#Montreux 82

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Michel Petrucciani: A Life of Passion, Talent, and Resilience

Introduction: Michel Petrucciani was one of the most extraordinary jazz pianists of the 20th century. His life was a testament to the triumph of talent and determination over physical adversity, as he became a towering figure in the world of jazz despite living with a rare genetic condition. Through his music, Petrucciani expressed an unyielding joy and intensity that continues to inspire…

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Tagged my my lovely lovely lovely dude @rogers-wateringcan 💜🧡💜🧡🥁

Rules: I have to list 10 songs I've been listening to a lot recently.

• Tender Babes- Jon Lord (I'm so obsessed with this because Cozy did the impossible thing there! Is an amazing drumming really!!!)

•Smooth Dancer- Deep Purple

•After Dark- Cozy Powell

•Fools- Deep Purple

•RoadHouse Blues (Live at Madison Square)- The Doors

•Lost In Hollywood- Rainbow

•Hideaway & Rude mood (Live at Montreux '82)- Stevie Ray Vaughan

•Turn Turn Turn- The Byrds

•Orange Blossom Special (Live at San Quentin)- Johnny Cash

•As You Said- Cream

Well, I tag @melloclastic @missus-beastly, @fanfarre-for-the-uncommon-man and @purplesmoke72

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Riot Fest 2018 - Day 2 – Saturday  This was my favorite day of the festival because it included a lot of great music as well as hanging with our good friends who came for this day. My wife also attended this day, her first time ever at  Riot Fest. (My younger son came this day as well, but hung out with his friends rather than his parents. Can’t say that I blame him!) The day also ended on a nice note as our friends knew a couple that lived two blocks from the Riot Fest entrance. We stopped by their home after festival and had pizza and beer on their back porch. Being an old west-sider, it was a treat to sit outside in the West Side on a sweet late summer night. These are the bands I saw:

The Frights (Roots Stage) An excellent band to start off Day 2. I was not familiar with this band before Riot Fest, but I listened to their albums and took an immediate liking to them. From San Diego (Poway), they played a great set of Surf Punk and Garage Punk. They engaged with the audience and were very energetic on stage.

Mannequin Pussy (Rise Stage) Already getting toasty from the intense sun, we retreated to the “chill hill” near the Rise stage to get some shade while listening to this band. They were OK. The lead singer is a female screamo. I like them when I listened to their records as she struck me as a Riot Grrrl type of singer, but I did not get into her vocals seeing the band live. She used a distorted sounding microphone, which I presume was for effect and not a technical issue. Whatever the desire effect, it just did not resonate that well with me. We listened to a few songs and then left to meet up with our friends.

Reignwolf  (Radicals Stage) This band was outstanding! A power trio led by Canadian guitarist Jordan Cook, they play a Blues based Hard/Stoner Rock. Cook is a fine guitar player and entertainer. (He played the Montreux Jazz Festival at the age of 15.) He would often hold the microphone in his hand while playing guitar and singing in intervals. The bass and drums provided the hard rocking backbone while Cook strutted around stage and shredded his guitar strings. Overall, I would say this was my second favorite act of the weekend.

Wolfmother (Radicals Stage) I periodically listen to this band, so it was nice to see them perform live. They are a Hard Rock/Stoner Rock band with a bit of Psych Rock added in. To me, they sound like a very typical 1970’s band. While I was certainly heavier into Prog Rock in the 70’s, Wolfmother’s style of music was ever-present on radio stations and turntables. I appreciate it now more than I did in the 70’s.  They are a four piece band and played a good set with some fine jamming.

Elvis Costello and The Imposters (Riot Stage) I thought this was a descent show. I think my wife was a bit disappointed, but I thought it was OK. I had seen Elvis once before, opening for The Rolling Stones on a freezing cold October night. I liked this show much more. Prior to Riot Fest, rumors were swirling that Elvis would back out because he had cancelled his current tour due to cancer surgery. But apparently he felt healthy enough to honor this commitment. (I think he plans to return to touring in November). He played some rockers, some slow stuff and did some guitar solos. I mostly liked the early stuff as his first album is one of my all time faves. He is reunited with The Imposters for the first time since 2008 and has new album out soon.

