1927 Hop Wilson*
1942 Jim Keltner*
1956 'Sista Monica' Parker*
1984 Arzell „Z. Z.“ Hill+
Happy Birthday
Jim Keltner *27.04.1942
Er machte sich vor allem als Studiomusiker einen Namen und hat auf vielen wichtigen Alben seit den 70er Jahren gespielt.
Sein Stil wird geprägt durch Rhythm And Blues. Einfache und kraftvolle Grundmuster werden variiert mit einer lockeren, oft fast frei wirkenden Phrasierung. Eine Spezialität von Jim Keltner ist es, Akzente an ungewöhnlichen, manchmal auch wechselnden Stellen des Metrums zu setzen.
Jim Keltner begann als Jazz-Schlagzeuger. In den Anfangszeiten begleitete er Gary Lewis and the Playboys. Als freier Studiomusiker spielte er mit Musikern und Bands wie Jerry García, der Plastic Ono Band, Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Ringo Starr, Joe Cocker, George Harrison, den Rolling Stones, Ron Wood, Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Brian Wilson, Neil Young, Crowded House, Fiona Apple, Elvis Costello, Ry Cooder, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan und vielen anderen.
Jim Keltner wirkte beim legendären "Concert for Bangladesh" 1971 als Schlagzeuger der Band mit.
Er war Mitglied von Little Village und begleitete Joe Cocker, Bob Dylan, Neil Young und Simon & Garfunkel auf diversen Tourneen.
Am 29. November 2002 nahm er am Gedenkkonzert für George Harrison in der Royal Albert Hall teil.
Als Mitglied der Allstar-Band Traveling Wilburys war er auf beiden Alben zu hören, sowie auch in einigen Musikvideos zu sehen. Im Dokumentationsfilm zum ersten Album wurde Keltner als „Buster Sidebury“ vorgestellt.
Infolge seiner früheren Zusammenarbeit mit Klaus Voormann, etwa beim Concert for Bangladesh, war er auch beim Voormann-Album A Sideman's Journey dabei.
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James Lee "Jim" Keltner (born April 27, 1942) is an American drummer and percussionist known primarily for his session work; he also played the ukulele. He has contributed to the work of many well-known artists. Keltner is originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was characterized as "the leading session drummer in America" by Bob Dylan biographer Howard Sounes.[1]
Career
Keltner was initially inspired to start playing because of an interest in jazz, but the popularity of jazz was declining during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and it was the explosion of pop/rock in the mid-1960s that enabled him to break into recording work in Los Angeles. His first gig as a session musician was recording "She's Just My Style" for the pop group Gary Lewis and the Playboys.[2][3]
Keltner's music career was hardly paying a living, and for several years at the outset he was supported by his wife. Toward the end of the 1960s, he finally began getting regular session work, and eventually became one of the busier drummers in Los Angeles. His earliest credited performances on record were with Gabor Szabo on the 1968 album Bacchanal.[2]
It was his work with Leon Russell playing on Delaney & Bonnie's Accept No Substitute that attracted the attention of Joe Cocker, who recruited Russell and everyone else he could out of the Delaney & Bonnie band for his album Mad Dogs & Englishmen. Playing with Joe Cocker led to work in 1970 and 1971, on records by Carly Simon (Anticipation), Barbra Streisand (Barbra Joan Streisand), Booker T. Jones (Booker T. & Priscilla), George Harrison (The Concert for Bangladesh), and John Lennon (Imagine).[2]
The ex-Beatles
Keltner is best known for his session work on solo recordings by three of The Beatles, working often with George Harrison, John Lennon (including Lennon solo albums, as well as albums released both by the Plastic Ono Band and Yoko Ono), and Ringo Starr.[3]
Keltner played on many key ex-Beatle solo releases, including Harrison's 1973 album Living in the Material World, and Lennon's 1974 album Walls and Bridges. When Ringo Starr recorded his first full-fledged pop album, Ringo, Keltner was featured on several tracks. Following this, Keltner joined George Harrison on his 1974 tour of the United States.[2]
Keltner's relationship with the former Beatles was such that his name was used to parody McCartney on albums released by Harrison and Starr in 1973. Early that year, Paul McCartney, the only Beatle not to have worked with Keltner, included a note on the back cover of his Red Rose Speedway album, encouraging fans to join the "Wings Fun Club" by sending a "stamped addressed envelope" to an address in London. Later that year, both Harrison's Living in the Material World and Starr's Ringo contained a similar note encouraging fans to join the "Jim Keltner Fan Club" by sending a "stamped undressed elephant" to an address in Hollywood.[4][5]
Keltner played the role of the judge in the video for George Harrison's 1976 Top 30 hit, "This Song".
