1935 Johnnie Bassett*
1939 O. V. Wright*
1943 Ronnie Barron*
1943 Peter Palus „Pete“ Cosey*
1957 Mike Stevens*
1965 Pat Hunter*
1969 Charlie Furthner*
1973 Rosetta Tharpe+
2005 Paul "Wine" Jones+
2006 Klaus Renft+
2014 'Sista Monica' Parker+
Ignaz Netzer*
Jim Boyd*
Jim Boyd *09.10.
Jim Boyd was born in 1942, and as he says, “was afflicted with a chronic urge to boogie by age 2.” Jim became a husband, father, grandfather, was an educator for more than 40 years, and co-owned a guitar sales and repair shop. He played off and on in bands throughout his life, but there was never a time that he did not write songs. He says;
“I never thought of music as a vocation really, not as a way to put groceries on the table, but as something I loved and honestly, had to do because it was always happening in my head.”
Jim “Poppy” Boyd can’t remember a time when he didn’t “make up songs”, and he has written notebooks full. He was strongly influenced by many styles of music. Early influences include Bill Monroe (Bluegrass), Hank Williams (Country Blues), Ray Price (Classic Country), The Staple Singers (Gospel), The Clovers (R&B), Big Mama Thornton, and Muddy Waters (Blues) to name only a few.
As a teenager, Poppy discovered Auburn Avenue, the music mecca in Atlanta. There he came into contact with some of the Blues and R&B greats of that era; Bobby “Blue” Bland ( who helped him place a song with Duke Records in 1962), a quite young Gladys Knight, B. B. King (who invited him to breakfast), Sam Cooke, and John Lee Hooker (who played a high school event).
Another music milestone for Boyd came with his involvement with the Songwriter’s Soul Kitchen, a collective of writers, producers, players, and performers who join efforts to hone their craft and provide mutual support. There he found a music family, learned to create collaboratively, and made friends that are involved now in his current projects.
Although singer songwriter Jim “Poppy” Boyd has written songs for most of his 72 years, he only got serious about recording his music more recently. His first album, completed while he sang and wrote for The DaddyO’s Band, was released in 2007. Three more; “So Far, So Good”, “Outta Whack or Crazy”, and “A Cup Half Full Of Twang”; Have been completed in the last 3 years.
Also, in 2012, a collaborative collection of lullabies called “Poppy Sangs”, featuring Jim as writer of 3 of the songs and primary vocalist for all, was nominated for a Grammy for Best Children’s Album. Currently, in response to a request by his children, he is continuing to record and produce new music and recaptured songs…his “musical memoir” as he puts it, preserving the music they heard growing up.
At present, Jim is working with Mark Lyle, Bryan Carter, and a growing list of friends and family at Southside Tracks Recording Studio in West Georgia. Together they are producing an anthology of Jim’s collaboratively written and solo songs.
In answering what the future holds, Poppy grins and says;
“I don’t really see an end to this…not ‘til I fall out anyway! We have several projects in the works. There’s a new album (Poster Child For Old People) we are getting close on, another children’s record (Octopus Socks and Mermaid Slippers) that’s for my grandbabies, and a sequel to my almost country CD, (My Twang Runneth Over). I keep finding old ones and the new ones keep rolling in. I’m having more fun than the law allows..”
Poppy is currently working with a new performing group (The Generation Bridge Band), singing in that band with his daughter Amelia, planning a CD release for late Spring, and “keeping on keeping on.” He welcomes direct communication by phone at 770-832-0688 or e-mail at doc_daddyo@bellsouth.net
I Couldn't Be Cool
The long awaited video of Jim "Poppy" Boyd and The Mixed Bag Band
clowning in the studio to the groove of "I Couldn't Be Cool If It Killed
Me", our 1st landing in the world of senior citizen rap with an R&B
twist! MBB Backbone Crew featuring; Johnny "Bronx" Lebowitz, Mark
"Country Gent" Lyle, Bryan "The Boy From Calabama" Carter, and me,
myself and I.
