1929 Arthur Prysock*
1939 Little Smokey
Smothers*
1946 Chick Churchill
(born Michael George Churchill)*
1967 Axel Rosenbaum*
1972 Chris
Mulé*
1973 Speckled Red+
1986 Trombone Shorty*
1986 Cassie Taylor* 1)
1993 Valerie
Wellington+
Happy Birthday
Arthur Prysock *02.01.1929
Arthur Prysock (* 2. Januar 1929 in Spartanburg, South Carolina; † 7. Juni 1997) war ein US-amerikanischer Jazz- und Rhythm-and-Blues-Sänger.
Arthur Prysock wurde bekannt durch seine Liveshows und seinen Bariton, der von Billy Eckstine beeinflusst war.
Prysock arbeitete während des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Hartford, Connecticut in der Flugzeugindustrie. 1944 engagierte ihn der Bandleader Buddy Johnson als Sänger, und Prysock wurde eine Attraktion bei den Live-Auftritten der Band. Prysock sang auf verschiedenen Hits der Johnson-Band, die bei Decca Records erschienen, wie "Jet My Love", 1947 und "I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone", 1948 und später auf Mercury Records "Because", 1950.
Im Jahr 1952 begann Prysock eine Solokarriere und nahm für Decca den R&B Hit "I Didn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night" auf. Danach erschienen Klassiker des Genres wie Roy Browns "Good Rocking Tonight". In den 1960er Jahren nahm Prysock für das Label Old Town Records auf, wie die R&B-Coverversion von Ray Nobles Ballade „The Very Thought of You“ (1960) sowie des Pop-Hits „It’s Too Late Baby, It’s Too Late“ (1965). 1968 nahm er für Verve Records mit der Count Basie Band das Album A Working Man’s Prayer auf.
In den 1970er Jahren hatte er einen Erfolg mit dem Discohit "When Love Is New" (1977); 1985 entstand nach langer Pause das Album Arthur Prysock auf dem Milestone Label. Aufmerksamkeit erzielte er in den USA auch durch seinen Werbejingle "Tonight, tonight, let it be Löwenbräu."
1995 erhielt Prysock den Pioneer Award der Rhythm and Blues Foundation.
Arthur Prysock (January 1, 1924 – June 21, 1997) was an American jazz singer best known for his live shows and his baritone influenced by Billy Eckstine.[1]
Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Prysock moved to Hartford, Connecticut to work in the aircraft industry during World War II. In 1944 bandleader Buddy Johnson signed him as a vocalist, and Prysock became a mainstay of the live performance circuits.[2] Prysock sang on several of Johnson’s hits on Decca Records ("Jet My Love", 1947 and "I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone", 1948) and later on Mercury Records ("Because", 1950).
In 1952 Prysock went solo and signed with Decca to record the R&B hit, "I Didn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night". He recorded R&B classics such as Roy Brown's "Good Rocking Tonight". In the 1960s, Prysock joined Old Town Records and did an R&B cover of Ray Noble's ballad "The Very Thought of You" (1960) and a pop hit "It’s Too Late Baby, It’s Too Late" (1965). For Verve Records he recorded Arthur Prysock and Count Basie (12, 13, 14, 20 and 21 December 1965, at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey), and A Working Man's Prayer (1968). He read verses from Walter Benton's book of poems against a jazz instrumental backdrop on his 1968 album, This is My Beloved.[3]
In the 1970s, Prysock had a surprise disco hit with "When Love Is New" (Old Town, 1977) and in 1985, recorded his first new album in almost a decade, Arthur Prysock (Milestone). He gained further attention for his tender, soulful singing on a beer commercial, "Tonight, tonight, let it be Löwenbräu." The selection whose lyrics were revised for the Löwenbräu Beer jingle was originally titled "Here's To Good Friends."[citation needed]
His brother, Red Prysock, was a noted tenor sax player who appeared on many of Arthur's records.
Prysock received a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1995.
Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Prysock moved to Hartford, Connecticut to work in the aircraft industry during World War II. In 1944 bandleader Buddy Johnson signed him as a vocalist, and Prysock became a mainstay of the live performance circuits.[2] Prysock sang on several of Johnson’s hits on Decca Records ("Jet My Love", 1947 and "I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone", 1948) and later on Mercury Records ("Because", 1950).
In 1952 Prysock went solo and signed with Decca to record the R&B hit, "I Didn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night". He recorded R&B classics such as Roy Brown's "Good Rocking Tonight". In the 1960s, Prysock joined Old Town Records and did an R&B cover of Ray Noble's ballad "The Very Thought of You" (1960) and a pop hit "It’s Too Late Baby, It’s Too Late" (1965). For Verve Records he recorded Arthur Prysock and Count Basie (12, 13, 14, 20 and 21 December 1965, at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey), and A Working Man's Prayer (1968). He read verses from Walter Benton's book of poems against a jazz instrumental backdrop on his 1968 album, This is My Beloved.[3]
In the 1970s, Prysock had a surprise disco hit with "When Love Is New" (Old Town, 1977) and in 1985, recorded his first new album in almost a decade, Arthur Prysock (Milestone). He gained further attention for his tender, soulful singing on a beer commercial, "Tonight, tonight, let it be Löwenbräu." The selection whose lyrics were revised for the Löwenbräu Beer jingle was originally titled "Here's To Good Friends."[citation needed]
His brother, Red Prysock, was a noted tenor sax player who appeared on many of Arthur's records.
Prysock received a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1995.
Chick Churchill (born Michael George Churchill) *02.01.1946
Chick Churchill (born Michael George Churchill, 2 January 1946, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England) is the keyboard player of the British late 1960s to 70s rock band Ten Years After.[1]
Career
Churchill began playing the piano at the age of six and studied classical music until he was fifteen. He became interested in blues and rock music, and joined his first band Sons of Adam in Nottingham. Churchill then met Alvin Lee of The Jaybirds. At first, Churchill joined the band as its road manager, but he soon became the keyboard player. In November 1966 there was a name change to Ten Years After. With this group, Churchill played at major rock festivals including Woodstock in 1969, and the Isle of Wight Festival on 29 August 1970.
