#WATCHMOVIE HERE: NAMM Show Late Rent Jon Hammond Show Theme Song all star band including Donny Baldwin from Jefferson Starship
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Very special performance on first ever Hammond night in Hilton Hotel Lobby at Winter NAMM 2013 presented by Hammond Suzuki USA "Sound Soul Summit"
Peter Nguyen CFO Hammond Suzuki USA and Jon Hammond
Joe Lamond President CEO of NAMM with Jon Hammond accepting Believe in Music Award plaque
L to R Jon Hammond, Chester Thompson, Scott May
Stevie Wonder and Jon Hammond - One More Time!
Jon Hammond plays the New B3 Portable Organ
"The Ultimate All-Star Jam" MC Scott May introduces Jon Hammond Band to play their theme song "Late Rent" after a very cool pre-show party Meet and Greet with a who's who of Hammond organists.
Donny Baldwin drums (from Jefferson Starship & Lydia Pense & Cold Blood),
Alex Budman tenor saxophone
Joe Berger guitar
Jon Hammond New B-3 Portable organ
Sound mix by Denny Mack
Special thanks Hammond Suzuki USA and Suzuki Musical Instruments Team
NAMM = National Association of Music Merchants
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NAMM Hilton Sound Soul Summit Jon Hammond Band Late Rent Jazz Funk Soul Blues
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Absolutely cooking session in Hamburg Germany - Full High Definition Version: Jon Hammond Band with The NDR Horns until the last minute when music must stop 10PM / 22:00 Auster Bar is in residential quarter of Eimsbüttel HH,
The Musicians: Heinz Lichius drums, Joe Berger guitar, Lutz Büchner tenor saxophone, Ernst-Friedrich Fiete Felsch alto saxophone, Michael Leuschner musical director / trumpet, Jon Hammond organ + bass
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- special thanks Nicolai Ditsch for operating the camera - Auster Bar Team Frank Blume, Torsten Wendt, Musik Rotthoff support, Knut Benzner NDR Redaktion - as seen on MNN TV / TV Producers of Manhattan Neighborhood Network [MNN] The Jon Hammond Show http://www.HammondCast.com/
Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/NoXCessBaggageBluesAMACParty
L. to R.: Kerry Jacobson drums, Neil Wickham tenor sax, Jon Hammond B3 organ
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Jon Hammond Trio kicking off the AMAC Party in Gold Coast Australia,
funky blues and jazz "No X-Cess Baggage Blues" - Kerry Jacobson drums,
Neil Wickham tenor, Jon Hammond B3 organ http://www.HammondCast.com Australian Music Association Convention special thanks to Rob Walker and the AMAC Crew #AMAC14 Bernies Music Land - JH AMAC Convention Back In Gold Coast for 2014
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Jon's Archive https://archive.org/details/CountUsInChoirPerformingAtAustralianMusicAssnConvention
The Combined Gold Coast Schools Music "Count Us In Choir" - special presentation at Australian Music Association Convention AMAC with opening remarks by Chris Bowen CEO Music Council of Australia and Steve Ciobo, MP Parliamentary Secretary to The Treasurer Federal Member for Moncrieff - with closing remarks from Tony Burn President AMA http://www.mca.org.au Camera: Jon Hammond HammondCast — Big Thanks to all the students who came to perform for AMAC 2014 from the Combined Gold Coast Schools "Count Us In Choir"! Big Hit at Australian Music Association Convention - Waltzing Matilda brought the house down! #AMAC14 - Jon Hammond — at Jupiters Gold Coast
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Organ Meets Bigband in The Zeughaus Wismar - Camera: Heinz Lichius Am 30.07.2015 ist das Landesjugendjazzorchester Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (LaJazzO MV) mit seinem diesjährigen Solisten Jon Hammond in der Hansestadt Wismar zu Gast.
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Nachdem sich in den vergangenen Jahren das LaJazzO MV mit den in der Big Band vorkommenden Instrumenten musikalisch auseinandersetzte, wird in 2015 die Jazzorgel musikalisch thematisiert werden. Unter dem Titel "Organ meets Big Band" wird dieses sehr traditionsreiche Instrument der Jazzgeschichte in den Mittelpunkt der Konzertreihe im folgenden Jahr gestellt. Als Jazzinstrument wurde es von Fats Waller in den 30er Jahren eingeführt und hatte seine Hochzeit in den 50er Jahren durch seine Vertreter wie Jimmy Smith. Der international renommierte New Yorker Jazzorganist Jon Hammond wird zusammen mit dem LaJazzO MV unter der Leitung von Michael Leuschner den besonderen Charme dieses Instrumentes wieder zum Leben erwecken. Im Programm sind unter anderem Titel von Jimmy Smith, arrangiert von Steve Grey - eine Leihgabe aus dem Archiv der NDR-Bigband.
Jon Hammond studierte in den siebziger Jahren am Berklee College of Music und am City College San Francisco. Konzertreisen führten ihn quer durch die Vereinigten Staaten und Kanada. In seiner eigenen 'Jon Hammond Show' spielte er mit Musikern wie Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Butterfield, Jaco Pastorius, John Entwistle, Sammy Davis Jr., Percy Sledge und vielen anderen. Auch in Europa fand und findet seine Musik unverändert viele Anhänger. Die Medien berichten wiederholt von einem unverwechselbaren und prägenden Sound. Jon Hammond hat u.a. auf der 20. Frankfurter Musikmesse mitgewirkt und tritt vornehmlich in Hamburg auf. "The Jon Hammond Show" is a funky, swinging Jazz instrumental revue, featuring notable international soloists and reflecting the influences of Miles Davis, The Crusaders and Jimmy Smith.
Programm: "Organ meets Bigband"
Leitung: Michael Leuschner
Donnerstag, d. 30.07.2015, 19:00 Zeughaus Wismar
with Elli Soosz, Jan Rolle, Daniel Be, Leon Saleh, Gabriel Rosenbach, Michael Leuschner, Heinz Lichius, Matthis Rasche, Hörni Thorun, Paul Gramkow, Marie Birkholz, Jan Boge, Ole Si, Elisabeth Guericke, Nane Schüßler, Henning Schiewer, Noah Jens, Oliver Herlitzka, Anne-Katrin Meyer and Al Tobias at Zeughaus Wismar
Producer Jon Hammond
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Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/6842260423
AFM Local 6 Member Jon Hammond https://afm6.org/member-profile/jon-hammond-wheres-the-gig/
JON HAMMOND: “WHERE’S THE GIG?” - Alex Walsh
Jon Hammond is a musician, composer, bandleader, publisher, journalist, TV show host, radio DJ, and multi-media entrepreneur. He currently travels the world, playing gigs and attending trade shows.
“Every time I see a musician walking down the street I say, ‘Hey, where’s the gig?’ Because it doesn’t matter what kind of music you play, if you’re carrying an instrument–going to a rehearsal, or coming back from a repair shop, whatever it is–we all need our gigs. And that’s what the union is all about. Hopefully, we can all keep working and be supportive of everybody’s gigs. There’s room for everybody.”
THE EARLY YEARS
Jon Hammond was born in Chicago in 1953. His father was a doctor and his mother was a housewife. They both played the piano. In 1957, his parents moved Jon and his four sisters to Berkeley, CA, where his father worked in a hospital as head of the emergency room. When he was nine, Jon started accordion lessons. “In those days, they had studios where parents would drop their kids off after school for tap dancing and accordion lessons. There were accordion bands and they would compete against each other.”
Jon played his first gig at a senior citizens luncheon when he was eleven. Not only did he get a free lunch but he was paid $25 –a lot of money in those days. Jon says his father was supportive, but did not want him to pursue a music career. “He told me that music was a great hobby. He got me a wonderful professional accordion for my Bar Mitzvah, directly from John Molinari, one of the greatest accordionists who ever lived. It was a Guilietti Professional Tone Chamber accordion. That’s the accordion I won Jr. Jazz Champion on in 1966.”
In high school, Jon attended a private boys school in San Francisco. He was a class clown, and when it got to the point where he was going to be expelled, Jon took his accordion and ran away from home. He immersed himself in the San Francisco music scene and started playing organ in several bands. By 1971 he was in a four piece rock group called Hades which shared a rehearsal space with Quicksilver Messenger Service. “I was friends with their manager, Ron Polte, who also managed guitarist John Cipollina. We got to open for his band, Copperhead.”