Little Village
In 1987, Keltner, along with guitarist Ry Cooder, and bassist Nick Lowe played on John Hiatt's Bring the Family. Four years later the four musicians reunited as the band Little Village, recording an eponymous album.[3]
In the early '90s, in the wake of a series of sessions that he played for John Hiatt, Keltner became part of the supergroup Little Village, with Hiatt, Ry Cooder, and Nick Lowe.[2]
Traveling Wilburys
In 1989, Keltner toured with Starr's All-Starr Band. He also played drums on both albums released by the 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys, playing under the pseudonym Buster Sidebury.[3]
List of artists
Keltner, as a freelance drummer, has worked with a long list of artists.
1970s
Jim Keltner recorded two albums with his band Attitudes for Harrison's Dark Horse label. The band also included Danny Kortchmar, David Foster and Paul Stallworth, and recorded "Attitudes" in 1975 and "Good News" in 1977.
He is featured on Carly Simon's 1971 album, Anticipation.
In 1973, Keltner was the session drummer on Bob Dylan's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, which includes the hit "Knockin' on Heaven's Door". Keltner says that session "was a monumental session for me because it was such a touching song, it was the first time I actually cried when I was playing".[3][6]
Jim Keltner is credited as the drummer on the 1979 Roy Clark/Gatemouth Brown album, MAKIN' MUSIC.[7]
1980s
Keltner specialized in R&B, and developed a deceptively simple drumming style that melds a casual, loose feel with extraordinary precision.[3] He is said to have influenced Jeff Porcaro and Danny Seraphine of Chicago.
Demonstrations of his style and range can be found from "Jealous Guy" on John Lennon's Imagine, the hit single "Dream Weaver" by Gary Wright, "Josie" on Aja by Steely Dan, "Watching the River Flow" by Bob Dylan and The Thorns' debut, in which he accompanies Matthew Sweet, Pete Droge and Shawn Mullins.[3]
Keltner performed on many classic recordings by J. J. Cale, and often worked with bassist Tim Drummond.[3]
He played on four Richard Thompson albums: Daring Adventures (1986), Amnesia (1988), Rumor and Sigh (1991) and you? me? us? (1996).
Also, he was a session drummer for the reunited Pink Floyd on the album A Momentary Lapse of Reason.
1990s
In the mid-1990s, Jim joined the London Metropolitan Orchestra on its recording of "An American Symphony", on the movie soundtrack for Mr Holland's Opus.
In 1992, Jim played (together with Booker T. & the M.G.'s) at Bob Dylan's The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration.
In 1993, Jim toured with Neil Young & Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
2000 to present
In 2000, he toured with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on their "Tour of America".
In 2002, he briefly joined Bob Dylan's band during the European gigs while its main drummer, George Receli, recuperated from a hand injury. Later in the year, Keltner played in Concert For George, a tribute to Harrison a year following his death. Wearing the sweatshirt with a Bob Dylan logo, he reprised his role as the Wilburys' drummer, joining Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne for "Handle with Care." During that project and performance, he worked with Paul McCartney, along with other percussionists, including Ringo Starr.
In 2003, he toured with Simon & Garfunkel in their Old Friends tour.
In 2006, he toured with T-Bone Burnett in The True False Identity tour and was featured on Jerry Lee Lewis' album Last Man Standing. He played on the Ry Cooder produced recording of Mavis Staples' "We'll Never Turn Back" album. He also lent his drumming skills to the tracks on Richard Shapero's full-length album entitled "Wild Animus: The Ram" recorded the same year.
In 2007, he appeared with Lucinda Williams on West. The album was listed No. 18 on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.
In 2008, Keltner appeared on Break up the Concrete by The Pretenders, on One Kind Favor by B. B. King and on Oasis' "The Boy with the Blues", a non-album-track from Dig Out Your Soul.
Also in 2008, Keltner participated in the production of the album Psalngs,[8] the debut release of Canadian musician John Lefebvre.