In 1973 he recorded a solo album You and Me featuring Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson of Supertramp.(Chrysalis 1051)
Ten Years After broke up in 1976 and Churchill became Professional Manager at Chrysalis Music; the company was then owned by his manager, Chris Wright. In 1977, he left to found Whitsett Churchill Music Publishing with Tim Whitsett, publishing and promoting American artists, especially from the south.
Solo Album You and me Line-Up Chick Churchill - piano, mellotron, moog synthesizer, vocals Gary Pickford-Hopkins - vocals Martin Barre - guitars Roger Hodgson - guitars and bass Bernie Marsden - guitars Leo Lyons - bass Cozy Powell - drums Ric Lee - drums Rick Davies - drums Bill Jackman - sax
Woodstock - Ten Years After - I'm Going Home(Live)
Ten Years After - I'm Going Home(Live)
Woodstock (August 17th 1969)
Band members: Alvin Lee -- guitar, vocals, Leo Lyons -- bass, Ric Lee -- drums,
Woodstock (August 17th 1969)
Band members: Alvin Lee -- guitar, vocals, Leo Lyons -- bass, Ric Lee -- drums,
Chick Churchill -- organ
Trombone Shorty *02.0.1986
Trombone Shorty, mit richtigem Namen Troy Andrews (* 2. Januar 1986 in New Orleans, Louisiana), ist ein US-amerikanischer Rhythm and Blues- und Jazzmusiker (Posaune, Trompete, Gesang).Biografie
Der Großvater von Troy Andrews war ein erfolgreicher Bluesmusiker, sein älterer Bruder James schlug den Weg als Jazztrompeter ein. Troy beherrschte bereits mit fünf Jahren die Posaune und spielte auch Trompete und Trommeln. Von seinem bevorzugten Instrument, der Posaune (englisch Trombone), und der Teilnahme an Umzügen in New Orleans im Kindergartenalter, stammt auch sein Spitzname Trombone Shorty. Er besuchte das renommierte New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. Sein Vetter Glen David Andrews ist ebenfalls Posaunist.
Bereits mit 16 Jahren veröffentlichte er sein erstes Album mit dem Titel Swingin' Gate, das von den Kritikern gelobt wurde. Weitere Veröffentlichungen folgten, darunter auch mehrere Liveaufnahmen seiner Auftritte beim New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival zwischen 2004 und 2008. Er trat ebenfalls auf europäischen Jazz-Festivals auf und machte auch Ausflüge in die Popmusik. Unter anderem begleitete er Lenny Kravitz 2005 auf dessen Welttournee und trat mit U2 und Green Day auf.
2010 folgte sein Durchbruch mit seiner ersten Veröffentlichung bei dem Major-Sublabel Verve Records. Das Album Backatown kam auf Platz 3 der Jazzcharts in den USA und konnte sich sogar in den deutschen Albumcharts platzieren. Auf dem Album, das fast ausschließlich aus Eigenkompositionen besteht, spielt Trombone Shorty nicht nur Posaune, sondern auch zahlreiche weitere Instrumente und ist auch als Sänger zu hören. Backatown wurde bei den Grammy Awards 2011 für eine Auszeichnung in der Kategorie Bestes zeitgenössisches Jazzalbum nominiert.
Im November 2012 gewann Trombone Shorty erstmals den alljährlichen Leser-Poll der Zeitschrift Down Beat in der Kategorie "Bester Posaunist".
Troy Andrews (born January 2, 1986), also known by the stage name Trombone Shorty, is a trombone and trumpet player from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. He has worked in jazz, funk and rap music. Andrews is the younger brother of trumpeter and bandleader James Andrews as well as the grandson of singer and songwriter Jessie Hill. Andrews began playing trombone at age six, and since 2009 has toured with his own band, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue.
Life and career
Andrews was born in New Orleans. He grew up in its Tremé neighborhood, and participated in brass band parades as a child, becoming a bandleader by the age of four.
In his teens, Andrews was a member of the Stooges Brass Band, recording and playing with the band.[2] He attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA).
In 2005, Andrews was a featured member of Lenny Kravitz's horn section in a world tour that shared billing with acts including Aerosmith.
Six weeks after the levees failed in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, some of the city's greatest musicians went to Austin, Texas, to record a benefit CD called Sing Me Back Home at Wire Studios with producers Leo Sacks and Ray Bardani. With their lives in transition, the collective became known as The New Orleans Social Club. Andrews was the featured guest on "Hey Troy, Your Mama's Calling You," a tribute to "Hey Leroy, Your Mama's Calling You" which was a Latin-jazz-soul hit for the Jimmy Castor Bunch on Smash Records in 1966. Andrews also performed on "Where Y'At" as part of The Sixth Ward All-Star Brass Band Revue featuring Charles Neville of The Neville Brothers.
In London, during the summer of 2006, Andrews began working with producer Bob Ezrin and U2 at Abbey Road Studios. This association led to Andrews performing with U2 and Green Day during the re-opening of the New Orleans Superdome for the NFL's Monday Night Football pre-game show.[3]
At the end of 2006, Andrews appeared on the NBC television series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.[4] Leading a group of New Orleans musicians, he performed the holiday classic "O Holy Night". NBC released the single for free download.
In early 2007, New Orleans’ music magazine Offbeat named Andrews their Performer of the Year.[5] He also garnered honors as Best Contemporary Jazz Performer.[5] Also in 2007, he accepted an invitation to contribute to Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino[6] on the track “Whole Lotta Lovin” along with Rebirth Brass Band, Pee Wee Ellis, Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker and Lenny Kravitz.