Jon continued to play gigs in the Bay Area in different configurations, including a few gigs with a young Eddie Money. By this time Jon had become frustrated with the Bay Area scene. One night while playing a biker bar he got into a fight and his band didn’t come to his defense. “That was the last straw. I was angry and I said I wasn’t coming back.”
Jon in the early 70s
Jon moved to Boston in 1973 to attend the Berklee School of Music. He also got a gig playing in Boston’s Combat Zone backing up burlesque shows. When Jon saw one of his idols, pianist Keith Jarrett play in New York he told him he was going to Berklee and asked him for advice. “Keith looked me right in the eye and said ‘Berklee can be very dangerous for your music.’ It was like he popped this huge bubble. Years later I came to understand what he was talking about. You have to learn the fundamentals, but the music itself comes from a much deeper place. They can’t teach that, you have to find it yourself.”
When Jon’s teachers began sitting in on his gigs in Boston, he questioned why he was in school if the teachers were coming to play with him. He quit school, moved to Cape Cod and started playing with bandleader Lou Colombo. “He did all the private parties for Tip O’Neill. We played what they used to call the business man’s beat. On the gig it was forbidden to swing. It was like swing cut in half. So if you tried to go with the four, Lou would say, ‘Don’t swing it, don’t swing it.’ He pounded it into my head night after night.”
LATE RENT
In 1981 Jon took a trip to Paris where he broke through his writers block and wrote some of his best music. He returned to New York with his new tunes and started a production company with the idea of getting a record deal for a friend that had played on a #1 hit record. After months of pounding the pavement with no results, Jon realized he had better work on his own music before his money ran out. He took the last of his savings, including his upcoming rent money, and went into the studio to record what came to be known as “The Late Rent Sessions”.
The session had Todd Anderson on tenor sax, Barry Finnerty on guitar, Stephen Ferrone on drums, and Jon on B3. They recorded at Intergalactic, the last studio that John Lennon recorded in. Jon had no luck getting a record deal for his new project, but he did get gigs in New York with his band Jon Hammond and the Late Rent Session Men.
Jon Hammond Band Onstage at NAMM, 2014: Joe Berger, Dom Famularo, Alex Budman, Koei Tanaka, Jon Hammond
In 1982, Jon found out about public access television and the idea that anyone could produce a show and get it on TV. He started broadcasting on Manhattan’s public station in 1984. “I decided I was going to produce a radio show on TV. The first episodes showed just my tapping foot and my voice. It was a gimmick. We had graphics that were synchronized to go with the music. It worked out well. People dug it.” Within a few weeks, Jon was interviewed and featured in Billboard Magazine. The Jon Hammond Show was considered an alternative to the clips on Cable TV. “MTV was still in its infancy. We had a concept that was revolutionary. My phone started ringing and we were the hot kids on the block.”
LIVING ABROAD
Jon continued to play gigs in New York and produce his TV show. In 1987, he went to his first trade show (NAMM) where he was introduced to Mr. Julio Guilietti, the man who built his accordion. He then began traveling to trade shows and making contacts with musicians and companies around the world, including Hammond Suzuki. “They gave me the Hammond XB-2, the first really powerful portable Hammond organ. Glenn Derringer, one of my all-time heroes, presented it to me. I got one of the first. Paul Shaffer from the Letterman Show got the other. At the time there was only one EXP-100 expression pedal–we had to share the pedal. I used the pedal for my gigs and when Paul needed it I would bring it over to him at 30 Rockefeller Center on my bicycle.”
In the early 90s, when his New York gigs began drying up, Jon was encouraged to go to Germany. “It was a hard time. My father had just died and there were very few gigs. I got the XB-2 organ right when I needed it, so I decided to take a chance. I bought a roundtrip ticket to Frankfurt with an open return. I went with 50 bucks and stayed for a year. When I came back, I had 100 bucks.”
Jon stayed at a friend’s house and played a borrowed accordion on the street until he could get a band together. “I played on the street until my fingers turned blue and would collect enough money to get some fish soup. After about two weeks I got a call—I had put a band together and had 3 gigs coming up. A TV show had heard my story and wanted to do a story on me. At the first gig 19 people came; the second only 15 people came. Then I got the little spot on TV. When I came to the third gig people were lined up down the street. When I walked up I thought they were having an art exhibit. When they said, ‘No, they’re waiting for you.’ I choked up, I couldn’t even talk. So I’ve been playing there every year since. The people in Germany really saved my musical career at a time when very few things were happening for me in New York or San Francisco. I have a really good following in Europe. I keep busy as a musician in the States, playing hospitals and assisted living places, but my band dates I pretty much play overseas.”
Jon’s Late Rent Sessions was eventually released on a German label and received modest airplay. During the 90s he travelled back and forth to Europe, spending a year playing gigs in Paris, and eventually settling in Hamburg. Since then he has released two more albums and has played gigs in Moscow, Shanghai, and Australia. With the help of the internet, Jon is able to produce his TV show anywhere.
PRESENT DAY
In the mid-2000s Jon produced Hammondcast, a radio program for CBS that aired in San Francisco at four in the morning and was rebroadcast before Oakland A’s games. “When the baseball games played in the afternoon, my show would play for about 20 minutes and then it was pre-empted. I had a lot of fun with that.” His guests included Danny Glover, Barry Melton from Country Joe & the Fish, and many local people. “It took me awhile to figure out that I had permission to broadcast anything I wanted. I could play the London Philharmonic or Stevie Wonder. My tag line was ‘Hello, Hello, Hello! Wake up or go back to sleep…’”
Today, Jon continues to visit tradeshows and is determined to keep doing everything he does as long as he can. “I made a pact with my longtime co-producer, guitarist Joe Berger, that we are going to go to these trade shows until we are little old men with canes.”
Jon has released four CDs
For more info visit www.jonhammondband.com
Jon Hammond Funk Unit https://www.namm.org/summer/2015/events/jon-hammond-funk-unit
JON HAMMOND Instruments: Organ, Accordion, Piano, Guitar Attended: Berklee College of Music 1974, City College San Francisco Languages: English, German Jon is closely identified with the two main products of his career, the Excelsior Accordion and the Hammond Organ. Musician: Jon Hammond is one of the premier B3 PLAYERS in the world. Jon has played professionally since age 12. Beginning as a solo accordionist, he later played Hammond B3 organ in a number of important San Francisco bands. His all original group HADES opened shows for Tower of Power, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Michael Bloomfield. Eddie Money and Barry Finnerty became musical associates. Moving East he attended Berklee College of Music and played venues as diverse as Boston's "Combat Zone" in the striptease clubs during the '70's and the exclusive Wychmere Harbor Club in Cape Cod, where he was house organist with the late great trumpet player Lou Colombo and developed a lasting friendship with House Speaker Tip O'Neill. He also toured the Northeast and Canada with the successful show revue "Easy Living", and continued his appearances at nightclubs in Boston and New York. Subsequently Hammond lived and traveled in Europe, where he has an enthusiastic following. TV/Video Producer: In 1981 Jon formed BackBeat Productions. Assisted by Lori Friedman (Video by LORI), the innovative TV show "The Jon Hammond Show" became a Manhattan Cable TV favorite. Jon's "Live on the street" video style included news events, as well as live music/video clips of Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Butterfield, Jaco Pastorius, John Entwistle, Sammy Davis Jr., Percy Sledge and many others. The weekly show is now in it's 30th year and has influenced the broadcasts of David Letterman and others. Billboard Magazine hailed Jon's show as "The Alternative to MTV". LINK">http://youtu.be/7TApELTO1XI"> http://youtu.be/7TApELTO1XI Head Phone - Jon Hammond Band THE SOUND SOUL SUMMIT All-Star Jam Video Movie of Jon's Band Featuring Bernard Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Alex Budman, Joe Berger2, Koei Tanaka, Jon Hammond Organ Group
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Tuesday, April 5 at 9 PM Musikmesse Warm Up Party celebrating 30 years
Best Party of The Year! Jon Hammond’s annual musikmesse Warm Up Party in jazzkeller Tuesday April 5th 2016 celebrating 30 years
Jon Hammond’s annual musikmesse Warm Up Party in jazzkeller Tuesday April 5th 2016 celebrating 30 years
Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondsMusikmesseWarmUpPartyJazzkeller
Jon Hammond – organ
Joe Berger – guitar
Peter Klohmann – saxophone
Giovanni Totò Gulino – drums
Mr. Hammond has toured worldwide since 1991 using the incredible Sk1 organ by Hammond Suzuki..™ “Classic Hammond Sound…In A Suitcase!” The Jon Hammond Show is a funky swinging instrumental revue, featuring top international soloists. The show has universal appeal. Big Hammond orgel sound – 100% organic
"Werden Sie im Jazzkeller wieder eine Hammond Orgel spielen?