In 2009, Keltner played drums on singer/songwriter Todd Snider's entire Don Was produced album, The Excitement Plan.
In 2010, Keltner produced Jerry Lee Lewis' Mean Old Man duets CD. He played drums on Fistful of Mercy's debut album, As I Call You Down, which one of the band's members, Dhani Harrison, described in an interview as the first project of his that he felt worthy to bring to Keltner, who was an old family friend (Dhani is the son of George Harrison). Keltner also played on The Union by Leon Russell and Elton John, produced by T-Bone Burnett and released on October 10, 2010. He also appeared on the eponymous Eric Clapton album, on 8 of the 14 tracks.
Joseph Arthur's 2011 album, The Graduation Ceremony, features Keltner on drums, reprising a partnership that began with the Fistful of Mercy project.
For the 2012 release, Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International, Keltner sat in studio with Outernational band playing/covering Dylan's "When the Ship Comes In".
In 2012, he also played drums on John Mayer's "Something Like Olivia", the fifth track of the album "Born and Raised".[9]
That same year, he recorded with Italian instrumental band Sacri Cuori on their second record, Rosario.
In 2013, Keltner appears on the track "If I Were Me" from Sound City: Real to Reel with Dave Grohl, Jessy Greene and Rami Jaffee. Also, on "Our Love Is Here To Stay", a classic Gershwin jazz standard recorded by Eric Clapton for Old Sock.
Career
Keltner was initially inspired to start playing because of an interest in jazz, but the popularity of jazz was declining during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and it was the explosion of pop/rock in the mid-1960s that enabled him to break into recording work in Los Angeles. His first gig as a session musician was recording "She's Just My Style" for the pop group Gary Lewis and the Playboys.[2][3]
Keltner's music career was hardly paying a living, and for several years at the outset he was supported by his wife. Toward the end of the 1960s, he finally began getting regular session work, and eventually became one of the busier drummers in Los Angeles. His earliest credited performances on record were with Gabor Szabo on the 1968 album Bacchanal.[2]
It was his work with Leon Russell playing on Delaney & Bonnie's Accept No Substitute that attracted the attention of Joe Cocker, who recruited Russell and everyone else he could out of the Delaney & Bonnie band for his album Mad Dogs & Englishmen. Playing with Joe Cocker led to work in 1970 and 1971, on records by Carly Simon (Anticipation), Barbra Streisand (Barbra Joan Streisand), Booker T. Jones (Booker T. & Priscilla), George Harrison (The Concert for Bangladesh), and John Lennon (Imagine).[2]
The ex-Beatles
Keltner is best known for his session work on solo recordings by three of The Beatles, working often with George Harrison, John Lennon (including Lennon solo albums, as well as albums released both by the Plastic Ono Band and Yoko Ono), and Ringo Starr.[3]
Keltner played on many key ex-Beatle solo releases, including Harrison's 1973 album Living in the Material World, and Lennon's 1974 album Walls and Bridges. When Ringo Starr recorded his first full-fledged pop album, Ringo, Keltner was featured on several tracks. Following this, Keltner joined George Harrison on his 1974 tour of the United States.[2]
Keltner's relationship with the former Beatles was such that his name was used to parody McCartney on albums released by Harrison and Starr in 1973. Early that year, Paul McCartney, the only Beatle not to have worked with Keltner, included a note on the back cover of his Red Rose Speedway album, encouraging fans to join the "Wings Fun Club" by sending a "stamped addressed envelope" to an address in London. Later that year, both Harrison's Living in the Material World and Starr's Ringo contained a similar note encouraging fans to join the "Jim Keltner Fan Club" by sending a "stamped undressed elephant" to an address in Hollywood.[4][5]
Keltner played the role of the judge in the video for George Harrison's 1976 Top 30 hit, "This Song".
Little Village
In 1987, Keltner, along with guitarist Ry Cooder, and bassist Nick Lowe played on John Hiatt's Bring the Family. Four years later the four musicians reunited as the band Little Village, recording an eponymous album.[3]
In the early '90s, in the wake of a series of sessions that he played for John Hiatt, Keltner became part of the supergroup Little Village, with Hiatt, Ry Cooder, and Nick Lowe.[2]
Traveling Wilburys
In 1989, Keltner toured with Starr's All-Starr Band. He also played drums on both albums released by the 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys, playing under the pseudonym Buster Sidebury.[3]
List of artists
Keltner, as a freelance drummer, has worked with a long list of artists.