Jerry Lee Lewis (Radicals Stage) Well we had to see The Killer! At this point, running a bit low on energy, we opted out of being near the stage so we could sit and chill for a bit. The show was good, and pretty much what I expected from the 82-year-old rocker. His band played five songs before he even took the stage. (A classic format for early Blues, Country and Rock ‘n’ Roll artists.) He ended up performing nine songs, finishing with his well known hits Great Balls of Fire and Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On. Given his age, I thought he played piano and sang really well. Two thoughts crossed my mind during his set: The first was that as one of the early pioneers of Rock music, he is one of the reasons why we are at Riot Fest today. The other thought I had as I kicked back under the sky on this beautiful late summer night was about anyone that enjoyed his music back in the 1950’s. I’m sure a countless number of people in the late 50’s kicked back on a warm summer night and listened to Lewis perhaps on a transistor radio or on a car radio. It’s remarkable to think that 60 years later, we are listening to him play a live show. Along with Little Richard (age 85), Lewis is the last of the Rock music pioneers and it was a privilege to be able to enjoy a live performance.

 GWAR (Rebel Stage) GWAR plays Riot Fest every year. Along with Andrew WK, they are Riot Fest regulars. They are a Metal band with a sort of science fictions theme and bizarre futuristic costumes. I have never watched an entire set, but I try to stop by their stage every year for a few minutes just to get a taste. While refilling my water bottle before Jerry Lee Lewis, I stopped by the Rebel stage which was near the water station. I caught just a few minutes of GWAR, but it looked like a fun show. They are always entertaining and have a good sense of humor. The woman who’s home we visited after today’s festival told me she crowd surfed during the GWAR show.

Beck (Riot Stage) This was my favorite show of the weekend. Beck played a wonderfully entertaining set. I had not previously seen Beck in concert so I was not sure what to expect. It turned out he was a real crowd pleaser. He wasted not time getting into it by opening the show with two fan favorites, Devil’s Haircut and Loser. He had an awesome back up band that played with enthusiasm. At one point during the show, they slowed it down a bit and all the band gathered into one unit on stage to play acoustic renditions of Lost Cause and Blue Moon, songs that are from his mellow albums Sea Change and Morning Phase. The light show was very cool. A variety of projected patterns covered the stage through out the show and with some of the band member performing from a rise, it gave the appearance that they were standing in the videos. The last part of the show was great. (Spoiler alert if you plan to see Beck on this tour.) He started playing my favorite Where It’s At, but about midway through the song, he stopped to introduce the band members. At first I thought, “Why didn’t he finish the song?” It later became apparent that he would eventually circle back to the song. As each band member was introduced, they would start playing a solo of a cover song and would soon be joined by the rest of the band. They did parts of several songs including The Rolling Stones Miss You where they got the entire audience singing “woo woo woo woo woo woo woo” as well as covers of Once In A Lifetime (Talking Heads), In The Air Tonight (Phil Collins), and Cars (Gary Numan) which included a guest vocal appearance by Gary Numan himself. (He played a set at Riot Fest earlier in the day.) Maybe some Beck fans would have been disappointed that he did not go deeper into his catalog during the show, but for a 75-minute set on a beautiful Chicago night, I could not have asked for anything better.

Gary Numan guest appearance video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=5SXQstOSeBk

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Double Trouble

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Jimmie devait prendre la place mais allez savoir pourquoi, il n’avait pas rejoint Stevie. Colyn, l’organisateur, Bobby et Nigel l’avaient remplacé au pied levé. Tout le monde était pressé de rentrer à Chicago. Tout le monde était positivement fatigué. Ce théâtre en plein air, ce concert, ce bœuf final, ça avait été quelque chose. 35 000 spectateurs en transe sur une reprise gigantesque du Sweet Home Chicago de Robert Johnson sur scène avec Eric. Énorme.