Ja, sicher, das neueste Modell, eine Sk1, die exakt so klingt wie die legendäre B3. Ich liebe sie. Und sie wiegt nur noch sieben Kilo (Anm. des Autors: Das Original, ein echtes Möbel mit viel Holz, mussten immer zwei Menschen mit viel Muskelkraft die Treppen rauf und runter hieven), ein deutliches Indiz, dass wir in der Zukunft angekommen sind. Da stecken viele Jahre Forschung und Entwicklung drin, auch Bühnenerprobungen. Ich ziehe den Hut vor den Ingenieuren von Suzuki, ein unverwüstliches Instrument erschaffen zu haben. Und das unterziehe ich jetzt einen echten Härttest (lacht)."
Interview: Detlef Kinsler
Web: www.jazzkeller.com / www.jonhammondband.com
photo by Lawrence Gay co-producer of West Coast Live Radio Program
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#WATCHMOVIE HERE: Scott Muni and Jazzbo Collins talk about The Beatles at WNEW filmed by Jon Hammond in New York
Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondJAZZBEAUXSCOTTMUNIWNEWHammondCast
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Priceless film inside WNEW 1130AM New York with 2 Radio Legends: Al JAZZBEAUX COLLINS and SCOTT MUNI on JON HAMMOND'S HammondCast: Hear Scott Muni tell Jazzbeaux about his days at "WABeatlesC"
on the date commemorating when the Beatles first hit the shores of USA!
As previously broadcast on Jon's TV show The Jon Hammond Show (24th year) and HammondCast on CBS' KYCY/KYOU 1550AM San Francisco California. Enjoy! *Official site: http://www.HammondCast.com c)2006
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Scott Muni (May 10, 1930 – September 28, 2004, aged 74) was an American disc jockey, who worked at the heyday of the AM Top 40 format and then was a pioneer of FM progressive rock radio. Rolling Stone magazine termed him "legendary"
Born Donald Allen Muñoz in Wichita, Kansas, Muni grew up in New Orleans. He joined the United States Marine Corps and began broadcasting there in 1950, reading "Dear John" letters over Radio Guam. After leaving the Corps and having considered acting as a career, he began working as a disc jockey; in 1953 he began working at WSMB in New Orleans. His mentor was Marshall Pearce. In 1955 he began broadcasting at station WAKR in Akron, Ohio, and after that worked in Kankakee, Illinois.
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Muni then spent almost 50 years at stations in New York City. He became a Top 40 broadcaster at 570 WMCA in the late 1950s, just before the start of their "Good Guys" era, and did a number of record hops in the New York area. In 1960, he moved to rival Top 40 station 770 WABC. There he did an early evening show called "Scotland's Yard" and was among the first WABC DJs to capture the attention of the teenage audience for which the station would become famous. He also participated in the competition to cover The Beatles on their first visits to the United States, and thus began a long association with them.
In 1965, Muni left WABC and ran the Rolling Stone Night Club while doing occasional fill-in work for WMCA. Muni had explored some opportunities beyond radio: for a short time he co-hosted a local weekly television show on WABC-TV 7 with Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow, and he would go on to record the spoken single "Letter to an Unborn Child", about a soldier with a premonition, which was released in 1967 to little acclaim.
Muni decided to return to radio, and in 1966, he joined 98.7 WOR-FM, one of the earliest stations in the country to program free-form Progressive Rock music. The progressive format did not last at that station. In 1967 Muni moved to 102.7 WNEW-FM, which had been running a format of pop hits and show tunes, hosted by an all-woman staff. This time, the Progressive Rock format really took hold, with WNEW-FM becoming a legendary rock station. Muni stayed there for three decades as the afternoon DJ and sometimes program director. Muni was described by fellow WNEW-FM DJ Dennis Elsas as "the heart and soul of the place". Under assorted management changes during the 1990s WNEW-FM lost its way, and in 1998 Muni ended up hosting a one-hour noontime classic rock program at WAXQ "Q104.3", where he worked until suffering a stroke in early 2004.
Muni's low, gravelly voice was instantly recognizable and often lampooned, both by other disc jockeys and by impressionists such as on Imus in the Morning. He was often known to his listeners by the nicknames "Scottso" or "The Professor", the latter to emphasize both his rock expertise and his age difference with most of his audience. While he sometimes spoke in roundabout phrases and succumbed to progressive rock radio clichés such as "That was a tasty cut from ...", he also conveyed on the air and in his professional relationships a gruff immediacy that was a by-product of both his time in the Marines and his earlier Top 40 skills.
A bizarre exchange occurred in August 1972 when a hostage-holding bank robber called Muni on the air and engaged him in a long, often nonsensical conversation; the two peppered their post-hippie speech with discussions of Bob Dylan music and requests to hear the Grateful Dead.
Muni specialized in playing records from up-and-coming, or sometimes just-plain-obscure, acts from the United Kingdom on his weekly Friday "Things from England" segment. He also hosted the syndicated radio programs Ticket to Ride and Scott Muni's World of Rock.
Muni often referred to "we interviewed so and so," making reference to himself and either "Black" Earl Douglas or another producer. Indeed, Muni was friendly with many of the musicians whom he played, and they would often stop by the studio to visit on-air. He played poker in the studio with the Grateful Dead, and he would let Emerson, Lake & Palmer browse the station's huge record library and put on whatever they liked. An oft-related story tells that he was interviewing Jimmy Page when the guitarist suddenly passed out from the aftereffects of the Led Zeppelin lifestyle. Muni calmly put on a record, revived Page, and completed the interview on the studio floor.
Muni was close to John Lennon and his family, and after Lennon's murder he vowed to always open his show with a Lennon or Beatles record, a pledge that he kept for the balance of his career.
In addition to radio broadcasting, Muni also did voice-over work for radio and television; the most known were a commercial for Rolaids antacid ("How do you spell relief?") and promos for Monday Night Football. His voice is also heard giving the introduction on the 1971 live albums Chicago at Carnegie Hall and Melanie at Carnegie Hall.
Muni also voiced many Radio & TV commercials such as Rolaids, JCPenney, Ricoh, etc. He also voiced episodes of NBC's Friday Night Videos during 1985-86 and also voiced promos for ABC Sports which included boxing events on Wide World of Sports as well as Monday Night Football, the USFL on ABC, the Pro Bowlers Tour, the Sugar Bowl, the 1994 Stanley Cup Playoffs & Auto Racing including the Indy 500.
Personal life[edit]
Muni had three children with his first wife and two with his second wife, to whom he was married from 1966 until his death in 2004.
Death and legacy[edit]
He died on September 28, 2004 at the age of 74 in New York City and is buried in St. Gertrude's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Colonia, New Jersey. Muni is included in an exhibit display of important disc jockeys at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The DJs at Q104.3 keep Muni's promise to New York listeners and still start their noon hour with the "12 o'clock Beatles Block".
Muni was inducted into the Rock Radio Hall of Fame in the Legends of Rock Radio-Programming" category for his work at WNEW in 2014.
