Mittwoch, 30. November 2016

30.11. Teil 2 Shuggie Otis, Gait Klein Kromhof, Fabrice Dutour * Hans Blues +










1909 Robert Nighthawk*
1915 Walter "Brownie" McGhee*
1943 Leo Lyons (born David William Lyons)*
1953 Ernie Lancaster*
1953 Shuggie Otis*
1956 Smokin 'Joe Kubek*
1957 Gait Klein Kromhof*
1959 Mike Morgan*
1962 Kelly Richey*
1970 Fabrice Dutour*
1999 Don „Sugarcane“ Harris+
2015 Hans Blues+




Shuggie Otis  *30.11.1953 

 




Shuggie Otis (* 30. November 1953 in Los Angeles, eigentlich Johnny Alexander Veliotes) ist ein amerikanischer Rhythm and Blues-, Rock-, Blues- und Funk-Sänger bzw. -Musiker, Songwriter und Musikproduzent. Der Sohn des griechischstämmigen Musikers und Produzenten Johnny Otis spielt Gitarre, Klavier, Orgel und E-Bass. Otis wohnt in Sebastopol (Kalifornien).
Zu seinen bekanntesten Titeln zählen Sweet Thang und Strawberry Letter 23 aus dem 1971er-Album Freedom Flight, das 1977 in der Version der Brothers Johnson ein internationaler Singlehit war, sowie Aht Uh Mi Hed von der LP Inspiration Information (1974). Die deutsche Rap-Gruppe Absolute Beginner sampelte diesen Song 1998 in ihrem Liebes Lied.
Shuggie Otis spielte Bass auf Frank Zappas Song Peaches en Regalia von dessen 1969er-Album Hot Rats.

Shuggie Otis (born Johnny Alexander Veliotes, Jr.; November 30, 1953)[1][2] is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist.
Otis' composition "Strawberry Letter 23" (as recorded by The Brothers Johnson) topped the Billboard R&B chart and reached #5 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1977.[2] He also achieved commercial success with his 1974 single "Inspiration Information" (from the album of the same name), reaching #56 on the R&B chart.[2]
Biography
Born in Los Angeles, California, Otis is the son of rhythm and blues pioneer, musician, bandleader, and impresario Johnny Otis and wife Phyllis. The name "Shuggie" (short for "sugar", according to his mother) was coined by Phyllis when he was a newborn. Otis began playing guitar when he was two years old and performing professionally with his father's band at the age of twelve, often disguising himself with dark glasses and a false mustache so that he could play with his father's band in after-hours nightclubs.
Otis, primarily known as a guitarist, also sings and plays a multitude of other instruments. While growing up with and being heavily influenced by many blues, jazz and R&B musicians in his father Johnny's immediate circle, Otis began to gravitate towards the popular music of his generation such as Sly Stone, Jimi Hendrix, and Arthur Lee of the band Love. In 1969, Al Kooper asked Otis to be the featured guest on the second installment (Kooper Session) of the Super Session album series that had previously included Stephen Stills and Mike Bloomfield. Kooper and the then-fifteen-year-old Otis recorded the whole album over one weekend in New York. Immediately returning to Los Angeles, Otis, along with his father and singer Delmar "Mighty Mouth" Evans, performed on the album Cold Shot, released in 1969 on the Los Angeles-based Kent label. Another obscure album this three-man team recorded was the extremely rare and risque Snatch & The Poontangs, on which Otis recorded tracks under the pseudonym "Prince Wunnerful".
Otis then released his first solo album later that year entitled Here Comes Shuggie Otis on Epic Records. Countless musicians were his guests on that debut attempt, including Johnny, Leon Haywood, Al McKibbon, Wilton Felder. This further established his reputation and catapulted him to the attention of B. B. King, who was quoted in a 1970 issue of Guitar Player magazine saying Otis was his "favorite new guitarist". Some of the artists Otis performed and recorded with during that time include Frank Zappa (having played electric bass on "Peaches en Regalia" on the 1969 album Hot Rats), Etta James, Eddie Vinson, Richard Berry, Louis Jordan, and Bobby 'Blue' Bland, among many others.
The album Otis received the most notoriety for was his second Epic Records release in 1971, Freedom Flight, which featured his hit "Strawberry Letter 23". Both the album and single reached the Billboard Top 200 and the Billboard Hot 100, respectively and caught the attention of Brothers Johnson guitarist George Johnson, who then played it for producer Quincy Jones. They covered the song and it instantly became a smash hit. Even though Otis played most of his own parts in the studio, the lineup on this album was quite extensive, including keyboardist George Duke and Aynsley Dunbar of Frank Zappa, Journey and Whitesnake fame.
In 1974, Otis released Inspiration Information, his third and final album for Epic Records. The album had taken almost three years to finish. All the songs were written and arranged by Otis himself, who played almost exclusively every musical instrument on the album (except for horns and various stringed instruments). However, despite its long-awaited impact, Inspiration Information had but one single (the title track) reach the Billboard Hot 100. After the album's release, Otis was approached by Billy Preston on behalf of The Rolling Stones, asking him to join the band for their upcoming world tour. He declined the offer, along with the chance to work with Quincy Jones in helping produce Otis's next album. After a series of similar refusals, Otis gained the reputation of "taking his time", and his recording contract with Epic Records was nullified. Otis's only credited works throughout the mid-1970s were done as a session musician for his father's recording projects.
Inspiration Information gained a huge cult following during the 1990s with the emergence of rare groove and acid jazz.[citation needed] It was lauded by such musicians as Prince and Lenny Kravitz. Due in part to this regained interest, the album was re-released on April 3, 2001, by David Byrne's independent label Luaka Bop Records. This CD re-issue includes all nine original album tracks plus four songs taken from Otis' 1971 album Freedom Flight, and features new cover art, liner notes, and exclusive never-seen-before photos.
Otis is featured in every one of his father Johnny's books, as well as Alligator Records Presents West Coast Blues, issued in August 1998.
Otis and Sony Music Entertainment made a deal for a double CD which was released on April 20, 2013. It is a re-release of Inspiration/Information. Added to the album is several bonus tracks, including an accompanying album entitled Wings of Love. Wings of Love is an album of previously unreleased material, all of which was written from 1975 to the present, including live material from some of his rare performances. It will be available on Shugiterius records (Shuggie's new company) and Sony records, through Sony Music Entertainment.
Otis and a band entitled Shuggie Otis Rite toured internationally in 2013 in support of the release, including Australia, Japan, the U.S., Ireland and the U.K.[3] Their performances earned rave reviews from critics.[4][5][6]
Personal life
As a teenager he had a son, Johnny III (known as Lucky) with Judith Peters, who is better known as Miss Mercy in the The GTOs, a "groupie group" and a sociological creation of Frank Zappa. A few years later he married Lillian "Teri" Wilson, daughter of trumpeter/bandleader/Latin-jazz pioneer Gerald Wilson, and they had son Eric together, naming him after Gerald's bandmate and close friend Eric Dolphy.
In spring 1991, Otis Sr. and his family relocated to Sonoma County. Since moving back to Southern California in 2006, Otis has made sporadic public appearances.
Both of Shuggie's sons, Lucky and Eric, are producing their own music in the Los Angeles area.
As of 2012, Shuggie has formed a new band and is currently on the Never Ending World Wide Tour, that began November 2012 in Europe.


SHUGGIE OTIS.... LIVE IN TORONTO! 







Gait Klein Kromhof *30.11.1957



https://www.facebook.com/gait.kromhof/about

http://www.champagnecharlie.nl/band.php


Als Jugendlicher hörte er einen Rekord von Lightnin 'Hopkins und sofort wusste er, dass Musik, die ich will, um zu spielen. Er war mehr von "alten Schule" Mundharmonika-Gebläse als Big Walter Horton und DeFord Bailey und spezialisierte sich auf ihre alten, oft akustische Blues-Harp inspiriert. Sein Stil ist von einer reichen und durchdringende Töne gekennzeichnet und die Emotion er weiß, wie man in seinem Spiel setzen. Darüber hinaus spielt er immer in den Dienst der Musik selbst.

Im Jahr 2010 war er Dutch Blues Award Gewinner für Mundharmonika. Gait mit umfassen JW Roy, Dede Priest und The Shiner Twins gearbeitet. Inzwischen ist er der regulären Harmonikaspieler Charlie Champagner und ein beliebtes Gastmusiker. Er tritt regelmäßig mit der amerikanischen Singer-Songwriter Tom Mank und Sera Smolen. Zusammen mit Champagne Charlie kann er auf dem neuen Album Live in Wien bei Hans Theessink aufgezeichnet hören.
Eine Auswahl hat auf seinem Album Gait internationalen Musikern zusammengearbeitet. Einige von ihnen: Champagne Charlie, Tom Mank & Sera Smolen (USA), Bruno Deneckere (Bel), Richard Bergen & Jac Hustinx (Shiner Twins) und Ries de Vuyst (Lukas Coene, Maarten Bruggeman, Marc van de Veire und Werner Dumez






Richard van Bergen & Gait klein Kromhof "you Gonna Need My Help" ( Muddy Waters) 










Fabrice Dutour   *30.11.1970



https://www.facebook.com/fabrice.dutour.3/photos_albums 

Die Back Roads erschien ihr erstes Album im Februar 2014.
Back Roads Schwere Blues ist eine Gruppe gebildet von Sylvaine Deschamps-Garcia (Gesang), Fabrice du Tour (Gitarre), Christophe Oliveres (Gitarre), Franck Mortreux (Bass) und Nicolas Amollo (Drums). Diese fünf erfahrene Musiker entwickeln eine große Klang energisch auf der Bühne, Mischen von 70 Riffs und Gegenwart.

Back Roads Mitglieder versammelten sich zunächst um ein Projekt der Wiederaufnahme der Abdeckung Joe Bonamassa, Gov't Mule, Led Zeppelin, durch Janis Joplin und Thin Lizzy. Das erste Training wurde schnell Kaffee Konzert (Biker Road Café in Corbas oder Sattelit Café Villerest), wie auf wesentlichere Szenen produziert die von Sathonay Off the Blues Festival und der MJC Vaux en Velin einschließlich.

Die Szene hat Ausbildung konsolidiert, natürlich ROADS zu einer Arbeitszusammensetzung Regie BACK, erklärte Priorität 2013. Das erste Album von 11 Original-Songs wurde im Studio Noisefirm (Ambérieu in Bugey) zwischen Mai und Juli 2013 aufgezeichnet , im selben Ort gemischt und bei Studio HOFA (Karlsdorf, Deutschland) gemeistert. Es ist jetzt auf CD und Vinyl im Februar 2014 Digitale Versionen sind auf iTunes und Amazon.fr. Das Feedback ist sehr positiv heute. Die 3 Videos über das Album ( www.youtube.com/user/BackRoadsify ) wurden in den letzten Monaten mehr als 9000 - mal angesehen.

Die Nebenstraßen wollen auf die Bühne zu gehen zurück zu ihrem neuen Repertoire anzubieten, die nun mal und Kreationen kombiniert. Entdecken Back Roads YOUTUBE auf ihren Seiten ( www.youtube.com/user/BackRoadsify) , Facebook ( www.facebook.com/pagebackroads ) und auf ihren Websites www.the-backroads.c nmom / und backroads7.wix.com/backroads .






Back Roads - Invisible Woman (First Album) 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmITJIjvMNc 


Medley (non-mastered tracks) - Debut Album - Back Roads














Hans Blues  +30.11.2015





Mitte der 50er Jahre gründete HANS BLUES & BOOGIE (Jahrgang 1940) eine
Skiffle-Group im heimatlichen Hamburg. Bei kleineren Auftritten erlebt er schon damals die packende Live-Atmosphäre. Bald geht die Entwicklung in Richtung Dixieland-Jazz. Club-Engagements in der Hansestadt folgen. Seine viersaitige Gitarre ermöglicht HANS auch Versuche mit Blues und Folk in St. Pauli. 1959 macht er erste Auslandserfahrungen mit - unerlaubter - Straßenmusik in Amsterdam, Liége und Paris. Bis Sommer 1960 tritt HANS in Hamburg regelmäßig solo und mit Band auf. Nach dem Ende seiner ersten Verlobung schlägt er sich vier Monate in Skandinavien als Straßenmusiker (auch dort verboten), Entertainer und bei Talentshows durch. Sein Vespa-Roller bleibt tiefgefroren in Stockholm, als er Ende 1969 nach Hamburg zurückkehrt. Lehre abgebrochen, kein Beruf, zudem noch vollbärtig - das Arbeitsamt hat nur einen einzigen Job für ihn:

...FISCHFABRIK !

Eine steile Karriere schließt sich an - vom Fisch-Entschupper zum Chef-Chauffeur. Im schwarzen Mercedes 170 D fährt er den Chef morgens zu Fischauktionen (bei der ersten ersteigert Hans versehentlich den gesamten Tagesfang, (die Auktion wird wiederholt) und allabendlich zu Sauf-Gelangen in die Hafenkneipen. An den Wochenenden ist HANS wieder in seiner Dixie-Band aktiv und tritt als Blues-Solist mit ersten Eigenkompositionen auf. Ein Open-Air-Festival im Sommer 1961 vor rund 5000 Leuten im Hamburger Stadtpark führt zu zahlreichen Solo-Engagements im Norden.