Peter Palus „Pete“ Cosey *09.10.1943
Peter Palus „Pete“ Cosey (* 9. Oktober 1943 in Chicago, Illinois; † 30. Mai 2012 ebenda)[1] war ein amerikanischer R & B- und Fusiongitarrist, der insbesondere als Mitglied der Band von Miles Davis zwischen 1973 und 1975 bekannt wurde und stilistisch prägend war.
Leben und Wirken
Cosey, dessen Eltern Musiker waren, lernte zunächst das Geigenspiel. Nach dem Tod seines Vaters zog er mit seiner Mutter nach Phoenix (Arizona), wo er als Jugendlicher Gitarre lernte.[2] Seit 1965 arbeitete er zunächst als Studiomusiker für Chess Records und begleitete dort Fontella Bass, Etta James, die Rotary Connection, Muddy Waters (Electric Mud, After the Rain) und Howlin’ Wolf (The Howlin' Wolf Album), der sein verzerrtes Spiel ablehnte.[3] Auch gehörte er zu Phil Cohrans Artistic Heritage Ensemble[4] und den am Afro Jazz interessierten The Pharoahs; seit den 1960er Jahren war er daher Mitglied der Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).[5] Auch spielte er in einer Band um Maurice White, aus der später Earth, Wind & Fire entstand.
MIt Miles Davis tourte er ab 1973 weltweit und war an dessen Alben Get Up with It, Dark Magus, Agharta und Pangaea (sowie an einigen Tracks von The Complete On the Corner Sessions) beteiligt. Davis schrieb in seiner Autobiografie über die Zusammenarbeit mit Cosey, dieser sei genau der Richtige gewesen für den Sound von Jimi Hendrix und Muddy Waters, den er damals gesucht habe. Coseys Soundvorstellung und Instrumentaltechniken beeinflussten Gitarristen wie Henry Kaiser, Vernon Reid, Elliott Sharp und Robert Quine.[3]
Nach 1975 hat die Jazzwelt von Cosey zunächst „so gut wie nichts mehr gehört, allenfalls noch eine kleine Gastrolle bei Herbie Hancocks Future Shock.“[6] Erst auf Akira Sakatas Album Fisherman's.com (2000, mit Sakata, Bill Laswell und Hamid Drake) wurde er wieder präsent. Dabei hatte er 1987 im Trio Power Tools (mit Bassist Melvin Gibbs und Drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson) Bill Frisell ersetzt.[7] Mit einer Repertoireband, The Children of Agharta, zu der unter anderem Gary Bartz, John Stubblefield, Matt Rubano und J T Lewis gehörte, begann er 2001, die Werke von Davis aus der Mitte der 1970er Jahre zu interpretieren. Auch ist er als Solist auf einem Album von Greg Tates Band Burnt Sugar (The Rites, einem Dirigat von Butch Morris) und auf Bob Beldens amerikanisch-indischen Tributalbum Miles from India zu hören; auf der letztgenannten Doppel-CD ist er an insgesamt fünf Stücken beteiligt – Ife (Fast), It's about That Time, Miles Runs the Voodoo Down, Great Expectations und Ife (Slow). Auch ist er auf Bill Laswells Method of Defiance: Inamorata auf zwei Stücken mit Graham Haynes bzw. Byard Lancaster vertreten.
2004 war Cosey in der Folge Godfathers and Sons von Martin Scorseses Dokumentarreihe The Blues zu sehen, in der Marshall Chess und Chuck D (von Public Enemy) die einst am Album Electric Mud beteiligten Musiker zusammenrufen, um wieder gemeinsam im Studio zu spielen: Neben Cosey waren das die Bläser Gene Barge und Don Myrick, Gitarrenkollege Phil Upchurch, Bassist Louis Satterfield und Drummer Morris Jennings.
Cosey starb an den Folgen einer Operation.