AP Obit for Scott Muni
'The Professor' of rock Scott Muni dies - Posted 9/29/2004 3:17 PM Updated 9/29/2004 3:24 PM
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On Air with Jazzbo Collins and Yoshi's Jon Hammond Band Feb. 9, 1994 - Preston pretty much kicked ass on this gig! -- Oakland CA -- original Yoshi's Oakland Gig Feb. 9th 1994, just after being on-the-air with Al "Jazzbo" Collins - watching the film now, sounds real good - Jon Hammond / Jon Hammond Band (quartet) - thanks Jason Olaine for the hit - James Preston drums (R.I.P.) Bennett Friedman tenor, Barry Finnerty gtr., Jon Hammond Organ Group http://www.jonhammondband.com all original music ©JON HAMMOND International Member ASCAP - AFM Local 6 - Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 AFM
Yoshi's Oakland didn't have any decent lights in those days! Jon Hammond - *Note: Broadcasting Legend Al Jazzbeaux Collins opens this film at KCSM 91.1FM, greatly missed!! - Jon Hammond Organ Group - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_%22Jazzbo%22_Collins
Albert Richard "Jazzbo" Collins (January 4, 1919 – September 30, 1997) was an American disc jockey, radio personality and recording artist who was briefly the host of NBC television's Tonight show in 1957.
Al "Jazzbo" Collins
Al "Jazzbeaux" Collins
Born Albert Richard Collins
January 4, 1919
Rochester, New York
Died September 30, 1997 (aged 78)
Marin County, California
Born in Rochester, New York in 1919,[1] Collins grew up on Long Island, New York. In 1941, while attending the University of Miami in Florida, he substituted as the announcer on his English teacher's campus radio program, and decided he wanted to be in radio. Collins began his professional career as the disc jockey at a bluegrass station in Logan, West Virginia; by 1943, he was at WKPA in Pittsburgh, moving in 1945 to WIND in Chicago and in 1946 to Salt Lake City's KNAK. In 1950, he relocated to New York where he joined the staff of WNEW and became one of the "communicators" on NBC's Monitor when it began in 1955.
Collins made several appearances on The Tonight Show with Steve Allen in the early 50s (and even briefly took over the show after Allen's departure; see below). In 1953, Allen adapted several nursery rhymes (including Little Red Riding Hood) into jazz-flavoured recitations, with Collins on vocals and Lou Stein on piano.
"Jazzbo"
The name "Jazzbo" derived from a product Collins had seen, a clip-on bowtie named Jazzbows. Just as Martin Block created the illusion that he was speaking from the Make Believe Ballroom, Collins claimed to be broadcasting from his inner sanctum, a place known as the Purple Grotto, an imaginary setting suggested by radio station WNEW's interior design, as Collins explained:
I started my broadcast in Studio One which was painted all kinds of tints and shades of purple on huge polycylindricals which were vertically placed around the walls of the room to deflect the sound. It just happened to be that way. And with the turntables and desk and console and the lights turned down low, it had a very cavelike appearance to my imagination. So I got on the air, and the first thing I said was, "Hi, it's Jazzbo in the Purple Grotto." You never know where your thoughts are coming from, but the way it came out was that I was in a grotto, in this atmosphere with stalagtites and a lake and no telephones. I was using Nat Cole underneath me with "Easy Listening Blues" playing piano in the background.
The Tonight Show and later work
In 1957, NBC-TV installed him for five weeks as the host of the Tonight show when it was known as Tonight! America After Dark in the period between hosts Steve Allen and Jack Paar.[2]
Also in 1957, Collins starred in (as himself) an episode of NBC radio's science fiction radio series X Minus One. By 1959, he was with KSFO in San Francisco, hanging out with the beatnik hipsters in North Beach. On-air, Jazzbo would say that he was broadcasting "from the purpleness of the Grotto", often mentioning his assistant "Harrison, the long-tailed purple Tasmanian owl". On the TV side, Collins hosted "The Al Collins Show," that aired mornings on KGO-TV. The format included light talk and guest appearances by local celebrities such as Moe Howard of The Three Stooges. Later in the 1960s, he was the host of Jazz for the Asking (VOA), and he worked with several Los Angeles stations during the late in the decade: KMET (1966), KFI (1967) and KGBS (1968).
He officially changed the spelling of his name to Jazzbeaux when he went to Pittsburgh's WTAE in 1969. He moved to WIXZ in Pittsburgh (1973) before heading back to the West Coast three years later. While in Pittsburgh, he briefly hosted a late night television show entitled "Jazzbeauxz (with a 'z') Rehearsal", an eclectic sampling of anything that caught Collins' interest at the time, including a long-running hard-boiled-egg spinning contest. He conducted the program from a barber chair, as he had on a previous TV show.
"Stinking badges"[edit]
A popular segment on his show was the "no stinkin' badges" routine, a play on the famous exchange in the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Al would politely request that the main guest for that day don a Mexican bandit costume, complete with ammo belts crossing the chest, six-guns in holsters, a huge sombrero and large fake mustache. The guest then had to pose in front of cameras and for the TV audience. With pistols pointing at the camera lens the guest had to say (with emphasis) "I don't got to show you no stinkin' badges." If the guest did not say it with sufficient sinister tone Collins made him or her repeat it until in Al's opinion the guest got it right.
1970s and beyond[edit]
In 1976 Al Collins returned to San Francisco, working at KMPX, followed by a three-year all-night run at KGO which drew callers throughout the West Coast; he always opened his program with Count Basie's "Blues in Hoss Flat". He also worked a late night shift at KKIS AM (in Pittsburg, California, ironically) in 1980. After a stint in New York and WNEW (1981), Jazzbo was back in San Francisco at KSFO (1983) and KFRC (1986). Then came one more run at WNEW (1986–90), then KAPX (Marin County, California) in 1990, and finally a weekly jazz show at KCSM (College of San Mateo, California) from 1993 to his death.
Al Collins died on September 30, 1997, at the age of 78, from pancreatic cancer.
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Jon Hammond in Chicago IL interviewing Barry Dolins is Deputy Director of the Mayorâs Office of Special Events and the coordinator of the Chicago Blues Festival since 1985 on HammondCast show for KYOU & KYCY Radio 1550AM (San Francisco CA) Headliners & Program for 2007 Chicago Blues Festival: Thursday 6/7
Front Porch
11:30 AM Blues in the Schools
Carrying on a Blues Fest tradition, boogie-woogie pianist Erwin Helfer, vocalist Katherine Davis, and guitarist-pianist Eric Noden lead a group of students from Stone Academy in a performance that will no doubt also feature enthusiastic cameos from an assortment of guest stars. --DW
1:30 PM Aaron Moore
If this pianist hadn't opted for a dependable day gig with Chicago's Bureau of Streets and San in the 50s, relegating the blues to his spare time, he might now be as revered as Otis Spann or Johnny Jones. In the decade since his retirement he's made an enthusiastic return to music, his hearty vocal style and rollicking technique -- much influenced by Roosevelt Sykes -- still intact. --BD
3 PM Bobby "Slim" James with Joanne Graham
Bobby "Slim" James, a club stalwart on the south and west sides, puts across his percussive guitar playing and choked, dramatic baritone vocals with a dose of flamboyant showmanship. He'll perform with singer Joanne Graham, whose winning combination of sass and class lets her sound lusty or tough without getting too coarse. --DW
5 PM Phil Guy & the Chicago Machine
Notwithstanding his status as "the other Guy," at this point Phil Guy is far more of a meat-and-potatoes bluesman than Buddy, and he's certainly paid his dues -- behind his brother, with Junior Wells, even on his own. You can hear both his south Louisiana upbringing and his south-side Chicago panache in his guitar work: he tosses in a little low-down funk now and again, but his lead lines stay blissfully focused. --BD
Crossroads
Noon Charles E. Shaw & the Chicago Blues Rebellion Band featuring Lady Sax and Lady Kat
Guitarist Charles E. Shaw can play everything from raw Chicago boogie blues to breezily romantic soul to post-John McLaughlin celestial fusion. His band will be joined by Lady Sax, an alto saxophonist from Gary who plays a solid blend of smooth pop-jazz and boogity funk, and rough-edged south-side vocalist Lady Kat, who does a knockout version of the witty, little-known Gloria Thompson Rodgers number "VooDoo Woman." --DW