Als die Fischfabrik im Herbst 1961 pleite geht, beschließt HANS nach Australien auszuwandern ( "Ungelernte" sind dort willkommen ), auch um der geistigen Enge Nachkriegsdeutschland zu entfliehen. Das Ticket in der Tasche, wartet er auf sein Schiff in einem Hotelzimmer über dem Jazzclub "Pigalle".
Dort lernt er die dänischen "Jazz Cardinals" kennen, steigt bei ihnen ein. Sie bieten ihm einen Job an; die Passage nach Australien verfällt.

Anfang 1962 beginnt HANS als Frontmann (voc, bjo, 4-sting-g) eine Profikarriere und tourt mit der Band durch Europa. Durch den "Twist" brotlos geworden, wird er als unerwünschter Ausländer im August 1963 nach Deutschland abgeschoben und lässt sich in West-Berlin nieder. Der Tourbus wird zum Kleintransporter, der Profimusiker wandelt sich zum Spediteur. Banjo und Gitarre verschwinden im Keller.

Der zweiten Verlobung folgt seine Ehe, die 1972 in die Brüche geht. Er besinnt sich seiner Instrumente, holt seine 1963 in København gebaute, bislang aber nie gespielte "Barslev" aus dem Keller, lernt sie zu spielen und zieht mit SEINEM Blues durch Berliner Kneipen. Inzwischen hat HANS viel zu erzählen und verzichtet daher weitgehend aufs "Covern". Er schreibt deutsche Texte: Die Reaktion des Publikums ist gemischt, aber eher ermutigend. Während eines Urlaubs auf Sardinien findet er am Strand einen Flaschenhals und bringt sich das Slidespielen bei. Da er zu wenig dünne Saiten mitgenommen hat, erfindet er die

HANS BLUES & BOOGIE SLIDE- STIMMUNG.

Die Spedition geht 1971 pleite. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt hat HANS als Solist und mit seiner Band in Berlin, Westdeutschland und Dänemark bereits einen Namen. Vom Druck der Firma befreit, beginnt er die zweite Profikarriere, diesmal als Bluesmusiker. HANS wird sein eigener Booker und stellt Kontakte in ganz Europa her, die ihn seit 1980 in 25 Länder führen. Südlichste Punkte sind Rhodos, Sizilien und Gibraltar, die nördlichsten Ziele Spitzbergen, Island und Faerøer. Bis auf Rhodos und Spitzbergen ( mit Flugzeug ) bewältigt er alles in seinem "Bluesmobil" ( 80.000 Kilometer im Jahresschnitt ).

Nebenbei findet er immer wieder Zeit, neue Songs zu schreiben. HANS spielt vor zehn oder 10.000 Zuhörern, in kleinen Clubs und auf größten Festivals. Bei gemeinsamen Auftritten lernt er viele Kollegen wie Stevie Ray Vaughan (Stockholm), Luther Allison (Duokonzerte in Berlin & København), Johnnie Winter und Otis Rush (Salerno), The Blues Band ( Aarhus), Canned Heat (Aamaal), Screaming Jay Hawkins (Düsseldorf) und Louisiana Red (Zürich) kennen und schätzen, 1984 erscheint die erste Solo-Live-LP, der zahlreiche LPs und CDs folgen.

Seine dritte Frau, Gefährtin seit 1986, begleitet HANS auf etlichen Tourneen (zwei gefährliche Autounfälle inklusive), hilft ihm sein Alkoholproblem in den Griff zu bekommen und inspiriert ihn zu vielen Songs, auch einigen auf seiner im Jahre 2002 erschienenen CD " the unpublished songs ". Die hier erstmals veröffentlichten Titel vermitteln die ganze Bandbreite von HANS' Schaffen. Zum Teil vor 20 und mehr Jahren geschrieben, treffen seine Lieder immer den Punkt.

Sie zeigen den typischen Biss und die selbstironische Gelassenheit - unverzichtbare Eigenschaften des kompromisslosen Künstlers.

JETZT IST ER AUF DER GANZ GROßEN TOUR!

HANS BRUNCKHORST * 1940 † 30.11.2015

Für alle, die Hans kannten, wird er unvergeßlich bleiben. Seine Familie, seine Kinder, seine Freunde und seine Partnerin werden immer in Liebe mit ihm verbunden bleiben.

-Dezember 2015-


HANS BLUES & BOOGIE - Gleich um die Ecke 









30.11., Leo Lyons, Robert Nighthawk, Smokin 'Joe Kubek, Walter "Brownie" McGhee, Ernie Lancaster, Mike Morgan, Kelly Richey * Don „Sugarcane“ Harris +






1909 Robert Nighthawk*
1915 Walter "Brownie" McGhee*
1943 Leo Lyons (born David William Lyons)*
1953 Ernie Lancaster*
1953 Shuggie Otis*
1956 Smokin 'Joe Kubek*
1957 Gait Klein Kromhof*
1959 Mike Morgan*
1962 Kelly Richey*
1970 Fabrice Dutour*
1999 Don „Sugarcane“ Harris+
2015 Hans Blues+





Happy Birthday 

 

Leo Lyons (born David William Lyons) *30.11.1943

 



Leo Lyons und Joe Gooch sind ehemalige Mitglieder der Band legendären Band "Ten Years After". Leo war Gründungsmitglied und spielte in dem Film  "Woodstock"-Festival.

Das Duo arbeitete zunächst als Songwriter-Team für TYA zusammen und komponierten und spielten seit dem fortdauernd gemeinsam. 2010 Erschien ihre Debüt-Platte "Die Welt wird nicht aufhören".

Ende 2013 verließen Leo und Joe "Ten Years After" um einen Neuanfang mit "Hundred Seventy Split" zu wagen - Im Februar 2014 feiern sie eine neue CD mit dem Titel "HSS" und gehen auf Tournee.

Leo Lyons ist im November 1943 in Mansfield zur Welt gekommen, mit 16 ist zum Profimusiker geworden und eines der Gründungsmitglieder der Gruppe Ten Years After, d.h. er war Augenzeuge von vielen grundlegenden Momenten der Rockgeschichte!

Heutzutage ist er mit der Formation Hundred Seventy Split unterwegs. Andre nahm während einer Pause im Tourgeschehen die Gelegenheit wahr, mit Leo über seine Musik und Karriere zu sprechen.

David William "Leo" Lyons (born 30 November 1943) is an English musician, who was also the bassist of the blues rock band Ten Years After.[1]

Biography

Lyons was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. He first played with lead guitarist Alvin Lee in The Jaybirds. In 1967, there was a name change to Ten Years After. With this group, Lyons played at major rock festivals including Woodstock in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival on 29 August 1970. Ten Years After disbanded in 1976, although they later reformed several times in the 1980s and 1990s with all original members.

In 1975, he was hired as a studio manager by Chrysalis Records to re-equip and run Wessex Studios in London. He then produced UFO from 1974 to 1976. Later, he started two commercial recording studios himself.

Lyons moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in the mid-1990s, and was a staff songwriter for Hayes Street Music. He played in a reformed Ten Years After, with new frontman Joe Gooch and also with Gooch in the new blues rock power trio "Hundred Seventy Split". In Lyons' own words, he loves "playing the old songs that people still want to hear. However, that leaves no room for new material - hence the new project."[2] The band are currently mixing their second studio album, called HSS, with the help of Cyclone Music, whom they have used for all their previous projects.

In January 2014, it was announced that both Gooch and Lyons had left Ten Years After.[3]

Born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in November 1943, Leo became a professional musician at the age of 16 and as a founder member of the band Ten Years After has been an on-stage eyewitness to some of the most pivotal moments in Rock and Roll history.

In 1962 with his band The Jaybirds along with guitarist Alvin Lee he performed at The Star Club, Hamburg, Germany where only a week earlier The Beatles had polished up their act. Leo was hired to play in the club's house band with Tony Sheridan and yet still found time to guest at the Top Ten Club with guitarist Albert Lee. Like The Beatles, The Jaybirds returned home to England, made the move from their hometown to London and secured their first recording contract with legendary record producer Joe Meek

From 1963 to 1966, as well as playing and managing The Jaybirds, Leo worked as a session musician, toured as a sideman with pop acts of the day, appeared in a play in London's West End and played a residency with poll winning British Jazz Guitarist Denny Wright.

In 1967 with a name change to Ten Years After, a residency at London’s famous Marquee Club and a debut album out on Deram Records, the band were soon to build up a huge following in Europe. Fillmore West and Fillmore East founder Bill Graham heard a copy of the band’s first album and immediately sent a letter offering to book Ten Years After into his historic venues in San Francisco and New York. They were also one of the first rock groups to be part of the Newport Jazz Festival. At Newport and on tour TYA performed with Nina Simone, Roland Kirk, Miles Davis and other jazz legends barnstorming across the US.

In August of the same year their now legendary encore “ I’m Goin’ Home” was captured on film at The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, exposing their jazz blues rock amalgam to an even larger audience of movie goers who were blown away by the intensity of the band’s performance when the academy award winning documentary was released. Their ten-minute appearance in the film is an acknowledged highlight and established Ten Years After a place in rock history. The band’s albums are still available and all have reached Gold or Platinum status.

Between 1968 and 1975 constant touring playing shows like The Miami Pop Festival, The Isle of Wight Festival, The Toronto Peace Festival and all other important musical events brought the bands music to a global audience. Leo estimates that the band performed to in excess of 75,000 new fans a week. Almost four million people a year not counting those who saw the band in the film ‘Woodstock’.
Leo always had a passion for the recording process and it was a logical step to go into record production. In 1975 Chrysalis Records hired him as studio manager to re-equip and run Wessex Studios in London. He was later to go on and build two commercial studios of his own.

He has produced records for UFO, Magnum, Waysted, Procol Harem, Frankie Miller, Richard and Linda Thompson, Brigitte St John, John Martin, Kevin Coyne, Sassafras, MotorHead, Hatfield and The North, The Bogie Boys, The Winkies, Chris Farlowe, Chevy and many more.
Other projects include stage musicals, cartoon soundtracks, film and music videos. He also released two CDs with his own band Kick and his songs have been used in television and film. He’s also been guest bassist on CDs by Savoy Brown and Leslie West. Leo’s songs came to the attention of Nashville publishers Hayes Street Music who signed him as a staff writer and after several years of commuting from the United Kingdom he made the move to Nashville in 1998.

In 2003 Ten Years After reformed yet again, this time with new guitarist singer Joe Gooch replacing Alvin Lee, and for the past seven years, aside from writing and producing, Leo has recorded three CD’s and toured the world with Ten Years After.

Leo’s not the kind of person who lets the grass grow under his feet and in the Summer of 2010 together with TYA guitarist Joe Gooch he formed ‘Hundred Seventy Split’; a new, exciting, high energy Blues/Rock power trio showcasing their combined talents. The pair initially formed a song-writing partnership to write for TYA and have continued writing together ever since. The result was their debut CD ’The World Won’t Stop’ . . .

Leo and Joe resigned from Ten Years After at the end of 2013 and to celebrate a new beginning Hundred Seventy Split are releasing in February a new CD, simply titled, HSS.

Their live shows have already proved popular with TYA fans. HSS play TYA classics alongside new material in their shows.

‘Hundred Seventy Split’ was formed to play music that rocks outside of the TYA box.

Leo’s interests outside music include the paranormal, alternative medicine, martial arts and all new technology. He is a vegetarian, married with two grown up sons and currently resides in Nashville.

Leo Lyons & Joe Gooch Hundred Seventy Split Rock and Blues Butlins Skegness 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfGCJLhB5KI 


Good morning little Schoolgirl - iNUTERO feat. Leo Lyons 




Hundred Seventy Split und Inutero 













Robert Nighthawk  *30.11.1909

 






Robert Nighthawk, geboren als Robert Lee McCullum, (* 30. November 1909 in Helena, Arkansas, USA; † 5. November 1967 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Bluesmusiker.
Robert Nighthawk wuchs auf einer Farm auf. Erste Erfahrungen mit der Musik sammelte er, als ihn ein Freund 1923 anregte, Mundharmonika zu lernen. Als er mit seinem Cousin, Houston Stackhouse, in den 1930ern auf einer Farm arbeitete, lernte er Gitarre zu spielen. Robert, sein Cousin und sein Bruder traten auf Festen und Partys gemeinsam als Blues-Band auf.
Einige Zeit später zog Nighthawk nach Memphis (Tennessee), wo er zusammen mit John Lee Hooker im New Daisy Theater und auch zusammen mit der Memphis Jug Band auftrat. Mitte der 1930er zog er weiter nach St. Louis, wo er mit Henry Townsend, dem Star der St. Louis Blues-Szene, zusammen spielte. Er trat dabei unter verschiedenen Namen auf, so z.B. Robert Lee McCoy, Rambling Bob oder Peetie's Boy. Ende der 1930er kam er nach Chicago, um seine erste Solo-Platte aufzunehmen; Prowling Night-Hawk sollte zu einem seiner bestverkauften Songs werden. Nach diesem Song nannte er sich endgültig Robert Nighthawk. Anfang der 1950er Jahre nahm er auch für das Label United auf. Das Album "Live on Maxwell Street" wurde 1989 in die Blues Hall of Fame aufgenommen.
Ein Sohn Nighthawks war der Schlagzeuger Sam Carr (1926–2009), der u. a. mit Frank Frost spielte und aufnahm.

