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Photo by Henry Grossman.

“On the tour, we finished right around Christmas in New York City, and he had a little party for everyone. He gave me a picture of a guitar, and said: ‘This is my Christmas present to you; it’s being made by Gibson.’ He had custom ordered it. It came to me later in the mail. He was such a warm person. […] He was also just falling in love with Olivia, who later became his wife. He really spent a lot of time with her. We just didn’t tend to see him all that much. But, off the road, he was very personal. He was also very gregarious, always telling stories and laughing. There were a lot of jokes. He liked to have a good time, in a simple way like that.” - Robben Ford, Something Else!, February 7, 2013 “He was a ball of energy, very talkative and funny. Big sweetheart of a guy. [The last time Ford saw George, in 1989,] Tom Petty was with him and as soon as one person would walk away, another would walk up, so you had to get in line. I wanted to say hi. He said, ‘Robben, good to see you. I think of you.’ And that alone was a sweet thing to say, just that George Harrison was thinking of me.” - Robben Ford, Ventura County Star, December 1, 2001 “I was impressed with his touch. He had a real ‘thing’ on the guitar, very indescribable, very personal. There was a very strong message coming through his instrument and I was impressed with that.” - Robben Ford, The Hamilton Spectator, March 5, 2014

[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.

[musicmags]

[rastronomicals]

Robben Ford

[myvinylplaylist]

Pure Fire: The Ultimate Kiss Tribute (2018)

2022 Vinyl Reissue on Transparent Red Vinyl

Cleopatra Records

[justwalkiingthedog]

Robben Ford - Talk To Your Daughter

[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

[favemusiclessons]

Robben Ford Blues Lesson

I love listening to Robben speak and play.

[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.

[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

[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]

[rastronomicals]

10:09 PM EDT October 4, 2024:

Robben Ford - "Born Under a Bad Sign" From the album Talk To Your Daughter (1988)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Slick Blues

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[nightbynightfly]

An Album a Day 2024: Day 77

Mar. 17, 2024

Jing Chi - Supremo (2017)

Jazz fusion, Rock, Instrumental