Broken windows and empty hallways
A pale dead moon in the sky streaked with gray
Human kindness is overflowing
And I think it's going to rain today

Scarecrows dressed in the latest styles
With frozen smiles to chase love away
Human kindness is overflowing
And I think it's going to rain today

Lonely, lonely
Tin can at my feet
Think I'll kick it down the street
That's the way to treat a friend

Bright before me the signs implore me
To help the needy and show them the way
Human kindness is overflowing
And I think it's going to rain today


Randy Newman and The BBC Concert Orchestra conductor Robert Zeigler BBC FOUR Sessions London - England - via Arthur's Musical Journey, wo mehr Randy Newman at BBC4 zu finden ist.

Jethro Tull: Songs From The Wood:


Eric Burdon - House of the Rising Sun (Live, 2008)

feat. Hilton Valentine - guitar (von der Urbesetzung der Animals /der Weißhaarige hinten)

On February 7, 1964, The Beatles embarked on their first trip to the United States. On February 9, they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and on February 11, the Fab Four played their first American concert at the Washington Coliseum.

Eine schöne Aufnahme von Django Reinhardt (Jean-Baptiste Reinhart)
geboren: 23. Januar 1910, Liverchies/Belgien
gestorben: 16. Mai 1953, Fontainebleau/Frankreich
Django Reinhardt wurde in eine Manouche-Familie geboren, einen im Französischen ansässigen Stamm der Tsiganes. Seine Mutter war Mitglied einer umherziehenden Komödiantentruppe, der Vater Musikant und Komödiant. Beide bereisten Belgien, Frankreich und Algerien. Um 1916 ließ sich die Familie für 15 Jahre in Paris nieder, ihr Wohnwagen stand an der Porte de Choisy. Django begann auf der Geige, wechselte um 1920 zur Gitarre. Zuerst spielte er eine sechsseitige Banjo-Gitarre, tat sich durch sein ungewöhnlich gutes Gehör hervor und war bald unter Roma-Musikern recht bekannt. In Paris hörte Django zum ersten Mal Jazz. Er trat als "Jiango Reinhardt" in einem Lokal in der Rue de la Huchette auf und machte im Oktober 1928 seine ersten Plattenaufnahmen als Banjospieler zusammen mit einem Akkordeonisten.
Im November 1928 brannte der Wohnwagen Reinhardts ab; bei dem Brand erlitt Django so schwere Verbrennungen, dass seine linke Hand verkrüppelt blieb, er den Ringfinger und kleinen Finger nur noch in geringem Umfang bewegen konnte. Infolge dieses Unfalls entwickelte er eine erstaunliche Gitarrentechnik. Schwerpunkt dieser Technik war das Single-Note-Spiel – Akkorde konnte man mit drei Fingern nur schwer greifen. Anfang der 1930er Jahre trat Django Reinhardt als Straßenmusiker vor den Cafés von Montmartre auf. Die bals musette, auf denen er zuvor Arbeit gefunden hatte, wichen mehr und mehr Jazzengagements. Er spielte in Paris, an der Côte d'Azur, tingelte zusammen mit seiner Cousine Sophie Ziegler (die er später heiratete und die erst Anfang 1996 starb) durch ganz Frankreich.
1931 hörte Django erstmals Platten von Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong und Joe Venuti. Bei einem Engagement in Cannes kam er mit einigen der wichtigsten Swingmusiker Frankreichs zusammen, mit den Saxophonisten Alix Combelle und André Ekyan sowie mit dem Geiger Stéphane Grappelli.

1934 gründete Django Reinhardt zusammen mit dem Geiger Stéphane Grappelli ein Quintett in der Besetzung Geige, Sologitarre, zwei Rhythmusgitarren und Kontrabass. Die Band trat bei Konzerten auf, die der junge organisierte und wurde bald zu dessen Hausband, übernahm auch den Namen "Quintette du Hot Club de France".