Bowie fut le premier à flairer l’insolent talent du gamin. En 82 à Montreux, il avait été subjugué par son jeu, une dentelle de points et de notes d’un stupéfiante délicatesse. D’instinct, et il l’avait sûr, The Thin White Duke lui proposa de faire les parties de guitare sur son nouvel opus, Let’s Dance. Stevie, en plein milieu de l’enregistrement de son premier album, sauta sur l’occasion. Nile Rodgers, Bowie, lui, un succès phénoménal. À partir de là, tout le monde connut son nom.

À sept ans, il grattait sa première guitare, à douze, il multipliait les groupes avec Jimmie, son aîné de trois ans. À dix-huit, il quitta la maison pour s’attaquer à la scène blues d’Austin. Six ans durant, il écuma les bars, les clubs, courut le cachet minable et les expériences d’un soir, forgea son jeu, sa carapace, rencontra la nuit et ses excès. Il se trouva enfin un batteur sur qui appuyer son jeu flamboyant, Chris, et un bassiste sérieux, Tommy, qu’il connaissait depuis ses 14 ans. C’était reparti pour les clubs, les festivals, les kermesses de campus, tout ce qui pouvait ramener quelques dollars. Ils se firent une réputation. Jouèrent partout. Et puis Montreux, Montreux où ils tentèrent au flanc de s’inscrire. Ils n’avaient même pas de label mais ça marcha. Et sur scène, ça explosa. Au premier rang aussi. Dans la tête de Bowie.

Le premier album mit tout le monde d’accord. Il y avait un nouveau génie en ville et il portait un Stetson. Les suivants confirmèrent, le Blues pouvait compter sur lui. Le monde s’ouvrait, les tournées, les festivals, les grandes scènes. Stevie ne suivait pas la cadence, sniffait, buvait jusqu’au bout de la nuit, buvait encore au petit matin. Son jeu s’en ressentit, forcément, ses prestations étaient chaotiques. Mais c’était terminé maintenant, au prix d’efforts infinis, de cures si difficiles mais c’était fini. Alors Stevie savourait. Son quatrième album cartonnait, le premier qu’il avait enregistré sobre. Il venait de faire un triomphe avec Dieu à ses côtés, il avait partagé l’affiche avec Buddy Guy, Jeff Healey, Bonnie Raitt, passé la soirée avec Robert Cray qu’il vénérait, ils avaient parlé de Howlin’ Wolf, d’Albert King, de Son House. Quelle vie, putain, quelle vie.

On frappa à sa porte, il sortit de sa loge, serviette éponge au cou, verre de Coca à la main. Lui, Stevie. Quelle victoire. On lui indiqua que tout était prêt, qu’il pouvait y aller. Il retourna à sa loge, s’assit, finit son Coca, profita. Rota. Rigola en se regardant dans le miroir. Il rassembla ses affaires, fourra tout en vrac dans son sac. Sortit de la loge en mettant son Stetson. Il faisait encore bon même s’il était tard, même s’il y avait du brouillard. C’était l’été. Dans moins d’une demi-heure, il sera rentré à Chicago. Il laissa les roadies s’occuper de toutes ses guitares. Sauf Number One, sa Strat 63’ avec des micros de 59. Il ne laissait Number One à personne.

Tenant son Stetson, baissant la tête, il avança sous les pales de l’hélico prêt à décoller. Bobby, Nigel et Colyn l’attendaient, Nigel lui tendit la main pour monter. Clapton et Buddy Guy ne virent pas le salut de Stevie alors que l’hélicoptère s’éleva, tournant sur lui-même et s’éloignant pour rejoindre Chicago. Buddy et Eric prirent le suivant. 65 miles, un saut de puce en hélico. À une heure du matin, Clapton et Buddy Guy se saluèrent et rejoignirent leur hôtel pour une bonne nuit méritée.

