1919 Hal Singer*
1952 Steve Devine*
1955 Lonnie Pitchford*
1957 Sebastian Baur*
2009 Abu Talib+
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Harold Joseph "Hal" Singer (born October 8, 1919), also known as Hal "Cornbread" Singer, is an American R&B and jazz bandleader and saxophonist.
Biography
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma's African-American district, Greenwood. After surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, Singer grew up in Greenwood where he studied violin as a child but, as a teenager, switched to clarinet and then tenor saxophone, which became his instrument of choice. From the late 1930s he began playing in local bands, including Ernie Fields', before joining Jay McShann's orchestra in 1943 and then moving to New York. After working in other bands, he joined Oran "Hot Lips" Page's band in 1947 and began working as a session musician with King Records.
In early 1948 he left Page, formed his own small group, and was signed to Mercury Records where he cut his first single "Fine As Wine" with a B side "Rock Around the Clock" (not the same title made famous by Bill Haley), co-written with Sam Theard.[1] For the Savoy label of Newark, New Jersey he recorded the instrumental "Corn Bread," which made #1 on the R & B charts in September 1948, and gave Singer a new popularity and nickname. His follow-up the following year, "Beef Stew," was a much smaller hit.
In the early and mid-1950s he recorded with Mercury, toured with R&B artists such as The Orioles and Charles Brown, and increasingly worked as a session musician. In 1958 he began recording with Prestige Records as a jazz soloist and performing at the Metropole Cafe in New York with leading jazz musicians such as Roy Eldridge and Coleman Hawkins.
In 1965, after touring Europe with Earl "Fatha" Hines' band, Singer stayed in France to settle near Paris. He continued to record and also toured extensively around Europe and Africa, performing with various bands including Charlie Watts' and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. His 1969 album, Paris Soul Food, featuring Singer on saxophone and singing; Robin Hemingway, vocals, arrangements and album production; and Manu Dibango, saxophone, organ and arrangements won a French Record Academy award for best international LP in 1969.
In 1974 he went on a State Department tour of Africa with Horace Parlan.[2]
Singer appears on the 1981 live recording Rocket 88 with the UK-based boogie-woogie band Rocket 88. Also in the summer of 1981 Singer visited London, where he recorded two albums for John Stedman's record label, JSP. The first album, Swing on it (JSP 1028), was recorded with British musicians, including Jim Mullen, Peter King, Mike Carr and Harold Smith, while the second, recorded a day later with the same group, also featured Jimmy Witherspoon ("Big Blues", JSP 1032).
Singer shares artist billing on a recording made in 1989, along with Al Copley, "Royal Blue", released on the Black Top label in 1990.
He appeared as an actor in the award-winning 1990 feature film Taxi Blues and, in 1992, was awarded the prestigious title of "Chevalier des Arts" by the French government.
A documentary film, Hal Singer, Keep the Music Going, was made by Haitian-American director Guetty Felin in 1999. It was made in collaboration with the CNC in France (Centre Nationale de la Cinematographie) and the French cable music network Muzzik. The documentary wove into the narrative Singer's personal super 8 movies, archival images of the jazz era, and footage of Singer's home in Paris, in concert and teaching jazz to the younger generation of musicians in France. Spoken word poet Jessica Care Moore is featured in a duet with Singer. This documentary is the only film on Singer's career to date.
Biography
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma's African-American district, Greenwood. After surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, Singer grew up in Greenwood where he studied violin as a child but, as a teenager, switched to clarinet and then tenor saxophone, which became his instrument of choice. From the late 1930s he began playing in local bands, including Ernie Fields', before joining Jay McShann's orchestra in 1943 and then moving to New York. After working in other bands, he joined Oran "Hot Lips" Page's band in 1947 and began working as a session musician with King Records.
In early 1948 he left Page, formed his own small group, and was signed to Mercury Records where he cut his first single "Fine As Wine" with a B side "Rock Around the Clock" (not the same title made famous by Bill Haley), co-written with Sam Theard.[1] For the Savoy label of Newark, New Jersey he recorded the instrumental "Corn Bread," which made #1 on the R & B charts in September 1948, and gave Singer a new popularity and nickname. His follow-up the following year, "Beef Stew," was a much smaller hit.