Pete
Cosey (born Peter Palus Cosey, October 9, 1943 – May 30, 2012)[1][2]
was an American guitarist most famous for playing with Miles Davis' band
between 1973 and 1975. His fiercely flanged and distorted guitar bore
comparisons to Jimi Hendrix. Cosey kept a low profile for much of his
career and released no solo recorded works.[3] His unique guitar rhythms
were showcased on Davis' albums Get Up with It (1974), Agharta (1975),
Pangaea (1976), Dark Magus (1977), and The Complete On the Corner
Sessions (2007).[4]
Biography
Early life
Cosey was born in Chicago, Illinois.[5] He was the only child of a musical family. His father and mother wrote for Louis Jordan and Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson and his father played for Sidney Bechet and Josephine Baker. Following the death of his father, Cosey and his mother moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he spent his teenage years and began developing his guitar style.[5]
Early career
Prior to joining the Miles Davis band in 1973, Cosey was a busy session guitarist with Chess Records, playing on records by Etta James, Fontella Bass ("Rescue Me"),[5] Rotary Connection, Howlin' Wolf (The Howlin' Wolf Album) and Muddy Waters (Electric Mud, After the Rain).
Cosey was also an early member of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).[6] He was an early member of the Pharaohs, and a group with drummer Maurice White and bassist Louis Satterfield that eventually evolved into Earth, Wind & Fire. Some of his pre-Miles jazz playing is available on albums by Phil Cohran's Artistic Heritage Ensemble.
After joining Davis, Cosey performed on the albums Get Up with It, Dark Magus, Agharta and Pangaea. By 1975, Cosey had developed a remarkably advanced guitar approach—involving numerous alternate tunings, guitars restrung in unusual patterns and a post-Hendrix palette of distortion, wah-wah and guitar synth effects—that has influenced many adventurous guitarists, including Henry Kaiser and Vernon Reid.
Following the 1975 break-up of the Miles Davis band, Cosey largely disappeared from public view. He played on the title track of Herbie Hancock's Future Shock album, but did not appear on record again until Akira Sakata's album Fisherman's.com (with Sakata, Bill Laswell and Hamid Drake) in 2000. Throughout the '80s, he was involved in a number of Chicago- and New York-based groups with various musicians, but no recordings have been released. In 1987, he replaced Bill Frisell in the trio Power Tools with bassist Melvin Gibbs and drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson (a live recording is available through RSJ's website).
2000s
In 2001, he started a group called Children of Agharta to explore the electric Miles Davis repertoire. The first line-up was Cosey, Gary Bartz, John Stubblefield, Matt Rubano, J. T. Lewis, and DJ Johnny Juice Rosado (studio DJ for Public Enemy). The group's booking agency was listing the band as a quartet of Cosey, Bartz, Melvin Gibbs and Doni Hagen.
In 2003, Cosey appeared on an episode of American television's The People's Court, successfully suing a promoter for failing to pay fully for a Children of Agharta gig.
Cosey was also a featured soloist with the group Burnt Sugar on their album The Rites.
In 2004, Cosey appeared in the Godfathers and Sons episode of Martin Scorsese's documentary series The Blues. The episode followed Marshall Chess and Chuck D (of Public Enemy) reuniting the musicians from Muddy Waters' Electric Mud album to record a new track.
In July 2006, Cosey was fleetingly glimpsed during the finale of Bill Laswell's PBS Soundstage concert (his performance having been edited out of the broadcast).
In 2003, Cosey scored a short film, directed by Eli Mavros, entitled Alone Together. Cosey and Mavros had met the previous year during production of Mark Levin's episode for the PBS Blues series. After appearing on Eli's college blues radio show, Shake Em On Down, on New York University's radio station, 89.1 FM WNYU, he agreed to score the film. In the spirit of jazz and spontaneity, the soundtrack to the film was improvised by Cosey in real time over several takes, with several different instruments; no two takes were the same. He played guitar (using several distortion pedals, often bowing the strings like a violin), African thumb piano, and a zither given to him by Miles Davis. The film went on to show at several small film festivals.