As of 2009, his current project is Orleans Avenue, a funk/pop/hip-hop mix including musicians Mike Ballard on bass, Dan Oestreicher on baritone sax, Tim McFatter on tenor sax, Pete Murano on guitar and Joey Peebles on drums.
Since 2010, Andrews has appeared in six episodes of the HBO series Treme.
In 2010 Andrews released Backatown (Verve Forecast), which hit Billboard magazine's Contemporary Jazz Chart at No. 1 and stayed there for nine consecutive weeks. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue toured across Australia, North America, Europe, Japan and Brazil, as well as supported shows for Jeff Beck in the U.K. and Dave Matthews Band in the U.S. They performed on television shows including Conan, Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Bonnaroo, and Austin City Limits. He also recorded on new and upcoming CDs from Galactic, Eric Clapton, and Lenny Kravitz and on the Academy Award nominated song "Down In New Orleans" with Dr. John.
In December 2010, Andrews curated a two-night Red Hot+New Orleans performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music to raise money for the New Orleans NO/AIDS Task Force.[7]
In September 2011, Andrews released the album For True as a follow up to his earlier album Backatown. Along with all the members of his band, Orleans Avenue, this record includes appearances by the Rebirth Brass Band, Jeff Beck, Warren Haynes, Stanton Moore, Kid Rock, Ben Ellman and Lenny Kravitz as a returning guest artist.[8]
On January 8, 2012 Andrews performed the National Anthem before the start of the NFL playoff game between the New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons.
Soul Rebels Brass Band invited Andrews to special guest on their Rounder Records debut record, Unlock Your Mind, released on January 31, 2012.
On March 31, 2012, Andrews' single "Do To Me" was featured before both semi-final games of the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament on CBS.
On May 19, 2012, Andrews received the President's Medal from Tulane University President Scott Cowen at the university's Unified Commencement Ceremony at the Mercedez-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, in recognition of his community service work with the Horns for Schools Project. He thrilled the graduates and visitors by playing the trombone and singing "When the Saints Go Marching In" along with Dr. Michael White's Original Liberty Jazz Band at the ceremony.
On February 21, 2012, Andrews performed at The White House as part of the Black History Month celebration, In Performance at the White House: Red, White & Blues, which premiered on PBS on February 27, 2012. The event featured performances from B.B. King, Jeff Beck, Keb' Mo', Mick Jagger, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks and more. Earlier that day, Andrews also participated in a special education program at The White House with Michelle Obama, Keb' Mo' and Shemekia Copeland.
The Trombone Shorty Foundation
The Trombone Shorty Foundation evolved from Andrews' Horns For Schools Project, a collaboration with New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, which helped schools across New Orleans receive quality instruments donated by Andrews personally. The Foundation's mission is "to preserve and perpetuate the unique musical culture of New Orleans by passing down its traditions to future generations of musicians."[9] In December 2012, the Foundation partnered with Tulane University to create an After School Academy to mentor aspiring, high school musicians in the New Orleans Area.
Life and career
Andrews was born in New Orleans. He grew up in its Tremé neighborhood, and participated in brass band parades as a child, becoming a bandleader by the age of four.
In his teens, Andrews was a member of the Stooges Brass Band, recording and playing with the band.[2] He attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA).
In 2005, Andrews was a featured member of Lenny Kravitz's horn section in a world tour that shared billing with acts including Aerosmith.
Six weeks after the levees failed in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, some of the city's greatest musicians went to Austin, Texas, to record a benefit CD called Sing Me Back Home at Wire Studios with producers Leo Sacks and Ray Bardani. With their lives in transition, the collective became known as The New Orleans Social Club. Andrews was the featured guest on "Hey Troy, Your Mama's Calling You," a tribute to "Hey Leroy, Your Mama's Calling You" which was a Latin-jazz-soul hit for the Jimmy Castor Bunch on Smash Records in 1966. Andrews also performed on "Where Y'At" as part of The Sixth Ward All-Star Brass Band Revue featuring Charles Neville of The Neville Brothers.
In London, during the summer of 2006, Andrews began working with producer Bob Ezrin and U2 at Abbey Road Studios. This association led to Andrews performing with U2 and Green Day during the re-opening of the New Orleans Superdome for the NFL's Monday Night Football pre-game show.[3]
At the end of 2006, Andrews appeared on the NBC television series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.[4] Leading a group of New Orleans musicians, he performed the holiday classic "O Holy Night". NBC released the single for free download.
In early 2007, New Orleans’ music magazine Offbeat named Andrews their Performer of the Year.[5] He also garnered honors as Best Contemporary Jazz Performer.[5] Also in 2007, he accepted an invitation to contribute to Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino[6] on the track “Whole Lotta Lovin” along with Rebirth Brass Band, Pee Wee Ellis, Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker and Lenny Kravitz.
As of 2009, his current project is Orleans Avenue, a funk/pop/hip-hop mix including musicians Mike Ballard on bass, Dan Oestreicher on baritone sax, Tim McFatter on tenor sax, Pete Murano on guitar and Joey Peebles on drums.
Since 2010, Andrews has appeared in six episodes of the HBO series Treme.
In 2010 Andrews released Backatown (Verve Forecast), which hit Billboard magazine's Contemporary Jazz Chart at No. 1 and stayed there for nine consecutive weeks. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue toured across Australia, North America, Europe, Japan and Brazil, as well as supported shows for Jeff Beck in the U.K. and Dave Matthews Band in the U.S. They performed on television shows including Conan, Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Bonnaroo, and Austin City Limits. He also recorded on new and upcoming CDs from Galactic, Eric Clapton, and Lenny Kravitz and on the Academy Award nominated song "Down In New Orleans" with Dr. John.
In December 2010, Andrews curated a two-night Red Hot+New Orleans performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music to raise money for the New Orleans NO/AIDS Task Force.[7]
In September 2011, Andrews released the album For True as a follow up to his earlier album Backatown. Along with all the members of his band, Orleans Avenue, this record includes appearances by the Rebirth Brass Band, Jeff Beck, Warren Haynes, Stanton Moore, Kid Rock, Ben Ellman and Lenny Kravitz as a returning guest artist.[8]
On January 8, 2012 Andrews performed the National Anthem before the start of the NFL playoff game between the New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons.
