1908 Tommy McClennan*
1908 Moody Jones*
1931 Robert Lowery*
1944 Keef Hartley*
1960 Andreas ‘Andi’ Hofmann*
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Keef Hartley *08.04.1944
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Keef Hartley (* 8. April 1944 in Preston, Lancashire, England; † 27. November 2011 [1]) war ein britischer Rockmusiker (Schlagzeug). Bekannt wurde er u. a. als Mitglied von John Mayalls Bluesbreakers und mit seiner eigenen Keef Hartley Band. Ein Kennzeichen Hartleys waren seine Auftritte in Indianer-Kleidung, da er sich sehr für die indianische Kultur interessierte.
1963 schloss sich Keef Hartley der Band Rory Storm & the Hurricanes an, bei der zuvor schon Ringo Starr getrommelt hatte. Davor hatte Hartley bei den Thunderbeats erste Erfahrungen gesammelt. Im November 1963 wechselte Hartley zu Freddie Starr & the Midnighters, die wie die Hurricanes im Hamburger Star-Club spielten. Im Sommer 1964 gründete Hartley mit Roger James die Band The Ice Cubes, die bis Ende des Jahres zusammen blieb. Ende 1964 bis Mitte 1967 spielte Hartley bei The Artwoods, zusammen mit Jon Lord (später Deep Purple). Am 1. Mai 1967 beteiligte sich Hartley an John Mayalls Album The Blues Alone, worauf Mayall alle Instrumente spielte, außer dem Schlagzeug bei einigen Titeln. Danach war Hartley ständiges Mitglied der Bluesbreakers bis 1968.
Ende 1968 entstand das erste Album der Keef Hartley Band, Halfbreed. Mit Miller Anderson (Gitarre, Gesang), Gary Thain (Bass) und Mick Weaver (Keyboards) war die Formation hochgradig besetzt. Im Intro dieser LP verarbeitete Hartley die Tonbandaufzeichnung des Telefongesprächs, in welchem Mayall ihm die Mitgliedschaft bei den Bluesbreakers gekündigt hatte. Die Band trat 1969 beim Woodstock-Festival auf. Später wuchs die Gruppe zeitweise auf Big Band-Format an; im Zuge der aufkommenden Fusion-Bewegung lag einer der Schwerpunkte auch auf dem Einsatz von Blechbläsern (The Time is Near). 1972 löste Keef Hartley seine Band auf, um erneut mit John Mayall zusammenzuarbeiten. 1973 spielte Hartley in der Michael Chapman Band. 1975 kam Hartley in der Band Dog Soldier wieder mit Miller Anderson zusammen.
1977 stieß Keef Hartley zu Stan Webbs Chicken Shack (bzw. zu der von Stan Webb´s für ein Album zusammengetrommelten Band "Broken Glass"). Eine weitere Band, in der er spielte, war Mainsqueeze. Es gab auch ein Revival der Thunderbeats. Kurzzeitig ersetzte er auch mal den Schlagzeuger bei Jethro Tull.
Nachdem er das Musikgeschäft verlassen hatte, machte er sich selbständig, indem er zusammen mit Roger Giffin, der inzwischen für Fender in Los Angeles arbeitet, Gitarren wartete und reparierte. Das Geschäft erweiterte sich bald auf das Einrichten von Tonstudios wie The Manor (Virgin), Townhouse und die Olympic Studios. Außerdem arbeiteten sie auch für David Gilmour. Inzwischen hat Roger Giffin keinen Kontakt mehr mit Keef Hartley. Anfang der 1990er Jahre zog er sich größtenteils aus dem Geschäft zurück, baute hin und wieder aber noch immer Gehäuse. 2000 spielte er zusammen Michael Chapman auf Dave Gardners Loser's Paradise. Zuletzt arbeitete er an seiner Biografie. Am 27. November 2011 starb Keef Hartley nach Komplikationen bei einer Operation.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keef_Hartley
Keith "Keef" Hartley (8 April,1944 – 26 November 2011)[1] was an English drummer and bandleader. He fronted his own eponymous band, known as the Keef Hartley Band or the Keef Hartley Big Band, and played at Woodstock.[2] He was later a member of Dog Soldier, and variously worked with Rory Storm, The Artwoods and John Mayall.[1]
Biography
Keith Hartley was born in Preston, Lancashire. He studied drumming under Lloyd Ryan, who also taught Phil Collins the drum rudiments.[3] His career began as the replacement for Ringo Starr as a drummer for Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, a Liverpool-based band. Subsequently he played and recorded with The Artwoods, then achieved some notability as John Mayall's drummer (including his role as the only musician, other than Mayall, to play on Mayall's 1967 "solo" record The Blues Alone[4]). He then formed The Keef Hartley (Big) Band, mixing elements of jazz, blues, and rock and roll; the group played at Woodstock in 1969.