À 1 h 30, l’administration fédérale annonça qu’un des hélicoptères n’avait pas rejoint Chicago.

À 4 h 50, à la lueur des lampes torches, deux policiers du Wisconsin retrouvèrent les débris de l’hélicoptère sur une piste de ski, à quelques centaines de mètres seulement de la scène du festival.

Muddy Waters lui avait dit qu’il ne dépasserait pas quarante ans s’il n’arrêtait pas la poudre. Maintenant Stevie gisait dans la poudreuse. Le Blues et l’ironie s’accordaient toujours aussi bien.

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The Lounde Lizardsのモントルーライブ(’82)盤を再聴。二曲目”Lisa Is Too Short To Run For President”がやはり凄い。テーマのユニゾンは鳥肌モノの格好良さだし、続くPeter Zumoによるトロンボーンソロもヤバい。

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Charles Lloyd Quartet — "Montreux '82" [Full Album] (1982)

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USA, New York, NY Mark Morganelli & The Jazz Forum All-Stars Celebrate Brasil! Double-CD Tuesday, June 25th Set Times: 7:30 & 9pm @ Zinc Bar:

Mark Morganelli & The Jazz Forum All-Stars Celebrate Brasil! Double-CD Tuesday, June 25th Set Times:  7:30 & 9pm To Request A Promo or Download Contact: jim@jazzpromoservices.com @ Zinc Bar 82 W. 3rd, St. New York, NY 10012 (between Thompson & Sullivan)$20 Tickets Tickets & Info Mark Morganelli, Flugelhorn, Percussion Helio Alves, Piano Itaiguara Brandao, Bass Adriano Santos, Drums Nanny Assis, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals + special guest Vanessa Falabella, Vocals “lyrical and joyful. This music will bring a smile to your face!” —David Sanborn Trumpeter/Flugelhornist Mark Morganelli brings his Jazz Forum All-Stars to Zinc on Tuesday, June 25 to celebrate his new CD, Brasil! Mark Morganelli began presenting concerts in his first Jazz Forum loft at 50 Cooper Square in June 1979. By the time the second Jazz Forum loft closed its doors in April 1983, recordings, videos, films and radio broadcasts had documented performances by Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Wynton Marsalis, Woody Shaw, Red Rodney, Carmen McRae, Barry Harris, Philly Joe Jones, and Max Roach. After residencies at the Village Gate and Entermedia Theater, thirty-four years ago, Morganelli established Jazz Forum Arts, not-for-profit arts presenting organization, and in 1985 started the Riverside Park Arts Festival, which concluded on its 13th anniversary in August 1997. Morganelli has produced over sixty compact discs, most for Candid Records, twenty of which were recorded “Live” at NYC’s Birdland club, where he was the music coordinator for five years. Nearly thirty years ago, Morganelli and his family moved to Westchester, and shortly thereafter, he inaugurated the Jazz at the Music Hall series in Tarrytown. Performers included Ahmad Jamal, Billy Taylor, Harry “Sweets” Edison, James Moody, Betty Carter, Gerry Mulligan, Herbie Mann, Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, Maynard Ferguson, Dave Brubeck, Chuck Mangione, Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea, Savion Glover, Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Dr. John, Spyro Gyra, David Sanborn, Chris Botti, Pat Metheny, Hugh Masekela and the Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Illinois Jacquet, Duke Ellington and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestras–150 shows in 22 years. Morganelli produced the Sunnyside and Berkshire Jazz Festivals and was executive producer of “Reckson Jazz at Tilles” at C.W.Post College in Greenvale, Long Island for nine years. Other productions have included the Tarrytown Arts Festival, concerts at the Paramount Center in Peekskill, the Palace Theatre in Stamford, CT, NJPAC, The John Harms Center in Englewood, NJ, the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, SUNY, The Beacon Theatre, Symphony Space, NYU Skirball Center and The Town Hall, NYC. Morganelli also produced the Dizzy Gillespie 75th Birthday concert at Carnegie Hall and co-produced “Jazz Beats Breast Cancer” at Avery Fisher Hall. In 2005, he began presenting a new concert series at Jazz at Lincoln Center, supported by grants from the NEA & NYSCA for NPR broadcasts of the events. As a trumpeter and flugelhornist, Morganelli performed at the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival, the 1992 & 1994 Syracuse Jazz Festivals, the Du Maurier Downtown Toronto Jazz Festival, JVC/NY and Saratoga Jazz Festivals, the White Plains Jazz Fest, several tours of Italy (including in 2018), many concerts and festivals in Europe, Japan, Brazil and the Caribbean, and hosted nightly jam sessions aboard the QE2 to the Newport Jazz Festival from 1996-99. He continues to perform with his Jazz Forum All-Stars around the region and has just released his fifth CD as leader, Brasil!. He and his wife, Ellen Prior opened their new Jazz Forum club in Tarrytown, NY in June 2017. Showtimes are at 7:30 pm & 9:00 pm. Tickets: $20. For more info call (212) 477-9462 or visit https://zincjazz.com.

