#robben ford

[joshhaden]

CD compilation "Move To The Groove" (2000, West Wind) includes the 1988 track "Koputai", on which my father plays bass. w/ Denny Goodhew, Julian Pressley, Robben Ford, Ralph Towner, Jerry Granelli.

[harrisonarchive]

George Harrison, Olivia Harrison, Billy Preston, and Robben Ford in Chicago, Illinois, 30 November 1974. Photos by James Mayo/Chicago Tribune, unknown.

You can spot George wearing a John Lennon Walls and Bridges shirt.

“[In Chicago on 30 November 1974] we sat there trying to calm down. [...] Although I didn’t know then who she was, Olivia was there. He kissed her just after they came into the room, and before he sat down. [...] He told about his guitar strap breaking on stage and how when he realized it was letting go, he stuck his foot out to catch the guitar on his shin. All I could think of is that he is the only one I know that would deliberately get hit on the shin. [...] Olivia came over once and asked us if we wanted anything to eat and then right before he left he stood about 3 feet away from us and leaned over the coffee table in front of us to get some matches from Pete and I remember he said, ‘I thought he was crackers,’ but I don’t know who he was talking about. Then I heard him say that he was going to bed, and I looked up to see him with his arm lightly around Olivia’s waist and they said goodnight to everyone. I felt a desperate urge to do something drastic to keep him there, but I suppressed it and just smiled. […] To describe George, I can say that I was really shocked at how thin he is. His face looked just about like I expected, but thinner. His hair was so fluffy and nice, but his eyes were what I really noticed. They were so deep brown! Most people when you look at their eyes you see the white around the color, but when you stare into George’s eyes you just see deep brown and a lot of emotion. It’s really a shame his eyes don’t photograph the way they really look. If they did, I don’t think anyone would have ever noticed Paul’s eyes even as gorgeous as they are.” - Char Bass, The Write Thing, April/May 1976 (many thanks to Meet The Beatles For Real) (x)

[musicmags]

[myvinylplaylist]

Pure Fire: The Ultimate Kiss Tribute (2018)

2022 Vinyl Reissue on Transparent Red Vinyl

Cleopatra Records

[justwalkiingthedog]

Robben Ford - Talk To Your Daughter

[favemusiclessons]

Robben Ford Blues Lesson

I love listening to Robben speak and play.

[krispyweiss]

Rewind: Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975)

If cocaine made a sound, it might be The Hissing of Summer Lawns.

Released in 1975 as Joni Mitchell was settling into her jazz phase after the previous year’s Court and Spark, Summer Lawns is druggy. But it’s never drugged-out.

There’s a wired tiredness to the music - vaguely psychedelic, mostly jazz with glimmers of folk and rock. All of this makes The Hissing of Summer Lawns essential and essentially impossible to hear too many times.

Set in snow-covered California, the album makes references both explicit - he tilts their tired faces gently to the spoon, in “Edith and the Kingpin” - and implicit - drooling for a taste of something smuggled in, on “The Jungle Line” - delivered in the percussion-and-vocal format Mitchell’d revisit on “Dreamland” from Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter.

This is Mitchell at her zenith, backed by a host of top-tier players and singers in keyboardist Joe Sample; drummer John Guerin; guitarists Larry Carlton, Robben Ford and Jeff Baxter; horn blowers Chuck Findley and Bud Shank; and background vocalists David Crosby, Graham Nash and James Taylor; among others.

The Hissing of Summer Lawns starts happily enough with the celebration of youth that is “In France They Kiss on Main Street” - looking for a party, looking to raise Jesus up from the dead, Mitchell sings. But soon enough, she’s singing of powerlessness and dreams deferred on the languid, sinewy and arresting “Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow.”

Truth goes up in vapors/the steeples lean/winds of change patriarchs/snug in your Bible Belt dreams/god goes up the chimney/like childhood Santa Claus/the good slaves love the good book/a rebel loves a cause, she sings, sounding exhausted over six verses and no chorus.

Everybody talks about Blue - and with good reason - but The Hissing of Summer Lawns is the Joni Mitchell LP Sound Bites would take to the proverbial desert island.

Grade card: Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975) - A

4/2/23

[rastronomicals]

Robben Ford

[ponderingrandomthings]

Inspired by a comment in a Rick Beato video on albums with great sound, this album was referenced in a comment (not the video).

I remembered Jennifer Warnes sang the famous Time of My Life with Bill Medley, so this album from her may be good...

And four songs on, the sound is quite transparent, clear and quite a treat - when you don't have to keep up with all the notes (as in complex technical metal bands/albums)... [Update: Heard the entire album eventually.]

Full album Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xsJXDwIL2k&list=PL_IzBVwc567ZMQNUOSJTpM-kwz3vStH90&index=1

This album, Famous Blue Raincoat (1987) is a Leonard Cohen tribute album... Her sixth studio album.

Great to discover non-famous/popular music from famous/popular musicians.

(Hope you get the meaning behind these clumsily put words... Like consciously focusing on Europe's songs Danger on the Track and other songs in the album over the massive hit The Final Countdown.)

