1905 Arthur Crudup*
1953 Ron Holloway*
1964 Oteil Burbridge*
1973 Anja Baldauf*
1991 Washboard Willie+
Happy Birthday
Arthur Crudup *24.08.1905
Es gibt unterschiedliche Angaben über sein Geburtsdatum. Auf dem Grabstein steht: 05.08.1905
There are several details about his birth. Stands on the grave stone: 08/05/1905
Arthur „Big Boy“ Crudup (* 24. August 1905 in Forest, Mississippi; † 28. März 1974 in Nassawadox, Virginia) war ein US-amerikanischer Blues-Gitarrist und Sänger. Gleich drei Hits von Elvis Presley stammen von Crudup: That's All Right Mama, So Glad You're Mine und My Baby Left Me.
Erst mit 30 Jahren begann Big Boy Crudup, Gitarre zu spielen. Um 1940 zog er nach Chicago, wo er sich als Straßenmusiker durchschlug. Der Musikmanager Lester Melrose lud ihn 1941 zu einer Party im Haus von Tampa Red ein, wo u. a. auch Big Bill Broonzy, Lonnie Johnson und Lil Green zugegen waren. Danach erhielt Crudup einen Plattenvertrag.
Zu den Hits von Crudup in den 1940ern gehören Rock Me Mama, Who's Been Foolin' You, Keep Your Arms Around Me, So Glad You're Mine und Ethel Mae. Meistens spielte er mit dem Bassisten Ransom Knowling und dem Schlagzeuger Judge Riley zusammen.
Mitte der 1950er ließ Crudups Erfolg nach. 1961 brachte er wieder ein Album heraus, doch erst Ende der 1960er gab es ein wirkliches Comeback. Er trat erfolgreich bei Folk- und Blues-Festivals auf, zeitweise wieder mit Knowling. Bis zu seinem Tod 1974 genoss Crudup eine beachtliche Popularität.
1994 wurde Big Boy Crudup in die Blues Hall of Fame aufgenommen.
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Roots of Blues -- Arthur „Big Boy" Crudup „My Mama Don't Allo
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (August 24, 1905 – March 28, 1974) was an American Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known outside blues circles for writing songs such as "That's All Right" (1946),[1] "My Baby Left Me" and "So Glad You're Mine", later covered by Elvis Presley and dozens of other artists.
Career
Arthur Crudup was born in Forest, Mississippi. For a time he lived and worked throughout the South and Midwest as a migrant worker. He and his family returned to Mississippi in 1926. He sang gospel, then began his career as a blues singer around Clarksdale, Mississippi. As a member of the Harmonizing Four, he visited Chicago in 1939. Crudup stayed in Chicago to work as a solo musician, but barely made a living as a street singer. Record producer Lester Melrose allegedly found him while he was living in a packing crate, introduced him to Tampa Red and signed him to a recording contract with RCA Victor's Bluebird label.
He recorded with RCA in the late 1940s and with Ace Records, Checker Records and Trumpet Records in the early 1950s and toured black clubs in the South, including with Sonny Boy Williamson II and Elmore James.[2] He also recorded under the names Elmer James and Percy Lee Crudup. His songs "Mean Old 'Frisco Blues", "Who's Been Foolin' You" and "That's All Right" were popular in the South.[3]
Crudup stopped recording in the 1950s, because of further battles over royalties.[3] His last Chicago session was in 1951. His 1952-54 recording sessions for Victor were held at radio station WGST in Atlanta.[2] He returned to recording with Fire Records and Delmark Records and touring in 1965. Sometimes labeled as "The Father of Rock and Roll", he accepted this title with some bemusement.[3] Throughout this time Crudup worked as a laborer to augment the non-existent royalties and the small wages he received as a singer. Crudup returned to Mississippi after a dispute with Melrose over royalties, then went into bootlegging, and later moved to Virginia where he had lived and worked as a musician and laborer. In the early 1970s, two local Virginia activists, Celia Santiago and Margaret Carter, assisted him in an attempt to gain royalties he felt he was due, with little success.
From the mid-1960s, Crudup returned to bootlegging and working as an agricultural laborer, chiefly in Virginia, where he lived with his family including three sons and several of his own siblings. While he lived in relative poverty as a field laborer, he occasionally sang and supplied moonshine to a number of drinking establishments, including one called The Dew-Drop Inn, in Northampton County, for some time prior to his death from complications of heart disease and diabetes. On a 1970 trip to the United Kingdom, he recorded "Roebuck Man" with local musicians.[3] His last professional engagements were with Bonnie Raitt.[3]
There was some confusion as to his actual date of death because of his use of several names, including those of his siblings. He died of a heart attack in the Nassawadox hospital in Northampton County, Virginia in March 1974.[4][5]
Crudup was honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail placed at Forest.