1970s
Jim Keltner recorded two albums with his band Attitudes for Harrison's Dark Horse label. The band also included Danny Kortchmar, David Foster and Paul Stallworth, and recorded "Attitudes" in 1975 and "Good News" in 1977.
He is featured on Carly Simon's 1971 album, Anticipation.
In 1973, Keltner was the session drummer on Bob Dylan's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, which includes the hit "Knockin' on Heaven's Door". Keltner says that session "was a monumental session for me because it was such a touching song, it was the first time I actually cried when I was playing".[3][6]
Jim Keltner is credited as the drummer on the 1979 Roy Clark/Gatemouth Brown album, MAKIN' MUSIC.[7]
1980s
Keltner specialized in R&B, and developed a deceptively simple drumming style that melds a casual, loose feel with extraordinary precision.[3] He is said to have influenced Jeff Porcaro and Danny Seraphine of Chicago.
Demonstrations of his style and range can be found from "Jealous Guy" on John Lennon's Imagine, the hit single "Dream Weaver" by Gary Wright, "Josie" on Aja by Steely Dan, "Watching the River Flow" by Bob Dylan and The Thorns' debut, in which he accompanies Matthew Sweet, Pete Droge and Shawn Mullins.[3]
Keltner performed on many classic recordings by J. J. Cale, and often worked with bassist Tim Drummond.[3]
He played on four Richard Thompson albums: Daring Adventures (1986), Amnesia (1988), Rumor and Sigh (1991) and you? me? us? (1996).
Also, he was a session drummer for the reunited Pink Floyd on the album A Momentary Lapse of Reason.
1990s
In the mid-1990s, Jim joined the London Metropolitan Orchestra on its recording of "An American Symphony", on the movie soundtrack for Mr Holland's Opus.
In 1992, Jim played (together with Booker T. & the M.G.'s) at Bob Dylan's The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration.
In 1993, Jim toured with Neil Young & Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
2000 to present
In 2000, he toured with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on their "Tour of America".
In 2002, he briefly joined Bob Dylan's band during the European gigs while its main drummer, George Receli, recuperated from a hand injury. Later in the year, Keltner played in Concert For George, a tribute to Harrison a year following his death. Wearing the sweatshirt with a Bob Dylan logo, he reprised his role as the Wilburys' drummer, joining Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne for "Handle with Care." During that project and performance, he worked with Paul McCartney, along with other percussionists, including Ringo Starr.
In 2003, he toured with Simon & Garfunkel in their Old Friends tour.
In 2006, he toured with T-Bone Burnett in The True False Identity tour and was featured on Jerry Lee Lewis' album Last Man Standing. He played on the Ry Cooder produced recording of Mavis Staples' "We'll Never Turn Back" album. He also lent his drumming skills to the tracks on Richard Shapero's full-length album entitled "Wild Animus: The Ram" recorded the same year.
In 2007, he appeared with Lucinda Williams on West. The album was listed No. 18 on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.
In 2008, Keltner appeared on Break up the Concrete by The Pretenders, on One Kind Favor by B. B. King and on Oasis' "The Boy with the Blues", a non-album-track from Dig Out Your Soul.
Also in 2008, Keltner participated in the production of the album Psalngs,[8] the debut release of Canadian musician John Lefebvre.
In 2009, Keltner played drums on singer/songwriter Todd Snider's entire Don Was produced album, The Excitement Plan.
In 2010, Keltner produced Jerry Lee Lewis' Mean Old Man duets CD. He played drums on Fistful of Mercy's debut album, As I Call You Down, which one of the band's members, Dhani Harrison, described in an interview as the first project of his that he felt worthy to bring to Keltner, who was an old family friend (Dhani is the son of George Harrison). Keltner also played on The Union by Leon Russell and Elton John, produced by T-Bone Burnett and released on October 10, 2010. He also appeared on the eponymous Eric Clapton album, on 8 of the 14 tracks.
Joseph Arthur's 2011 album, The Graduation Ceremony, features Keltner on drums, reprising a partnership that began with the Fistful of Mercy project.
For the 2012 release, Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International, Keltner sat in studio with Outernational band playing/covering Dylan's "When the Ship Comes In".