Robert Lee McCollum (November 30, 1909 – November 5, 1967)[1] was an American blues musician, who played and recorded under the pseudonyms Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk. He is the father of blues musician Sam Carr.
Life and career
Born in Helena, Arkansas, he left home at an early age to become a busking musician, and after a period wandering through southern Mississippi, settled for a time in Memphis, Tennessee, where he played with local orchestras and musicians, such as the Memphis Jug Band. A particular influence during this period was Houston Stackhouse, from whom he learned to play slide guitar, and with whom he appeared on the radio in Jackson, Mississippi.
After further travels through Mississippi, he found it advisable to take his mother's name, and as Robert Lee McCoy moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in the mid-1930s.[2] Local musicians with whom he played included Henry Townsend, Big Joe Williams, and Sonny Boy Williamson. This led to two recording dates in 1937, the four musicians recording together at the Victor Records studio in Aurora, Illinois, as well as recordings under his own name, including "Prowling Night-Hawk" (recorded 5 May 1937), from which he was to take his later pseudonym. These sessions led to Chicago blues careers for the other musicians, though not, however, for McCoy, who continued his rambling life, playing and recording (for Victor/Bluebird and Decca) solo and with various musicians, under various names. Kansas City Red was his drummer from the early 1940s to around 1946.[3] He recorded Kansas City Red’s song, “The Moon is Rising”.[4]
McCoy became a familiar voice on local radio stations; then Robert Lee McCoy disappeared.Within a few years, he resurfaced as the electric slide guitarist Robert Nighthawk, and began recording for Aristocrat and Chess Records, the latter of which was also Muddy Waters' label; in 1949 and 1950, the two men's styles were close enough that they were in competition for promotional activity; as Waters was the more marketable commodity, being more reliable and a more confident stage communicator, he received the attention. Though Nighthawk continued to perform and to record, taking up with United and States 1951 and 1952, he failed to achieve great commercial success.
In 1963, Nighthawk was rediscovered busking in Chicago and this led to further recording sessions and club dates, and to his return to Arkansas, where he appeared on the King Biscuit Time radio programme on KFFA. Nighthawk continued giving live performances on Chicago's Maxwell Street until 1964.[2] He had a stroke followed by a heart attack, and died of heart failure[1] at his home in Helena. He is buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Helena.
Historic marker
Nighthawk was honored by the Mississippi Blues Commission places a historic marker in Friars Point, Mississippi, marking his position on the Mississippi Blues Trail. Governor Haley Barbour stated the following:
    This talented Mississippian made a huge contribution to development of that unique genre of music, the Mississippi blues. I am pleased Nighthawk’s imprint on the blues scene, which is still heard through the tunes of modern-day blues artists, will be recognized with his inclusion on the Mississippi Blues Trail.[5]
The marker was placed at Friars Point, as Nighthawk called this town his home at various times during his itinerant career. He recorded a song called "Friars Point Blues" in 1940.

Robert Nighthawk.mp4 
 Bluesmaster Robert Nighthawk Rockin the Folks on Maxwell St Chicago 1960s (For Educational Purposes Exclusively)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh--OUE6uNM






 Smokin 'Joe Kubek  *30.11.1956

 




Smokin’ Joe Kubek ist am 11. Oktober an den Folgen eines Herzinfarkts im Alter von nur 58 Jahren verstorben. Der Gitarrist war mit seinem musikalischen Partner Bnois King (Gesang, Gitarre) auf Tournee und sollte am vergangenen Wochenende beim Pleasure Island Seafood & Blues Festival in North Carolina auftreten. Joe Kubek wurde in Pennsylvania geboren, wuchs aber in Dallas, Texas, auf. Auf den aus Louisiana stammenden Bnois King traf er 1989, was zu einer über 25 Jahre andauernden Freundschaft und musikalischen Partnerschaft führen sollte. Smokin’ Joe Kubek und Bnois King standen für rauen, rockigen und leidenschaftlichen Texas-Blues, mit dem sie sowohl live als auch auf Platte überzeugen konnten. Das 1991 auf Bullseye/Rounder erschienene Album „Stepping Out Texas Style“ wird meist als Plattendebüt bezeichnet, zuvor kam allerdings „The Axe Man“ auf Double Trouble heraus. Nach sieben Alben für Rounder – anfangs noch als The Smokin’ Joe Kubek Band featuring Bnois King – erfolgte 2003 der Wechsel zu Blind Pig. Von 2008 bis 2010 standen Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King bei Alligator unter Vertrag, es folgte eine kurze Episode mit zwei Alben für Delta Groove (2012 bis 2013), bevor die beiden 2015 mit „Fat Man’s Shine Parlor“ zu Blind Pig zurückkehrten.


Smokin' Joe Kubek (November 30, 1956 – October 11, 2015) was an American Texas blues electric guitarist, songwriter and performer.[1]


Biography

Born in Grove City, Pennsylvania, Kubek grew up in the Dallas, Texas area.[2] In the 1970s during his teen years, he played with the likes of Freddie King and in the 1980s began performing with Louisiana-born musician and vocalist, Bnois King.[3]

In 1985, Kubek released his first record on Bird Records, a 45 RPM single with the tracks "Driving Sideways" (written by Freddie King and Sonny Thompson) and "Other Side Of Love" (written by Doyle Bramhall Sr.). The single's executive producers were Clint Birdwell and Charley Wirz. The two tracks reappeared on Kubek's 2012 album, Let That Right Hand Go, produced by Birdwell and issued on Birdwell's label, Bird Records Texas. The album is a collection of mostly unreleased material recorded since the 1980s (with the 1985 single's track, "Other Side Of Love", entitled "The Other Side Of Love").

In 1991, Kubek released his first full-length album, entitled Steppin' Out Texas Style (Bullseye Blues Records), and later released over a dozen albums on various labels.

SMOKIN' JOE KUBEK BAND - "Texas Cadillac" 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkMGlluHJNE 







Walter "Brownie" McGhee  *30.11.1915

 



Walter "Brownie" McGhee (* 30. November 1915 in Knoxville, Tennessee; † 16. Februar 1996 in Oakland, Kalifornien) war Blues-Gitarrist. Er wuchs in einer musikalischen Familie auf, in der er Gitarre und Klavier spielen lernte. Zunächst begann er als Gospelsänger in einem Quartett und als Straßensänger beim Smoky Mountain Resort.
Durch Kinderlähmung war sein rechtes Bein verkürzt, was ihn in seiner Gehfähigkeit behinderte, was aber später durch eine Operation verbessert werden konnte, sodass er auch auf Konzertreisen gehen konnte, zunächst in Tennessee und North Carolina. Nach dem Tod von Blind Boy Fuller sah dessen Manager J.B. Long in McGhee den geeigneten Lückenfüller. Sie produzierten erfolgreiche Schallplattenaufnahmen, eine davon mit dem Titel The Death of Blind Boy Fuller, was ihm den Titel Blind Boy Fuller No. 2 eintrug. Bei einem Konzert mit Paul Robeson 1942 in Washington, D.C. mit Gastsolist Sonny Terry veranlasste Long, dass Terry von McGhee begleitet wurde. Die beiden kamen gut an und arbeiteten fortan oft zusammen. 1942 zog McGhee nach New York, wo er Kontakt mit berühmten Folk-Musikern wie Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger u.a. hatte und 1948 eine Schule „The Home of Blues“ als Gitarrenlehrer gründete. Er spielte 1959 und 1963 auf dem Newport Folk Festival und machte mit Sonny Terry Tourneen, u.a. durch Indien und Europa. Terry beteiligte ihn auch 1963 an seiner Produktion Sonny Is King.
Außer im Blues hatte McGhee auch mit Rhythm'n Blues-Aufnahmen Erfolg (u.a. mit Champion Jack Dupree, Big Maybelle und seinem jüngeren Bruder Stick McGhee auf dessen Hit Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee). Ferner hatte er zwei Broadwayshow-Rollen wie z.B. in Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach (1955) mit Terry sowie eine Nebenrolle auf der Leinwand im Thriller Angel Heart (1987).
Sein Bluesstil war von der Ostküste, der sogenannte Piedmont Blues.

Walter Brown ("Brownie") McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996)[1] was a Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.[2]
Life and career
Brownie McGhee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee.[3] As a child he had polio, which incapacitated his leg. His brother Granville "Sticks" or "Stick" McGhee was nicknamed for pushing young Brownie around in a cart. His father, George McGhee, was a factory worker known around University Avenue for playing guitar and singing. Brownie's uncle made him a guitar from a tin marshmallow box and a piece of board.[4] McGhee spent much of his youth immersed in music, singing with local harmony group the Golden Voices Gospel Quartet and teaching himself to play guitar. A March of Dimes-funded leg operation enabled McGhee to walk.
At age 22, Brownie McGhee became a traveling musician, working in the Rabbit Foot Minstrels and befriending Blind Boy Fuller, whose guitar playing influenced him greatly. After Fuller's death in 1941, J. B. Long of Columbia Records had McGhee adopt his mentor's name, branding him "Blind Boy Fuller No. 2." By that time, McGhee was recording for Columbia's subsidiary Okeh Records in Chicago, but his real success came after he moved to New York in 1942, when he teamed up with Sonny Terry, whom he had known since 1939 when Sonny was Blind Boy Fuller's harmonica player. The pairing was an overnight success; as well as recording, they toured together until around 1980. As a duo, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee did most of their work from 1958 until 1980, spending 11 months of each year touring, and recording dozens of albums.
Despite their later fame as "pure" folk artists playing for white audiences, in the 1940s Terry and McGhee also attempted to be successful black recording performers, fronting a jump blues combo with honking saxophone and rolling piano, variously calling themselves "Brownie McGhee and his Jook House Rockers" or "Sonny Terry and his Buckshot Five," often with Champion Jack Dupree and Big Chief Ellis. They also appeared in the original Broadway productions of Finian's Rainbow and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
During the blues revival of the 1960s, Terry and McGhee were very popular on the concert and music festival circuits, occasionally adding new material but usually remaining faithful to their roots and their audience.
Late in his life, McGhee began appearing in small film or TV roles. With Sonny Terry, he appeared in the 1979 Steve Martin comedy The Jerk. In 1987, McGhee gave a small but memorable performance as ill-fated blues singer Toots Sweet in the supernatural thriller movie, Angel Heart. In his review of Angel Heart, critic Roger Ebert singled out McGhee for praise, declaring that he delivered a "performance that proves [saxophonist] Dexter Gordon isn't the only old musician who can act."[5] McGhee appeared in a 1988 episode of "Family Ties" titled "The Blues, Brother" in which he played fictional blues musician Eddie Dupre, as well as a 1989 episode of Matlock entitled "The Blues Singer."
Happy Traum, a former guitar student of Brownie's, edited a blues guitar instruction guide and songbook for him. Using a tape recorder, Traum had McGhee instruct and, between lessons, talk about his life and the blues. Guitar Styles of Brownie McGhee was published in New York in 1971. The autobiographical section features Brownie talking about growing up, his musical beginnings, and a history of the early blues period (1930s onward).
One of McGhee's final concert appearances was at the 1995 Chicago Blues Festival.[3]
McGhee died from stomach cancer in February 1996 in Oakland, California, at age 80; he missed his planned return trip to Australia.