Career
Arthur Crudup was born in Forest, Mississippi. For a time he lived and worked throughout the South and Midwest as a migrant worker. He and his family returned to Mississippi in 1926. He sang gospel, then began his career as a blues singer around Clarksdale, Mississippi. As a member of the Harmonizing Four, he visited Chicago in 1939. Crudup stayed in Chicago to work as a solo musician, but barely made a living as a street singer. Record producer Lester Melrose allegedly found him while he was living in a packing crate, introduced him to Tampa Red and signed him to a recording contract with RCA Victor's Bluebird label.
He recorded with RCA in the late 1940s and with Ace Records, Checker Records and Trumpet Records in the early 1950s and toured black clubs in the South, including with Sonny Boy Williamson II and Elmore James.[2] He also recorded under the names Elmer James and Percy Lee Crudup. His songs "Mean Old 'Frisco Blues", "Who's Been Foolin' You" and "That's All Right" were popular in the South.[3]
Crudup stopped recording in the 1950s, because of further battles over royalties.[3] His last Chicago session was in 1951. His 1952-54 recording sessions for Victor were held at radio station WGST in Atlanta.[2] He returned to recording with Fire Records and Delmark Records and touring in 1965. Sometimes labeled as "The Father of Rock and Roll", he accepted this title with some bemusement.[3] Throughout this time Crudup worked as a laborer to augment the non-existent royalties and the small wages he received as a singer. Crudup returned to Mississippi after a dispute with Melrose over royalties, then went into bootlegging, and later moved to Virginia where he had lived and worked as a musician and laborer. In the early 1970s, two local Virginia activists, Celia Santiago and Margaret Carter, assisted him in an attempt to gain royalties he felt he was due, with little success.
From the mid-1960s, Crudup returned to bootlegging and working as an agricultural laborer, chiefly in Virginia, where he lived with his family including three sons and several of his own siblings. While he lived in relative poverty as a field laborer, he occasionally sang and supplied moonshine to a number of drinking establishments, including one called The Dew-Drop Inn, in Northampton County, for some time prior to his death from complications of heart disease and diabetes. On a 1970 trip to the United Kingdom, he recorded "Roebuck Man" with local musicians.[3] His last professional engagements were with Bonnie Raitt.[3]
There was some confusion as to his actual date of death because of his use of several names, including those of his siblings. He died of a heart attack in the Nassawadox hospital in Northampton County, Virginia in March 1974.[4][5]
Crudup was honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail placed at Forest.
Roots of Blues -- Arthur „Big Boy" Crudup „My Mama Don't Allo
Ron Holloway *24.09.1953
Ronald Edward "Ron" Holloway (born August 24, 1953, Washington, D.C., United States) is an American tenor saxophonist.[1] He is listed in the Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz where veteran jazz critic Ira Gitler described Holloway as a "bear-down-hard-bopper who can blow authentic R&B and croon a ballad with warm, blue feeling."[1] Holloway is the recipient of 42 Washington Area Music Awards, or Wammies, two of which he received as musician of the year.[2] Holloway has worked with Susan Tedeschi,[3][4] Dizzy Gillespie,[5][6] Gil Scott-Heron[7] and Root Boy Slim.[8] He is currently a member of The Warren Haynes Band and leader of The Ron Holloway Band.[9][10]
Biography
Early years and influences
Ron Holloway was born to Winston and Marjorie Holloway, avid jazz fans who met while attending Howard University in Washington, D.C. Holloway recalls his father adding to his collection of Prestige and Blue Note jazz albums; something he has kept up until the present day. Holloway's parents, while not musicians, provided a nurturing musical environment for their son.[11] Holloway's father favored the saxophone and trumpet-led albums and particularly enjoyed the great horn soloists.[12]R&B-influenced Willis Gator Jackson was easiest to grasp at first, but soon he identified the sounds of Sonny Rollins,[13] John Coltrane and Miles Davis as his principle influences.[14]
After high school graduation, Holloway routinely practiced 8–12 hours a day along with sitting in with bands of all kinds, in jam sessions, which resulted in broadening his versatility. He became familiar with a wide variety of genres. Holloway would frequently perform with jazz, R&B, funk, rock, jazz fusion, blues, country and folk music groups, within the same week.[15][16] As the Washington D.C. music scene continued to thrive in the 1970s, Holloway joined his first D.C. based bands; popular R&B groups called 'The Sounds of Shea' and 'Mad Dog & the Lowlifers'.[17]
In 1974, Holloway went to see Freddie Hubbard in concert and brought an audio cassette tape he'd made while rehearsing to one of Hubbard's recordings. During the intermission he introduced himself and played the tape for Hubbard. After hearing the tape, Hubbard invited Holloway to come back and play with him that Sunday night. He did so and at the end of the performance Hubbard extended an open invitation to sit in with him whenever Hubbard was in town.[8] The next year, Sonny Rollins conducted a clinic at Howard University. Backed by a rhythm section composed of local musicians, Rollins invited the young horn players onstage. Holloway joined him on Rollins' "Playin' in the Yard". After his solo, Holloway received a standing ovation from the audience. Rollins and Holloway remained in touch afterwards, becoming good friends.[18] The friendship and respect between the two ran both ways. Rollins has been equally generous in his praise of Holloway over the years and has mentioned him in several interviews as one of his favorite young tenor players.[19][20][21] Holloway enjoyed "his sense of organic construction, ambidextrous timing, humorous quotes, swagger, keen sense of drama and unique tonal texture."[22]