Soul Rebels Brass Band invited Andrews to special guest on their Rounder Records debut record, Unlock Your Mind, released on January 31, 2012.
On March 31, 2012, Andrews' single "Do To Me" was featured before both semi-final games of the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament on CBS.
On May 19, 2012, Andrews received the President's Medal from Tulane University President Scott Cowen at the university's Unified Commencement Ceremony at the Mercedez-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, in recognition of his community service work with the Horns for Schools Project. He thrilled the graduates and visitors by playing the trombone and singing "When the Saints Go Marching In" along with Dr. Michael White's Original Liberty Jazz Band at the ceremony.
On February 21, 2012, Andrews performed at The White House as part of the Black History Month celebration, In Performance at the White House: Red, White & Blues, which premiered on PBS on February 27, 2012. The event featured performances from B.B. King, Jeff Beck, Keb' Mo', Mick Jagger, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks and more. Earlier that day, Andrews also participated in a special education program at The White House with Michelle Obama, Keb' Mo' and Shemekia Copeland.
The Trombone Shorty Foundation
The Trombone Shorty Foundation evolved from Andrews' Horns For Schools Project, a collaboration with New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, which helped schools across New Orleans receive quality instruments donated by Andrews personally. The Foundation's mission is "to preserve and perpetuate the unique musical culture of New Orleans by passing down its traditions to future generations of musicians."[9] In December 2012, the Foundation partnered with Tulane University to create an After School Academy to mentor aspiring, high school musicians in the New Orleans Area.
Little Smokey Smothers *02.01.1939
Little Smokey Smothers (January 2, 1939[1] – November 20, 2010)[2] was an African American, Chicago blues guitarist and singer.
His elder brother, Otis (died 1993), was known as the bluesman Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers, with whom he was sometimes confused.
Albert Abraham "Abe" Smothers was born in Tchula, Mississippi,[1][2] learned guitar at the age of 15, and relocated to Chicago two years later.[3][4] He soon appeared on stage playing alongside Arthur “Big Boy” Spires, Magic Sam, Otis Rush and Lazy Bill Lucas.[4] In 1958 he joined up with Howlin' Wolf, and played on Wolf's recording session for Chess Records the following year. Tracks Smothers contributed to included "I've Been Abused," "Howlin' for My Darling," and "Mr. Airplane Man."[1]
In 1961 he founded Little Smokey Smothers and the Pipeplayers.[4] He later met Paul Butterfield and became a founding member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. He was replaced in the band by Elvin Bishop, but developed a friendship that lasted a lifetime.[4] Throughout the 1960s Smothers appeared with Buddy Guy, James Cotton, Earl Hooker, and Junior Wells.[3] Musical opportunities dried up in the 1970s, and Smothers worked in construction.[4] He recorded again, after several years break, in 1979 as part of Mojo Buford's Chicago Blues Summit album.[5] He re-appeared in the 1980s with The Legendary Blues Band.[6] Their 1989 recording, Woke up with the Blues, included contributions from Smothers.[4][7]
In 1993, Bishop made a guest appearance on Smothers first solo album with the Dutch Black Magic label, Bossman! The Chicago Blues of Little Smokey Smothers. The recording also included work from Smothers' cousin, Lee "Shot" Williams.[1] Bishop and Smothers played at the 1993 Chicago Blues Festival.[8] Smothers had open heart surgery in 1995, but the following year issued Second Time Around.[4] Smothers performed at the 1999 San Diego Blues Festival, and at a party for Mick Jagger's 55th birthday.[3]
Alligator Records then issued That's My Partner (2000), a live album recorded in San Francisco, which saw Smothers reunited with Bishop.[1] Smothers also appeared at the 2000 Chicago Blues Festival.[9] He also featured in Martin Scorsese's 2003 television series The Blues, with excerpts from his live show.[5] In 2006 Smothers and Bishop played live at the Ground Zero club in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Latterly Smothers experienced health problems, and had both legs amputated due to diabetes.
In 2009, Bishop compiled the benefit album, Chicago Blues Buddies, incorporating recordings made by Smothers and Bishop dating back to 1992. Proceeds from the album helped to pay for Smothers' medical costs.[8]
On November 20, 2010, after a spell in a Chicago hospital, Smothers died of natural causes.
Little Smokey Smothers I Need Love So Bad
Axel Rosenbaum *02.01.1967
Folk und Blues – das ist das Thema der Backyard Devils, die seit ihrer Gründung im Jahr 2011 das Publikum mit Spielfreude, Witz und Tiefgang zu begeistern wissen.
Markenzeichen der Backyard Devils ist der Minimalismus, mit dem sie ihre Musik immer wieder verblüffend darstellen. Wer kann schon von sich behaupten, mit sechs Saiten und einer Mundharmonika auszukommen.
Die Erfahrung der Devils in Verbindung mit ihrem Enthusiasmus für die Musik lassen einen eigenständigen Stil entstehen, der jederzeit hör- und fühlbar ist.
André Heuer: Vocals, Guitars, Octave-Mandolin, Foot Stomp
Axel Rosenbaum: Harmonicas
Hier gibt’s ‘was auf die Ohren … jeweils 30 Sekunden aus der CD “Step By Step”
Backyard Devils - Van Thom Weekender Bremen 2013
Cassie Taylor *1986
* Der genaue Geburtstag ist dem Autor unbekannt
Cassie Taylor (born 1986, Boulder, Colorado) is an American singer-songwriter and blues musician. She started her career in the early 2000s touring as a bassist for her father Otis Taylor, a blues-trance musician.[1] She released a positively received solo album, Out Of My Mind, in 2013, which infused traditional Delta blues with genres as diverse as electronica, indie rock, and psychedelia.[2] Based in Kansas City, Missouri as of 2013, she is also a model and fashion designer.