They released five albums, including Halfbreed and The Battle of North West Six (characterised by a reviewer for the Vancouver Sun as "an amazing display of virtuosity").[5] After that Hartley released a 'solo' album (Lancashire Hustler, 1973) and then he formed Dog Soldier with Miller Anderson (guitar), Paul Bliss (bass), Derek Griffiths (guitar) and Mel Simpson (keyboards). They released an eponymous album in 1975, which had a remastered release in early 2011 on CD on the Esoteric label.
In 2007, Hartley released a ghostwritten autobiography, Halfbreed (A Rock and Roll Journey That Happened Against All the Odds).[6] Hartley wrote about his life growing up in Preston, and his career as a drummer and bandleader, including the Keef Hartley Band's appearance at Woodstock.
Hartley died on 26 November 2011, aged 67, at Royal Preston Hospital in Preston.
Biography
Keith Hartley was born in Preston, Lancashire. He studied drumming under Lloyd Ryan, who also taught Phil Collins the drum rudiments.[3] His career began as the replacement for Ringo Starr as a drummer for Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, a Liverpool-based band. Subsequently he played and recorded with The Artwoods, then achieved some notability as John Mayall's drummer (including his role as the only musician, other than Mayall, to play on Mayall's 1967 "solo" record The Blues Alone[4]). He then formed The Keef Hartley (Big) Band, mixing elements of jazz, blues, and rock and roll; the group played at Woodstock in 1969.
They released five albums, including Halfbreed and The Battle of North West Six (characterised by a reviewer for the Vancouver Sun as "an amazing display of virtuosity").[5] After that Hartley released a 'solo' album (Lancashire Hustler, 1973) and then he formed Dog Soldier with Miller Anderson (guitar), Paul Bliss (bass), Derek Griffiths (guitar) and Mel Simpson (keyboards). They released an eponymous album in 1975, which had a remastered release in early 2011 on CD on the Esoteric label.
In 2007, Hartley released a ghostwritten autobiography, Halfbreed (A Rock and Roll Journey That Happened Against All the Odds).[6] Hartley wrote about his life growing up in Preston, and his career as a drummer and bandleader, including the Keef Hartley Band's appearance at Woodstock.
Hartley died on 26 November 2011, aged 67, at Royal Preston Hospital in Preston.
Keef Hartley Band - Roundabout
Keef Hartley Band - Overdog - 1971
Audio
UK Blues-Rock
Neil Slaven Producer
Gary Thain Bass
Ingrid Thomas Vocals
Mick Weaver Keyboards
John Almond Flute
Miller Anderson Guitar, Vocals
Keef Hartley Drums, Main Performer, Producer
Dave Caswell Trumpet
Valerie Charrington Vocals
Peter Dines Keyboards
Jon Hiseman Drums
Lyle Jenkins Saxophone
Joan Knighton Vocals
Keef Hartley Band - Overdog - 1971
Audio
UK Blues-Rock
Neil Slaven Producer
Gary Thain Bass
Ingrid Thomas Vocals
Mick Weaver Keyboards
John Almond Flute
Miller Anderson Guitar, Vocals
Keef Hartley Drums, Main Performer, Producer
Dave Caswell Trumpet
Valerie Charrington Vocals
Peter Dines Keyboards
Jon Hiseman Drums
Lyle Jenkins Saxophone
Joan Knighton Vocals
Tommy McClennan *08.04.1908
Tommy McClennan (* 8. April 1908 bei Yazoo City, Mississippi; † vermutlich 1962 in Chicago, Illinois) war ein US-amerikanischer Blues-Musiker.
Ein eher mäßiger Gitarren- und Pianospieler, bestach McClennan durch eine kraftvolle, ausdrucksstarke Stimme. Er trat häufig zusammen mit Robert Petway auf. Honeyboy Edwards berichtete, dass die beiden nicht sehr groß waren, so dass sie fast wie zwei Liliputaner aussahen. Er war mit Big Bill Broonzy befreundet, der ihn in seinem Buch Big Bill Blues (1935) erwähnt.
Zwischen 1939 und 1942 nahm McClennan in fünf Aufnahme-Sessions 42 Titel auf. Zu seinen bekanntesten Stücken gehören Bottle It Up And Go, Cross Cut Saw Blues und Deep Sea Blues (basierend auf dem Catfish Blues von Petway). Zu seinen weiteren Stücken gehörten der Cotton Patch Blues (1939), Highway 51, It's Hard To be Lonesome, I'm A Guitar King (alle 1940), Travellin' Highway Man (1941), Deep Blue Sea Blues, Blues Trip Me In The Morning (1942). Am bekanntesten wurde jedoch sein Titel Bottle It Up And Go, der als Dokument der Rassendiskriminierung in den USA gilt.