From September through October 2007, Pete Cosey briefly appeared playing his guitar (no sound, due to narrative voiceover) in two scenes of a national thirty-second television commercial for AARP's Senior Advantage Complete Care Healthcare Insurance.
In 2007-08, Cosey contributed to the CD Miles from India, which celebrates the music of Miles Davis.[7] It features many former Miles sidemen and Indian musicians, with Cosey playing on five tracks: "Ife (Fast)", "It's About That Time", "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down", "Great Expectations", and "Ife (Slow)".
Death
Pete Cosey died on May 30, 2012 of complications following surgery at Vanguard Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago.[5] Although he had spent most of his life in Chicago, he had been living in Evanston, Illinois.[5] He is survived by five children and six grandchildren.
Biography
Early life
Cosey was born in Chicago, Illinois.[5] He was the only child of a musical family. His father and mother wrote for Louis Jordan and Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson and his father played for Sidney Bechet and Josephine Baker. Following the death of his father, Cosey and his mother moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he spent his teenage years and began developing his guitar style.[5]
Early career
Prior to joining the Miles Davis band in 1973, Cosey was a busy session guitarist with Chess Records, playing on records by Etta James, Fontella Bass ("Rescue Me"),[5] Rotary Connection, Howlin' Wolf (The Howlin' Wolf Album) and Muddy Waters (Electric Mud, After the Rain).
Cosey was also an early member of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).[6] He was an early member of the Pharaohs, and a group with drummer Maurice White and bassist Louis Satterfield that eventually evolved into Earth, Wind & Fire. Some of his pre-Miles jazz playing is available on albums by Phil Cohran's Artistic Heritage Ensemble.
After joining Davis, Cosey performed on the albums Get Up with It, Dark Magus, Agharta and Pangaea. By 1975, Cosey had developed a remarkably advanced guitar approach—involving numerous alternate tunings, guitars restrung in unusual patterns and a post-Hendrix palette of distortion, wah-wah and guitar synth effects—that has influenced many adventurous guitarists, including Henry Kaiser and Vernon Reid.
Following the 1975 break-up of the Miles Davis band, Cosey largely disappeared from public view. He played on the title track of Herbie Hancock's Future Shock album, but did not appear on record again until Akira Sakata's album Fisherman's.com (with Sakata, Bill Laswell and Hamid Drake) in 2000. Throughout the '80s, he was involved in a number of Chicago- and New York-based groups with various musicians, but no recordings have been released. In 1987, he replaced Bill Frisell in the trio Power Tools with bassist Melvin Gibbs and drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson (a live recording is available through RSJ's website).
2000s
In 2001, he started a group called Children of Agharta to explore the electric Miles Davis repertoire. The first line-up was Cosey, Gary Bartz, John Stubblefield, Matt Rubano, J. T. Lewis, and DJ Johnny Juice Rosado (studio DJ for Public Enemy). The group's booking agency was listing the band as a quartet of Cosey, Bartz, Melvin Gibbs and Doni Hagen.
In 2003, Cosey appeared on an episode of American television's The People's Court, successfully suing a promoter for failing to pay fully for a Children of Agharta gig.
Cosey was also a featured soloist with the group Burnt Sugar on their album The Rites.
In 2004, Cosey appeared in the Godfathers and Sons episode of Martin Scorsese's documentary series The Blues. The episode followed Marshall Chess and Chuck D (of Public Enemy) reuniting the musicians from Muddy Waters' Electric Mud album to record a new track.
In July 2006, Cosey was fleetingly glimpsed during the finale of Bill Laswell's PBS Soundstage concert (his performance having been edited out of the broadcast).
In 2003, Cosey scored a short film, directed by Eli Mavros, entitled Alone Together. Cosey and Mavros had met the previous year during production of Mark Levin's episode for the PBS Blues series. After appearing on Eli's college blues radio show, Shake Em On Down, on New York University's radio station, 89.1 FM WNYU, he agreed to score the film. In the spirit of jazz and spontaneity, the soundtrack to the film was improvised by Cosey in real time over several takes, with several different instruments; no two takes were the same. He played guitar (using several distortion pedals, often bowing the strings like a violin), African thumb piano, and a zither given to him by Miles Davis. The film went on to show at several small film festivals.