Roots of Blues -- Brownie McGehee „Death Of Blind Boy Fuller" 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FUV5a3hW84 


 

Ernie Lancaster  *30.11.1953

 


Ernie Lancaster (November 30, 1953 – July 17, 2014)[2] was an American electric blues and blues rock guitarist and songwriter. He released two solo albums. Lancaster had the ability to vary his style between strict blues, and rock, jazz, soul and pop.[1]
He cited his influences as Roy Buchanan, Stevie Ray Vaughan and John Lee Hooker.[3]
Ernest Ray Lancaster was born in Georgia, United States. He later grew up in South Carolina before relocating with his family to Mount Dora, Florida. He formed his own band while at school, which eventually played at Stetson University and on television in Orlando. After dropping out of college, and getting married at age 19,[4] he was a founding member of the Sex Change Band in the mid-1970s.[3] As the backing outfit for Root Boy Slim,[1] the band was a fixture in the mid-Atlantic blues and rock scene, and favored a mix of Memphis-style boogie rock/blues.[5] They recorded an album for Warner Bros. Records in 1978, their first of six records.[4] In 1989, Lancaster played on the Pee Wee, Fred and Maceo album recorded by the JB Horns.[6]
Lancaster's guitar work appeared on numerous albums in the 1980s and 1990s, before he released his debut solo album. That was Ernestly, an all instrumental affair, which was released on Ichiban Records in 1991.[1] Other musicians Lancaster supplied guitar playing for included Rufus Thomas,[7] Reverend Billy C. Wirtz, Kenny Neal, Noble Watts and Lucky Peterson. The latter musician was heavily involved in playing the Hammond organ on Lancaster's first album, with a co-starring credit noted on the album's sleeve.[1] The Allmusic journalist, Alex Henderson, noted that "Although not stunning, Ernestly provides some gritty and unpretentious fun."[7]
In 1993, Lancaster played guitar in James Brown's backing band, during their European tour.[2]
Lancaster's second album, Lightnin' Alley, which comprised self composed tracks (in a similar vein to his first album) was issued in May 2008.[1] He also appeared at the Boundary Waters Blues Festival.
Lancaster died from pancreatic cancer, at his home in Mount Dora, Florida in July 2014, aged 60.[2]

Ernie Lancaster Slide Boogie 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ8Jpw9a2z0 




Mike Morgan  *30.11.1959

 



Mike Morgan (* 30. November 1959, Dallas, Texas) ist ein amerikanischer Gitarrist, Mundharmonikaspieler, Sänger und Songwriter.
Mike Morgan wurde in Dallas geboren, wuchs aber in Hillsboro, Texas, auf. Die erste Gitarre bekam er in der Grundschule. Seine erste musikalische Inspiration war die Musik von Otis Redding und Wilson Pickett, aber er spielte trotzdem Rockmusik.[1]. Seine Entscheidung Blues zu spielen ist auf das Hören des Albums "Texas Flood" von Stevie Ray Vaughan zurückzuführen. Neben ihm gab er auch noch T-Bone Walker, Magic Sam und Anson Funderburgh an.[2] 1986 ging er nach Dallas zurück, wo er mit Darrell Nulisch zusammen die Band "The Crawl" gründete. Die Gruppe wurde nach einem Song von Lonnie Brooks benannt.
Mike Morgan and The Crawl bauten sich einen guten Ruf in der texanischen Bluesszene auf. 1989 verließ Nulisch die Band und wurde durch den Sänger und Mundharmonikaspieler Lee McBee ersetzt. Nach dem Debütalbum "Raw & Ready" gingen sie auf nationale und internationale Tourneen. 2000 verließ McBee die Band, die Sängerrolle übernahm Mike Morgan selbst.
Ab 2006 schränkte Mike Morgan, der inzwischen als Vertriebsleiter bei einem Motorradhändler arbeitet, seine Tourneetätigkeit stark ein. Nachdem er nur gelegentliche Auftritte, meist mit Kevin Schermerhorn (Schlagzeug) und Drew Allain (Bass), gespielt hatte, kündigte Morgan für Mai 2010 eine Europatournee mit Stationen überwiegend in Deutschland an - zusammen mit The Crawl und Lee McBee.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Morgan_%28Musiker%29   

Mike Morgan (born November 30, 1959, Dallas, Texas) is an American Texas and electric blues musician.[1] He has released thirteen albums to date, on various record labels including Rounder, Black Top and Severn Records. The majority of his releases have featured his long standing backing band, The Crawl. Morgan has played alongside Darrell Nulisch, Lee McBee, Gary Primich, and Randy McAllister.
Biography
Morgan was born in Dallas, but grew up in Hillsboro, Texas.[2] He received his first guitar at an early age, and initially concentrated on playing rock music. In 1985 he converted to blues and blues-rock, before relocating back to Dallas in 1986. There he met Darrell Nulisch, who both were founding members of The Crawl. The group was named for a Lonnie Brooks song.[1]
Mike Morgan and the Crawl earned a reputation playing around Dallas and the Fort Worth area, before Nulisch left them in 1989, to be replaced by the singer and harmonica player, Lee McBee.[2] Following a performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, their debut 1990 album, Raw & Ready, saw them undertake national and international tours. Further albums including Full Moon Over Dallas, and Ain't Worried No More ensued, before Morgan recorded without his backing group on Let The Dogs Run (1994) with Jim Suhler.[1] In 1994 Mike Morgan and the Crawl appeared on the bill at the Notodden Blues Festival. Later group releases included their Black Top swansong, I Like the Way You Work It, but at the end of the 1990s McBee left the band.[2] Buoyed by the experience of playing behind Nulisch, Keith Dunn, and Chris Whynaught, 2000's Texas Man saw Morgan's vocalist debut. Live in Dallas (2004) followed before Morgan's latest effort, Stronger Every Day, released in March 2008, included further accompaniment from McBee and Randy McAllister.[1]
Recent activity has seen a reduction in touring, and Morgan working as a sales manager in a Mesquite, Texas, motorcycle dealership.

Mike Morgan and The Crawl - "You Ain't Like You Used To Be" 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_yWgKF7YU0 








Kelly Richey  *30.11.1962 

 

https://kellyrichey.com/about/

Kelly Richey (born November 30, 1962) is an American blues rock guitarist, singer and composer based out of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Kelly Richey was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, United States,[3] in a conservative Christian household that avoided rock music. Her first instrument was the piano.[4] Her second instrument was a drum kit that her neighbor let her take home. After a couple of months of playing drums in her bedroom, her father offered to buy her anything she wanted; she chose the guitar. She started learning guitar at age 15; she reached a point where she was practicing 12 hours a day.[5][6]
Career
Kelly Richey joined the Arista Records group Stealin' Horses in 1986. In 1990, she formed The Kelly Richey Band (KRB). In 1997 she moved from Lexington to Mount Auburn, Cincinnati.[7] Writing of her 2001 album Sending Me Angels, Guitar Player praised her "fiery solos" and her "fast, powerful picking hand", which she credited to having played as a drummer.[8] She cites Roy Buchanan as an influence,[8] besides Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix.[1] She released eleven albums between 1994 and 2008.[5] Her 2006 album Speechless consisted entirely of instrumentals.[9]
Equipment
Richey plays a Fender Stratocaster, the same she has played since the 1980s. It has a 1963 body and a 1965 neck, with a traditional Fender tremolo; the pickups are Seymour Duncan and she uses SIT strings (.10-.046). She plays through a Fender Super Reverb with an Ibanez Tube Screamer.

Kelly Richey is one of the hardest working independent musicians out there; to date logging an extraordinary 900,000 miles touring, and at one point in her 28-year professional career, gigging a grueling 275 days out of the year. Richey has toured in the USA, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Born in Lexington, Kentucky but now based in Cincinnati, Richey started playing guitar at the age of 15. Today, a staggering 3,900 gigs later, she more than earns the title of master guitarist and singer/songwriter. She has been described as “Stevie Ray Vaughan trapped in a woman’s body with Janis Joplin screaming to get out”. She has been listed as among the top 100 gifted guitarists by the Truefire Community in 2011, and frequently draws comparisons to blues guitar icons Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Richey has shared the stage with such legends as Lonnie Mack and Albert King, and has opened for Joe Cocker, Lita Ford, Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, Walter Trout, Little Feat, Foghat, REO Speedwagon, George Thorogood, Average White Band, Robben Ford, Warren Zevon, and James Brown.  Richey has fronted her blues/rock power trio, The Kelly Richey Band since the early 1990’s, and she also performs an intense, dazzling solo show incorporating electric and acoustic guitar, looping, beats, electronic sound synthesis, and some of her more personal acoustic material.

Richey has been teaching guitar almost as long as she’s been playing; with over three decades of teaching experience under her belt, she is a deeply dedicated and inspirational guitar instructor who has taught well over 1,000 students to date.  Richey teaches both privately and through the online teaching course with TrueFire.  Richey has put out a number of instructional videos and teaches several guitar workshops around the country.  Richey has a rock solid understanding of blues guitar techniques, which she passionately passes on to her students. She’s a warm, outgoing and dynamic guitar instructor with a unique teaching style who relates exceptionally well to her students no matter what their skill level or background may be. Her goal is to provide expert instruction tailored to meet each student’s individual needs, so that he or she can excel to full potential.

Hey Joe - Kelly Richey Video 


 

 


R.I.P.

 

Don „Sugarcane“ Harris  +30.11.1999

 


Don „Sugarcane“ Francis Bowman Harris[1] (* 19. Juni 1938 in Pasadena, Kalifornien; † 30. November 1999 in Los Angeles) war ein US-amerikanischer Violinist und Gitarrist. Als Violinist nahm er Anfang der 1970er Jahre im Fusionjazz eine führende Stellung ein, spielte aber auch Jazz, Blues und Rock.
Harris war kreolisch-indianisch-afroamerikanischer Abstammung und wuchs in Pasadena auf. Er erhielt klassischen Geigenunterricht. In den 1950er Jahren spielte er als Gitarrist mit seinem Jugendfreund Dewey Terry in der Gruppe „The Squires“, die verschiedene Singles veröffentlichte. Von 1957 bis etwa 1967 bildeten er und Terry das Duo „Don and Dewey“, das auf dem Label Specialty Records einige Singles herausbrachte, die 1974 zu einem Album zusammengestellt wurden. Harris und Terry waren Ko-Autoren der frühen Rock-and-Roll-Klassiker „Justine“, „Farmer John“, „Leaving It All Up to You“ und „Big Boy Pete“. Diese Stücke wurden mit anderen Interpreten wie den Righteous Brothers zu Hits. Als der Erfolg für Don and Dewey ausblieb, trennte sich das Duo.
Harris wandte sich danach der elektrisch verstärkten Violine zu. Ab Ende der 1960er Jahre war er als Gastmusiker bei John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Little Richard, John Lee Hooker und Johnny Otis zu hören. Für Frank Zappa und The Mothers of Invention wirkte er an den Aufnahmen zu den Alben Hot Rats, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Chunga’s Revenge, Apostrophe (’) und The Lost Episodes mit.[2] Harris gehörte außerdem zwei Besetzungen der zappaschen Hot-Rats-Liveband an.[3] Zappa hielt die Don-and-Dewey-Single „Soul Motion“ für eine der besten Rhythm-and-Blues-Platten aller Zeiten.[4]
Mit dem Schlagzeuger Paul Lagos und den Gitarristen Harvey Mandel und Randy Resnick spielte er Anfang der 1970er Jahre in der Gruppe „Pure Food and Drug Act“ zusammen, die 1972 das Album Choice Cuts herausbrachte.[5]
1971 wurde Harris von Joachim-Ernst Berendt zum „New Violin Summit“ eingeladen, das am 7. November während der Berliner Jazztage stattfand; an diesem Geiger-Gipfeltreffen, dessen Aufnahmen größtenteils von dem Plattenlabel MPS als gleichnamiges Album veröffentlicht wurden,[6] nahmen auch Jean-Luc Ponty, Michal Urbaniak und der Sinto Nipso Brandner teil. Harris' vorhergehender Jazztage-Auftritt am 5. November mit der Sugar Cane Harris Group unter Beteiligung von Volker Kriegel und Wolfgang Dauner wurde ebenfalls von MPS unter dem Titel Sugar Cane's Got the Blues[7] veröffentlicht. Die darauf zu findende eindringliche Version von Horace Silvers „Song for My Father“ stammt allerdings aus dem Mitschnitt des Summit-Auftritts. Bei der mit Berendt zusammenarbeitenden Plattenfirma MPS entstanden in den Folgejahren einige Platten von unterschiedlicher Qualität, unter denen das Album Fiddler on the Rock positiv auffällt.
Danach wurde es eine Zeit lang still um Harris. Erst in den späten 1970er-Jahren ging er als Mitglied der John-Mayall-Band erneut auf Tournee. Aufgrund seines Drogenmissbrauchs hatte er zunehmend psychische Probleme. Anfang der 1980er Jahre war er in Los Angeles für kurze Zeit Mitglied der experimentellen Rockband „Tupelo Chain Sex“, anschließend ging er noch einmal mit Don & Dewey auf Tournee.
Der seit längerem lungenkranke Musiker wurde am 1. Dezember 1999 in seiner Wohnung im Süden von Los Angeles tot aufgefunden.

Don Francis Bowman Harris (June 18, 1938[1] – November 27, 1999), known as Don "Sugarcane" Harris, was an American rock and roll violinist and guitarist.
Biography
Harris was born and raised in Pasadena, California, and started an act called Don and Dewey with his childhood friend Dewey Terry in the mid 1950s. Although they were recorded by Art Rupe on his Specialty label, mostly utilizing the services of legendary drummer Earl Palmer, Don and Dewey didn't have any hits. However, Harris and Terry co-authored such early rock and roll classics as "Farmer John", "Justine", "I'm Leaving It Up to You", and "Big Boy Pete," all of which became hits for other artists.
Harris was given the nickname "Sugarcane" by bandleader Johnny Otis and it was to remain with him throughout his life.
After separating from Dewey Terry in the 1960s, Harris moved almost exclusively over to the electric violin. He was to reappear as a sideman with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and Frank Zappa, most recognized for his appearances on Hot Rats, and on the Mothers of Invention albums Burnt Weeny Sandwich and Weasels Ripped My Flesh. His lead vocal and blues violin solo on a cover of Little Richard's "Directly From My Heart to You" on Weasels, and his extended solo on the lengthy "Little House I Used To Live In" on Weeny are considered highlights of those albums. Reportedly, he was rescued from a jail term by Zappa. Zappa had long admired Harris's playing and bailed him out of prison, resurrecting his career and ushering in a long period of creativity for the forgotten violin virtuoso. He played a couple of live concerts with Zappa's band in 1969.
During the early 1970s, Sugarcane fronted the Pure Food and Drug Act which included drummer Paul Lagos, guitarists Harvey Mandel and Randy Resnick, and bassist Victor Conte, who was the founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO). Conte replaced Larry Taylor who was the original bass player. His first solo album (with back cover art by underground poster artist Rick Griffin) is a forgotten masterpiece of blues, jazz, classical and funk compositions, and his 1973 live album Sugarcane's Got The Blues, recorded at the Berlin Jazz Festival show an accomplished musician at the top of his game.[citation needed]
In the 1980s, Sugarcane was a member of the Los Angeles-based experimental rock band Tupelo Chain Sex.
Harris died on November 27, 1999 in Los Angeles, California.