2 PM Osee Anderson & Da Blooze Folks
Formerly Lonnie Brooks's second guitarist, Osee Anderson is equally at home with Delta minimalism and Wes Montgomery-style sophistication. He tends to rely a bit too heavily on pyrotechnics, but when he reins in that bad habit you can hear how committed he is -- both to blues tradition and to his own eclectic set of influences. --DW
4 PM Hoochie Coochie Boys
Muddy Waters always hired stellar sidemen, and this set reunites five of them: harpist George "Mojo" Buford, guitarists John Primer and Rick Kreher, bassist Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, and drummer Ray "Killer" Allison. Local pianist Barrelhouse Chuck will do his best to fill the shoes of the late Otis Spann, and vocalist Muddy Waters Jr., who recently surfaced with plans to follow in his dad's footsteps, will front the band. --BD
Louisiana Bayou Station & Social Club
12:30 PM Willis Prudhomme & Zydeco Express
Despite their similarities, Cajun and Creole musical traditions are distinct, and many fans and practitioners are adamant about keeping them that way. Not so accordionist Willis Prudhomme: mentored by Cajun legend Nathan Abshire, he combines bluesy, hectic zydeco with more sedate but no less complex Cajun material. --DW
2 PM Bob Hall
At least since the trad-jazz revival in the 40s and 50s, there have been plenty of die-hard aficionados of early American jazz and blues in Britain. London pianist Bob Hall plays as though he's memorized stacks of classic blues, barrelhouse, and boogie records note for note, but his enthusiasm -- and his freshly minted variations on vintage themes -- help his music sound immediate instead of dated. --DW
3:30 PM Renaud Patigny
This Belgian pianist specializes in transcribing early 78s, and for this set he'll deliver note-for-note re-creations of sides by the great Albert Ammons -- despite the poor quality of the source recordings, he says his versions are 98 percent accurate. Those who already distrust the repertory movement among jazz preservationists won't be thrilled with Patigny's premise, but his dedication, expertise, and virtuosity make the results worth checking out. --DW
5 PM Carl "Sonny" Leyland and Lila Ammons
English pianist Carl "Sonny" Leyland, who specializes in what his Web site calls "obscure and primitive" styles, peppers his re-creations of vintage blues, jazz, and boogie-woogie with irreverent flashes of rockabilly and R & B and occasionally tosses in a wittily conceived original tune. He's joined here by Lila Ammons, granddaughter of Albert, who sings with classical precision and bluesy gusto. --DW
Mississippi Juke Joint
12:30 PM Super Percy
This coarse-voiced belter and his Soul Clique Band are regulars in south- and west-side clubs and have recently been playing weekend gigs at Lee's Unleaded Blues. Their energetic sets are mostly the usual Saturday-night fare, but they liven up their selection of blues, soul, and R & B standards with occasional tunes from Percy's self-released 2005 CD Is It Real. --DW
2:30 PM John Primer
With his long service in bands led by Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, and Magic Slim, John Primer is about as well--seasoned as a Chicago blues guitarist can possibly be. A native of Camden, Mississippi, he's been playing electric blues with his own band for a while, his exuberant vocals and uncommonly fluid leads sticking close to the Chicago tradition. --BD
4 PM Jimmy "Duck" Holmes
Guitarist Jimmy "Duck" Holmes was mentored by Jack Owens, torchbearer for the so-called Bentonia school of acoustic blues, which is most closely associated with Skip James. Whether such a school existed at the time or was invented retrospectively is open to debate, but Holmes has mastered the primary components of the style: ghostly, high-pitched vocals and languorously picked chords and leads, mostly in an open E or E-minor tuning. --DW
6 PM Chicago Jam Station with Dave Specter, Aron Burton, and Kenny Smith
This evening the festival's pro jam session is anchored by Dave Specter, a concise, T-Bone Walker-influenced guitarist who blends Kenny Burrell-style jazz with tough Chicago blues; veteran bassist Aron Burton, a former Albert Collins sideman; and drummer Kenny Smith, whose precise timekeeping owes something to the influence of his dad, longtime Muddy Waters trapsman Willie "Big Eyes" Smith. --BD
Route 66 Roadhouse
Noon Boogie Woogie Stomp: Honoring the Ammons Family
Three pianists who performed on the Louisiana Bayou Station & Social Club stage earlier today -- Bob Hall, Renaud Patigny, and Carl "Sonny" Leyland -- discuss boogie-woogie music and its legacy. They're joined by vocalist Lila Ammons and her father, Edsel, one of Albert's sons and a retired bishop of the United Methodist Church. --DW
2 PM Soul-Blues: The Lifeblood of the Blues Today moderated by Larry Hoffman
R The style known as soul-blues or southern soul -- which has its roots in R & B, 60s deep soul, and the smooth, swinging 12-bar blues pioneered by the likes of T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, and Bobby "Blue" Bland, and these days draws increasingly on rap and hip-hop -- not only continues to thrive in the south but has made plenty of converts outside it (a showcase at Arie Crown earlier this year sold out). This discussion features songwriter Bob Jones; singer Willie Clayton; Rip Daniels, owner of powerhouse Mississippi soul-blues station WJZD; and Julius Lewis, the Memphis promoter who put on the Arie Crown concert. --DW
4 PM Centennials Memorial
Jim O'Neal of Living Blues magazine, Michael Frank of Earwig Music, and writer-producers Bob Porter and Larry Hoffman reminisce about the festival's centennial honorees, Albert Ammons and Sunnyland Slim, and a number of blues greats who've died since last year's fest, including guitarists Homesick James, Henry Townsend, and Robert Lockwood Jr., singer Ruth Brown, harpist Snooky Pryor, and drummer Chico Chism. Sadly, they'll now be able to add harpist Carey Bell, who passed away May 6. --DW
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6 PM Willie Clayton
R One of the leading lights of the contemporary soul-blues scene, Willie Clayton shows off his versatility on last year's Gifted (Malaco), offering up buoyant pop tunes ("My Lover My Friend") as well as his usual boudoir ballads ("When I Think About Cheating") and synth-driven dance-floor workouts ("Sweet Lady," "My Miss America"). His voice alternates between mellifluous crooning and hoarse, churchy imprecations, and though he's sometimes so cocky onstage he comes off almost arrogant, he's still a thrilling and charismatic showman. --DW
7:20 PM Jimmy Dawkins
R In 1969 Jimmy Dawkins's Fast Fingers (Delmark) won the Grand Prix du Disque of the Hot Club de France, boosting his reputation but in the process saddling him with an inappropriate nickname. He tends to avoid flamboyant high-speed pyrotechnics, instead creating extended, slowly unfurling lines that burn savagely into your brain, and his preference for midrange tones over brilliant upper-register stuff reinforces the dark intensity of his music. His most recent release, 2004's Tell Me Baby (Fedora), is a bit less harrowing than 1994's Blues & Pain, but songs like "Falling Tears" and "Hard Life Blues" are still anything but easy listening. --DW
8:30 PM Koko Taylor & the Blues Machine
R She's been hailed as Chicago's Queen of the Blues for so long that it's all but impossible to pinpoint the precise date of her coronation. Taylor's seminal version of "Wang Dang Doodle," cut while she was a protege of Willie Dixon at Chess Records, became a national hit in 1966, when Chicago blues records seldom managed that feat; the song remains her calling card today. She survived a life-threatening illness in late 2003, and on her comeback album, this year's Old School (on Alligator, her label for more than 30 years), her voice is a bit growly with age but her bone-deep commitment to blues tradition is as strong as ever. --BD
Friday 6/8
Front Porch
11:30 AM Blues in the Schools
Harpist Billy Branch, a founder of the Blues in the Schools program, leads a group of Mississippi children who came to Chicago for a class with him, organized by the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale. --DW
1 PM J.W. Williams & the Chi-Town Hustlers
When bassist and vocalist J.W. Williams formed the Chi-Town Hustlers in the 80s, he was still a member of Billy Branch's Sons of Blues, and his band was sort of a subsidiary of the older group -- they often played together and shared personnel. Williams spent some time away from the scene, but in recent years he's been gigging in town with a reconstituted crew of Hustlers, playing the same brand of flamboyant, funky, irreverent blues. --DW