In the summer of 1977 a new club opened and the performers included Rollins, Hubbard and Dizzy Gillespie. Holloway approached Gillespie's dressing room and as he had done with Rollins, brought a tape with him- this time of his performance with Rollins. After Gillespie listened to the tape, he asked Holloway if he had brought his horn, to which Holloway confessed he hadn't because he was concerned about appearing presumptuous. Holloway found himself performing with Gillespie all week. Afterwards, he had a standing invitation to sit in with the band.[8][23][24] In 1979 Holloway sat in with Dizzy Gillespie at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London, England. Holloway continued to sit in with Gillespie well into the eighties and on June 6, 1987, performed with a large group of musicians honoring Gillespie at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts.[25]
Root Boy Slim and The Sex Change Band
In 1979 Root Boy, Holloway and the rest of the Sex Change Band participated in a film entitled Mr. Mike's Mondo Video which was written by Michael O'Donoghue of Saturday Night Live fame. Mondo Video was not broadcast as NBC deemed it "sick"[26] while Spin later referred to it as "A TV pilot too dangerous to air."[27] In the early 1980s, Root Boy and Holloway made cameo appearances in a film made by the D.C. area comedy group known as The Langley Punks, for their Travesty Films group. Holloway recorded four albums with Root Boy and at least three 45's: "Too Much Jawbone" with "Xmas at K-Mart" on the flip side, "The Meltdown" backed with "Graveyard of Losers" and "Dare To Be Fat" on I.R.S. Records. Holloway was a member of several Root Boy configurations from 1977-1987.[28]
Holloway's tenure with Root Boy Slim overlapped with two other groups. The first was a local funk band called Osiris. Holloway first met Osiris Marsh in 1979 and found their influences included bands with eclectic tastes ranging from Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind, and Fire, and Sly and the Family Stone. In addition, Osiris was interested in the culture of ancient Egypt and African American roots music. The members of Osiris were Osiris Marsh on lead vocals, Tony Jones and Tyrone "Ty" Brunson on bass guitars, Maceo Bond on keyboards, Brent Mingle on guitar, Jimmy "Sha-Sha" Stapleton on percussion and Holloway on tenor and soprano saxophones. As a band they produced "the most unalloyed, dirty and downright nasty Funk imaginable." [29] Marsh, who wrote or co-wrote the majority of the band's songs with Bond and Brunson, produced an independent studio album on the band's own label, "Tomdog", titled Since Before Our Time in 1978. In 1979, Warner Bros. Records picked it up, remixed and repackaged it. Another album, O-Zone, on Marlin Records, met with similar reviews and faced the same overall inability to overcome the dance floor fever that enticed many funk and soul listeners towards disco, as the 1970s came to an end. Holloway played with Osiris from 1979 to 1981.[30]
Gil Scott-Heron
In November 1981 Holloway visited a landmark D.C. club; Blues Alley, where he had been told jazz drummer Norman Connors would be performing. He brought his horn and upon arriving spotted Connors and introduced himself. With an invitation from Connors, he sat in on the next set, getting a good response from the audience. Afterward, Holloway was approached by singer and spoken word artist, Gil Scott-Heron, who complimented him and extended an offer to join his group, the "Amnesia Express".[31] In February, 1982 Holloway played his first concert with Scott-Heron at the Bottom Line in New York City with fellow saxophonist and Amnesia Express co-founder Carl Cornwell.[32] The press appreciated his contributions as well, commenting on his performance in several reviews.[33][34] It happened that, early in 1982, Holloway was on board when filmmaker Robert Mugge documented Scott-Heron's concert at the Wax Museum nightclub in Washington, D.C. The film is called Black Wax.[35] Holloway found his playing evolving while in the band, commenting, "I got so many things together on my horn while playing with Gil. It was really a valuable period of self discovery." Holloway was a member of Scott-Heron's group from February 1982 until June 1989.[31]
Dizzy Gillespie
Though he was a member of Scott-Heron's group during this period, Holloway continued to appear with Gillespie whenever he would perform in D.C.[36] In June 1989 he was sitting in with Dizzy at Blues Alley.[37] During the intermission, Gillespie sent his manager to find Holloway. Gillespie surprised Holloway with the statement he was in need of a sax player. Holloway accepted and found himself touring the world with Gillespie, performing for audiences that varied from club capacity[38] to popular American television shows which included the Johnny Carson and Arsenio Hall shows.[39][40] During his tenure with Gillespie, Holloway recorded two albums with the trumpeter; The Symphony Sessions on Pro Arte[41][42][43] and Dizzy Gillespie - Live! at Blues Alley,[44] on the Blues Alley imprint. He also played the top Jazz and music festivals,[45][46] clubs,[47][48][49] theaters and concert halls[50] around the world with Gillespie.[8] Holloway was a member of Gillespie's quintet from June 1989 until his death on January 6, 1993.[51][52][53]