Blues for the Moon DON ''SUGARCANE'' HARRIS 


Dienstag, 29. November 2016

29.11., John Mayall, Lucille Hegamin, Jennifer Batten, John McNamara, Jordan Officer, Jäcki Reznicek, Martin Lang, Berit Hanssen *














1894 Lucille Hegamin*
1933 John Mayall*
1953 Jäcki Reznicek*
1957 Jennifer Batten*
1974 Berit Hanssen (Berit Leinum Prytz Hanssen)*
1979 John McNamara*
Jordan Officer*
Martin Lang*





 

 Happy Birthday

 

John Mayall  *29.11.1933


John Mayall, OBE (* 29. November 1933 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England) ist ein Mitbegründer des britischen Blues Anfang der 1960er Jahre. Er gilt neben Alexis Korner als einer der Väter des britischen Blues (beide tragen den Beinamen „Vater des weißen Blues“) und als einer der Ersten, die diese Musikrichtung von den Wurzeln weg zu experimentelleren Formen brachten.
John Mayall wurde am 29. November 1933 in der englischen Kleinstadt Macclesfield nahe Manchester geboren – weit ab von der schwarzen, US-amerikanischen Blueskultur. Trotzdem kam er schon früh mit der Musik in Berührung, da sein Vater begeisterter Amateur-Jazzmusiker war und ihm im Teenageralter das Spiel auf Gitarre, Banjo und Ukulele beibrachte. Bereits 1950 trat John Mayall in Manchester mit einem Blues-Trio auf. Seine beginnende musikalische Karriere wurde durch den Militärdienst in Korea für drei Jahre unterbrochen. Anschließend besuchte Mayall ab 1955 die Kunsthochschule, wo er eine Ausbildung zum Grafik-Designer abschloss.
Bereits früh in seiner Karriere traf Mayall auf bekannte Musiker. In der 1962 von ihm gegründeten Bluesformation Powerhouse Four, die bald in Blues Syndikat umbenannt wurde, spielte schon der Bassist John McVie. Zu dieser Zeit wurde Alexis Korner auf Mayall aufmerksam und ermutigte ihn, in London als Musiker zu arbeiten. Mayall stellte seine Band erneut um und präsentierte sie 1963 im Londoner Marquee Club unter dem Namen Bluesbreakers, der lange Bestand haben sollte.[1]
Die Besetzung der Bluesbreakers wandelte sich ständig, dabei waren große Namen wie Eric Clapton, Peter Green und John McVie (beide Mitglieder von Fleetwood Mac) und Mick Taylor (bei den Rolling Stones Nachfolger des verstorbenen Brian Jones) unter den Mitspielern. Um 1968 wandelte sich der Stil vom reinen, „klassischen“ Blues zu experimentelleren Formen, zum ersten Mal auf dem Album Blues from Laurel Canyon, das jedoch nicht unter dem Namen der Bluesbreakers entstanden war. Legendär ist das mit Jon Mark und Johnny Almond eingespielte Album The Turning Point von 1969, auf dem Mayall (ohne seinen Schlagzeuger Keef Hartley) verzerrte Leadgitarre und Keyboards spielt. Es gibt Leute, die behaupten, Mayall sei beim Woodstock-Festival aufgetreten, was er jedoch in mehreren Interviews dementierte.[2]
In den 1970er Jahren erschienen Alben von sehr unterschiedlichem Charakter. 1979 brannte Mayalls geliebtes Baumhaus im Laurel Canyon ab, wobei zahlreiche Mastertapes und Tagebücher verloren gingen. Als 1982 die Stimmung für Blues auf einem Tiefpunkt war, formierte Mayall für einige Konzerte die alten Bluesbreakers mit Mick Taylor neu und trat ab diesem Zeitpunkt wieder mit traditionellem Bluesbreakers-Sound auf, wobei er sich immer noch als phantasievoller Songwriter zeigte. Er spielte weniger Tasteninstrumente, sondern bevorzugte die (selbstgebaute) Gitarre.
Anlässlich seines 40-jährigen Bühnenjubiläums 2001 spielte eine Reihe bedeutender Rock- und Bluesmusiker zusammen mit Mayall für das Album Along for the Ride; so unter anderem Gary Moore, Chris Rea und Otis Rush. Seinen 70. Geburtstag 2003 feierte John Mayall mit einem Konzert der Bluesbreakers in Liverpool, bei dem auch die alten Freunde Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor und der Jazzmusiker Chris Barber auftraten. Bis heute tourt Mayall mit den Bluesbreakers regelmäßig in den USA, in Europa und Australien, wobei er nicht mehr in großen Konzerthallen, sondern eher in Klubs, aber auch bei den wichtigsten Bluesfestivals auftritt.
John Mayalls Werk ist in den Hitparaden nur wenig vertreten, aber bedeutend für die Weiterentwicklung des Blues. Mayall beeinflusste zahlreiche Musiker. Als Auszeichnung erhielt er die Ernennung zum Officer of the Order of the British Empire im Jahr 2005.

John Mayall, OBE (born 29 November 1933) is an English blues singer, guitarist, organist and songwriter, whose musical career spans over fifty years. In the 1960s, he was the founder of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band which has counted among its members some of the most famous blues and blues rock musicians. They include Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Jack Bruce, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Taylor, Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor, Aynsley Dunbar, Hughie Flint, Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser, Johnny Almond, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya and Buddy Whittington.

Biography

Born in Macclesfield, Cheshire in 1933,[2] Mayall's father Murray Mayall, was a guitarist and jazz music enthusiast. From an early age, John was drawn to the sounds of American blues players such as Lead Belly, Albert Ammons, Pinetop Smith, and Eddie Lang, and taught himself to play the piano, guitars, and harmonica.[3]

Mayall spent three years in Korea for national service and, during a period of leave, he bought his first electric guitar. Back in England, he enrolled at Manchester College of Art (now part of Manchester Metropolitan University) and started playing with semi-professional bands. After graduation, he obtained a job as an art designer but continued to play with local musicians. In 1963, he opted for a full-time musical career and moved to London. His previous craft would be put to good use in the designing of covers for many of his coming albums.

Since the end of the 1960s Mayall has lived in the US. A brush fire destroyed his house in Laurel Canyon in 1979, seriously damaging his musical collections and archives.

Mayall has been married twice, and has six grandchildren. His second wife, Maggie Mayall is an American blues performer, and since the early 1980s took part in the management of her husband's career. The pair divorced in 2011.[citation needed]

In 2005 Mayall was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Honours List.

Early years

In 1956, with college fellow Peter Ward, Mayall had founded the Powerhouse Four which consisted of both men and other local musicians with whom they played at local dances. In 1962 Mayall became a member of the Blues Syndicate. The band was formed by trumpeter John Rowlands and alto saxophonist Jack Massarik, who had seen the Alexis Korner band at a Manchester club and wanted to try a similar blend of jazz and blues. It also included rhythm guitarist Ray Cummings and drummer Hughie Flint, whom Mayall already knew. In 1962 John and his band were frequent and popular artists at all night R&B sessions at the 'Twisted Wheel' cellar club in central Manchester. Alexis Korner persuaded Mayall to opt for a full-time musical career and move to London, where Korner introduced him to many other musicians and helped them to find gigs. In late 1963, with his band which was now called the Bluesbreakers, Mayall started playing at the Marquee Club. The lineup was Mayall, Ward, John McVie on bass and guitarist Bernie Watson, formerly of Cyril Davies and the R&B All-Stars. The next spring Mayall obtained his first recording date with producer Ian Samwell. The band, with Martin Hart at the drums, recorded two tracks : "Crawling Up a Hill" as well as "Mr. James."[4] Shortly after, Hughie Flint replaced Hart and Roger Dean took the guitar from Bernie Watson. This lineup backed John Lee Hooker on his British tour in 1964.

Mayall was offered a recording contract by Decca and, on 7 December 1964, a live performance of the band was recorded at the Klooks Kleek. A later studio-recorded single, "Crocodile Walk", was released along with the album, but both failed to achieve any success and the contract was terminated.

In April 1965 former Yardbirds guitarist Eric Clapton replaced Roger Dean and John Mayall's career entered a decisive phase.[5]

Mid-1960s through 1971

Eric Clapton as guitarist, 1965–66

In 1965, with Eric Clapton as their new guitar player, the Bluesbreakers began attracting considerable attention. That summer the band cut a couple tracks for a single, "I'm Your Witchdoctor" b/w "Telephone Blues" (released in October).[6] In August, however, Clapton left for a jaunt to Greece with a bunch of relative musical amateurs calling themselves the 'Glands'. John Weider, John Slaughter, and Geoff Krivit attempted to fill in as Bluesbreaker guitarist but, finally, Peter Green took charge. John McVie was dismissed, and during the next few months Jack Bruce, from the Graham Bond Organisation, played bass.

In November 1965 Clapton returned, and Green departed as Mayall guaranteed Clapton his spot back in the Bluesbreakers whenever he tired of the Glands.[7] McVie was allowed back, and Bruce left to join Manfred Mann, but not before a live date by the Mayall-Clapton-Bruce-Flint line-up was recorded on Mayall's two-track tape recorder at London's Flamingo Club in November. The rough recording provided tracks that later appeared on the 1969 compilation Looking Back and the 1977 Primal Solos.[8][9] The same line-up also entered the studio to record a planned single, "On Top of the World", which was not released at that time.[10] Mayall and Clapton cut a couple of tracks without the others (although some sources give this as occurring back in the summer): "Lonely Years" b/w "Bernard Jenkins" was released as a single the next August on producer Mike Vernon's Purdah Records label (both tracks appeared again two decades later in Clapton's Crossroads box set). In a November 1965 session, blues pianist-singer Champion Jack Dupree (originally from New Orleans but in the 1960s living in Europe) got Mayall and Clapton to play on a few tracks.[9]

In April 1966 the Bluesbreakers returned to Decca Studios to record a second LP with producer Vernon. The sessions, with horn arrangements for some tracks (John Almond on baritone sax, Alan Skidmore on tenor sax, and Dennis Healey on trumpet), lasted just three days. Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton was released in the UK on 22 July 1966. Several of the 12 tracks were covers of pure Chicago blues (side 1 kicking off strong with Otis Rush's "All Your Love" and Freddy King's hit instrumental "Hide Away" [here spelled without a space as "Hideaway"]); Mayall wrote or arranged 5 (such as "Double Crossing Time", a slow blues with a scorching solo by co-writer Clapton); and Eric debuted as lead vocalist, and began his practice of paying tribute to Robert Johnson, with "Ramblin' on My Mind". The album was Mayall's commercial breakthrough, rising to #6 on the British chart, and has since gained classic status, largely for the audacious aggressiveness and molten fluidity of Clapton's guitar playing. "It's Eric Clapton who steals the limelight," reports music mag Beat Instrumental, adding with unintended understatement, "and no doubt several copies of the album will be sold on the strength of his name."[11]

In the meantime, on 11 June the formation of Cream—Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce, and drummer Ginger Baker—had been revealed in the music press, much to the embarrassment of Clapton, who had not said anything about this to Mayall. (After a May Bluesbreakers gig at which Baker had sat in, he and Clapton had first discussed forming their own band, and surreptitious rehearsal jams with Bruce soon commenced.) Eric's last scheduled gig with the Bluesbreakers was 17 July in Bexley, south-east of London;[12] Cream made a warmup club debut 29 July in Manchester and its "official" live debut two days later at the Sixth National Jazz and Blues Festival, Windsor.

Peter Green as guitarist, 1966–67

Mayall had to replace Clapton, and he succeeded in persuading Peter Green to come back. During the following year, with Green on guitar and various other sidemen, some 40 tracks were recorded. The album A Hard Road was released in February 1967. Today its expanded versions include most of this material, and the album itself also stands as a classic. Early 1967 Mayall released an EP recorded with American bluesharpist Paul Butterfield.

But Peter Green gave notice and soon started his own project, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, which eventually was to include all three of Mayall's Bluesbreakers at this time: Green, McVie, and drummer Mick Fleetwood who was a Bluesbreaker for only a couple of weeks.