Danach verschwand Tommy McClennan rasch von der Bildfläche. Er starb vermutlich völlig verarmt und alkoholkrank 1962 in Chicago.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_McClennan
'Cross Cut Saw Blues' TOMMY McCLENNAN (1941) Delta Blues Guitar Legend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFknuUUMnnc
Tommy McClennan (January 4, 1905[1] – May 9, 1961) was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist.[2]
Life and career
McClennan was born in Durant, Mississippi, United States, and grew up in the town. He played and sang blues in a rough, energetic style.
He made a series of recordings for Bluebird Records from 1939 through 1942 and regularly played with his friend Robert Petway. His voice is heard in the background on Petway's recording of "Boogie Woogie Woman" (1942).[3] McClennan's singles in this period included "Bottle It Up and Go", "New Highway No.51", "Shake 'Em on Down", and "Whiskey Head Woman".[3]
Several of his songs have been covered by other musicians, including "Cross Cut Saw Blues" (covered by Albert King) and "My Baby's Gone" (Moon Mullican).[4] McClennan's "I'm A Guitar King" was included on the 1959 collection issued by Folkways Records, The Country Blues.
McClennan died of bronchopneumonia in Chicago, Illinois on May 9, 1961.[5][6]
Citation
"He had a different style of playing a guitar", Big Bill Broonzy remarked drily. "You just make the chords and change when you feel like changing"[3]
In John Fahey's "Screaming and Hollerin' the Blues" there is an interview conducted with Booker Miller, who was a contemporary of Charlie Patton, he makes mention of someone who is most likely Tommy McClennan, though he does not know his name: "... and I saw another fella he put some records out, they (him and Willie Brown) be together, but he be by himself when I see him, they called him "Sugar"... I ain't never known him as nothing but Sugar, he put out a record called Bottle Up and Go... I sold him my guitar."
Bob Dylan covered Tommy McClennan's Highway 51 on his self-named debut album in 1962.
Life and career
McClennan was born in Durant, Mississippi, United States, and grew up in the town. He played and sang blues in a rough, energetic style.
He made a series of recordings for Bluebird Records from 1939 through 1942 and regularly played with his friend Robert Petway. His voice is heard in the background on Petway's recording of "Boogie Woogie Woman" (1942).[3] McClennan's singles in this period included "Bottle It Up and Go", "New Highway No.51", "Shake 'Em on Down", and "Whiskey Head Woman".[3]
Several of his songs have been covered by other musicians, including "Cross Cut Saw Blues" (covered by Albert King) and "My Baby's Gone" (Moon Mullican).[4] McClennan's "I'm A Guitar King" was included on the 1959 collection issued by Folkways Records, The Country Blues.
McClennan died of bronchopneumonia in Chicago, Illinois on May 9, 1961.[5][6]
Citation
"He had a different style of playing a guitar", Big Bill Broonzy remarked drily. "You just make the chords and change when you feel like changing"[3]
In John Fahey's "Screaming and Hollerin' the Blues" there is an interview conducted with Booker Miller, who was a contemporary of Charlie Patton, he makes mention of someone who is most likely Tommy McClennan, though he does not know his name: "... and I saw another fella he put some records out, they (him and Willie Brown) be together, but he be by himself when I see him, they called him "Sugar"... I ain't never known him as nothing but Sugar, he put out a record called Bottle Up and Go... I sold him my guitar."
Bob Dylan covered Tommy McClennan's Highway 51 on his self-named debut album in 1962.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFknuUUMnnc
Robert Lowery *08.04.1931
Robert Lowery (born April 8, 1931, Shula, Arkansas, United States) is an American blues singer, and guitarist.
As a teenager, he picked up blues tunes from records by Robert Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Blind Boy Fuller, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, and others, eventually developing his own distinctive style. After moving to Santa Cruz, California in 1957, he backed up Big Mama Thornton.
Lowery made his first major concert appearance in 1974, at the San Francisco Blues Festival, and appeared there again in 1976 and 1984. Since then, he has traveled worldwide, and performed at many blues festivals and concerts, including a special appearance of fellow Arkansas native President Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration.[1] Lowery has released many recordings on diverse record labels, some of which are currently available.
More recently, Lowery's reputation as an authentic Delta blues musician has taken him far beyond California. He played the Monterey Jazz Festival in 2006, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2007, Philadelphia Blues Festival, Eureka Springs Festival in Arkansas, the San Remo Blues Festival in Italy and the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands. He recorded a television commercial for MCI Inc., singing about how his telephone bill was too high.
As a teenager, he picked up blues tunes from records by Robert Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Blind Boy Fuller, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, and others, eventually developing his own distinctive style. After moving to Santa Cruz, California in 1957, he backed up Big Mama Thornton.