Solo recording
In the fall of 1993, Holloway recorded an album and sent the demo to his mentor, Sonny Rollins. Rollins, then forwarded the recording to Fantasy Records and Holloway was signed to Milestone Records, one of Fantasy's subsidiary labels, within a week's time.[54] To date, Holloway has released four albums on Fantasy's Milestone Records label [55] and another on the Jazzmont label.[56][57]
2000 to 2011
Holloway met Derek Trucks in 2002 aboard Trucks' tour bus just outside the entrance to Rams Head Onstage, in Annapolis, Maryland. Trucks surprised him with his vast knowledge of various musical genres. Holloway has since performed with Trucks many times as a guest of The Derek Trucks Band and The Allman Brothers Band, toured with both the Susan Tedeschi Band (of which Holloway was a member) and the band co-led by Trucks and Tedeschi for a couple of summers, "Soul Stew Revival".[58][59]
On September 30, 2004, Little Feat were scheduled to open for the Allman Brothers Band at Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Virginia. Holloway was to accompany Little Feat. Aside from Little Feat, Holloway found himself in the company of the two featured guitarists in The Allman Brothers Band. This was the first time he had heard the band with its current lineup. Warren Haynes invited Holloway to sit in with the band and at the close of the concert, he performed on one of the classic tunes made famous by the band; "Southbound".[60] Haynes invited Holloway to appear with Gov't Mule afterward at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., and they performed two consecutive nights on October 27 and 28, 2004 before a packed house, recording both nights. The next year, in the summer of 2005, guitarist Jack Pearson and Holloway toured with The Allman Brothers Band, filling in for an ailing Warren Haynes.[61][62] It was the beginning of many performances where Holloway appeared with The Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule, playing the Beacon Theatre in New York City, Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Virginia, the Wanee Festival in Live Oak, Florida,[63] Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland,[64] Warner Theatre (Washington, D.C.)[65] and The Warren Haynes Christmas Jam,[66][67][68] which Haynes hosts annually, in Asheville, North Carolina.
In January 2010, Gov't Mule hosted their first "Gov't Mule Island Exodus" in the same resort in Negril, Jamaica that Holloway had visited with Little Feat. Over the course of the four nights, Gov't Mule performed three evening concerts, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals played three shows and Warren Haynes played a solo set. Guesting throughout were DJ Logic (turntables), "Mean" Willie Green (drums) and Holloway (tenor sax).[69]
Susan Tedeschi
In October, 2005 Holloway finally heard blues and soul singer, Susan Tedeschi perform with her own group at Rams Head Live! in Baltimore, Maryland. Tedeschi and Holloway met previously a couple of years before while guesting with her husband, Derek Trucks, at the Wanee Festival and a show at The Birchmere, (in suburban Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C.). After renewing their acquaintance and performing that night, Tedeschi invited Holloway to join her band. For the next few years, the band toured across Europe[70][71] and extensively throughout the United States, playing major festivals,[72] concert halls,[73] theaters[74] and clubs. Tedeschi, along with her band have also appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien [75] and have been seen on countless local news spots as they toured across the United States. Along with the airplay her recordings receive, Tedeschi has performed live many times on radio stations across the country, including NPR.[76] Holloway was a member of Tedeschi's band for four years.[4]
Devon Allman and Honeytribe
Having been introduced to Gregg Allman while playing with The Allman Brothers Band, Holloway encountered his son, Devon Allman at the Iota Club & Cafe in Arlington, Virginia on March 31, 2009 when Devon's band Honeytribe performed there. Allman contacted Holloway when his band, Honeytribe were preparing to record their second album and had need of a saxophone player. Holloway traveled to Memphis, Tennessee and spent two days recording with the band at Ardent Studios[77] for Honeytribe's sophomore release; Space Age Blues. The CD was released in October 2010 to positive reviews.[78][79][80]
Warren Haynes
In February 2009, Warren Haynes began work on a solo project at Pedernales Studio, in Austin, Texas with Gordie Johnson as co-producer and engineer. The recording featured George Porter Jr. on electric bass, Ivan Neville on keyboards, Raymond Weber on drums, Ian McLagan on additional keyboards, Ruthie Foster on vocals and Holloway on tenor saxophone.[10][81] The resulting album, Man in Motion, was released on May 10, 2011 on the Stax/Concord Music Group label.[82]
The debut of The Warren Haynes Band took place during the 22nd Annual Warren Haynes Christmas Jam, which was held at the Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, North Carolina on Saturday, December 11, 2010.[83][84] The group line-up was; Warren Haynes (lead vocals/guitar), Ivan Neville (keys/vocals), Ron Johnson (electric bass), Terence Higgins (drums), Ruthie Foster (vocals) and Holloway (tenor saxophone).[84][85] After the release of Man In Motion, Holloway joined Haynes, Higgins, Johnson, and keyboardist Nigel Hall for an extensive tour.