Mark Morganelli & The Jazz Forum All-Stars Brasil! (Jazz Forum Records JFR004 Double-CD) Street Date: June 25, 2019 Mark Morganelli-Flugelhorn, Percussion, Abelita Mateus-Piano, Eddie Monteiro-Midi-accordion, vocals, Monika Oliveira-Vocals, Nilson Matta-Bass, Adriano Santos- Drums, Nanny Assis, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Carlos Barbosa-Lima-Guitar UPC Code:  8   88295 85906   6 www.jazzforumarts.org Media Contact Jim Eigo Jazz Promo Services 272 State Route 94 South #1 Warwick, NY 10990 Ph: 845-986-1677 jim@jazzpromoservices.com www.jazzpromoservices.com "Specializing in Media Campaigns for the music community, artists, labels, venues and events.”

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Leonard Cohen's love letters to Marianne fetch $876,000 at public sale

http://tinyurl.com/y2zyefvo FILE PHOTO: Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen performs in the course of the first evening of the 47th Montreux Jazz Pageant in Montreux, Switzerland on July 4, 2013. REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud/File Photograph LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A set of greater than 50 love letters written by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen to the girl who impressed “So Lengthy, Marianne” has offered for $876,000, with many going for greater than 5 occasions their pre-sale estimates, Christie’s public sale home stated on Thursday. The archive of letters from Cohen to Marianne Ihlen chronicles their 1960s love affair and the blossoming of Cohen’s profession from struggling poet to well-known musician. The highest letter, through which Cohen wrote in December 1960 about being “alone with the huge dictionaries of language,” fetched $56,250 in comparison with an unique excessive estimate of $10,000. A 1964 letter, through which Cohen wrote “I’m well-known however empty,” went for $35,000, Christie’s stated. Cohen and the Norwegian-born Ihlen met on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960 and he or she grew to become the inspiration for a number of of his best-known songs, together with “Fowl on a Wire,” “Hey, That’s No Solution to Say Goodbye,” and the 1967 observe “So Lengthy, Marianne.” Ihlen died of leukaemia in Oslo in July 2016 at age 81. Cohen, who was additionally affected by leukaemia, died in November 2016 on the age of 82. The letters have been offered by Ihlen’s household. The patrons weren’t revealed. The highest lot within the five-day on-line public sale was an Italian bronze bell relationship from the 15th or 16th century that hung within the Hydra residence that Cohen and Ihlen as soon as shared. It realized $81,250 in comparison with a pre-sale estimate of as much as $12,000. The bell is believed to have impressed the strains, “There’s a crack, a crack in all the pieces” in Cohen’s 1992 launch “Anthem.” Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Modifying by Leslie Adler Our Requirements:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Source link