In 2012, he also played drums on John Mayer's "Something Like Olivia", the fifth track of the album "Born and Raised".[9]
That same year, he recorded with Italian instrumental band Sacri Cuori on their second record, Rosario.
In 2013, Keltner appears on the track "If I Were Me" from Sound City: Real to Reel with Dave Grohl, Jessy Greene and Rami Jaffee. Also, on "Our Love Is Here To Stay", a classic Gershwin jazz standard recorded by Eric Clapton for Old Sock.
'Sista Monica' Parker *27.04.1956
Monica
Parker, the exuberant longtime Santa Cruz blues/gospel singer known
internationally by her stage name "Sista Monica," died Thursday in
Modesto. She was 58.
The former U.S. Marine and longtime tech-industry recruiter had been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in July. In 2003, she had been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called synovial sarcoma and was, at that time, told she had three months to live.
At the time of her first diagnosis, Parker was at the height of her career as a performer specializing in Chicago blues and Southern African-American gospel. Her burgeoning popularity in blues festivals up and down the West Coast had led to success across the country and, indeed, into Europe where she had traveled and performed widely. She had, in fact, just returned from a 21-city tour of Europe when she was diagnosed with cancer the first time.
"When I look back 10 years later," she said in 2013, "it was a combination of a lot of things that brought me through that — being raised singing gospel music in the church by a grandfather who was a Baptist preacher and by a mother with a strong constitution. I was also my military background that gave me the intestinal fortitude to stick through the whole experience, and, of course, my walk with faith."
In a video message announcing the return of her cancer posted Sept. 1 on Facebook, she said, "I want you all to know that I have some amazing plans and God has amazing plans for me." At the time of her death, she was writing a book, working on songs for a new recording and making plans for a one-woman theatrical performance.
Sista Monica won multiple awards for her charismatic stage performances, including the Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year, and the Gail Rich Award for excellence in the arts, as well as a number of blues awards. She recorded 11 albums of contemporary blues, soul and gospel, including a live recording of her European tours.
For all her success as a performer, she didn't come to it until her mid-30s.
"She had sung a little in choirs," said her older brother Barrington Parker. "But the time came when she just dared herself to follow her heart."
It was in the early 1990s when she saw Stanley Burrell, a former neighbor in Fremont, on TV's "Arsenio Hall Show" performing as rap star M.C. Hammer.
"She figured if he could do it, she could do it," said Barrington Parker.
Monica Parker grew up in Gary, Indiana, south of Chicago, where she was a regular at her local church every Sunday. She joined the Marines Corps after high school and returned to the Chicago after her service to start a business as a motivational speaker. It was in that role that she was hired at a seminar to speak on the subject of following one's dreams an aspiring talk-show host named Oprah Winfrey.
Parker moved to Santa Cruz in the early 1990s where she worked as a corporate recruiter for Yahoo and other Silicon Valley firms. That was also the time that she started from scratch as a performer, hiring a band to be named the Essentials, working up some blues songs and meeting a producer and sideman named Danny B. In a couple of years, she was well-known in Santa Cruz and an in-demand headliner at West Coast and Bay Area blues festivals. By the end of the '90s, she was playing around the world.
In recent years, to safeguard her health, Parker cut back on the touring and deepened her commitment to her faith. She started a 40-voice choir called the Sista Monica Gospel & Inspirational Choir, an ecumenical group, which she referred to as a "ministry," consisting of Catholics, Jews, Protestants, Buddhists and others.
Her approach to her music changed too. Before her 2003 diagnosis, Parker was very much in the mold of indomitable women singing blues as a testament against pain and struggle, such as Koko Taylor or Etta James. In the last 10 years, her approach has been softer and more wide-angle, trying to be more nakedly emotional in her recordings and live performances.
"I've always carried the banner for strength and power," she said in 2004. "But when something like (cancer) happens, the wind gets knocked out of you. Of all the values that I've had, the value I feel strongest now is compassion."
Sista Monica Parker
Born: April 27, 1956, Gary, Indiana
Died: Oct. 9, 2014, Modesto
Military service: U.S. Marine Corps
Occupation: Corporate recruiter for many Silicon Valley firms
Career: Accomplished blues and gospel singer and band leader, working in festivals and concerts around the West Coast, the U.S. and in Europe. She had released 11 recordings and was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year in 2005 and winner of the Gail Rich Award for excellence in the arts in 2000.