Oteil Burbridge *24.08.1964
http://oteilburbridge.com/
Oteil Burbridge (born August 24, 1964) is an American Grammy Award-winning multi-instrumentalist, specializing on the bass guitar, trained in playing jazz and classical music from an early age. He has achieved fame primarily on bass guitar during the current resurgence of the Allman Brothers Band from 1997 through the present day. He was also a founding member of the band the Aquarium Rescue Unit, and has worked with other musicians who include Bruce Hampton, Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Bill Kreutzmann and The Derek Trucks Band, with whom his brother Kofi Burbridge is the keyboardist and flautist.
Burbridge is most notably recognized for his ability to incorporate scat-singing into his improvised bass solos. His bass style is influenced by Jaco Pastorius, especially his use of bass chords which are used in his bass improvisation.[citation needed] Oteil endorses Fodera, Modulus, Sukop and Dunlop.
Musical career
Early endeavors
Burbridge was born and raised in Washington, D.C., to an African American family with some Egyptian heritage. His name, Oteil, means "explorer" or "wanderer".[1] When he and elder sibling Kofi showed talent for music, their mother encouraged them with classical and jazz courses hoping to nurture their musical inclinations and keep them out of trouble. Kofi remembers Oteil's first drum set; a Quaker Oatmeal box, when he was only three or four years old. Both brothers were introduced to a wide variety of instruments, and became multi-instrumentalists, with both being taught to play the piano. While Oteil gained proficiency on the bass clarinet, violin, and trumpet. However, Oteil's chosen main instruments became the bass guitar and the drums, while Kofi developed a love for the flute, and keyboard instruments.[2] Oteil Burbridge developed an interest in the theater and was the co-host of a local children's television show called "Stuff". Oteil was enrolled in the Sidwell Friends School, a well-known elite private school (Presidents Clinton and Obama chose Sidwell for their children) offering a higher quality of education than Washington D.C.'s troubled public school system and exposing Burbridge to the tastes and styles of a diverse student body. He graduated from Sidwell Friends in 1982.[1]
Oteil performed regularly in a variety of D.C. bands as a teenager, gathering experience playing R&B, rock, Brazilian music, and jazz, among other styles. He moved to Virginia Beach and worked mostly in cover bands there, and subsequently drifted through the Atlanta musical scene, which introduced him not only to other musicians there but also other genres of music.
The Aquarium Rescue Unit
As one of the original members of Bruce Hampton's avant-garde band, the Aquarium Rescue Unit, Burbridge was introduced to members of the jam band scene in the southeast of the United States. This included members of Phish, Phil Lesh and Friends, and Blues Traveler, who freely sat in with one another in each other's bands. When Hampton left the Aquarium Rescue Unit, it slowly disbanded, however Burbridge had developed a reputation on the four- and six-string bass guitar, enjoying the less commercial nature of Atlanta-area musicians. During the initial years, the band was composed of Bruce Hampton, Oteil Burbridge, Jimmy Herring, Jeff Sipe, Matt Mundy, and Count M'Butu. Although the band was never commercially successful, their combination of bluegrass, rock, Latin, blues, jazz, funk, and impeccable chops became a template for future bands.
Current Musical Collaborations
The Allman Brothers Band
Burbridge has been a full-time member of the Allman Brothers Band since 1997, touring and recording with the band for 15 years. In February 2012, he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for his years with the band. Burbridge has played on the albums Peakin' at the Beacon (2000), Hittin' the Note (2003), One Way Out (2004) as well as the DVD Live at the Beacon Theatre (2003, certified Platinum 2004).
Previous musical collaborations
The Tedeschi Trucks Band
In 2010, Oteil joined his brother Kofi, and his Allman Brothers bandmate Derek Trucks, as the bassist in the new group, Tedeschi Trucks Band; an eleven piece ensemble which merged some former members of The Derek Trucks Band and Susan Tedeschi's former backing band. Tedeschi Trucks Band performed at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 and one of Oteil's compositions "Love Has Something Else to Say" appears on the DVD release. The Tedeschi Trucks Band released their debut album, Revelator in 2011, which won the Grammy for Best Blues Album at the 54th Grammy Awards. In 2012, the band released their sophomore album, Everybody's Talkin', a double live album compiled from their 2011 world tour.