Do enjoy!

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The album credits (Wikipedia) include some very very big names...

Jennifer Warnes – vocals, harmony vocals

Leonard Cohen – vocals (on "Joan of Arc"), sketches

Roscoe Beck – bass, fretless bass, synthesizer, guitar

Larry Brown – tambourine, shakers

William D. "Smitty" Smith – synthesizer, Hammond organ

Jorge Calderón – bass

Lenny Castro – percussion

Gary Chang – synthesizer, programming, synthesizer arrangements

Vinnie Colaiuta – drums

Larry Corbett  – cello

Russell Ferrante – piano, synthesizer

Richard Feves – bass

Robben Ford – guitar

Van Dyke Parks – synthesizer, accordion, arranger

Michael Landau – guitar

David Lindley – lap steel guitar

Fred Tackett – guitar

Stevie Ray Vaughan – guitar

Steve Forman – percussion

Bill Ginn – synthesizer, piano, percussion, arranger, conductor

Kal David – background vocals

George Ball – background vocals

Terry Evans – background vocals

Willie Green, Jr. – background vocals

William "Bill" Greene – background vocals

Bobby King – background vocals

Arnold McCuller – background vocals

Joseph Powell – background vocals

David Lasley – background vocals

Tim Stone – background vocals

Greg Prestopino – background vocals

Sharon Robinson – background vocals

Reverend Dave Boruff – saxophone

Paul Ostermayer – tenor saxophone

Novi Novog – viola

Suzie Katayama – cello

Sid Page – violin

Barbara Porter – violin

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[gachael]

Yellowjackets / Yellowjackets (2004 Remaster)

Matinee Idol

[whileiamdying]

Episode Description

Most people wouldn’t associate Kenny Loggins with jazz. Best known for his hit songs for movies like Footloose, Caddy Shack and Top Gun, Loggins and Messina and his foray into parent-targeted children’s music, Loggins’  earlier days as a recording artists included long instrumental and improvisational passages with L&M, a few prodigious albums produced by Bob James, projects that included guitarwork from Lee Ritenour, Tommy Tedesco, Steve Khan, Eric Gale, Robben Ford, Hugh McCracken, Dean Parks and Hiram Bullock and a string of albums that featured sax solos from Michael Brecker, David Sanborn and Mark Russo, percussion by Paulinho DaCosta and Ralph McDonald, drummers Steve Gadd and Harvey Mason, bassist Nathan East and vocals by Lani Hall and Patti Austin. Connecting the dots, all four founding members of Fourplay had played on Kenny Loggins albums decades before the band coalesced and Loggins was (no pun intended) an instrumental player in the Zeitgeist of what is now called smooth jazz; casting some of today’s most credible contemporary jazz musicians predating their own solo careers. Publisher Michael Fagien sat down with the iconic singer/songwriter to discuss Loggins’ life, love, work, family and his new book that tells it all on the latest episode of JAZZIZ NOT WHAT YOU THINK.

[joshhaden]

Drummer Jerry Granelli comp CD Helium Tears (2005, NewEdition) opens w/ my father's tune "In The Moment". w/ Charlie, saxophonist Denny Goodhew, trombonist Julian Priester, keyboardist Ralph Towner, guitarist Robben Ford.

[musicmags]

[jazzandother-blog]

TUTU

In the following video, we can hear Miles Davis with his band consisting of George Duke on keyboards, Robben Ford on guitar, Bob Berg on saxophone, Adam Holzman (yes, that Adam Holzman) on synthesizer, Felton Crews on bass, Vincent Wilburn on drums and Steve Thornton on percussion, at the 1986 Montreux Festival, performing "Tutu". Enjoy!

"Tutu", named after the South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an advocate of human rights and social justice, reflecting Davis' commitment to exploring social and political issues through his music, is an album that does not leave the listener indifferent. Miles Davis "embraces" without any regard and overthrows once again all the concepts of what jazz "should" be. A man of melodic revolutions, Davis delves into the new technologies of the eighties, and fuses the sounds of his eternal trumpet with funk elements and a groove that transforms a legend of the forties into a musician at the forefront of what was being done in 1986, the year in which this album was released.

The multi-instrumentalist Marcus Miller, cousin of jazz legend Wynton Kelly, who played with Davis on the essential "Kind of Blue", on the album we can hear synthesizers, drum machines and everything mixed with a soul sound and even a revival of bebop, which gives this work the status of a contemporary classic. Along with a crop of new musicians with whom Miles began to work at the beginning of the decade, including Mike Stern, Bill Evans, John Scofield, Branford Marsalis, Omar Hakim, among others, Miles becomes one with the winds of change of each generation.

sourse text: ProgJazz

[nightbynightfly]

An Album a Day 2024: Day 77

Mar. 17, 2024

Jing Chi - Supremo (2017)

Jazz fusion, Rock, Instrumental

[memoirsofadj]

A concert without cellphones , the Great magician #robbenford