The former U.S. Marine and longtime tech-industry recruiter had been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in July. In 2003, she had been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called synovial sarcoma and was, at that time, told she had three months to live.
At the time of her first diagnosis, Parker was at the height of her career as a performer specializing in Chicago blues and Southern African-American gospel. Her burgeoning popularity in blues festivals up and down the West Coast had led to success across the country and, indeed, into Europe where she had traveled and performed widely. She had, in fact, just returned from a 21-city tour of Europe when she was diagnosed with cancer the first time.
"When I look back 10 years later," she said in 2013, "it was a combination of a lot of things that brought me through that — being raised singing gospel music in the church by a grandfather who was a Baptist preacher and by a mother with a strong constitution. I was also my military background that gave me the intestinal fortitude to stick through the whole experience, and, of course, my walk with faith."
In a video message announcing the return of her cancer posted Sept. 1 on Facebook, she said, "I want you all to know that I have some amazing plans and God has amazing plans for me." At the time of her death, she was writing a book, working on songs for a new recording and making plans for a one-woman theatrical performance.
Sista Monica won multiple awards for her charismatic stage performances, including the Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year, and the Gail Rich Award for excellence in the arts, as well as a number of blues awards. She recorded 11 albums of contemporary blues, soul and gospel, including a live recording of her European tours.
For all her success as a performer, she didn't come to it until her mid-30s.
"She had sung a little in choirs," said her older brother Barrington Parker. "But the time came when she just dared herself to follow her heart."
It was in the early 1990s when she saw Stanley Burrell, a former neighbor in Fremont, on TV's "Arsenio Hall Show" performing as rap star M.C. Hammer.
"She figured if he could do it, she could do it," said Barrington Parker.
Monica Parker grew up in Gary, Indiana, south of Chicago, where she was a regular at her local church every Sunday. She joined the Marines Corps after high school and returned to the Chicago after her service to start a business as a motivational speaker. It was in that role that she was hired at a seminar to speak on the subject of following one's dreams an aspiring talk-show host named Oprah Winfrey.
Parker moved to Santa Cruz in the early 1990s where she worked as a corporate recruiter for Yahoo and other Silicon Valley firms. That was also the time that she started from scratch as a performer, hiring a band to be named the Essentials, working up some blues songs and meeting a producer and sideman named Danny B. In a couple of years, she was well-known in Santa Cruz and an in-demand headliner at West Coast and Bay Area blues festivals. By the end of the '90s, she was playing around the world.
In recent years, to safeguard her health, Parker cut back on the touring and deepened her commitment to her faith. She started a 40-voice choir called the Sista Monica Gospel & Inspirational Choir, an ecumenical group, which she referred to as a "ministry," consisting of Catholics, Jews, Protestants, Buddhists and others.
Her approach to her music changed too. Before her 2003 diagnosis, Parker was very much in the mold of indomitable women singing blues as a testament against pain and struggle, such as Koko Taylor or Etta James. In the last 10 years, her approach has been softer and more wide-angle, trying to be more nakedly emotional in her recordings and live performances.
"I've always carried the banner for strength and power," she said in 2004. "But when something like (cancer) happens, the wind gets knocked out of you. Of all the values that I've had, the value I feel strongest now is compassion."
Sista Monica Parker
Born: April 27, 1956, Gary, Indiana
Died: Oct. 9, 2014, Modesto
Military service: U.S. Marine Corps
Occupation: Corporate recruiter for many Silicon Valley firms
Career: Accomplished blues and gospel singer and band leader, working in festivals and concerts around the West Coast, the U.S. and in Europe. She had released 11 recordings and was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year in 2005 and winner of the Gail Rich Award for excellence in the arts in 2000.
Sista Monica Parker -I'm A Woman
R.I.P.
Arzell „Z. Z.“ Hill +27.04.1984
Arzell
„Z. Z.“ Hill (* 30. September 1935 in Naples, Texas; † 27. April 1984
in Dallas, Texas) war ein US-amerikanischer Blues-Sänger.