2:45 PM Vernon and Joe Harrington
Southpaw guitar slinger Vernon Harrington and his bassist brother, Joe, are members of the Bell-Harrington clan, which also includes Joe's regular employer Eddy "the Chief" Clearwater and the late harp maestro Carey Bell. Vernon has a slinky, insinuating guitar style and a deft harmonic imagination, but he relies a little too heavily on overcooked standards. --DW
4 PM Lurrie Bell, Steve Bell, Billy Branch, and Matthew Skoller
R Guitarist Lurrie Bell was originally scheduled to play with his father, harmonica legend Carey Bell, who died on May 6. Three local harp men will be taking his place: Lurrie's brother Steve, who was taught by Carey and has been playing with Lurrie on and off since they were boys; Billy Branch, Lurrie's bandleader in the Sons of Blues in the early 80s; and dependable local Matthew Skoller, with whom Lurrie has worked regularly in recent years. Each of these harpists can establish a powerful synergetic empathy with Lurrie even under ordinary circumstances, so this set ought to be devastatingly intense. --DW
5:45 PM The No Static Blues Band featuring Mary, Lynn, and Renee Lane
Vocalist Mary Lane has been gracing west-side bandstands since the 50s, when she worked with the likes of Elmore James, Magic Sam, and Morris Pejoe (then her husband). She's joined here by daughters Lynn and Renee, whose sweet singing and contemporary styles ought to leaven their mother's stentorian, occasionally labored vocals and decidedly retro leanings. --DW
Crossroads
Noon Carl Weathersby
A former member of the Sons of Blues, this remarkably versatile guitarist can segue from screaming blues intensity to deep-soul seduction without missing a beat. The imaginative transitions he crafts between the different ideas and conceits he visits during a song make his music engaging and exciting rather than merely disorienting. --DW
2 PM Mighty Joe Young Jr. featuring Chontella Renee
The late guitarist Mighty Joe Young was an important figure in the development of modern Chicago blues, and Joe Jr.'s guitar style, both intense and subtle, is almost eerily reminiscent of his father's. His daughter Chontella contributes fiery vocals that simultaneously evoke the church, the street corner, and the dance floor. --DW
4 PM Carlos Johnson & the Serious Blues Band
Yet another alum of Billy Branch's Sons of Blues who's carved out a solo career for himself, Carlos Johnson is a wide-ranging guitarist who sometimes forgets to connect the dots on his mix-and-match flights of fancy -- though in recent years his playing has been more reliable and tasteful than ever. --DW
Louisiana Bayou Station & Social Club
Noon Daryl Davis
This gifted young African-American blues and boogie pianist studied music at Howard University, but he doesn't wear his erudition on his sleeve: his shows are jubilant celebrations, not textbook lessons. --DW
1:30 PM Ken Saydak
This pianist has been a sideman to some of the best -- Willie Kent, Otis Rush, Lonnie Brooks, and Johnny Winter, just for starters -- but his solo work is what's brought him the most acclaim. Saydak's blend of traditional and modern blues styles reflects both the dedication of a craftsman and the zeal of an explorer for whom even well-trod paths represent opportunities to discover new beauty. --DW
3 PM Ariyo
Currently the pianist in Billy Branch's Sons of Blues, Sumito Ariyoshi moved here from Japan in the early 80s, and before long was sitting in with legends like Eddie Taylor, Robert Lockwood Jr., and Jimmy Rogers. Over the years he's tamed his weakness for excessive ornament and expanded his stylistic range: a typical set now includes rumba-laced New Orleans R & B, driving Chicago-style blues and boogie, and nuanced pop balladry. --DW
4:30 PM Willis Prudhomme & Zydeco Express
See Thursday.
Mississippi Juke Joint
Noon Jimmy "Duck" Holmes
See Thursday.
1:30 PM Terry "Big T" Williams, Wesley Jefferson
Bassist Wesley Jefferson and guitarist Terry "Big T" Williams are fixtures on the thriving blues circuit around Clarksdale, Mississippi. Their recorded debut, this year's Meet Me in the Cotton Field (Broke & Hungry), throbs with sinister energy even when they're playing acoustically -- and when they plug in, like they do for their bone-shattering version of "Catfish Blues," the intensity is almost unbearable. --DW
3 PM Clarksdale Delta Blues Museum
The Mississippi kids who appeared with Billy Branch on the Front Porch stage earlier today play a set of their own. --DW
4:30 PM Jimmy "Duck" Holmes
See Thursday.
6 PM Chicago Jam Station with Guy King, Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, and Kenny Smith
This evening's jam session is led by guitarist Guy King, ex-sideman to Willie Kent, former Muddy Waters bassist Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, and drummer Kenny Smith, son of Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Jones's longtime partner both with Muddy and in the Legendary Blues Band. --BD
Route 66 Roadhouse
Noon The Significance of the Berlin Jazz Festival as told by Jim O'Neal
In 1977 Living Blues magazine cofounder Jim O'Neal assembled a revue called "the New Generation of Chicago Blues" for the Berlin Jazz Festival, and here he trades stories with some of the musicians involved. See today's Petrillo lineup for more. --DW
2 PM Blues: A Family Affair with Johnnie Mae Dunson and Jimi "Prime Time" Smith
Johnnie Mae Dunson and her son Jimi discuss some of the blessings and challenges faced by a multigenerational blues family. See below for their Petrillo lineup set. --DW
4 PM Chicago Blues Today
Reader blues critic David Whiteis, author of Chicago Blues: Portraits and Stories, and Karen Hanson, who wrote the new guidebook Today's Chicago Blues, talk about the state of the Windy City scene. --BD
Petrillo Music Shell
6 PM Johnnie Mae Dunson and Jimi "Prime Time" Smith
In the 50s and 60s Johnnie Mae Dunson occasionally wrote songs for Jimmy Reed or drummed in his band, and today she's carrying on as a charismatic and flamboyant singer. Her son, guitarist Jimi "Prime Time" Smith, played with Reed for a while before his death in 1976, then in the 80s accompanied other older--generation bluesmen, notably harpist Big Walter Horton. He usually stays rooted in the traditional styles he learned from his mentors but enlivens them with youthful zest and imagination -- and best of all, he writes most of his own material. --DW
7:15 PM Billy Branch's Sons of Blues 30th-anniversary reunion
R In 1977 Jim O'Neal of Living Blues magazine was commissioned to put together a group of up-and-coming Chicago bluesmen to appear with Willie Dixon at the Berlin Jazz Festival under the name "the New Generation of Chicago Blues." Those dozen or so musicians put the world on notice that there were a bunch of young Turks in Chicago itching to bring the blues into a new era, and several important bands, most notably Branch's Sons of Blues, evolved directly out of the Berlin group. This performance won't be a full reunion -- Dixon passed away in 1992 and several others have dropped out of music or out of sight -- but it should have plenty of the adventurous, untamed spirit of the original event. --DW
Saturday 6/9
Front Porch
11:30 AM Fruteland Jackson's Birthday Party
Local multi-instrumentalist, singer--songwriter, and educator Fruteland Jackson celebrates his 54th birthday. There's no word as to whether Jackson has come up with any special music for the occasion, but given his flair for spinning songs out of day-to-day experiences ("Is That Your Real Name?" is about strangers' favorite thing to ask him), it wouldn't surprise me if he had. --DW
1:30 PM Wanda Johnson & Shrimp City Slim
South Carolina singer Wanda Johnson sometimes sounds a bit brittle, but she makes up for it with a supple vibrato and a tone that stays warm even in her upper register -- not to mention her Tracy Chapman-esque knack for blending soul, blues, folk, and pop. Pianist Gary Erwin, aka Shrimp City Slim, runs the Erwin label, which has released two of Johnson's discs so far; his melodic, splay-fingered style complements her well. --DW
3:30 PM Chicago Blues Harmonica Project Part II featuring Little Arthur Duncan, Charlie Love, Big D, Jeffery Taylor, Mervyn "Harmonica" Hinds, and Reginald Cooper
Septuagenarian Little Arthur Duncan and south-side mainstay Mervyn "Harmonica" Hinds are the best-known harpists in this lineup. Two of the others often play other instruments: Charlie Love leads the Silky Smooth Band as a singer and guitarist, and Jeffery Taylor is a popular drummer on the north-side circuit. Big D, a relatively young player, mixes jazzy jump and emotional Delta blues a la Little Walter, and Reginald Cooper has jobbed around town but isn't yet established. The backing band consists of guitarists Rick Kreher and Illinois Slim, bassist E.G. McDaniel, pianist Mark Brumbach, and drummer Twist Turner. As with the first Harmonica Project in 2005, Severn Records will release a compilation showcasing these musicians later this year. --DW