In the early and mid-1950s he recorded with Mercury, toured with R&B artists such as The Orioles and Charles Brown, and increasingly worked as a session musician. In 1958 he began recording with Prestige Records as a jazz soloist and performing at the Metropole Cafe in New York with leading jazz musicians such as Roy Eldridge and Coleman Hawkins.
In 1965, after touring Europe with Earl "Fatha" Hines' band, Singer stayed in France to settle near Paris. He continued to record and also toured extensively around Europe and Africa, performing with various bands including Charlie Watts' and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. His 1969 album, Paris Soul Food, featuring Singer on saxophone and singing; Robin Hemingway, vocals, arrangements and album production; and Manu Dibango, saxophone, organ and arrangements won a French Record Academy award for best international LP in 1969.
In 1974 he went on a State Department tour of Africa with Horace Parlan.[2]
Singer appears on the 1981 live recording Rocket 88 with the UK-based boogie-woogie band Rocket 88. Also in the summer of 1981 Singer visited London, where he recorded two albums for John Stedman's record label, JSP. The first album, Swing on it (JSP 1028), was recorded with British musicians, including Jim Mullen, Peter King, Mike Carr and Harold Smith, while the second, recorded a day later with the same group, also featured Jimmy Witherspoon ("Big Blues", JSP 1032).
Singer shares artist billing on a recording made in 1989, along with Al Copley, "Royal Blue", released on the Black Top label in 1990.
He appeared as an actor in the award-winning 1990 feature film Taxi Blues and, in 1992, was awarded the prestigious title of "Chevalier des Arts" by the French government.
A documentary film, Hal Singer, Keep the Music Going, was made by Haitian-American director Guetty Felin in 1999. It was made in collaboration with the CNC in France (Centre Nationale de la Cinematographie) and the French cable music network Muzzik. The documentary wove into the narrative Singer's personal super 8 movies, archival images of the jazz era, and footage of Singer's home in Paris, in concert and teaching jazz to the younger generation of musicians in France. Spoken word poet Jessica Care Moore is featured in a duet with Singer. This documentary is the only film on Singer's career to date.
hal singer - hot rod
Im Bett mit UR-MONOKEL / Die Probe zum Event
Erstmals nach über 30 Jahren treffen sich Frank "Gala" Gahler, Jörg
"Speiche" Schütze, Wilfried "Wille" Borchert, Sebastian "BuzzDee" Baur,
Bernd "Zuppe" Buchholz und Olaf "Olli" Becker zu einer gemeinsamen
Probe, um die Special-Konzerte der UR-MONOKEL Band in Eisenach und
Weimar vorzubereiten. Hier einige Auszüge. Es gab nur diese 1 Probe.
Beide Konzerte waren künstlerisch hochwertig und sind beim Publikum
großartig angekommen. Danke an alle, die daran ihren Anteil hatten!
Lonnie Pitchford *08.10.1955
Lonnie Pitchford (October 8, 1955 – November 8, 1998) was an American blues musician and instrument maker from Lexington, Mississippi. He was notable in that he was one of only a handful of young African American musicians from Mississippi who had learned and was continuing the Delta blues and country blues traditions of the older generations.
In addition to the acoustic and electric guitar, Pitchford was also skilled at the one-string guitar and diddley bow, a one-string instrument of African origin, as well as the double bass, piano and harmonica.[1] He was a protégé of Robert Lockwood, Jr., from whom he learned the style of Robert Johnson.[1] His own debut album, All Round Man was released on Rooster Blues Records in 1994.[1]
In November 1998, Pitchford died at his home in Lexington, from AIDS. A diddley bow is featured on his headstone which was paid for by John Fogerty and Rooster Blues Records through the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund. His grave is located near the grave of Elmore James, in the New Port Baptist Church cemetery in Holmes County, Mississippi.