Quellen: Jazzinstitut.de
Gypsy Jazz Images

The Kinks' Ray Davies predicted the recession

Friday, December 12th 2008, 9:44 AM

Eights months ago, the legendary leader of The Kinks
released a solo album, "Working Man's Cafe," that railed against
American companies outsourcing their workers, an enfeebled dollar, and
a world economy in free-fall.

"I'm not saying I saw it coming," says Davies. "But I had felt we
might be on the cusp of something for quite some time. I actually wrote
one of the songs, 'Vietnam Cowboy' ten years ago. But now, when I sing the line in the song about an economic melt-down, I cringe."

Regardless, Davies plans to sing these op-ed-ready pieces at a show tonight at Hammerstein Ballroom and another one tomorrow at Asbury Park's
Paramount Theater. They're special concerts for Davies: He'll survey
his entire career, piecing together songs ranging from early Kinks'
touchstones like "Tired of Waiting," to cult items from "The Village Green Society," to material from his two latest solo CDs.

The format of the tour also straddles styles. Though Davies starts
the night playing in a solo acoustic format, he builds to a full
rocking band. Some shows feature his regular six-piece group, others
feature collaborations with his young opening act, Locksley. Davies
says the N.Y. shows will involve both acts.

His new songs provide a striking contrast to anything he's written
before. While he has long been known as the great chronicler of British
working class woes, this time American workers earned his gaze. The
inspiration came from his U.S.
tours over the last decade. "It struck me, particularly after 9/11,
that there was this struggle in America," he says. "There has been a
struggle without - the war, which everyone talks about - but also a
struggle within: the underclass and working class of this country. And
that concerned me."

Davies got the see the darkest side of this country directly, when
he became a victim of its violence a few years ago. He was shot during
a botched robbery in New Orleans, where he was living at the time. "I got to see the ugly side, yes," he allows. "But that can happen to anyone, anywhere."

He "still carries the scars," he says, "but I'm working around it. And I'm fit."

He's also busy. Besides the tour, Davies has a Kinks box set coming
out in December ("Picture Book"), an upcoming collaboration CD with
other big rock names, plus a play, that just ran in London, based on his old song "Come Dancing." Davies plans to move it to the West End next year and then, hopefully, to Broadway. "It's about London street life," he says, "but it could just as easily be the Bronx or Brooklyn."

Davies' move into theater seems inevitable. He helped change rock by
penning some of its earliest, and most vivid character songs. "I
started off wanting to be a painter," Davies explains. "I'd always draw
isolated characters within a big structure. It would be the lonely
figure on the freeway. That carried over to my writing."

That style helped define The Kinks, who, it's rumored, will be
reuniting. Davies remains cryptic. "When people say it won't happen,
then it will," he offers. "The Kinks have never been predictable," he
laughs, "or reliable."

via Dave Emlen's Unofficial Kinks Web Site

P.S.
"You Really Got Me" is #4 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitar Songs Of All Time


P.S. 2
Auf seiner US-Tour hat Ray Davies einige Dates mit Locksley, einer wunderbaren US-Gitarrenband, gespielt. My Old Kentucky Blog hat eine Listening Party : Locksley : Don't Make Me Wait

Das schönste Gesicht der Rockmusik - nachträglich zum 65. Geburtstag:


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Bonus: Emerson, Lake and Prima

One crummy instrumental on the album is distinguished by its tantalizing title: Sympathy for the Devil (M. Jagger-K. Richards) A bizarre hybrid of Hugo Montenegro and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Prima's take on Sympathy
is a bewildering, jazzy mess that shares a similarity to the Stones original in name only. It starts out like the Schenectady Playhouse production of Jesus Christ Superstar and then it devolves into a soundtrack for a porno movie featuring squirrel puppets--and you wanna know something? It's the best track on the LP. 