Early life, career
Cassie Taylor was born in 1986 in Boulder, Colorado, where she was raised by her parents Carol Ellen Bjork and blues musician Otis Taylor. She has one younger sister.[4] Despite being born during a period when her father was on hiatus from the music industry, he did expose her to blues music and teach her piano when she was young. She only became aware of his previous career around age 8 or 9.[2] At around age 12 she began playing electric bass,[5] impressing her father with a rendition of "Hey Joe."[3]
When Taylor was 16[6] her father asked her to tour as the bassist in his band. Since his usual bassist Kenny Passarelli had a conflicting schedule she joined his summer tour, playing for twenty dollars per gig.[2] According to Taylor, her father didn't build her up as a prodigy, but rather "I think I was just cheap child labor. Plus, he knew I wasn’t going to get drunk on the road or go missing. Some people have the fear of God in them. I had the fear of Otis."[2]
She toured multiple countries with the band, picking up vocals and keyboards as well. She went on to appear in eight of his albums,[7] including lending bass and vocals to his 2007 album Definition of a Circle.[1] She is also on the Board of Directors for the Blues Foundation.[8]
Fashion, modeling
By 2009, Taylor quit the band to work on her own demo recordings. Frustrated with the process, she moved to Memphis with her boyfriend and stepped back from music. She began working in retail, started studying fashion design, and began a modeling career.[3] She later started her own company, Moorhead Apparel,[3] with a focus on men's clothing.[8] She has made appearances in a number of studio and student films.[9]
Later music career
She rededicated herself to music in 2010,[3] beginning to work on her debut solo album, Blue, where she wrote all the tracks.[2] Released in 2011,[5] The New Yorker called it a "solid collection of original songs, with occasional nods to her father's trance blues."[10]
During this time she formed the trio Girls With Guitars[3] with musicians Dani Wilde and Samantha Fish. They released an eponymous album in 2011, afterwards beginning to tour.[7][11] While she mostly writes her own material, Taylor has also reworked songs by artists as diverse as Nine Inch Nails and Muddy Waters.[2]
Out Of My Mind (2013)
By 2012 she had moved to Kansas City, Missouri and started mixing tracks for her sophomore album.[3] Originally financed through the proceeds of her husband selling his car,[6] she was signed by Yellow Dog Records during the production process.[2][12] Most of the recording took place at Immersive Studios in Boulder, where she had previously worked.[13]
Taylor wrote,[1] arranged,[14] produced, and sang all tracks, also providing bass guitar, piano, Hammond organ, and theremin.[11] The band she formed for the album and live performances includes Larry Thompson on drums and Steve Mignano on guitar,[15] as well as Jon Gray on trumpet.[11] The 12-track album, Out Of My Mind, was released on May 7, 2013.[1]
Music video
A music video for the first track, "That's My Man," was shot in Memphis early in 2013. About the video, which she dedicated to friends in the modeling industry who were GLBTQ, "In the video there are four different 'males.' There are the muscle cars, which represent the personification of the traditional male, a man, a transgendered (female to male), and a drag queen. All of them represent different forms of male, whether it be mental, physical or spiritual.”[1]
Reception
Reviews were positive,[5][16] earning sound comparisons to Diana Ross and the Supremes,[17] Janis Joplin, and Gladys Knight,[14] with one review calling the album a "mesmerizing, nuanced, and imaginatively arranged collection of blues-inflected originals."[7] Also, "Her writing is both intelligent and moving, with exceptionally strong melodies and challenging rhythms, and her production is vivid and adventuresome."[5] "Taylor’s original compositions here all have to do with heartbreak, but she expresses her pain so exquisitely that it’s a pleasure for the listener to bear."[18] About her vocals, Premier Guitar wrote "Taylor floats through her melodies with a relaxed, sassy vibe and none of the melismatic tinsel that plagues many contemporary female singers."[7]
Style
Out Of My Mind merges traditional Delta blues with electronica, indie rock, psychedelia, and other modern genres.[2] According to Taylor, "I use a lot of different influences ...from West African psychedelic rock, to classic rock, to industrial metal."[13] About combining genres, “For me, the blues is the root of all American music, and I love each individual genre of American music. It would be dishonest to not use all of the things that I’ve been exposed to because I love them so much.”[2]
Personal life
Taylor married Chuck Haren in late 2012.
Cassie Taylor & Band - Satisfy My Soul /blues Rhede Germany 2014
Chris Mulé *02.01.1972
Born: New Orleans, LA
Instruments: Fender Telecaster, Fender Stratocaster, Dean Resonator Steel
The name Chris Mulé might not be instantly recognizable to the casual music lover. But in his native New Orleans, he is well known among the musical cognoscenti. He has carved out a career as an ace sideman in a city crawling with gifted musicians. Adept at a variety of styles, the guitarist has played with dozens of local and national acts and established a busy solo career, and is now poised for a major breakout with Honey Island Swamp Band.
Reporting from April of 2004, Keith Spera, the pop critic for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans said, “Chris Mulé has ingratiated himself with the local scene as a utility electric guitarist fluent in a number of roots music styles.”
Mulé’s eclectic style draws on the influences of a variety of local legends including the finger-picking of Snooks Eaglin and Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown and the chicken scratch playing of Leo Nocentelli of the legendary funk band, the Meters. His other influences, particularly on the slide guitar, begin with another Southern six-stringer, the late Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers. He also cites blues guitarists like Robert Johnson, Bukka White and Albert King in addition to psychedelic warhorses like Jerry Garcia and Jimi Hendrix as having impacted his playing.
The traditional sounds of New Orleans, including jazz and brass band music have also seeped into the stew due to his regular affiliation with stalwarts of the local scene such as Kirk Joseph, the revolutionary sousaphonist and founding member of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Dr. John and jazz saxophonist, Donald Harrison, Jr. The traditional sounds of the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans and the zydeco of the Louisiana countryside have influenced his development as well.