Mick Taylor as guitarist, 1967–69

Mayall's first choice to replace Green was 18-year-old David O'List, guitarist from the Attack. O'List declined, however, and went on to form the Nice with organist Keith Emerson. Through both a "musicians wanted" ad in Melody Maker on 10 June and his own search, Mayall found three other potential guitarists for his Bluesbreakers, a black musician named Terry Edmonds, John Moorshead, and 18-year-old Mick Taylor. The latter made the band quickly, but Mayall also decided to hire Edmonds as a rhythm guitarist for a few days.[13]

In the meantime, on a single day in May 1967, Mayall had assembled a studio album to showcase his own abilities. Former Artwoods drummer Keef Hartley appeared on only half of the tracks, and everything else was played by Mayall. The album was released in November titled The Blues Alone.

A six-piece lineup—consisting of Mayall, Mick Taylor as lead guitarist, John McVie still on bass, Hughie Flint or Hartley on drums, and Rip Kant and Chris Mercer on saxophones—recorded the album Crusade on 11 and 12 July 1967. These Bluesbreakers spent most of the year touring abroad, and Mayall taped the shows on a portable recorder. At the end of the tour, he had over sixty hours of tapes, which he edited into an album in two volumes: Diary of a Band, Vols. 1 & 2, released in February 1968. Meanwhile, a few lineup changes had occurred: McVie had departed and was replaced by Paul Williams, who himself soon quit to join Alan Price and was replaced by Keith Tillman; Dick Heckstall-Smith had taken the sax spot.

Following a U.S. tour, there were more lineup changes, starting with the troublesome bass position. First Mayall replaced bassist Tillman with 15-year-old Andy Fraser. Within six weeks, though, Fraser left to join Free and was replaced by Tony Reeves, previously a member of the New Jazz Orchestra. Hartley was required to leave, and he was replaced by New Jazz Orchestra drummer Jon Hiseman (who had also played with the Graham Bond Organisation). Henry Lowther, who played violin and cornet, joined in February 1968. Two months later the Bluesbreakers recorded Bare Wires, co-produced by Mayall and Mike Vernon, which came up to #6.

Hiseman, Reeves, and Heckstall-Smith then moved on to form Colosseum. The Mayall lineup retained Mick Taylor and added drummer Colin Allen (formerly of Zoot Money's Big Roll Band / Dantalian's Chariot, and Georgie Fame) and a young bassist named Stephen Thompson. In August 1968 the new quartet recorded Blues from Laurel Canyon.

On 13 June 1969, after nearly two years with Mayall, Taylor left and officially joined the Rolling Stones.

Mark-Almond period, 1969–70

Chas Crane filled in briefly on guitar.[citation needed] Drummer Allen departed to join Stone the Crows. This left as the only holdover bassist Thompson who would also eventually join Stone the Crows.

Mayall tried a new format with lower volume, acoustic instruments, and no drummer. He recruited acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Jon Mark and flautist-saxophonist John Almond. Mark was best known as Marianne Faithfull's accompanist for three years and for having been a member of the band Sweet Thursday (which included pianist Nicky Hopkins and future Cat Stevens collaborator Alun Davies, also a guitarist). Almond had played with Zoot Money and Alan Price and was no stranger to Mayall's music—he had played baritone sax on 4 cuts of Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton and some of A Hard Road. This new band was markedly different from previous Mayall projects, and its making is well documented both on the 1999 double CD The Masters and on the 2004 DVD The Godfather of British Blues: The Turning Point.

Along with the big change in sound, Mayall decided on a big change in scenery: a move to Los Angeles. The new band made its U.S. debut at the Newport Jazz Festival on 5 July,[13] whilst the 12 July performance at the Fillmore East provided the tracks for the live album The Turning Point. A studio album, Empty Rooms, was recorded with the same personnel, with Mayall's next bassist, former Canned Heat member Larry Taylor, playing bass in a duet with Thompson on "To a Princess."

Harvey Mandel as guitarist, 1970–71

Mayall continued the experiment of formations without drummers on two more albums, although he took on a new electric blues-rock-R&B band in guitarist Harvey Mandel and bassist Larry Taylor, both plucked from Canned Heat, and wailing violinist Don "Sugarcane" Harris, lately of the Johnny Otis Show. On USA Union (recorded in Los Angeles, 27–28 July 1970), though, Mandel was compelled to make do without his remarkable sustain and usage of feedback as musical, even melodic, technique; and on Memories the band was stripped down to a trio with Taylor and Ventures guitarist Gerry McGee.

In November 1970 Mayall launched a recording project involving many of the most notable musicians with whom he had played during the previous several years. The double album Back to the Roots features Clapton, Mick Taylor, Gerry McGee and Harvey Mandel on guitar; Sugarcane Harris on violin; Almond on woodwinds; Thompson and Larry Taylor on bass; and Hartley on drums. Paul Lagos was with Sugarcane and ended up drumming on five. Mayall wrote all the songs and sang all the vocals, as usual by now, plus played harmonica, guitar, keyboards, drums, and percussion. The London sessions took place in January 1971 and as such represent some of Clapton's last work before Derek and the Dominos' attempted Layla follow-up sessions and band disintegration that spring.

Back to the Roots did not promote new names, and USA Union and Memories had been recorded with American musicians. Mayall had exhausted his catalytic role on the British blues-rock scene and was living in L.A. Yet, the list of musicians who benefited from association with him, starting with ruling the London blues scene, remains impressive.[14]

1970s–1990s

By the start of the 1970s Mayall had relocated in the USA where he spent most of the next 15 years, recording with local musicians for various labels. In August 1971, Mayall produced a jazz-oriented session for bluesman Albert King[15] and a few months later took on tour the musicians present in the studio.

A live album Jazz Blues Fusion was released in the following year, with Mayall on harmonica, guitar and piano, Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Clifford Solomon and Ernie Watts on saxophones, Larry Taylor on bass, Ron Selico on drums and Freddy Robinson on guitar. A few personnel changes are noted at the release of a similar album in 1973, the live Moving On. During the next decade Mayall continued shifting musicians and switching labels and released a score of albums. Tom Wilson, Don Nix and Allen Toussaint occasionally served as producers. At this stage of his career most of Mayall's music was rather different from electric blues played by rock musicians, incorporating jazz, funk or pop elements and adding even female vocals. A notable exception is The Last Of the British Blues (1978), a live album excused apparently by its title for the brief return to this type of music.[16]

Return of the Bluesbreakers

In 1982 Mayall was reunited with Mick Taylor, John McVie and Colin Allen, three musicians of his 1960s lineups, for a two-year world tour from which a live album would emerge a decade later.

In 1984 Mayall restored the name Bluesbreakers for a lineup comprising the two lead guitars of Walter Trout and Coco Montoya, bassist Bobby Haynes and drummer Joe Yuele. The mythic name did, perhaps, something to enhance the interest in a band which by all standards was already remarkable.

A successful world tour and live recordings achieved the rest. In the early 1990s most of the excitement was already spent and Buddy Whittington became the sole lead guitarist in a formation which included then organist Tom Canning.

On the occasion of the 40th year of his career Mayall received carte blanche to invite fellow musicians for the recording of a celebratory album. Along for the Ride appeared in 2001, credited to John Mayall and Friends with twenty names listed on the cover, including some Bluesbreakers, old and new, and also Gary Moore, Jonny Lang, Steve Cropper, Steve Miller, Otis Rush, Billy Gibbons, Chris Rea, Jeff Healey, Shannon Curfman and a few others.

To celebrate his 70th birthday Mayall reunited with special guests Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor and Chris Barber during a fundraiser show. This "Unite for Unicef" concert took place on 19 July 2003 at the Kings Dock Arena in Liverpool and was captured on film for a DVD release. In 2005, Mayall was awarded an OBE in the Honours List. "It's the only major award I've ever received. I've never had a hit record or a Grammy or been in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame." commented Mayall.[17]

In November 2008, Mayall announced on his website he was disbanding the Bluesbreakers, to cut back on his heavy workload and give himself freedom to work with other musicians. Three months later a solo world tour was announced, with: Rocky Athas on guitar, Greg Rzab on bass, and Jay Davenport on drums. Tom Canning, on organ, joined the band for the tour which started in March 2009. An album was released in September 2009. Since then, Mayall has continued to tour with the same backing band, minus Canning, who left due to other priorities.







"ROOM TO MOVE" - JOHN MAYALL , best version











John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers with Gary Moore - So Many Roads








STEPPIN' OUT (1966) by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers























Lucille Hegamin   *29.11.1894

 


LUCILLE HEGAMIN



 Lucille Hegamin (* 29. November 1894 als Lucille Nelson in Macon, Georgia; † 1. März 1970 in New York City) war eine US-amerikanische Blues-Sängerin. Sie war 1920 die zweite Afroamerikanerin nach Mamie Smith, die Bluesaufnahmen machte.
Bereits im Alter von 15 Jahren war Lucille Nelson mit Minstrel-Shows im Süden der USA unterwegs. Sie wurde als „the Georgia Peach“ (der Georgia-Pfirsich) bekannt. 1914 ließ sie sich in Chicago nieder, wo sie mit Tony Jackson und Jelly Roll Morton arbeitete und den Pianisten Bill Hegamin heiratete. 1918 zog das Ehepaar Hegamin nach Los Angeles, im Jahr darauf nach New York. Bill Hegamin leitete die Begleitband seiner Frau, die „Blue Flame Syncopators“. Im August 1920 nahm Lucille Hegamin die Titel The Jazz Me Blues und "Everybody's Blues" für Arto Records auf; diese Aufnahmen verkauften sich gut. 1921 spielte sie, ebenfalls mit den Blue Flame Syncopators den Arkansas Blues und I'll Be Good But I'll Be Lonesome ein, eine der populärsten Schallplatten des Jahres. Im selben Jahr tourte sie in Pennsylvania, West Virginia und Ohio. Es folgten in den nächsten Jahren weitere Plattenaufnahmen, teilweise unter dem Pseudonym The Cameo Girl; mit He May Be Your Man, But He Comes to See Me Sometimes landete sie 1922 einen weiteren Hit. Im selben Jahr sang sie weiterhin in der New Yorker Aufführung von Shuffle Along.
Ab 1926 trat Hegamin in verschiedenen Revuen auf; 1928 nahm sie (begleitet von J. Russel Robinson) Always Be Careful Mama und Reckless Men auf. 1929 hatte sie eine Radiosendung in New York. Um 1934 zog sie sich aus dem Musikgeschäft zurück und arbeitete als Krankenschwester. Erst 1961 und 1962 machte sie wieder Aufnahmen. Lucille Hegamin starb 1970 in New York. Sie ist in Brooklyn beigesetzt.

Lucille Nelson Hegamin (November 29, 1894 – March 1, 1970) was an American singer and entertainer, and a pioneer African-American blues recording artist.
Life and career
Lucille Nelson was born in Macon, Georgia, United States, the daughter of John and Minnie Nelson.[1] From an early age she sang in local church choirs and theatre programs.[1] By the age of 15 she was touring the US South with the Leonard Harper Minstrel Stock Company.[2] In 1914 she settled in Chicago, Illinois, where, often billed as "The Georgia Peach", she worked with Tony Jackson and Jelly Roll Morton before marrying the pianist-composer Bill Hegamin.[3] She later told a biographer: "I was a cabaret artist in those days, and never had to play theatres, and I sang everything from blues to popular songs, in a jazz style. I think I can say without bragging that I made the "St. Louis Blues" popular in Chicago; this was one of my feature numbers."[4]
The Hegamins moved to Los Angeles, California in 1918, then to New York City the following year.[5] Bill Hegamin led his wife's accompanying band, called the Blue Flame Syncopators; Jimmy Wade was a member of this ensemble.
In November 1920, Hegamin became the second African-American blues singer to record, after Mamie Smith.[6] Hegamin made a series of recordings for the Arto record label through 1922, and then a few sides for Paramount in 1922. One of her biggest hits was "Arkansas Blues", recorded for Arto and soon released on no fewer than nine other labels, including Black Swan.[5] Hegamin recorded one of Tom Delaneys' earliest compositions, "Jazz Me Blues", in 1921, and it went on to become a jazz standard.[7] Lucille Hegamin subsequently played theatre dates but did not tour extensively.[5]
On January 20, 1922, she competed in a blues singing contest against Daisy Martin, Alice Leslie Carter and Trixie Smith at the Fifteenth Infantry's First Band Concert and Dance in New York City. Hegamin placed second to Smith in the contest, which was held at the Manhattan Casino.[8]
From 1922 through late 1926 she recorded over forty sides for Cameo Records; from this association she was billed as "The Cameo Girl".[9] After her marriage to Bill Hegamin ended in 1923, her most frequent accompanist was pianist J. Cyrill Fullerton.[10] In 1926, Hegamin recorded with Clarence Williams' band for the Columbia label. She performed in Clarence Williams' Revue at the Lincoln Theater in New York, then in various revues in New York and Atlantic City, New Jersey through 1934. In 1929 she appeared on the radio show "Negro Achievement Hour" on WABC, New York.[11] In 1932 she recorded two sides for Okeh Records.
About 1934 she retired from music as a profession, and worked as a nurse. She came out of retirement in 1961 to record four songs, accompanied by a band led by Willie "The Lion" Smith, on the album Songs We Taught Your Mother[12] for the Bluesville Records label. In 1962 she recorded an album, Basket of Blues for the Spivey label. She performed at a Mamie Smith Benefit concert at the Celebrity Club in New York City in 1964.[11]
Lucille Hegamin died in Harlem Hospital in New York on March 1, 1970,[13] and was interred in the Cemetery of the Evergreens in Brooklyn, New York.[11]
Style
Lucille Hegamin's stylistic influences included Annette Hanshaw and Ruth Etting.[14] According to Derrick Stewart-Baxter, "Lucille's clear, rich voice, with its perfect diction, and its jazz feeling, was well in the vaudeville tradition, and her repertoire was wide."[15] Like Mamie Smith, Hegamin sang classic female blues in a lighter, more pop-tune influenced style than the rougher rural-style blues singers such as Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith who became more popular a few years later.