6 PM Khalif Wailin' Walter
With his high-energy brand of roadhouse-rocking blues, this former sideman for Carl Weathersby and Lonnie Brooks hasn't often seemed to care much about subtlety. But on his forthcoming CD, Let Me Say That Again, the guitarist and singer focuses his Albert King-influenced leads with unprecedented taste and craftsmanship -- a level of sophistication befitting a musician who claims a degree in jazz performance from Roosevelt University. --DW
Crossroads
Noon Elmore James Jr. with Cadillac Zack
Like his legendary father, Elmore James Jr. can fire off triplet-laden slide-guitar riffs in a raw, Delta-influenced style. Though he's also capable of playing more contemporary blues, closer to R & B, here he's backed by a rootsy band led by California guitarist Cadillac Zack and will likely stick to the older sounds. --DW
1:45 PM David Dee & Family
Primarily known for his song "Going Fishing," an insistent good-time shuffle that became something of a blues-club standard in the mid-80s, Saint Louis guitarist David Dee serves up sparse, stinging Albert King-influenced licks as a tangy complement to his soul-streaked vocals. His daughters, who'll join him here, are talented R & B singers in their own right. --BD
3:45 PM Honeydripper All-Stars
Featured in a forthcoming film by director John Sayles, this intriguingly eclectic group includes performers from all over the country: veteran Chicago saxman Eddie Shaw, young Texas guitarist Gary Clark Jr., Mississippi harpist Arthur Lee Williams, jazz pianist Henderson Huggins from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Detroit-bred singer Mable John, a former Raelette who recorded for both Motown and Stax in the 60s -- her sassy "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)" was a hit for Stax in '66 -- and now lives in LA. --BD
Louisiana Bayou Station & Social Club
12:30 PM Dave Drazin
A nationally renowned photoplay pianist as well as a music scholar and film archivist, Chicagoan David Drazin provides period-appropriate accompaniment for silent films, using jazz and blues instead of the usual ragtime. --DW
2 PM Drink Small
R South Carolina septuagenarian Drink Small, aka "the Blues Doctor," styles himself as the modern-day equivalent of a medicine-show minstrel. A lot of his material is anachronistic -- what might have been subversively outrageous in a 1930s tent revue in rural Mississippi doesn't pack quite the same wallop today -- but his sly, barbed wit and bottomless energy lift him out of self-caricature. Though some of his zingers are meant for the crowd, he usually leavens them with self-deprecating buffoonery so his audience can laugh rather than cringe. --DW
4 PM Willis Prudhomme & Zydeco Express
See Thursday.
5 PM Tony Llorens
Best known for his work in theater and film, Tony Llorens currently serves as music director of Chicago's esteemed ETA Creative Arts Foundation theater. But he's also put in time as keyboardist, bandleader, and producer for Albert King and worked with ZZ Top and Stevie Ray Vaughan -- as the best blues artists have always done, he fuses high- and low-culture sensibilities with refreshing irreverence. --DW
Mississippi Juke Joint
Noon Terry "Big T" Williams
The Mississippi bluesman plays solo here. See Friday.
1:30 PM Homemade Jamz' Blues Band
This family band consists of three siblings from the Perry family of Tupelo, Mississippi: 15-year-old guitarist Ryan, 12-year-old bassist Kyle, and 8-year-old drummer Taya. They won second place at the Blues Foundation's 23rd International Blues Challenge in Memphis this year and have gotten rave reviews from audiences and critics alike. --DW
3 PM Alvin Youngblood Hart
R It's hard to believe that guitarist Alvin Youngblood Hart, who these days bills himself as "the Cosmic American Love Child of Howlin' Wolf and Link Wray," was ever pigeonholed as a blues revivalist, but that's exactly what happened after he released his all-acoustic debut, Big Mama's Door, in 1996. Since then, though, he's interspersed his rootsier efforts with projects as diverse as a collaboration with guitarist Audley Freed of the Black Crowes and an ensemble combining blues and jazz that also includes saxophonist David Murray, Meters guitarist Leo Nocentelli, and spoken word by author Ishmael Reed; under his own name he's branched out into grungy garage rock, western swing, honky-tonk waltzes, and Sonny Sharrock-style free-form explorations. And no matter what he plays, his molasses-rich baritone and bottomless vocabulary of melodic and harmonic elaborations, on themes both vintage and modern, keep his music aesthetically and emotionally focused. Here Hart will play solo, but even in such a stripped-down context he's reliably provocative and forward looking. --DW
4:30 PM Jimmy "Duck" Holmes
See Thursday.
6 PM Chicago Jam Station with Guy King, Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, and Kenny Smith
See Friday.
Route 66 Roadhouse
11 AM The Great Lakes Blues Society Summit
In recent years local and regional blues societies have emerged as major forces in promoting and supporting the music. Here representatives of the Great Lakes Blues Society, one of the more influential in the midwest, will lead a panel discussion hosted by Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine. --DW
1:30 PM Blues on Film: John Sayles's The Honeydripper
Director John Sayles will discuss The Honeydripper, scheduled for release later this year, which stars Danny Glover as the proprietor of an Alabama juke joint and also features the Honeydripper All-Stars (see above) and guitarist Keb' Mo'. The late R & B vocalist Ruth Brown, who was supposed to appear as well, became too ill to travel to Alabama for filming but did record some songs for the soundtrack. --DW
3:30 PM Cultural Tourism: A Virtual Blues Tour on the Blues Trail
Do busloads of tourists really benefit a local or regional blues scene, given that most of those people will probably never set foot in the community again? Living Blues magazine cofounder Jim O'Neal discusses the role of "cultural tourism" with representatives of state and local organizations in Chicago, Mississippi, and Louisiana that have taken the lead in sponsoring pub crawls, bus tours, and similar enterprises. --DW
Petrillo Music Shell
5 PM Nellie "Tiger" Travis
Nellie Travis's sultry vocals lend themselves most effectively to slick R & B-flavored soul-blues, and on her latest disc, 2005's Wanna Be With You (Da Man), recorded with veteran soul-blues producer Floyd Hamberlin, she's at her best -- she croons, testifies, and occasionally wails through its densely textured slow jams, jaunty dance-floor workouts, and agreeably abrasive up-tempo booty shakers. --DW
6:10 PM Big Jay McNeely with Jesse Scinto
R Honking tenor saxophone was the backbone of both 1950s rock 'n' roll and its direct precedent, postwar R & B, and nobody exemplifies that sound like LA horn titan Big Jay McNeely -- his 1949 smash "Deacon's Hop" became the prototype for countless primal, blistering sax solos to come. Big Jay didn't finesse anything: he reared back and squawked one mile-wide note incessantly, often while flat on his back or being pushed around a nightclub on a cart, driving his young fans into an apoplectic frenzy. He still has that big sound down pat, and when I saw him last month, not long after his 80th birthday, he used some of his old moves, droppingto his knees or strolling through the crowd while wailing on his trademark fluorescent--lacquered horn. If Jesse Scinto's band provides him with a sufficient level of swing, Big Jay is liable to blow the band shell down. --BD
7:20 PM Irma Thomas & the Professionals
R Hurricane Katrina robbed Irma Thomas of her home and her nightclub, but those losses haven't hurt her music. She's long been revered in New Orleans the way Koko Taylor is here, but her sweet, understated voice is the antithesis of Koko's strutting growl. At an outdoor gig last summer Thomas drew from her latest album, After the Rain (Rounder), whose poignant songs reflect the heartbreak of Katrina's aftermath. But she can also radiate happiness -- for instance when she exhorts a crowd to wave their hankies along with the second-line-powered "I Done Got Over It," one of the classic tunes she cut with Allen Toussaint in the early 60s. Thomas also recorded the original version of "Time Is on My Side" -- and though she seldom performs it now, her plaintive rendition blows the Stones' out of the water. --BD