On October 5, 2012, Oteil posted a statement on the band's website that he "will not be able to continue to tour with TTB", so he can start a family. He did "hope that we have music left to make together in the future."[3]
The BK3
Oteil Burbridge joined the Bill Kreutzmann Trio alongside Bill Kreutzmann of the Grateful Dead and Scott Murawski of Max Creek, as the BK3. They toured throughout 2008 and early 2009 before Oteil left due to touring commitments with the Allman Brothers Band. The group played several Grateful Dead classics, Max Creek originals and covers as well as many new songs written by Robert Hunter.[4]
Oteil and the Peacemakers
In 2000, Burbridge formed a solo band called Oteil and the Peacemakers based out of Birmingham, Alabama and featuring musicians Matt Slocum on keyboards, Mark Kimbrell on guitar, Chris Fryar on drums, and vocalist Paul Henson, a carry over from the post-Colonel Aquarium Rescue Unit releases. They released their first album, Love of a Lifetime, that same year. That was followed up in 2003 by the CD/DVD set entitled Family Secret. In 2005, Burbridge took his music in a greater spiritual direction for their third album titled Believer.
Vida Blue
Burbridge also was approached by Page McConnell of Phish, who invited him and Russell Batiste, Jr. (then of the Funky Meters) to participate in another venture as an electronic trio, with vocals. Their name wasn't chosen until Major League Baseball pitcher Vida Blue hopped up on stage with them, and their name was chosen as Vida Blue, after the athletic star. The trio joined together in 2001 and continued performing until 2004, putting out a DVD and two albums, joining forces with a Latin-rock sextet sampling a variety of genres of music, including the jazz and electronic music flavored alternative rock music from Vida Blue.
Other Projects
The Adventures of the Green Thumb and Purple Haze
The Green Thumb is a serial comic book that Burbridge created with artist LeVar Carter following the adventures of twin cannabis superheroes. The comic explores themes involving the power of nature and spirituality, the role corporations and governments play in stifling scientific and cultural advancements for the purpose of preserving profits and power, and also what it means to be deemed illegal just by one's lot in life (as it pertains to one's biology, nationality, gender, sexuality). The series is currently in production.
Film
Burbridge also had a bit part, as a teenager, as a street thug named Lolo in the 1979 Peter Sellers movie Being There. The movie is a black comedy about politics and many of the woes of celebrity and fame.[1] Although Burbridge plays a part in a short scene, it is arguably one of the film's most famous moments.
Personal information
Oteil Burbridge married conservation photojournalist Jessica Shouse on April 10, 2010 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They reside in Atlanta, Georgia.
Burbridge is most notably recognized for his ability to incorporate scat-singing into his improvised bass solos. His bass style is influenced by Jaco Pastorius, especially his use of bass chords which are used in his bass improvisation.[citation needed] Oteil endorses Fodera, Modulus, Sukop and Dunlop.
Musical career
Early endeavors
Burbridge was born and raised in Washington, D.C., to an African American family with some Egyptian heritage. His name, Oteil, means "explorer" or "wanderer".[1] When he and elder sibling Kofi showed talent for music, their mother encouraged them with classical and jazz courses hoping to nurture their musical inclinations and keep them out of trouble. Kofi remembers Oteil's first drum set; a Quaker Oatmeal box, when he was only three or four years old. Both brothers were introduced to a wide variety of instruments, and became multi-instrumentalists, with both being taught to play the piano. While Oteil gained proficiency on the bass clarinet, violin, and trumpet. However, Oteil's chosen main instruments became the bass guitar and the drums, while Kofi developed a love for the flute, and keyboard instruments.[2] Oteil Burbridge developed an interest in the theater and was the co-host of a local children's television show called "Stuff". Oteil was enrolled in the Sidwell Friends School, a well-known elite private school (Presidents Clinton and Obama chose Sidwell for their children) offering a higher quality of education than Washington D.C.'s troubled public school system and exposing Burbridge to the tastes and styles of a diverse student body. He graduated from Sidwell Friends in 1982.[1]
Oteil performed regularly in a variety of D.C. bands as a teenager, gathering experience playing R&B, rock, Brazilian music, and jazz, among other styles. He moved to Virginia Beach and worked mostly in cover bands there, and subsequently drifted through the Atlanta musical scene, which introduced him not only to other musicians there but also other genres of music.