Mississippi Blues - Lucille Hegamin And Her Blue Flame Syncopators (Bell)1921 









Jennifer Batten  *29.11.1957

 




Jennifer Batten (* 29. November 1957 in New York) ist eine US-amerikanische E-Gitarristin.
Biografie
Jennifer Batten begann bereits im Alter von acht Jahren E-Gitarre zu spielen. Ab 1979 absolvierte sie ein Studium am 1977 von Howard Roberts gegründeten Guitar Institute of Technology (G.I.T.) in Hollywood, Kalifornien,[1] wo sie sich mit dem Gitarristen Steve Lynch anfreundete, der ebenso wie Batten an der Entwicklung der damals populär werdenden Tappingtechnik beteiligt war. Nach dem Studium spielte sie in mehreren lokalen Bands und unterrichtete am G.I.T.
Einem größeren Publikum bekannt wurde sie durch ihr Engagement als Leadgitarristin von Michael Jackson, für das sie 1987 in einem Casting aus 100 Gitarristen ausgewählt wurde. Bis zur Jacksons HIStory Tour von 1997 war sie fester Bestandteil seiner Liveband und Bühnenshow. Sie erregte dabei nicht nur durch ihr extravagantes Auftreten Aufsehen, sondern auch durch ihr innovatives Gitarrenspiel und die Perfektionierung der, durch Edward Van Halen populär gewordenen, Spieltechnik des sogenannten Tappings. So spielte sie zum Beispiel das Solo zum Song Beat it live auf Jacksons Konzerten, auch wenn das ursprüngliche Beat it-Solo der Plattenversion nachträglich aus mehreren Soli zusammengemischt wurde, die Edward Van Halen im Studio eingespielt hatte.[2] Ebenfalls mit dieser Technik spielte sie den ursprünglich für Orchester komponierten Hummelflug von Rimski-Korsakow, der als Solostück hohe Anforderungen stellt.
Während ihrer Zeit bei Michael Jackson nahm sie 1992 ihr erstes Soloalbum Above, Below And Beyond auf, welches von Michael Sembello produziert wurde. 1995 gründete sie eine eigene Band, The Immigrants, und veröffentlichte mit ihr 1995 das Album One Planet Under One Groove.[3] Das zweite Soloalbum Momentum, das stärker weltmusikalisch orientiert ist, folgte 1997. Ein Jahr später wurde sie von Jeff Beck in seine Band aufgenommen und spielte auf zwei seiner Alben (Who Else! und You had it Coming).[1] Ihr drittes Soloalbum Whatever wurde im September 2007 in Japan veröffentlicht.
Jennifer Batten hat zahlreiche Liveauftritte absolviert, an zahlreichen weiteren CDs mitgewirkt, hatte einen Gastauftritt in Michael Jacksons Film Moonwalker und veröffentlichte mehrere Lehrbücher und -videos, insbesondere zum Thema Tapping.

Jennifer Batten (born November 29, 1957) is an American guitarist who has worked as a session musician and solo artist.[1] She has released three studio albums: her 1992 debut, Above Below and Beyond (produced by former Stevie Wonder guitarist Michael Sembello), the worldbeat-influenced Jennifer Batten's Tribal Rage: Momentum in 1997, and Whatever, which was released on CD and DVD in Japan in September 2007 and worldwide in April 2008.
She authored two music books: Two Hand Rock (published by Hal Leonard) and The Transcribed Guitar Solos of Peter Sprague.
Away from music Batten enjoys creating stained glass art.[2]
Early years
Batten began to play guitar at the age of 8 when her father bought her a "killer red and blue electric". Her early influences came from The Beatles, BB King, Lightnin' Hopkins and Jeff Beck.[2]
Batten started to experiment with "2 handed tapping technique" from classmate Steve Lynch while attending the Musicians Institute in 1978.[2]
Musical career
Batten has appeared on recordings such as Jeff Beck's Who Else! (1999) and You Had It Coming (2001), Michael Sembello's Heavy Weather (1992), Bret Helm's "Doc Tahri" and the debut of The Immigrants. Her music video appearances include Jeff Beck (Live in Japan), Michael Jackson (Moonwalker-"Come Together"), Natalie Cole-"Wild Women Do", Sara Hickman and Miguel Mateos's "Obsesión".
Batten played lead and rhythm guitar on Michael Jackson's Bad (1987–1989), Dangerous (1992) and HIStory (1996–1997) world tours, and on his 1993 Super Bowl half-time performance, which was aired to 1.5 billion people in 80 nations (the largest audience in television history).
She was in British guitar legend Jeff Beck's band for three years from 1999.
Between 1994 and 1999 Batten worked with Dave Rodgers and Domino as featured guitarist on the eurobeat songs "Sun City", "Music For the People", "Fly" and "Woa Woa Woa." Her writing and performing is uncredited in several other songs under the A-Beat C label.[citation needed] Her live Eurobeat appearances were limited to playing at the Tokyo Dome with Rodgers and Queen of Hearts.
In 2010 she recorded a solo for the song "Bad Girls" by Polish singer Doda.
In November 2011, Batten was featured on BBC Radio 4's series "Joan Armatrading's More Guitar Favourites".


jennifer batten - blues - live in roma -stazione birra 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MqR2SNH_k8  





Berit Hanssen  (Berit Leinum Prytz Hanssen)  *29.11.1974



 https://www.facebook.com/bl.ph.9/photos_albums


https://www.facebook.com/TheBandTheB/?fref=ts 



The Bitch & the Bluesmen

Since the start in the autumn of 2010, Berit and Stein has kept together this fun little bluesy band with a genuine love for quality music and strong live performances. The influences are many, but the blues and the rock of the seventies remain amongst the genres that inspires the band the most. From the rather hesitant and searching first version of the band, until present days confident and playful lineup, one simple principal has been held on to firmly: It’s all about the music, and having fun while performing it. If it stops being fun, the band will simply stop doing it!

In 2015 the band decided to take the music one step further, and they released their debut album, “Hands All Dirty”. The band is currently writing music for their second album (release date not set, hopefully sometime during 2016 though).
The band is, and has always been a live act, first and foremost. Performing the music live in front of an enthusiastic crowd will always be what gives the music an edge, and is ultimately what it’s all about. Many good musicians has been part of the lineup for longer or shorter periods of time, but today’s lineup of skillful musicians has to be the most exciting version of the band this far. To bring the raw and energetic music to a venue near you, we present to you this fine collection of musicians:

On lead vocals, masterly fronting the band: Berit Leinum Prytz Hanssen

On the guitar and on backing vocals: Stein Hanssen

On the bass guitar: John “Mini” Kamphaug

On the drums: John Eirik Nilsen


The Bitch And The Bluesmen2015 Bad Day Blues 













John McNamara  *29.11.1979






"The Bastard made me feel insecure, He's So Good!" - Russell Morriss (Australian Music Icon)

"Soulful is rather an understatement... Listeners were hypnotised into silence by his raw rustic tone... A beautiful purity to his voice." BroadWay Baby -Edinburgh 2012

"An Exceptional musical experience... I felt nothing but a sense of privilige... A Deeply Satisfying show." - Three Weeks Edinburgh 2012

"Masterful Blues Guitar was Brilliant and Blisteringly fast...Resonant & Powerful\." - Rip It Up  Adelaide fringe 2013

"Exciting Blues... The Audience was mesmerized." -Rip It Up 2014

Australian Soul/Blues artist John McNamara released his debut Album "Alone With The Blues -One Voice, One Guitar" in August 2014.

John Won the MBAS Blues Challenge Solo/Duo Catergory in July 2014 and represented the Australian Blues in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis Jan 2015!

John Won an Australian Blues Music Award (Chain Award) For "Song Of The Year" for his accapela tune "Burn, Burn, Burn" -Feb 2015

July 2015 John Toured all over Japan with Mr. big Vocalist Eric Martin and Mr. Big Drummer Pat Torpey. The Live Tokyo Show was aired on Japanese TV and the DVD was released in Jan 2016.

Taking cues from soul greats such as Otis Redding, Sam Cooke and Bobby Bland, John Delivers an emotionally charged performance, with fiery Blues and Slick Guitar Playing making John McNamara the new artist to watch on the blues scene.

John has worked as a Guitarist for local and international acts and appeared on programs such as Chanel 10's 'The Morning Show' , Rage & MTV. Opening for acts such as Joanne Shaw Taylor, Jon Stevens, Rick Price, Diesel, Shannon Knoll, Russell Morris aswell as touring with Mr. Big Vocalist Eric Martin.
John has found acoustic soul & blues to be the perfect showcase for his guitar playing and powerful voice. With a style and delivery that stays authentic to it's roots.

John has Wowed Audiences and critics world wide. With 2 successful Edinburgh Fringe Festivals under his belt (2012 & 2013) Two Tours of Germany and a Tour of Singapore and Malaysia!

John has become a regular on the Aus Blues scene, Playing Festivals and shows all over the country showcasing his unique talents.

"So much Soul and Edge for a young Man. If you put Jonny Lang, Chris Robinson , Diesel and perhaps Me in a blender you'll get a powerful cocktail for sure. But nothing will prepare you for the new taste of old soul that is John McNamara." - ERIC MARTIN (Mr. big vocalist.)


John McNamara "Alone With The Blues" (Album promo) 




John McNamara- Losing Back My Mind @Jazz Bar. 









Jordan Officer  *29.11.




Hal Leonard, the biggest editor of sheet music and music books in the world, has recently included Jordan Officer amongst the greats in Scott Yanow’s publication “The Great Jazz Guitarists, The Ultimate Guide.” Jordan is acclaimed not only for his virtuosity, but also for his unequaled sensitivity and sober elegance. Composer and singer, as well as guitarist, Jordan has the gift of blending blues, jazz, country and rock’n’roll into a single and personal style. And when he works his magic, the Jordan Officer sound is unforgettable.
Up until 2010, Jordan Officer was principally known as the jazz guitarist, cofounder of the “Susie Arioli Band featuring Jordan Officer”. Their band, “discovered” at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 1998 grew to be known throughout Quebec, Canada and internationally for its unique covers of jazz standards: Susie’s velvety smooth voice and Jordan’s powerful, yet understated jazz guitar. Over the next 12 years, they sold over 250,000 albums. Their album, Christmas Dreaming as well as their DVD Live at the Montreal International Jazz Festival both received Gold status in sales. Besides playing guitar and composing instrumentals on each of their albums, Jordan produced 4 of them: Learn to smile again, Night Lights, Christmas Dreaming, and All the way.

In 2010, Jordan released his first, self-titled solo album and was awarded the “Album of the year – Jazz Creation” award from l’ADISQ (the Quebec music industry association). In July 2013, Jordan and his family moved to New York City for six months. Here he wrote songs for his first full-length blues album, I’m Free. During this time, Jordan collaborated with some excellent New York musicians, recorded his album and performed regularly at Rockwood Music Hall and other venues. This album serves as an introduction to Jordan Officer the bluesman: his story and the music he loves, with a little dose of New York City energy. I’m Free was released in March of 2014. Since then, Jordan toured extensively in Quebec, Ontario and France. In fact, his I’m Free show has been nominated for an ADISQ award for Anglophone show of the year. One of the songs on this album, the haunting “Life just showed me” was also selected by Daniel Lanois as a winner in Uprise.fm’s Share Your Live contest.

Early in 2015 Jordan was in the USA again, this time in Los Angeles, to spend a month studying and playing music, and absorbing the surf and the laid-back west coast vibe. The upcoming album is definitely blues once again, but other influences such as jazz and country are also present. The album also contains blues/jazz renditions of some of Jordan’s all-time favourite American songs, which over the years have been part of the sound-track of his life. Jordan is preparing for the release of Blue Skies in the fall of 2015. He is also looking forward to some international touring: France in November of 2015, and USA in January of 2016.  



