: Ronnie Scott turns up on that album (which I rather like (I don't do hip or fastidious)...never got round to the rest). And I believe Humphrey Lyttleton turns up on a Radiohead album somewhere. John Martyn has the likes of Jon Stevens and Tony Coe on some of his albums. And I believe Tubby Hayes is on one of the early Family albums. Not to mention Henry Lowther who you'll find on all sorts of late-60s/early 70s rock albums...he was even at Woodstock with Keef Hartley. My pal cornettist Gerry Salisbury had a day job in a studio, and played on a Van Der Graaf Generator album; he was amused to have kids asking for his autograph. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 My pal cornettist Gerry Salisbury had a day job in a studio, and played on a Van Der Graaf Generator album; he was amused to have kids asking for his autograph. Would seem to be this one: http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/display...vdgg-tlwcdiwteo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elissa Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 I ran into Johnny Griffin at Trestle on 10th, a Swiss wine bar and restaurant in Chelsea. Does that count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Uncle Skid, Ann (my wife) and I were spotted in a "Buffalo Wild Wings" a while back. As cool as Burton Greene and Perry Robinson at my dinner table. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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