All the usual suspects soloed and, as always, impressed. The quasi Dixieland finish to Dylan's Don't Think Twice was more than alright.
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12 comments :
It was without doubt one of those 'I was there' moments.
A great band and two great singers. What more do you want!
I note you neglected to mention Jean Carn, or was it deliberate, or perhaps Freudian? One of the absolutely greatest ever voices in recorded music.
I only mentioned the ones that I've seen at Hoochie and I haven't seen Jean Carne.
Incidentally, the 'e' on the end of Carn is optional. Certainly none of the original albums had it, but it seems to have been added to a British compilation and stuck, at least in this country.
Like many soul singers, particularly of the late seventies period, when disco was king (queen), she only made a handful of brilliant records, but her voice is extraordinary; like Betty Wright, Minnie Ripperton and Anita Baker, though less soulful than Aretha, Linda Jones and Shirley Brown, in the same way that the amazing Johnny Adams is less soulful than OV Wright.
The dead popstar thing is never beneficial (except to the widow(er)) so, if I promise not to claim that Stanley Clark(e) was/is the greatest of all electric bass players (and not Jaco as the rest of the world seems to think), I wonder if he could refrain from making comments which are silly, ill-informed, inaccurate, harmful and insulting to dozens of incredible soul singers.
Been a while since I've hijacked a post for my own agenda. Everybody always has an agenda.
I'm not much of a googler generally, but I became curious and it seems she added the 'e' at the advice of a numerologist. Course she did.
This post is about Polly Gibbons. However, your comment, Steve, requires a response. Jaco was/is the greatest electric bass player of all time. Anyone with ears couldn't fail to agree.
Don't think that's how music works Russell. And the post is about many things.
No the post is about Polly G and SSBB. Any additional agenda is really not relevant although worthy of discussion in a seperate post.
It's about female singers (of which Jean Carn is one), Hoochie Coochie (where she has performed), big bands and if and when they become orchestras, and many other things; you covered quite a lot of ground. To my mind, discussion about music is good and should be encouraged and I seem to recall somebody (who shall remain nameless) saying the last time I hijacked a post, that this is what s/he loved about BSH, that it led to other discussions. I think it's a shame more people don't contribute to general discussions and I certainly don't think it should be discouraged when it happens, even if it strays off the original topic. Nobody has to read it.
It's about a gig that you weren't at. By all means bring in the other points mentioned -electric bassists, soul singers whatever and I will post it as a subject for discussion - something we welcome rather than discourage - time and place being the operative. I wouldn't dream of commenting on, say, an FTQ gig that I hadn't heard before going off on a tenuously related tangent.
This song just took me apart Lance, I was in bits. Soulful Jazz at it's best. Originally recorded for a Quincy Jones album, written by Bernard Ighner, I believe this Oletta Adams version to be best, but Polly just took my breath away with her interpretation & SSBB arrangement/performance. It's everything I wanted HC to be in one song...Soulful, Jazzy, emotional. Thanks for the review.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDlYyjDOzko
I think you've strayed from the point Lance; something I applaud. Have you never had a conversation that leads to other things. There's a famous Mingus quote where he deconstructs jazz in the nature of a conversation. Roland Barthes killed off the Author half a century ago.
You will recall when you reviewed an album by an emerging jazz singer, (who like Jean Carn(e) would turn up at Hoochie) where you opened with comments I made about jazz singers not listening to great soul singers as much as they used to. You may not have recieved my comment against that post so I'll repeat the intention here. If somebody reads it and wonders who Jean Carn(e) is, or goes out and buys an album by Linda Jones, Shirley Brown or Angie Stone, I would consider that a good thing. Isn't that what BSH is all about!
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