Jordan Officer - Then She Kissed Me 




 





Jäcki Reznicek  *29.11.1953





Studium an der Hochschule für Musik "C.M.v.Weber" Dresden, Hauptfach Kontrabass und Baßgitarre bei Lothar Spiller

Bassist bei Klaus-Lenz-Big Band; Veronika Fischer & Band; 4PS; PANKOW; Barbara Thalheim; Gitarreros; King Kong; Steve Horn Band; East Blues Experience; SILLY; Ines Paulke Band; Joachim Witt, Mike Kilian Band, JUMP Arena Band, Andrè Herzberg Band, RAUSCHHARDT, Driftwood Holly u.a. (z.B. verschiedene Jazz- und Studioformationen)

Studiomusiker und Basslehrer, seit 1991 Dozent für Bass an der Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber" Dresden

Mehrere Album- und Buchveröffentlichungen, Interviews, Artikel, Photos und Workshops (u.a. "Melodie & Rhythmus" (diverse); "The Bass" (Feb.90); "PieÄh" (91); "Bass Professor" (Jan.99); "Tamara Danz" / Ch.Links.Verlag; "Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen und andere Ostrockgeschichten" / Schwarzkopf&Schwarzkopf Verlag; "Veronika Fischer-Diese Sehnsucht nach Wärme" / Verlag Das Neue Berlin); "Die Ärzte" / Schwarzkopf&Schwarzkopf Verlag

Mehrere Basslehrbücher publiziert : "Groove Time" (Breitkopf&Härtel); "ROCKBASS" (AMA); "Die AMA-Bassgitarren-Griff-Tabelle" (AMA); "Mein 1. Bass" (AMA); "ROCKBASS / English Version" (AMA); "I'm Walking-Jazzbass" (AMA); "I'm Walking-Jazzbass / Japanese Version" ( ATN-Inc.); "ROCKBASS" / ChineseVersion (Musechina); "Creating Modern Bassparts" (AMA)

In der ehemaligen DDR vier Mal zum besten Bassisten des Landes gewählt

Tourneen mit verschiedenen Bands (z.B. Klaus-Lenz-Big Band; Veronika Fischer & Band ) durch ganz Osteuropa (UdSSR, Polen, CSSR, Ungarn, Bulgarien, Rumänien)

Mit Silly Tourneen in UdSSR, Dänemark, Österreich; Auftritte auf diversen Festivals in Deutschland, Dänemark (Mitfün; Skanderborg u.a.), Portugal, Österreich und 1990 Gig auf der NAMM-Show Chicago (für Fa. WARWICK), 1997 Doppelplatin für die beiden "Best Of"-Alben, Gold & Platin für "ALLES ROT" und Gold für "Kopf an Kopf"

Mit King Kong Tourneen in Deutschland und Österreich

Mit East Blues Experience Touren in Dänemark, Belgien, Schweiz, Tschechien und Gigs als Begleitband u.a. von Carry Bell (Muddy Waters Band), Big Golden Wheeler, J. Mars ("Jimi Hendrix of the Harp"), diverse Bluesfestivals z.B. Dursland-Bluesfestival (DK), 1997 auf der Frankfurter Musikmesse Vorband von T. M. Stevens (für Fa.WARWICK) und Begleitband von Jerry Donahue.

Mit Driftwood Holly diverse Gigs in Canada


Zur Zeit Musiker bei SILLY, East-Blues-Experince; RAUSCHHARDT, Driftwood Holly

Jäcki Reznicek (Bg,KB)  Stand:  17.02.2015 


Geb. am 29.11.1953 in Dresden, Eltern Lydia & Günter Reznicek (beide Lehrer),
Geschwiser Bernd Reznicek (geb.1956) und Kerstin Reznicek (geb. 1960).

1960 bis 1970 79.POS Dresden Lockwitz.

1970 bis 1973 Berufsausbildung mit Abitur als Elekromonteur an der BBS Falkenberg/
Elster (Energiekombinat Ost).

In dieser Zeit auch Bassgitarren-Unterricht bei Herrn Werner Stürmer in Dresden und
Klavierunterricht Frau Golf in Dresden.

1973 bis 1976 Studium an der Hochschule für Musik „C.M.v.Weber“ Dresden, Hauptfach
Jazzkontrabass bei Herrn Lothar Spiller.

Seit Oktober 1991 Dozent an der Musikhochschule „C.M.v.Weber“ Dresden JazzRockPop-
Abteilung HF Bassgitarre & Kontrabass, Methodik/Lehrpraxis und Ensemblearbeit.(siehe

auch: www.hfmdd.de)


Erste Band ca. 1967 bis 1972 Stuffer Company, später dann Gruppe Pi

1970 bis ca. 1975 u.a. Bluesband Quambo Laya, Orchester Abraham Blumenstein, Band
F.a.T. (Freude am Ton), Projekt Soul, Dresdner Tanzsinfoniker (Aushilfe für L.Spiller),
Friwi Sternberg Quartet, Manfred Ludwig Septett, Dorit Gäbler Band, diverse Jazzbands
und Barmusikformationen (z.B. K.Endler Trio; Franz Ferry Schwandtner Quartett u.a.).

1976 bis 1977 Klaus Lenz Big Band

1977 Klaus Lenz Modern Soul Big Band

1977 bis 1981 Veronika Fischer & Band

In dieser Zeit auch bei Stefan Diestelmann Band, 4PS und in verschieden
Studiomusikerformationen (u.a. Host Krüger Studioband).

1981 bis 1986 PANKOW

In dieser Zeit auch bei Barbara Thalheim & Band und diverse Studiomusikerformationen.

1986 & 1987 Gitarreos

Ab 1987 bei SILLY

1991 bis 1993 King Køng (Soloprojekt vom „Die Ärzte“-Sänger Farin Urlaub)

1992 Secondband (Barjazz) mnit Siggi Kiesand

1994 bis 2002 East Blues Experience & East Blues & Soul Experince Big Band

1996 bis 1997 PANKOW („Am Rande vom Wahnsinn“-Tour)

Ab 1994 Steve Horn Jazzband

1996 Take It Easy Countryband („N 1“-Tour) 

1997 Doppelplatin mit SILLY für beide “Best Of” CDs

1998 PANKOW („Kille, kille Berthold“-Tour)

1999 Ines Paulke Band

1999 Studiobandprojekt „Dark Rose“ (Kirsten Kriester, Bernd Römer/Karat, Ronny Dehn,

Jäcki Reznicek)

1999 Gastmusiker bei den Prinzen

2000 Gruppe Pi (Bandtreffen)

2001 Veronika Fischer Band & Gäste („Jubiläums“-Tour)

Ab 2002 Joachim Witt Band

2002 Bandprojekt 4MORE (Satina Maria Schrader, André Gensicke, Ferry Grott, Jäcki
Reznicek)

2003 Mike Kilian Band („MK Tour“)

2003 und 2004 Jump Arena Radio Show Band

2004 PANKOW („Wieder auf der Straße“-Tour)

2004 André Herzberg Band („Losgelöst“-Tour)

Ab wieder 2005 SILLY

2005 SILLY (SILLY & Gäste Tour)

2006 SILLY (SILLY & Gäste Tour)

2006 PANKOW („Nur aus Spaß“-Tour)

2006/2007 SILLY & Anna Loos („Elektroakustik Tour)

2007 SILLY (“Ost Rock Klassik Tour”)

2007 Thomas Natschinski Band („Geburtstags“-Tour)

2008 SILLY („Open Air Sommertour“)

2008 SILLY (“Ost Rock Klassik Tour”)

Von 1990 bis 2008 diverse Jazzbands (z.B. HfM-Dozentenseptett, Steve Horn Band usw.),
Studiomusikerformationen und Workshopbands (u.a. Reznicek-Weise-Workshop-Projekt)

2009 PANKOW Tour

2009 SILLY („Open Air Sommertour“)

2010 Goldene Schallplatte für Ost Rock in Klassik I

2010  SILLY („Alles Rot Tour I & II)

2010  Goldene Schallplatte für „Alles Rot“ SILLY

2010 RAUSCHHARDT („ Free Falling Tour“ I)

2011 SILLY Sommertour

2011 Platin für „Alles Rot“ SILLY

2011 WARWICK „Fuß On The Bus“ II Musik-, Video- & Fotosession in San Francisco/
USA

2011 RAUSCHHARDT („ Free Falling Tour“ II)

2012 diverse SILLY Open Air Konzerte

2012 RAUSCHHARDT („Free Falling Easter Tour“)

2012 Rock Camp Kloster Michaelstein

2012 Dozent beim WARWICK Bass Camp 2012

2012 diverse Workshops und Studiosessions

2013 VÖ SILLY Album „Kopf an Kopf“

2013 SILLY „Kopf an Kopf“ Tour I und II.

2013 Tour mit Driftwood Holly und Pavel Osvald

2014 Rockcamp Kloster Michaelstein

2014 diverse Workshops und Studiosessions

2014 Wintertour (Feb./März)mit Driftwood Holly und Pavel Osvald Yukon Territory/Canada

2014 diverse SILLY Gigs

2014 WARWICK Ladies Bass Camp

2014 Sommertour (August) mit Driftwood Holly und Pavel Osvald Yukon Territory/Canada

2014 WARWICK Bass Camp

2014 Dresdner Drum- and Bassfestival

2014 Auftritt mit SILLY beim Bürgerfest am Brandenburger Tor Berlin am 09.11.

2014 (November) bis Januar 2015 Deutschland Tour mit Driftwood Holly und

Studioproduktion „AURA BOREALIS“ im Castle Studio Schloß Röhrsdorf bei Dresden

2014 Jurymitglied Brandenburger Endausscheid für Local Heros am 28.12.

2015 Rockcamp Kloster Michaelstein/Harz (02.-04.02.)

2015 „Der Tag“-Tour mit East-Blues-Experince
http://www.jackireznicek.com/pdf_swf/Bio%20J%E4cki%20Reznicek_2015.pdf
East Blues Experience "Hoochie Coochie Man" Sondershausen 2015 
Am 20. November spielten East Blues Experience im Jazzclub in Sondershausen den Willie Dixon Bluesklassiker "Hoochie Coochie Man" in der Besetzung Peter Schmidt (guit.), Jäcki Reznicek (bass), Ronny Dehn (drums) und Adrian Dehn (guit.).
2016 wird es diese Band nicht geben, da alle Bandmitglieder in anderen Bandprojekten touren werden!







Martin Lang  *29.11.




 https://www.facebook.com/martin.lang.5070/photos_albums

 Martin Lang combines an assimilation of the sounds of the great Chicago blues harmonica artists such as Junior Wells and Little Walter with a sensibility attuned to contemporary trends in arts and music. He previously participated in an early CD release of Random Chance Records, "Harmonica Blues Orgy," produced by Dave Meyer. His four tracks on the 16 track CD that also featured Little Arthur Duncan, Easy Baby, and Willie "Big Eye" Smith helped make it one of the best selling of the labels releases.
http://www.randomchancerecords.com/martin_lang 

 Blowin' behind Taildragger for 20 years on July 1.

That's a so-called "bullet" mike I'm blowing with in the Taildragger picture above. It's a really old one too, made in the late '40s. It's an Electro-Voice that Fishman, who used to run the Delta Fish Market on the West Side, gave to me one Saturday afternoon when I showed up to play, with a brand-new amp and no microphone. He called it "that goddam egghead mike," and said that it was once Big Walter's, back in the 1940s. I've used it ever since, which is twenty years, on every recording for Delmark or otherwise, and almost every gig too. (Fishman first wanted to know if the amp was for sale.)
But you can't drop an antique mike (you're gonna drop your mike. Nobody has NEVER dropped the mike.) You can't leave it on top of the amp at a club gig because it's too expensive. Heat and cold can damage it, as can small amounts of moisture. You also have to spend more time on top of your amp, fiddling with the setting, because different settings on the amp using the same 1959 Astatic are going to sound dramatically different (Right?) And if it ain't in your pants pocket on every set break (and we all know what kind of things can happen on set break) you're always wondering where it is, and is it okay. Like a baby or something.
Most of the later generation of older guys I learned from (say, Billy Boy's or Little Arthur's) blew through the house PA, which they learned from the generation of players that came before them, which includes Little Walter. Few of them carried amps. All the clubs' PA systems in the pre-solid state era were tube units like Masco with a "bullet" mike on the stand. Thats what the true oldschool harp players used. The house rig at Theresa's, however, was a (solid-state) Shure VocalMaster, and a member of the 57 family. Some variety of (usually Shure) stick mike sat on the stand in every club in Chicago I have ever played at. When at the Guess Who Lounge one night, in 1994, I asked Little Wolf, the Midnight Ramblers' frontman and sometime harp player, why he didn't carry a mike, he said
"The sound comes from the man, the mike ain't nothin'!"
Why am I saying all this? I'm switching to a stick mike. Durable, for sure, lighter, more reliable, and besides, this is Chicago.
Gibson Custom Shop EDS-1275 Double Neck Electric Guitar Lightly Aged Gold Mist | The Music Zoo
http://www.artisttrove.com/artist/368998956506362/Martin+Lang+Just+Blows+Harmonica,+And+That+Harp+Ain't+No+Notion 
Martin Lang - Slim Harpo cover - Baby Scratch My Back