Sympathy for the Devil (mp3)

merkt man (wie ich schon häufiger feststellte) erst spät, dass einem etwas fehlt:
Zufällig wurde ich auf ein Album aufmerksam, das Herman Brood 1999 veröffentlicht hat: Back On The Corner< - Take the "A" train / Back on the corner / It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got no swing) / Goin' to the city / Lost mind / Saturday night / Route 66 / I love the life I live, I live the life I love / Swinging machine / My funny Valentine / 7th Son / Don't forget to smile / Dat dere / Stop this world / I get a kick out of you / Nothing but these Blues
- sein vorletztes, wie man sieht und sich vorstellen kann: harter Swing mit einer unglaublich gut besetzten BigBand (somit überhaupt nicht zu vergleichen mit Barry Hays kürzlich erschienenem Versuch sowas zu machen ... schrecklich, klingt wie ein schlechtes Tanzorchester aus den 60er Jahren ...).
Brood singt die Klassiker so viel intensiver als Rod Stewart oder Bryan Ferry - sein My Funny Valentine ist kongenial nah an Chet Baker, dass man zu dem Schluss kommen könnte, nur richtig Kaputte können wirklich gute Musik machen:



11. Juli 2001 um 13:30 Uhr. Herman Brood ist tot. Vom Dach des Hilton Hotels gesprungen mit einem Abschiedsbrief in der Tasche: “Ich sehe keinen Sinn mehr. Macht ein schönes Fest. Und vielleicht sehe ich euch wieder."

Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (born 19 August 1939, Lewisham, South London) is an English drummer.

Baker played together with:
GRAHAM BOND ORGANIZATION (Graham Bond, Dick Heckstall-Smith), CREAM (Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton), BLIND FAITH (Steve Winwood, Rick Grech), AIR FORCE (Denny Laine, Chris Wood), FELA RANSOME-KUTI, BAKER GURVITZ ARMY (Adrian & Paul Gurvitz), HAWKWIND (Dave Brock), P.I.L. (John Lydon, Jah Wobble), MATERIAL (Bill Laswell), MASTERS OF REALITY (Chris Goss), BBM (Gary Moore), Jonas Hellborg, Nicky Skopelitis, John Mizarolli, Peter Brötzmann and many, many more.

Ein sehr schönes Foto von Linda Eastman-McCartney, das vielleicht ein wenig das Charisma dieses auch zu Cream-Zeiten ja schon alten Mannes erkennen lässt, das ja nicht nur von seinem Drum-Kit und seinem Spiel ausging.



Pressed Rat and Warthog have closed down their shop,
They didn't want to - 'twas all they had got.
Selling atonal apples, amplified heat,
And Pressed Rat's collection of dog legs and feet.

Sadly they left, telling no one goodbye.
Pressed Rat wore red jodhpurs - Warthog a striped tie.
Between them, they carried a three-legged sack,
Went straight round the corner and never came back.

Pressed Rat and Warthog have closed down their shop.
The bad captain madman had told them to stop
Selling atonal apples, amplified heat,
And pressed rat's collection of dog legs and feet.

The bad captain madman had ordered their fate.
He laughed and stomped off with a nautical gate.
The gate turned into a deroga tree
And his pegleg got woodworm and broke into three.

Pressed Rat and Warthog have closed down their shop,
They didn't want to - 'twas all they had got.
Selling atonal apples, amplified heat,
And Pressed Rat's collection of dog legs and feet.

Update


Ginger Baker: drums
Jonas Hellborg, Jah Wobble, Bill Laswell: bass
Nicky Skopelitis: guitar, baglama, coral sitar, banjo, fairlight
Faruk Tekbilek: ney, zurna
Bernie Worrell: hammond organ
Aiyb Dieng: doff, tumbek, talking drums, metals
Mar Gueye: sabar
Magette Fall: talking drums

... George Martin, 82, has moved on to his next act. He's working with PBS and Wildheart Entertainment to film "On Record: The Soundtrack of Our Lives," a documentary series with the ambitious aim of chronicling the history of recorded music and its impact on society. It will feature archival performances and interviews with artists from all genres...

While in Los Angeles to be honored by the Recording Academy July 12 at its annual Grammy Foundation Starry Night benefit, Martin sat down with Billboard to talk about the Beatles, the rigors of creating an eight-hour documentary series and the future of the music industry...

Reuters - dort auch das Interview