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Kanal Istanbul, opera faraonica che vuole Erdogan per evitare il Bosforo

La Turchia ha annunciato una ulteriore  rotta in un nuovo canale che ridurrebbe il traffico marittimo sullo stretto del Bosforo, oramai saturo, e che trasformerà la metà europea di Istanbul in un'isola. I lavori del Kanal Istanbul lungo 45 km, che collega il Mar Nero e il Mar di Marmara ad ovest del Bosforo, inizieranno quest'anno, ha detto il ministro dei Trasporti Ahmet Arslan, aggiungendo che fa parte del più costoso progetto delle grandi opere della Turchia. Il Bosforo è uno dei corsi d'acqua più trafficati al mondo con 42.000 navi transitate  nel 2016, rispetto alle 16.800 che hanno transitato il Canale di Suez lo stesso anno. È l'unico sbocco marittimo verso gli oceani per Bulgaria, Romania, Ucraina e Georgia, e per i porti russi del Mar Nero. Con nuovi progetti di urbanistica sul canale e centri logistici da costruire nel Mar Nero, Kanal Istanbul sarà il progetto più costoso della Turchia, ha detto Arslan. Senza specificare il costo esatto, ha aggiunto che il progetto sarebbe stato finanziato attraverso partnership pubbliche e private. Il nuovo canale non sarebbe soggetto alle convenzioni di Montreux sull'uso dello stretto che garantisce il libero passaggio alle navi civili durante il tempo di pace, ha detto, il che significa che la Turchia potrebbe tassare  le navi che vogliono transitare sul nuovo canale. Correrà dalla regione di Durusu sulla costa del Mar Nero di Istanbul al lago Kucukcekmece sul Mar di Marmara. I documenti del Ministero dell'Ambiente turco hanno mostrato che il canale sarà largo 25 metri (82 piedi) e largo 250-1.000 metri (825-3.300 piedi), a seconda di dove si trovano i bacini. Kanal Istanbul si troverà inoltre vicino a numerosi progetti nel nord di Istanbul guidati dal governo del partito AK del presidente Tayyip Erdogan, tra cui il terzo ponte sul Bosforo, inaugurato nel 2016, e il terzo aeroporto della città che e’ in costruzione. Il terreno che verrà scavato per il progetto del canale sarà utilizzato per l'agricoltura, nonché per le isole artificiali e i porti da costruire nel Mar di Marmara, ha detto Arslan. Il piano ha, tuttavia, molti critici e lo stesso Erdogan lo definì "un progetto folle" quando ne parlo’ per la prima volta nel 2011. Gli ambientalisti dicono che avrebbe spianato la strada a ulteriori sviluppi nel nord della città, portando avanti la distruzione delle foreste. Un rapporto che valuta l'impatto ambientale del progetto, che è richiesto dal governo prima dell'inizio della costruzione, è attualmente in fase di compilazione, ha detto il ministero dell'Ambiente. Gli ingegneri della camera di geologia di Istanbul hanno affermato che la presentazione iniziale della relazione sull'impatto ambientale non tiene conto di diversi fattori che rendono il progetto non sostenibile. Il progetto ha il potenziale di influire seriamente sul clima e sull'equilibrio di minerali e sostanze nutritive nel Mar Nero e nelle aree circostanti e di ridurre i livelli di ossigeno nel Mar di Marmara. La costruzione è stata un fattore chiave dell'economia sotto l'AK Party. I critici del governo affermano che il quadro legale che circonda il settore delle costruzioni è stato ripetutamente annacquato, creando scappatoie per gli investitori che  possono sfruttare tale opportunità per arricchirsi. Read the full article

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Steve Ray Vaughan - Pride And Joy - Montreux `82