Leben
Hill begann seine musikalische Karriere in den späten 1950er-Jahren bei einer Gospel-Gruppe namens „The Spiritual Five“. Um 1960 entwickelte er ein intensives Interesse für den Blues. Zu seinen Vorbildern zählten B. B. King, Bobby Bland und vor allem Sam Cooke. 1964 zog Hill nach Kalifornien und nahm in einem Garagen-Studio das Stück You Were Wrong auf, das sogar in die Charts kam. Danach kamen etliche Flops. In den 1970ern hatte Hill einige Hits, der bekannteste dürfte Love Is So Good When You're Stealing It (1977) sein. In den 1980ern fand Hill zurück zu den Wurzeln des Blues. Sein Album Down Home Blues (1982) – mit den Hits Down Home Blues und Somebody Else Is Steppin' In – war fast zwei Jahre lang in den Charts.
Z. Z. Hill starb 1984 an einem Herzinfarkt.
Leben
Hill begann seine musikalische Karriere in den späten 1950er-Jahren bei einer Gospel-Gruppe namens „The Spiritual Five“. Um 1960 entwickelte er ein intensives Interesse für den Blues. Zu seinen Vorbildern zählten B. B. King, Bobby Bland und vor allem Sam Cooke. 1964 zog Hill nach Kalifornien und nahm in einem Garagen-Studio das Stück You Were Wrong auf, das sogar in die Charts kam. Danach kamen etliche Flops. In den 1970ern hatte Hill einige Hits, der bekannteste dürfte Love Is So Good When You're Stealing It (1977) sein. In den 1980ern fand Hill zurück zu den Wurzeln des Blues. Sein Album Down Home Blues (1982) – mit den Hits Down Home Blues und Somebody Else Is Steppin' In – war fast zwei Jahre lang in den Charts.
Z. Z. Hill starb 1984 an einem Herzinfarkt.
Arzell
Hill (September 30, 1935 – April 27, 1984),[1] known as Z. Z. Hill
(pronounced "Zee Zee...") was an American blues singer best known for
his recordings in the 1970s and early 1980s, including his 1982 album
for Malaco Records, Down Home, which stayed on the Billboard soul album
chart for nearly two years.[1] The track "Down Home Blues" has been
called the best-known blues song of the 1980s.[2] According to the Texas
State Historical Association, Hill "devised a combination of blues and
contemporary soul styling and helped to restore the blues to modern
black consciousness."[3]
Life
Born in Naples, Texas, Hill began his singing career in the late 1950s as part of a gospel group called The Spiritual Five, touring Texas. He was influenced by Sam Cooke, B. B. King, and Bobby "Blue" Bland, and began performing his own songs and others in clubs in and around Dallas, including spells fronting bands led by Bo Thomas and Frank Shelton. He took his stage name in emulation of B. B. King.[1][3]
Encouraged by Otis Redding who had seen him perform, he joined his older brother, budding record producer Matt Hill, in Los Angeles in 1963, and released his first single, "You Were Wrong", on the family's own M.H. label. It spent one week at no.100 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964, and Hill was quickly signed by Kent Records.[1] Most of his records for Kent were written or co-written by Hill, and arranged by leading saxophonist Maxwell Davis. None charted, but in retrospect many, such as "I Need Someone (To Love Me)", are now viewed with high regard by soul fans.[4][5]
After leaving Kent in 1968, he recorded briefly for Phil Walden's Macon, Georgia based Capricorn label, but after a disagreement with Walden his recording contract was bought by Jerry "Swamp Dogg" Williams' Mankind label, where Hill finally fulfilled his end of the deal. He returned to California to record for his brother's Hill label, and the song "Don't Make Me Pay For His Mistakes", co-produced by Matt Hill and Miles Grayson, became his biggest pop hit, reaching no.62 on the Hot 100. The Kent label reissued his 1964 recording of "I Need Someone", which also charted. Williams also recorded Hill in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in 1971, resulting in several R&B hits including "Chokin' Kind" and "It Ain't No Use", as well as the LP The Brand New Z. Z. Hill.[6][7]
With his brother's help, Hill then signed to United Artists, where he was aided by arrangements and compositions by established R&B talents including Lamont Dozier and Allen Toussaint, and released several singles that made the R&B chart in the mid 1970s. After his brother Matt's sudden death from a heart attack, Z. Z. Hill left United Artists and signed with Columbia Records, recording two albums and several singles in New York, including "Love Is So Good When You're Stealing It", which spent 18 weeks on the Billboard R&B chart in the summer of 1977.[1]
In 1979 he left Columbia and returned south, signing for Malaco Records, a move which, according to Allmusic writer Bill Dahl, "managed to resuscitate both his own semi-flagging career and the entire [blues] genre at large".[1] His first hit for the label was his recording of songwriter George Jackson's "Cheating In The Next Room," which was released in early 1982 and broke into the R&B top 20, spending a total of 20 weeks on the chart. He had a number of best-selling albums on Malaco, the biggest one being Down Home, which stayed on Billboard's soul album chart for nearly two years; the song "Down Home Blues", again written by Jackson, was later recorded by label-mate Denise LaSalle.[1] Hill's next album, The Rhythm & The Blues in 1982, was also received with critical acclaim, and its success contributed to the subsequent boom in blues music, much of it recorded by the Malaco label.[1][3][7]
While touring in February 1984, Hill was involved in a car accident. Although he continued to perform, he died two months later at the age of 48, from a heart attack arising from a blood clot formed after the accident.[2][3][8]
Hill's song, "That Ain't the Way You Make Love", was sampled by Madvillain in their track, "Fancy Clown".