Besides playing a mean slide, Mulé has also developed into a keen and insightful songwriter. Honey Island Swamp Band’s albums feature many of these compositions, and the band’s live sets further showcase his range as a writer and his soulful singing voice. Mulé’s songwriting covers a wide range and includes bluesy jams, roots rockers as well as honky tonk romps.
Mulé has appeared on recordings by a slew of New Orleans acts, and has extensive touring experience as a bandleader as well as a sideman, having criss-crossed the United States and parts of Canada. He has also appeared in Japan.
Honey Island Swamp Band - "Change My Ways" | Do512 Lounge Sessions
Peter U. Lehmann *02.01.1990
https://www.facebook.com/LehmanBrothersBand?ref=ts
Die Lehman Brothers, ursprünglich aus New York, sind eine Blues and Soul Band, die sich zur in Zeit Beelefellt, Germany, niedergelassen hat, um sich hier eine neue Existenz aufzubauen. Ihr Markenzeichen ist - neben ihren schon reichlich abgetragenen Businessanzügen - ihre abwechslungsreiche Blues und Roots Musik mit Soulanklängen. Ohne I-Phone, dafür aber stilecht auf alten low tech Instrumenten gespielt. Mal mit, mal ohne Gesang, aber immer mit reichlich Rhythm und mit fetten Hammond- und Gitarrensounds. Nein, SIE werden NICHT aus dem Fenster springen (ihr Proberaum liegt unter Tage) - sie werden der Welt zeigen, dass sie es immer noch drauf haben, wenn sie auch jetzt Achtel zählen statt Aktien!
The Lehman Brothers Band, originally from New York, are a Blues and Soul Band, that relocated in 2008 to Beelefellt, Germany, in order to play the Blues and to play for change...
Fernsehkonzert: "Lehman Brothers Band" aus Bielefeld
Rubin "Rube" Lacey *02.01.1902
Rubin "Rube" Lacey (January 2, 1902 – 1969) was an American country blues musician, who played guitar and was a singer and songwriter.
Lacey was born in Pelahatchie, Mississippi, United States,[1] and learned guitar in his teens from an older performer, George Hendrix. Working out of the Jackson area in the Mississippi Delta, he became one of the state's most popular blues singers. His bottleneck style inspired that of the better known performer Son House.[1] In 1927, he recorded four songs for Columbia Records in Memphis, Tennessee, though none were released and the masters do not survive.
In 1928, Lacey recorded two tunes, "Mississippi Jail House Groan" and "Ham Hound Crave", for Paramount Records, which constitutes his recorded legacy.[1] Four years later he became a minister, and was later found living in Lancaster, California by blues researcher, David Evans. He died there on November 14, 1969.
Lacey was born in Pelahatchie, Mississippi, United States,[1] and learned guitar in his teens from an older performer, George Hendrix. Working out of the Jackson area in the Mississippi Delta, he became one of the state's most popular blues singers. His bottleneck style inspired that of the better known performer Son House.[1] In 1927, he recorded four songs for Columbia Records in Memphis, Tennessee, though none were released and the masters do not survive.
In 1928, Lacey recorded two tunes, "Mississippi Jail House Groan" and "Ham Hound Crave", for Paramount Records, which constitutes his recorded legacy.[1] Four years later he became a minister, and was later found living in Lancaster, California by blues researcher, David Evans. He died there on November 14, 1969.
Rube Lacy - Mississippi Jail House Groan (1928) Blues
R.I.P.
Speckled Red +02.01.1973
Speckled Red (* 23. Oktober 1892 in Monroe, Louisiana; † 2. Januar 1973 in St. Louis, Missouri; eigentlich Rufus Perryman) war ein US-amerikanischer Blues- und Boogie Woogie Pianist und Sänger.
Leben und Wirken
Speckled Red war der ältere Bruder von Piano Red; ihre Spitznamen rührten daher, dass beide Albinos waren.[1]. Die Brüder wuchsen jedoch getrennt auf und haben nie miteinander aufgenommen. Speckled Red und Piano Red spielten beide einen lärmenden Barrelhouse Boogie-woogie Stil, wobei Speckled Red öfters auch langsame Bluestitel spielte, wie seine beiden Versionen von "The Right String (But the Wrong Yo-Yo)", das Speckled Red erstmals 1930 einspielte; sein Bruder hatte zwanzig Jahre später mit dem Song einen Hiterfolg.
Die Familie zog in Speckled Reds Jugendjahren zunächst nach Detroit, dann nach Atlanta, nachdem sein Vater die damals gültigen Rassentrennungsgesetze nicht beachtet hatte. Schließlich ließ sich die Familie in Hampton (Georgia) nieder, wo seine Geburt ein paar Jahre später registriert wurde. Die Familie selbst, die aus Perryman und sieben Brüdern und Schwestern bestand, hatte wenig musikalischen Hintergrund; daher war Speckled Red Autodidakt,[2] Er war beeinflusst von seinem Idol Fishtail, außerdem von Charlie Spand, James Hemingway und Will Ezell (dazu in früher Jugend inspiriert von Paul Seminole in einem Filmtheater) und lernte Orgelspiel in einer örtlichen Kirche.[3].
In seiner Jugendzeit spielte er bei Partys; er zog dann als junger Erwachsener zurück nach Detroit, wo er überall auftrat, auch in Nachtclubs und Bordellen. Er wurde schließlich von einem Talent scout des Labels Brunswick entdeckt, kurz bevor er nach Memphis (Tennessee) zog.[4] Dort hatte er 1929 seine erste Aufnahmesession, bei der seine zwei klassischen Titel für Brunswick entstanden, "Wilkins Street Stomp" und sein Hit “The Dirty Dozens”.