The Aquarium Rescue Unit
As one of the original members of Bruce Hampton's avant-garde band, the Aquarium Rescue Unit, Burbridge was introduced to members of the jam band scene in the southeast of the United States. This included members of Phish, Phil Lesh and Friends, and Blues Traveler, who freely sat in with one another in each other's bands. When Hampton left the Aquarium Rescue Unit, it slowly disbanded, however Burbridge had developed a reputation on the four- and six-string bass guitar, enjoying the less commercial nature of Atlanta-area musicians. During the initial years, the band was composed of Bruce Hampton, Oteil Burbridge, Jimmy Herring, Jeff Sipe, Matt Mundy, and Count M'Butu. Although the band was never commercially successful, their combination of bluegrass, rock, Latin, blues, jazz, funk, and impeccable chops became a template for future bands.
Current Musical Collaborations
The Allman Brothers Band
Burbridge has been a full-time member of the Allman Brothers Band since 1997, touring and recording with the band for 15 years. In February 2012, he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for his years with the band. Burbridge has played on the albums Peakin' at the Beacon (2000), Hittin' the Note (2003), One Way Out (2004) as well as the DVD Live at the Beacon Theatre (2003, certified Platinum 2004).
Previous musical collaborations
The Tedeschi Trucks Band
In 2010, Oteil joined his brother Kofi, and his Allman Brothers bandmate Derek Trucks, as the bassist in the new group, Tedeschi Trucks Band; an eleven piece ensemble which merged some former members of The Derek Trucks Band and Susan Tedeschi's former backing band. Tedeschi Trucks Band performed at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 and one of Oteil's compositions "Love Has Something Else to Say" appears on the DVD release. The Tedeschi Trucks Band released their debut album, Revelator in 2011, which won the Grammy for Best Blues Album at the 54th Grammy Awards. In 2012, the band released their sophomore album, Everybody's Talkin', a double live album compiled from their 2011 world tour.
On October 5, 2012, Oteil posted a statement on the band's website that he "will not be able to continue to tour with TTB", so he can start a family. He did "hope that we have music left to make together in the future."[3]
The BK3
Oteil Burbridge joined the Bill Kreutzmann Trio alongside Bill Kreutzmann of the Grateful Dead and Scott Murawski of Max Creek, as the BK3. They toured throughout 2008 and early 2009 before Oteil left due to touring commitments with the Allman Brothers Band. The group played several Grateful Dead classics, Max Creek originals and covers as well as many new songs written by Robert Hunter.[4]
Oteil and the Peacemakers
In 2000, Burbridge formed a solo band called Oteil and the Peacemakers based out of Birmingham, Alabama and featuring musicians Matt Slocum on keyboards, Mark Kimbrell on guitar, Chris Fryar on drums, and vocalist Paul Henson, a carry over from the post-Colonel Aquarium Rescue Unit releases. They released their first album, Love of a Lifetime, that same year. That was followed up in 2003 by the CD/DVD set entitled Family Secret. In 2005, Burbridge took his music in a greater spiritual direction for their third album titled Believer.
Vida Blue
Burbridge also was approached by Page McConnell of Phish, who invited him and Russell Batiste, Jr. (then of the Funky Meters) to participate in another venture as an electronic trio, with vocals. Their name wasn't chosen until Major League Baseball pitcher Vida Blue hopped up on stage with them, and their name was chosen as Vida Blue, after the athletic star. The trio joined together in 2001 and continued performing until 2004, putting out a DVD and two albums, joining forces with a Latin-rock sextet sampling a variety of genres of music, including the jazz and electronic music flavored alternative rock music from Vida Blue.
Other Projects
The Adventures of the Green Thumb and Purple Haze
The Green Thumb is a serial comic book that Burbridge created with artist LeVar Carter following the adventures of twin cannabis superheroes. The comic explores themes involving the power of nature and spirituality, the role corporations and governments play in stifling scientific and cultural advancements for the purpose of preserving profits and power, and also what it means to be deemed illegal just by one's lot in life (as it pertains to one's biology, nationality, gender, sexuality). The series is currently in production.
Film
Burbridge also had a bit part, as a teenager, as a street thug named Lolo in the 1979 Peter Sellers movie Being There. The movie is a black comedy about politics and many of the woes of celebrity and fame.[1] Although Burbridge plays a part in a short scene, it is arguably one of the film's most famous moments.
Personal information
Oteil Burbridge married conservation photojournalist Jessica Shouse on April 10, 2010 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They reside in Atlanta, Georgia.
Greg Allman with Warren Haynes, Oteil Burbridge, One Way Out, Xmas Jam, 12/14/13
Anja Baldauf *24.08.1973
Accordion
One-Row
Piano
Melodion
Vocal
http://www.zydecoannie.de/band.htm
Anja Maria Barbara Baldauf (* 1973) ist eine deutsche Musikerin und Dozentin für Akkordeon und Klavier.