Lowery made his first major concert appearance in 1974, at the San Francisco Blues Festival, and appeared there again in 1976 and 1984. Since then, he has traveled worldwide, and performed at many blues festivals and concerts, including a special appearance of fellow Arkansas native President Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration.[1] Lowery has released many recordings on diverse record labels, some of which are currently available.
More recently, Lowery's reputation as an authentic Delta blues musician has taken him far beyond California. He played the Monterey Jazz Festival in 2006, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2007, Philadelphia Blues Festival, Eureka Springs Festival in Arkansas, the San Remo Blues Festival in Italy and the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands. He recorded a television commercial for MCI Inc., singing about how his telephone bill was too high.
Robert Lowery & Friends: Blues @ LuLu's
Robert Lowery (guitar and vocals), Virgil Thrasher (harp), and T-Bone
Flippin (2nd harp) at LuLu Carpenter's in downtown Santa Cruz.
Andreas ‘Andi’ Hofmann Geb. 08.04.1960
Name: Andreas ‘Andi’ Hofmann
Wohnort: Deisenhofen bei München
Geboren: 8.4.1960
Beruf: Dipl. Ingenieur
Musikalisches:
1960 Prenatale body percussion, er ging damals seiner Mutter schon auf die Nerven
1964 Das Küchengeschirr ist nicht mehr sicher, Mutter Hofmann schon völlig entnervt
1977 Das erste Schlagzeug, die ersten musikalischen Gehversuche bei Blues-Rock-Sessions und 'Kulturtagen' im Asam-Gymnasium München
1978: Schülerband Eight Eyes, Rock n' Roll und Blues
1978: Auflösung der "Eight Eyes" und Neugründung der Molly Maguires Blues Band
Drummer bei Molly Maguires Blues Band bis 1982
Michael Schmitt (git, voc)
Andreas Hofmann (drums)
Franz Ilmberger (bass)
Mario Bollinger (git)
1982 Musikalische Abstecher in die 'Neue Deutsche Welle' und 'Jazz'
ab 1982 Drummer bei der Blue Note Blues Band
Gerd Hart (voc) (R.I.P.)
Andreas Hofmann (drums)
Franz Ilmberger (bass)
Gary Pushkin (keyboard)
Mario Bollinger (git)
Mama Hofmann, sichtlich unbeeindruckt von der musikalischen Kunst der BNBB, bezeichnet während einer Probe im heimischen Keller unser Musik als Lärm. Das hängt ihr heute noch nach.
1982 - 1986 Pauker beim Orchester der Fachhochschule München
Blue Note Blues Band -born in Chicago (Live at Cotton club Hamburg 6 May 2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPha7BoaDzE
BNBB - Stormy Monday Blues - Hamburg 2014
Moody Jones *08.04.1908
Moody Jones (April 8, 1908 - March 23, 1988) was an American blues guitarist, bass player, and singer, who is significant for his role in the development of the postwar Chicago blues sound in the late 1940s.
Life and career
Jones was born in Earle, Arkansas, on April 8, 1908.[1] Raised in the church, he developed an interest in music at an early age and learned to play the guitar after his brother bought an old broken one for $3. When he was proficient enough, he started playing for country dances. By 1939 he had arrived in Chicago,[2] where he was one of numerous musicians performing on Maxwell Street and in nonunion venues who played an important role in the development of the postwar Chicago blues sound. He often performed with his first cousin, the singer and guitar player Floyd Jones.[3] By the late 1940s he was capable of playing any kind of music requested and had learned to play the piano, banjo and bass (including a homemade bass fashioned from of a washtub, a broom handle and a clothesline),[3] in addition to guitar. He was regarded by his contemporaries as the best guitar player on the Chicago scene,[4] and was warned by noted slide guitar player Muddy Waters not to "fool with that slide" when he sat in with Waters's band one night.[5]
Jones is most significant and best known for his association with his cousin, Floyd Jones, and the harmonica player Snooky Pryor and the singles he recorded with them in 1948,[6] which were among the first recorded examples of the new style. The track "Snooky and Moody's Boogie" is said to have been the inspiration for Little Walter's 1952 hit "Juke".[1] Jones made further recordings for JOB Records in the early 1950s, backing musicians such as Snooky Pryor and Johnny Shines. He sang three numbers on a 1952 session, but these were not released at the time, according to Jones because label owner Joe Brown thought his voice was "too rough".[6] One of the songs, "Rough Treatment", was recorded and released by the singer and guitarist Little Hudson (Hudson Shower) for the same label the following year.[7]
After 1953 Jones stopped playing blues and joined a gospel group,[6] and by 1955 he had become a pastor of a Sanctified church.[8]
Jones died in Chicago, on March 23, 1988.
Moody Jones - Rough Treatment
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