Speckled Reds Song "The Dirty Dozens", ein legendärer Austausch von Beleidigungen und vulgären Bemerkungen, wurde zum festen Bestandteil der afro-amerikanischen Kultur.
I want all you women to fall in line
And shake yo shimmy like i'm shakin' mine
You shake yo shimmy and you shake it fast
If you can't shake the shimmy, shake yo' yes yes yes
You a dirty mistreater, a robber and a cheater
Stick you in a dozens and you poppa aint yo cousin
And yo mama do the lordylord
Im folgenden Jahr 1930 nahm er erneut auf; in Chicago entstand der bemerkenswerte Titel “The Dirty Dozens No. 2”, der jedoch bei weitem nicht so erfolgreich war wie sein Vorgänger. Der Pianist war daraufhin ohne Plattenvertrag und trat dann vor allem in Bars rund um Memphis und St. Louis (Missouri) auf.
In Aurora (Illinois) nahm er 1938 einige Titel mit dem Slide-Gitarristen Robert Nighthawk und dem Mandolinespieler Willie Hatcher für Bluebird Records auf („St. Louis Stomp“, „Welfare Blues“), die ihm jedoch wenig Erfolg einbrachten. In den 1940ern zog er nach St. Louis und setzte seine Karriere fort, indem er vorwiegend in Kneipen und kleineren Restaurants spielte und daneben jobbte.
Seine Wiederentdeckung wurde möglich, weil Charlie O'Brien, ein Polizist aus St. Louis und Bluesfan, seine beruflichen Untersuchungsmethoden darauf anwandte, in den 1950er Jahren verschollene alte Bluesmusiker aufzuspüren. O'Brian spürte Speckled Red am 14. Dezember 1954 auf, woraufhin er bald einen Plattenvertrag bei dem jungen Chicagoer Label Delmark Records als deren erster Blueskünstler abschließen konnte. 1957 nahm er drei Titel auf, „Dad´s Piece“, „Oh Red“ und „Early in the Morning“; Ende der 1950er und in den 60er Jahren erfuhr er dann ein gewisses Wiedererwachen von Interesse an seiner Musik, wobei seine Fähigkeiten noch beachtlich waren. Er trat in diesen Jahren rund um St. Louis in der Traditional Jazzszene auf, meist als Pausenpianist für die Dixie Stompers, hatte Auftritte mit der Dixie Matinee und im St. Louis Jazz Club; er spielte auch 1961 auf dem University of Chicago Folk Festival und in Dayton (Ohio) mit Gene Mayl's Dixieland Rhythm Kings. 1959 war er in Europa mit Chris Barber auf Tournee; während seines Aufenthalts in Dänemark nahm er verschiedene seiner alten Titel für das Album The Dirty Dozen auf. 1956/57 entstanden noch Aufnahmen für die Label Tone, Delmark, Folkways und Storyville Records. Ende der 1960er Jahre hatte er aufgrund seines Alters nur noch wenige Auftritte; er starb am 2. Januar 1973.
Für die Autoren John Jörgensen und Erik Wiedemann gehört Speckled Red zu den bedeutendsten Blues- und Boogie Woogie-Pianisten seiner Zeit, der jedoch wenig Erfolg beim Publikum hatte.
Speckled Red (October 23, 1892 - January 2, 1973)[2] was born Rufus Perryman in Hampton, Georgia. He was an American blues and boogie-woogie piano player and singer,[1] most noted for his recordings of "The Dirty Dozens", with exchanges of insults and vulgar remarks that have long been a part of African American folklore.
"I want all you women to fall in line"
"And shake yo shimmy like i'm shakin' mine"
"You shake yo shimmy and you shake it fast"
"If you can't shake the shimmy, shake yo' yes yes yes"
"You a dirty mistreater, a robber and a cheater"
"Stick you in a dozens and yo pappy is yo cousin"
"And yo mama do the lawdylawd"
Although the lyrics were sung rather than spoken, with its elaborate word play and earthy subject matter, "The Dirty Dozens" is considered in some respects an ancestor to rap music.
Life and career
Speckled Red was the older brother of Piano Red, their nicknames derived from both men being albinos.[3] The brothers were separated by almost a generation and never recorded together. Speckled Red and Piano Red both played in a raucous good time barrelhouse boogie-woogie style, although the elder Speckled Red played slow blues more often. Both recorded versions of "The Right String (But the Wrong Yo-Yo)", Speckled Red first in 1930, and the younger scored a big hit with the song 20-years later.
Prior to his birth the family had moved for brief periods to Detroit, Michigan, then Atlanta, Georgia after his father violated Jim Crow laws, before settling in Hampton, Georgia. The family itself, consisting of Perryman and 7 brothers and sisters, had little musical background, though Speckled Red was a self-taught piano player[4] (influenced primarily by his idol Fishtail, along with Charlie Spand, James Hemingway and William Ezell, and inspired at his earliest point by Paul Seminole in a movie theatre) and also learned the organ at his local church.[5]
By his mid-teens he was already playing house parties and juke joints, and moved back to Detroit in his mid-20s to play anywhere he could, including nightclubs and brothels, and was noticed by a Brunswick Records talent scout just before he left for Memphis, Tennessee, where he was located by Jim Jackson.[6] It was here where he cut his first recording sessions, resulting in two classics for Brunswick in "Wilkins Street Stomp" and the hit “The Dirty Dozens”. The following year, 1930, he recorded again, this time in Chicago, Illinois, resulting in most notably “The Dirty Dozens No. 2,” which was not nearly as successful and the pianist was without a contract or label and again playing making the rounds at Memphis venues and St. Louis bars.
His 1938 session work in Aurora, Illinois with slide guitar player Robert Nighthawk and mandolinist Willie Hatcher for Bluebird Records was steady and long but also unsuccessful, and sometime after during the 1940s moved back to St. Louis and continued his career of playing taverns, as well working the public produce market doing manual labor until the servicemen returned home to heavy lifting jobs.