From September through October 2007, Pete Cosey briefly appeared playing his guitar (no sound, due to narrative voiceover) in two scenes of a national thirty-second television commercial for AARP's Senior Advantage Complete Care Healthcare Insurance.
In 2007-08, Cosey contributed to the CD Miles from India, which celebrates the music of Miles Davis.[7] It features many former Miles sidemen and Indian musicians, with Cosey playing on five tracks: "Ife (Fast)", "It's About That Time", "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down", "Great Expectations", and "Ife (Slow)".
Death
Pete Cosey died on May 30, 2012 of complications following surgery at Vanguard Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago.[5] Although he had spent most of his life in Chicago, he had been living in Evanston, Illinois.[5] He is survived by five children and six grandchildren.
Howlin 'Wolf - Spoonful *
The Wolf LP dubbed this "dog shit", and many blues purists agreed with
him. Like his pair Muddy Waters, Wolf was not too thrilled with
psych-ing and feared his som.Blues with psychedelic rock! Records Chess
tried to incorporate the old traditional blues and some more psychedelic
arrangements with wha-wha guitars and everything else! Then he
detonated recording saying it was not blues! this protest is written on
the cover of Lp! Imagine a Lp where the artist himself says on the cover
did not like, could only sell little. I found a wonderful experience!
Howlin 'Wolf - vocal,harmonica
Morris Jennings - drums
Louis Satterfield - bass
Hubert Sumlin - guitar
Pete Cosey - guitar & bowed guitar
Phil Upchurch - guitar
Roland Faulkner - guitar
Donald Myrick - flute
Gene Barge - sax
Recorded Novembro,1968 at Ter Mar Studios,Chicago
Label: Chess Records/Cadet Concept Records
(* Track vinyl )
Howlin 'Wolf - vocal,harmonica
Morris Jennings - drums
Louis Satterfield - bass
Hubert Sumlin - guitar
Pete Cosey - guitar & bowed guitar
Phil Upchurch - guitar
Roland Faulkner - guitar
Donald Myrick - flute
Gene Barge - sax
Recorded Novembro,1968 at Ter Mar Studios,Chicago
Label: Chess Records/Cadet Concept Records
(* Track vinyl )
Charlie Furthner *09.10.1969
1969 St.Pölten geboren. Schon im Alter von 6 Jahren nahm er klassischen Klavierunterricht, merkte aber im Laufe der Jahre dass ihn die Boogie Woogie Rhythmen eines Axel Zwingenberger mehr fesselten als Mozart und Beethoven.Nach Abschluß der Schulausbildung besuchte er für ein Jahr das musisch-pädagogische Realgymnasium.Ebenfalls klassischer Unterricht.
Da es schwer ist im niederösterreichischen Raum professionelle Boogie und Bluesbands zu finden trat er 1991 in die St.Pöltner 50er Jahre Revival Rock & Roll Band "De Icco & The Jailgang" ein. Es folgten Auftritte bei der "Paul Zagler Band",bei der Manfred Deix & The Good Vibrations Band u.a. 1996-2001 Pianist und Bühnenpartner von Alexander Bisenz. Unter dem Motto "Back to the Roots" schließt er sich 2002 der "Neuen" MBB an.
Da es schwer ist im niederösterreichischen Raum professionelle Boogie und Bluesbands zu finden trat er 1991 in die St.Pöltner 50er Jahre Revival Rock & Roll Band "De Icco & The Jailgang" ein. Es folgten Auftritte bei der "Paul Zagler Band",bei der Manfred Deix & The Good Vibrations Band u.a. 1996-2001 Pianist und Bühnenpartner von Alexander Bisenz. Unter dem Motto "Back to the Roots" schließt er sich 2002 der "Neuen" MBB an.
Erik Trauner, Siggi Fassl & Charlie Furthner @ Chicago Blues Night 2013
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