8:30 PM Magic Slim & the Teardrops
Though they now make their home in Lincoln, Nebraska, Magic Slim and his Teardrops were long one of Chicago's most reliable blues bands. The Teardrops value ensemble work over virtuosic soloing, leaving plenty of room for Slim's barbed-wire guitar and pulverizing vocals; the group has a bottomless shuffle-dominated repertoire, ranging from the warhorse "Mustang Sally" and a hilariously ribald "Mother Fuyer" to decades-old obscurities. --BD
Sunday 6/10
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11:30 AM Melvia "Chick" Rodgers & Her Gospel Harmonizers
Melvia "Chick" Rodgers was a favorite on the north-side circuit until a few years ago, when she left the blues and returned to gospel, her original inspiration. She's nimble throughout her vocal range and solid in both tone and timbre, and the fervor she brings to religious music is, if anything, even more satisfying than the funky punch she delivered as a blues chanteuse. --DW
1:30 PM Cephas & Wiggins
Guitarist John Cephas and harmonica virtuoso Phil Wiggins have performed on the Front Porch stage so often it might as well be named after them. Their forte is the so-called Piedmont style of acoustic blues: fingerpicked guitar is interwoven with full-toned harmonica, with the instruments alternating between lead and rhythm roles to create a circular feel that harks back to the music's African roots. --DW
3:30 PM James Cotton
Deeply influenced by his mentor, the second Sonny Boy Williamson, James Cotton made his first records for Sun, then spent a decade apprenticing with Muddy Waters before graduating to fronting his own high-energy outfit in the mid-60s. His booming voice has been reduced to a gravelly rasp by Father Time, but Cotton still puts on a clinic whenever he pulls out his harmonica -- he plays like a freight train, with a tone that sizzles like bacon in a frying pan. --BD
5:30 PM Zac Harmon
Mississippi-born guitarist Zac Harmon has put in time with soul and soul-blues artists like Z.Z. Hill, McKinley Mitchell, and Dorothy Moore, but what he's playing these days sounds more influenced by southern-fried boogie rockers like the Allmans and Lynyrd Skynyrd. His hot-toned leads are rhythmically buoyant and melodically sophisticated, and his vocals sound genuine, refreshingly free of "blooze" posturing. --DW
Crossroads
Noon Lil' Howlin' Wolf
This Lil' Wolf is Jessie Sanders, a former Chicagoan whose hoarse bellow isn't entirely unlike the original Wolf's fabled roar. Alas, he can't even approximate the vast emotional range that made the legendary bluesman one of the greatest stylists in history. --DW
1:45 PM Katherine Davis Blues Ensemble
Local singer Katherine Davis specializes in blues and jump blues, delivering up-tempo barn burners and smoldering ballads with a combination of elegance and good-natured sass -- and balancing her flamboyant stage presence with straightforward melodicism and impeccable swing. --DW
3:30 PM Maurice John Vaughn Blues Band
This veteran Chicago bluesman is fluent on both lead guitar and saxophone, has a supple voice, and ranks among the clever-est songwriters on the local circuit. That kind of uncommon versatility should've made him a star long ago, but he never seems to get his due -- luckily he still has plenty of time. --BD
Louisiana Bayou Station & Social Club
12:30 PM Henry Gray & the Cats
Many of Chicago's legendary blues pianists came up from Mississippi, but Henry Gray was raised in Louisiana, giving his rolling 88s a slightly different slant. When he lived here in the 50s, he recorded as a sideman with Jimmy Reed, Little Walter, Billy Boy Arnold, and Howlin' Wolf, eventually spending a dozen years in Wolf's band. He returned to Baton Rouge in 1968, but his back-alley vocals and two-fisted piano playing still blend swamp blues with driving Windy City shuffles. --BD
2 PM Willis Prudhomme & Zydeco Express
See Thursday.
4 PM David "Honeyboy" Edwards
Now that Homesick James, Robert Lockwood Jr., and Henry Townsend have passed away, Honeyboy Edwards is the blues' last living link to Robert Johnson. At 91, he wears the elder-statesman mantle with dignity and a twinkle in his eye, and though he sometimes has to struggle to maintain focus during a long set, he can still generate heat both musically and emotionally. --DW
Mississippi Juke Joint
Noon Zac Harmon
See above.
1:30 PM Homemade Jamz' Blues Band
See Saturday.
3 PM Bobby Rush
R For this rare solo acoustic set, Rush will play guitar and harmonica -- and, in deference to the kids who are likely to be around at this early hour, sanitize his usual racy persona to play the down-home raconteur. See tonight's Petrillo listings for more. --DW
4:30 PM Jimmy "Duck" Holmes
See Thursday.
6 PM Chicago Jam Station with Dave Specter, Harlan Terson, and Mike Schlick
The fest's final pro jam session is hosted once again by jazzy guitarist Dave Specter, this time joined by two of his frequent gigging cohorts: bassist Harlan Terson, who's played behind everyone from Lonnie Brooks to Otis Rush, and drummer Mike Schlick. --BD
Route 66 Roadhouse
11:30 AM The Art of the Blues
Larry Morrissey, Heritage Program director for the Mississippi Arts Commission, and Patty Crosby, director of Mississippi Cultural Crossroads, discuss Mississippi folk art with a group of bona fide folk artists: Geraldine Nash and Gustina Atlas are quilters from Port Gibson, Bessie Johnson is a basket weaver from West Point, and George Berry, a retired industrial-arts instructor who taught at the famed Piney Woods School, is a wood-carver. --DW
1:30 PM Sunnyland Tales: Sam Burckhardt, Steve Freund, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, and Barrelhouse Chuck
Saxophonist Sam Burckhardt and guitarist Steve Freund played in Sunnyland Slim's last working band, Honeyboy Edwards was a contemporary of Sunnyland's, and pianist Barrelhouse Chuck was not only his student but one of his closest friends. They're sure to have plenty of stories to tell about Sunnyland, one of the most colorful and beloved figures in Chicago blues history -- but they may have trouble thinking of enough G-rated ones to fill their time slot. --DW
3 PM Howlin' Wolf Birthday Party with family and friends
Bettye Kelly and Barbra Marks, two of Wolf's daughters (or more properly stepdaughters), will host a party to celebrate what would've been his 97th birthday. Quite a few artists who knew Wolf are at the fest this year -- Honeyboy Edwards, Bobby Rush, Lil' Howlin' Wolf, the former sidemen playing Petrillo this evening -- so this could end up quite a star-studded affair. --DW
Petrillo Music Shell
5 PM The Disciples playing for Sunnyland
Former sidemen join forces with students, admirers, and contemporaries of the late pianist Sunnyland Slim for this tribute set. Saxophonist Sam Burckhardt (tonight's leader), guitarist Steve Freund, and bassist Bob Stroger were in Sunnyland's last working band. Drummer Kenny Smith, whose father, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, manned the kit for Muddy Waters, will fill in for Robert Covington, who passed away in 1996. Willie is also on hand (as is his longtime Waters bandmate, bassist Calvin "Fuzz" Jones), but I expect he'll play harp for this set. Kenny Barker, one of Chicago's most versatile younger keyboardists, is a fan of Sunnyland's, Barrelhouse Chuck was his friend and student, and Sunnyland mentored vocalists Big Time Sarah and Deitra Farr. --DW
7:15 PM Tribute to Howlin' Wolf
Former Howlin' Wolf sidemen pay tribute to their old boss: this stellar gathering features his favorite guitarist, Hubert Sumlin, fellow fretman Jody Williams, hard-blowing saxists Eddie Shaw and Abb Locke, pianist Henry Gray, and bassist Lafayette "Shorty" Gilbert. Harpist James Cotton and drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith are better known for playing with Wolf's archrival, Muddy Waters, but they'll fit right in. --BD
8:25 PM Bobby Rush
R He's in his 70s now, but Bobby Rush still puts on one of the most energetic, creative, and transgressive shows in blues. Defying both gravity and political correctness, he leaps, spins, and leers at the scantily clad dancing girls on either side of him, singing or narrating his ribald tales (the eternal struggle between hoochie man and hoochie mama is a favorite subject) as his band boots out crisp, funky riffs. He's more than just an R-rated dirty old man, though: he calls what he does "folk funk," and behind his lascivious persona is a fable-spinning trickster. Rush's routines are, at their heart, morality tales: the lust-addled lotharios who populate his songs and stories inevitably get their comeuppance in the end.
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