Revival and death
Charlie O'Brien, a St. Louis policeman and something of a blues aficionado who applied many of his professional investigative methods to track down old bluesmen during the 1950s, "rediscovered" Speckled Red on December 14, 1954, who subsequently was signed to Delmark Records as their first blues artist. He experienced a small revival of interest in his music during the late 1950s and 1960s, his abilities still considerable, and worked around the St. Louis-area jazz scene, regularly as the intermission pianist for the Dixie Stompers, performing concerts with Dixie Mantinee and the St. Louis Jazz Club, played the University of Chicago Folk Festival in 1961, went to Dayton, Ohio, with Gene Mayl's Dixieland Rhythm Kings, and toured Europe in 1959 with Chris Barber. Several recordings were made in 1956 and 1957 for Tone, Delmark, Folkways, and Storyville record labels.
His age, however, had become a factor, and the remainder of the 1960s saw scattered performances. He died on January 2, 1973, of cancer in St. Louis, at the age of 80.
"I want all you women to fall in line"
"And shake yo shimmy like i'm shakin' mine"
"You shake yo shimmy and you shake it fast"
"If you can't shake the shimmy, shake yo' yes yes yes"
"You a dirty mistreater, a robber and a cheater"
"Stick you in a dozens and yo pappy is yo cousin"
"And yo mama do the lawdylawd"
Although the lyrics were sung rather than spoken, with its elaborate word play and earthy subject matter, "The Dirty Dozens" is considered in some respects an ancestor to rap music.
Life and career
Speckled Red was the older brother of Piano Red, their nicknames derived from both men being albinos.[3] The brothers were separated by almost a generation and never recorded together. Speckled Red and Piano Red both played in a raucous good time barrelhouse boogie-woogie style, although the elder Speckled Red played slow blues more often. Both recorded versions of "The Right String (But the Wrong Yo-Yo)", Speckled Red first in 1930, and the younger scored a big hit with the song 20-years later.
Prior to his birth the family had moved for brief periods to Detroit, Michigan, then Atlanta, Georgia after his father violated Jim Crow laws, before settling in Hampton, Georgia. The family itself, consisting of Perryman and 7 brothers and sisters, had little musical background, though Speckled Red was a self-taught piano player[4] (influenced primarily by his idol Fishtail, along with Charlie Spand, James Hemingway and William Ezell, and inspired at his earliest point by Paul Seminole in a movie theatre) and also learned the organ at his local church.[5]
By his mid-teens he was already playing house parties and juke joints, and moved back to Detroit in his mid-20s to play anywhere he could, including nightclubs and brothels, and was noticed by a Brunswick Records talent scout just before he left for Memphis, Tennessee, where he was located by Jim Jackson.[6] It was here where he cut his first recording sessions, resulting in two classics for Brunswick in "Wilkins Street Stomp" and the hit “The Dirty Dozens”. The following year, 1930, he recorded again, this time in Chicago, Illinois, resulting in most notably “The Dirty Dozens No. 2,” which was not nearly as successful and the pianist was without a contract or label and again playing making the rounds at Memphis venues and St. Louis bars.
His 1938 session work in Aurora, Illinois with slide guitar player Robert Nighthawk and mandolinist Willie Hatcher for Bluebird Records was steady and long but also unsuccessful, and sometime after during the 1940s moved back to St. Louis and continued his career of playing taverns, as well working the public produce market doing manual labor until the servicemen returned home to heavy lifting jobs.
Revival and death
Charlie O'Brien, a St. Louis policeman and something of a blues aficionado who applied many of his professional investigative methods to track down old bluesmen during the 1950s, "rediscovered" Speckled Red on December 14, 1954, who subsequently was signed to Delmark Records as their first blues artist. He experienced a small revival of interest in his music during the late 1950s and 1960s, his abilities still considerable, and worked around the St. Louis-area jazz scene, regularly as the intermission pianist for the Dixie Stompers, performing concerts with Dixie Mantinee and the St. Louis Jazz Club, played the University of Chicago Folk Festival in 1961, went to Dayton, Ohio, with Gene Mayl's Dixieland Rhythm Kings, and toured Europe in 1959 with Chris Barber. Several recordings were made in 1956 and 1957 for Tone, Delmark, Folkways, and Storyville record labels.
His age, however, had become a factor, and the remainder of the 1960s saw scattered performances. He died on January 2, 1973, of cancer in St. Louis, at the age of 80.
Valerie Wellington (November 14, 1959 – January 2, 1993)[2] was an African-American Chicago blues and electric blues singer and actress.[1] Her 1984 album, Million Dollar $ecret, saw her work with Sunnyland Slim, Billy Branch, and Magic Slim.[3] In her early years, Wellington also worked with Lee "Shot" Williams.[2] In a short career, she switched from opera to the blues.[1]
Biography
She was born Valerie Eileen Hall in Chicago, Illinois, United States.[1] Wellington trained as an opera singer, graduating from the American Conservatory of Music,[4] but in 1982 took up singing the blues in her local Chicago clubs.[1] Her work extended to the theater, where she undertook roles portraying earlier blues singers such as Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. Wellington's opera training enabled her to project her voice to theater audiences.[1] She appeared at the 1984 San Francisco Blues Festival, on the bill alongside Marcia Ball and Katie Webster.[5]
Her recorded work blended the more traditional vaudeville approach with a contemporary Chicago blues format. Wellington appeared on a limited number of recordings, but her voice was used on several advertisements on both television and radio.[1] Wellington's recording of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On" was used on the soundtrack to the 1989 film, Great Balls of Fire!, in which she briefly appeared depicting Big Maybelle.[6] In the same year, Wellington toured Japan, with Carlos Johnson.
Wellington died of a cerebral aneurysm in Maywood, Illinois, in January 1993, at the age of 33.[2] She was interred at the Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois.
In 1995, Rooster Blues re-issued Million Dollar $ecret.
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