Lonnie Pitchford - National Down Home Blues Festival - Atlanta, Georgia (1984)
Steve Devine *08.10.1952
General Background
Steve Devine has been playing Blues guitar and related styles for over 40 years. His professional credits include work with Cub Koda ("Smoking in the Boy's Room" fame), Same and Dave, Otis Rush, K.D. Bell, J.B. Hutto, The Chamber's Brothers, Billy Colwell, John Lee Hooker, White Trash, and many others. He's played on numerous albums such as, "First Take" with The Chase Street R&B Band, Little Jimmy and the Homewreckers, and The Short Fuse Blues Band. (Also shared writing and production credits with these records.) He is currently performing with The Tom Ballerini Blues Band and does acoustic work with long time musical partner Dave Thompson.
Lesson and Repair Info
Steve has also been a professional guitar instructor for over 25 years and offers lessons at reasonable pricing.
Repair services are also available for all makes and models of guitars and basses. Custom set-ups also available for Gibson and Fender custom shop factory specs. He has been working independently in the guitar repair feild for over 25 years.
Joe Pappas Band Live @ The 4th Annual Library Park Blues Festival 9/17/16
Joe Pappas Band Live @ The 4th Annual Library Park Blues Festival 9/17/16
Joe Pappas- Guitar/Vocals
Steve Devine- Guitar/vocals
Andy- Bass
Jim Mastromarino- Drums
Joe Pappas- Guitar/Vocals
Steve Devine- Guitar/vocals
Andy- Bass
Jim Mastromarino- Drums
R.I.P.
Abu Talib +08.10.2009
Bekannt geworden ist er vor allem durch seine Zusammenarbeit mit so unterschiedlichen Musikern wie Little Walter, Howlin Wolf und Jimmy Rogers (in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren), den Jazz Crusaders, Monk Higgins, Blue Mitchell, Stanley Turrentine und John Mayall (in den 1970ern) und Bobby Bland (1980er). Neben seiner Arbeit im Studio und auf Tourneen mit Anderen hat er eine Reihe von eigenen Musikaufnahmen eingespielt und sich über die Jahrzehnte hinweg als ein sehr vielseitiger Musiker, sowohl in der Welt des Blues, als auch in der des Jazz behauptet.
Abu Talib (born as Fred Leroy Robinson and previously known as Freddie or Freddy Robinson; February 24, 1939 – October 8, 2009) was an African American blues and jazz guitarist, singer, and harmonica player.
Career
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he was raised in the state of Arkansas and moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1956. Inspired as a guitarist by Joe Willie Wilkins, he first recorded that year, backing harmonica player Birmingham Jones. In 1958, he began touring with Little Walter, and after seeing a jazz band perform was inspired to learn music formally at the Chicago School of Music. He also began working with Howlin' Wolf, recording with him such notable blues classics as "Spoonful", "Back Door Man" and "Wang Dang Doodle". In the mid-1960s, he played with R&B singers Jerry Butler and Syl Johnson, before joining Ray Charles' band in Los Angeles.[1] While there, he recorded the instrumental "Black Fox", which became a minor pop hit reaching #56 on the Billboard Hot 100 and # 29 on the R&B chart.[2]
In the early 1970s, he worked with English blues bandleader John Mayall, playing on the album Jazz Blues Fusion, and recorded LPs with trumpeter Blue Mitchell. He also recorded two albums in his own name - At The Drive In and Off The Cuff, on which he was supported by Joe Sample and Wilton Felder of the Crusaders - for Enterprise, a subsidiary of Stax Records.[1] He also worked with Earl Gaines and Jimmy Rogers in the 1950s and 1960s, Monk Higgins and Stanley Turrentine in the 1970s, and Bobby Bland in the 1980s. In addition to his studio and touring collaborations, Talib also recorded solo, re-emerging in 1994 with an album of his own compositions, The Real Thing at Last.[1]
Personal life
Talib converted to Islam in 1975 and changed his name to Abu Talib. After his first wife died, Talib remarried and fathered seven children in his two marriages.[3]
On October 8, 2009, Talib died of cancer in Lancaster, California.[4] He was 70.
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