Life
Born in Naples, Texas, Hill began his singing career in the late 1950s as part of a gospel group called The Spiritual Five, touring Texas. He was influenced by Sam Cooke, B. B. King, and Bobby "Blue" Bland, and began performing his own songs and others in clubs in and around Dallas, including spells fronting bands led by Bo Thomas and Frank Shelton. He took his stage name in emulation of B. B. King.[1][3]
Encouraged by Otis Redding who had seen him perform, he joined his older brother, budding record producer Matt Hill, in Los Angeles in 1963, and released his first single, "You Were Wrong", on the family's own M.H. label. It spent one week at no.100 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964, and Hill was quickly signed by Kent Records.[1] Most of his records for Kent were written or co-written by Hill, and arranged by leading saxophonist Maxwell Davis. None charted, but in retrospect many, such as "I Need Someone (To Love Me)", are now viewed with high regard by soul fans.[4][5]
After leaving Kent in 1968, he recorded briefly for Phil Walden's Macon, Georgia based Capricorn label, but after a disagreement with Walden his recording contract was bought by Jerry "Swamp Dogg" Williams' Mankind label, where Hill finally fulfilled his end of the deal. He returned to California to record for his brother's Hill label, and the song "Don't Make Me Pay For His Mistakes", co-produced by Matt Hill and Miles Grayson, became his biggest pop hit, reaching no.62 on the Hot 100. The Kent label reissued his 1964 recording of "I Need Someone", which also charted. Williams also recorded Hill in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in 1971, resulting in several R&B hits including "Chokin' Kind" and "It Ain't No Use", as well as the LP The Brand New Z. Z. Hill.[6][7]
With his brother's help, Hill then signed to United Artists, where he was aided by arrangements and compositions by established R&B talents including Lamont Dozier and Allen Toussaint, and released several singles that made the R&B chart in the mid 1970s. After his brother Matt's sudden death from a heart attack, Z. Z. Hill left United Artists and signed with Columbia Records, recording two albums and several singles in New York, including "Love Is So Good When You're Stealing It", which spent 18 weeks on the Billboard R&B chart in the summer of 1977.[1]
In 1979 he left Columbia and returned south, signing for Malaco Records, a move which, according to Allmusic writer Bill Dahl, "managed to resuscitate both his own semi-flagging career and the entire [blues] genre at large".[1] His first hit for the label was his recording of songwriter George Jackson's "Cheating In The Next Room," which was released in early 1982 and broke into the R&B top 20, spending a total of 20 weeks on the chart. He had a number of best-selling albums on Malaco, the biggest one being Down Home, which stayed on Billboard's soul album chart for nearly two years; the song "Down Home Blues", again written by Jackson, was later recorded by label-mate Denise LaSalle.[1] Hill's next album, The Rhythm & The Blues in 1982, was also received with critical acclaim, and its success contributed to the subsequent boom in blues music, much of it recorded by the Malaco label.[1][3][7]
While touring in February 1984, Hill was involved in a car accident. Although he continued to perform, he died two months later at the age of 48, from a heart attack arising from a blood clot formed after the accident.[2][3][8]
Hill's song, "That Ain't the Way You Make Love", was sampled by Madvillain in their track, "Fancy Clown".
DOWN HOME BLUES - ZZ Hill
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