Biografie
Baldauf beginnt ihre musikalische Ausbildung im Alter von 4 Jahren, unterstützt und beeinflusst von ihrer Mutter Marianne Baldauf und ihrem Großvater Leo Lepschy. 1986 erhält sie von Deutschen Musikrat eine Begabtenförderung und gewinnt beim Landeswettbewerb „Jugend musiziert“ den ersten Preis. Bis zum Beginn ihres Studiums am Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium 1990 gewinnt sie weitere Auszeichnungen, u.a. beim Deutschen Musikpreis und beim Bundeswettbewerb "Jugend Musiziert". Mit ihrer Konzertmeistertätigkeit im Landesjugendorchester Baden-Württemberg beginnen 1993 Konzertreisen u.a. nach Brasilien, China, Fidschi Islands, Namibia, Neuseeland, Russland und Südafrika. Das Studium beendet sie 1997 mit der Staatlichen Musikreifeprüfung, 1998 erfolgt die Ernennung zur Bezirksdirigentin des DHV-Bezirks Augsburg-Schwaben, im Jahr 2000 erhält sie vom Deutschen Musikrat ein Dirigierstipendium bei Lutz Herbig. Mit ihrem Orchester gewinnt sie die bayerischen Orchestermeisterschaffen 1997, 1999 und 2001 sowie 2005 beim Akkordeonfestival in Castelfidardo, Italien.
Ihre eigene Band, die sich der Zydeco- und Cajun-Musik aus dem US-Bundesstaat Louisiana widmet, formiert sich 2005 zuerst unter dem Namen Zydeco Groove, wird wenig später aber in ZYDECO ANNIE & SWAMP CATS umbenannt. Mehrere Tonträger sowie TV-Ausstrahlungen machen die Gruppe zunehmend bekannt, weitere internationale Engagements folgen u.a. in Dänemark, Schweden, Luxemburg, Niederlande, Schweiz und Litauen. Um nicht nur auf eine Musikrichtung reduziert zu werden und der Liebe zum Tango wegen, beginnt sie 2013 die Zusammenarbeit mit dem ORCHESTRA MONDO, einer Formation um den Saxophonisten Thomas Bouterwek, mit Stücken der 1930er und 40er Jahre aus Italien, Frankreich und den USA.
1994 steigt sie in die Schule für Akkordeon, Klavier und Melodica Marianne Baldauf mit ein, Anja Baldauf ist seit 1997 Jurorin bei Jugend Musiziert und seit 2015 Dozentin für Akkordeon an der Berufsfachschule für Musik in Krumbach.
Zydeco
Annie + Swamp Cats - "I'M COMING HOME" - Freising
Asaminnenhof
Zydeco
Annie + Swamp Cats - "MEDLEY HOT & SPICY" - Mannheim
Hauptbahnhof
R.I.P.
Washboard Willie +24.08.1991
Washboard Willie (July 24, 1909 – August 24, 1991)[1] was an American Detroit blues musician, who specialised in playing the washboard. He recorded tracks including "A Fool On a Mule in the Middle of The Road" plus "Cherry Red Blues", and worked variously with Eddie "Guitar" Burns, Baby Boy Warren, and Boogie Woogie Red.
Born William Paden Hensley in Columbus, Georgia,[1] Washboard Willie, as he became known, did not take up music until his thirties. By 1948 he had relocated to Detroit,[2] and in 1952, he watched Eddie "Guitar" Burns performing and played along with Burns' backing group. He impressed the proprietor and ended up with a three year residency with the band.[3]
Working full-time washing cars for a living, he decided to name his own musical ensemble, Washboard Willie and the Super Suds of Rhythm, working off of the name of a once-popular laundry detergent! [3][4] He graduated from just playing the washboard to incorporate a bass drum and snare and, in 1955, gave Little Sonny his first booking.[3] In 1956, Hensley made his own debut recording of "Cherry Red Blues," with "Washboard Shuffle;" and then "Washboard Blues Pt. 1 & 2."[5] His recording career continued until 1962 utilising Boogie Woogie Red on piano accompaniment. The recordings were not issued until 1969 on Barrelhouse Records. However, in 1966, Willie did release a single with the tracks "Natural Born Lover," and "Wee Baby Blues." His band remained in demand playing nightly in both Detroit and Ann Arbor.[3]
In 1973, he toured Europe with Lightnin' Slim, Whispering Smith, Snooky Pryor, Homesick James and Boogie Woogie Red; he also played at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival that year on the Saturday afternoon "Detroit Blues" show. A compilation album, American Blues Legends '73 was issued on Big Bear Records with Willie contributing the tracks, "I Feel So Fine" and "Kansas City."[3][5] Six years later he stopped playing professionally.[3]
He died in Detroit in August 1991, at the age of 82.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washboard_Willie
Brother Will Hairston & Washboard Willie - Alabama Bus (Knowles 213)
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