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Re: in memory of
by russ » Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:09 am
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Bill Johnson
Among many, i feel lucky to have had - a good friend in Nashville, by the name of Bill Johnson, who sadly passed away around this time last year. Here's in tribute to Bill, who i met and interviewed with so many years ago at CBS Records in Nashville... peace be with you brother.
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Nashville artist Bill Johnson died Wednesday morning (6/15/11), at his Nashville home after a battle with lung cancer. He was 68. Johnson is known for his creations, which include the logo for Rolling Stone magazine and for the art direction on Rosanne Cash’s “King’s Record Shop” album, for which he won a Grammy.
After serving as art director in the 1970s at Rolling Stone, where he worked to redesign the magazine’s original logo, which is still used today, Johnson became CBS Records’ art director in the early 1980s. He worked with hundreds of CBS/Sony releases. He first worked for CBS in New York and eventually moved to CBS Nashville, where he became the head of the label’s creative department.
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Re: in memory of
by russ » Mon Jul 16, 2012 2:53 pm
Kitty Wells - Ellen Muriel Deason
August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012
May you rest in peace Ellen... our prayers go with you.
Country music superstar Kitty Wells dies at 92
August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012
May you rest in peace Ellen... our prayers go with you.
Country music superstar Kitty Wells dies at 92
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Re: in memory of
by Mike Rogers » Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:17 am
Kitty Wells - absolutely solid country through and through.
Quite a number of women were credited with challenging the male dominance in Nashville, including Patsy Montana, Jean Sheppard,
Loretta and Dolly, but I doubt that anyone did more than Kitty. And as far as I'm aware she was the first to be called 'The Queen of Country Music'.
Her music still sounds good - I'm listening to some right now.
Worth remembering that Emmylou covered Kitty's Making Believe.
Quite a number of women were credited with challenging the male dominance in Nashville, including Patsy Montana, Jean Sheppard,
Loretta and Dolly, but I doubt that anyone did more than Kitty. And as far as I'm aware she was the first to be called 'The Queen of Country Music'.
Her music still sounds good - I'm listening to some right now.
Worth remembering that Emmylou covered Kitty's Making Believe.
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Re: in memory of
by Mike Rogers » Tue Aug 21, 2012 1:30 am
Scott McKenzie 1939 - 2012.
He had one of the defining hits of the '60s with San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair), forever associated with
the hippy movement. I can't remember anything else he did but I bought the record and some flowery ties.
Peace, man.
He had one of the defining hits of the '60s with San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair), forever associated with
the hippy movement. I can't remember anything else he did but I bought the record and some flowery ties.
Peace, man.
I'm gonna tell you how it's gonna be
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Re: in memory of
by Turk » Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:55 pm
Joe South
ATLANTA -- Singer-songwriter Joe South, who performed hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s such as "Games People Play" and "Walk A Mile In My Shoes" and also penned songs including "Down in the Boondocks" for other artists, died Wednesday, his music publisher said. South was 72.
South, whose real name was Joseph Souter, died at his home in Buford, Ga., northeast of Atlanta, according to Marion Merck of the Hall County Coroner's office. Merck said South died after having a heart attack.
"He's one of the greatest songwriters of all time," said Butch Lowery, president of the Lowery Group, which published South's music. "His songs have touched so many lives. He's such a wonderful guy and loved by many."
South worked as a session guitar player on recordings of some of the biggest names of the 1960s – Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan and Simon & Garfunkel, among others. But he had a string of hits of his own starting in the late 1960s that made his booming voice a familiar one on radio stations, with a style that some described as a mix of country and soul.
He is perhaps best known for the song "Games People Play," which reached No. 12 on the Billboard charts in 1969 and won him two Grammys for Best Contemporary Song and Song of the Year. The opening lines evoked the message songs of the era: "Oh the games people play now, every night and every day now, never meaning what they say now, never saying what they mean."
The song, which was released on South's debut album "Introspect," spoke against hate, hypocrisy and inhumanity.
He also had hits with "Walk A Mile In My Shoes" and "Don't It Make You Want to Go Home," and wrote the Grammy-nominated "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden" for country singer Lynn Anderson.
Earlier, South's song "Down in the Boondocks" was a 1965 hit for singer Billy Joe Royal. He performed on Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools," as well as on Bob Dylan's 1966 classic "Blonde on Blonde," a triumphant mix of rock, blues and folk that Rolling Stone magazine ranked No. 9 on its greatest-ever albums list. The magazine credits "expert local sessionmen" with helping to create "an almost contradictory magnificence: a tightly wound tension around Dylan's quicksilver language and incisive singing."
According to billboard.com, South also backed up Eddy Arnold, Marty Robbins and Wilson Pickett.
But his music career was struck by tragedy when his brother, Tommy Souter, committed suicide in 1971. A biography of South on billboard.com says he moved to Maui and retired from recording for a time starting in the mid-'70s, and that his career was complicated by a rough-around-the-edges personality. South's last album was "Classic Masters" in 2002.
According to South's website, he was born in Atlanta on Feb. 28, 1940. As a child he was interested in technology and developed his own radio station with a one-mile transmission area.
In 1958, South recorded his debut single, a novelty song called, "The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor."
South was an inductee in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.
ATLANTA -- Singer-songwriter Joe South, who performed hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s such as "Games People Play" and "Walk A Mile In My Shoes" and also penned songs including "Down in the Boondocks" for other artists, died Wednesday, his music publisher said. South was 72.
South, whose real name was Joseph Souter, died at his home in Buford, Ga., northeast of Atlanta, according to Marion Merck of the Hall County Coroner's office. Merck said South died after having a heart attack.
"He's one of the greatest songwriters of all time," said Butch Lowery, president of the Lowery Group, which published South's music. "His songs have touched so many lives. He's such a wonderful guy and loved by many."
South worked as a session guitar player on recordings of some of the biggest names of the 1960s – Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan and Simon & Garfunkel, among others. But he had a string of hits of his own starting in the late 1960s that made his booming voice a familiar one on radio stations, with a style that some described as a mix of country and soul.
He is perhaps best known for the song "Games People Play," which reached No. 12 on the Billboard charts in 1969 and won him two Grammys for Best Contemporary Song and Song of the Year. The opening lines evoked the message songs of the era: "Oh the games people play now, every night and every day now, never meaning what they say now, never saying what they mean."
The song, which was released on South's debut album "Introspect," spoke against hate, hypocrisy and inhumanity.
He also had hits with "Walk A Mile In My Shoes" and "Don't It Make You Want to Go Home," and wrote the Grammy-nominated "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden" for country singer Lynn Anderson.
Earlier, South's song "Down in the Boondocks" was a 1965 hit for singer Billy Joe Royal. He performed on Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools," as well as on Bob Dylan's 1966 classic "Blonde on Blonde," a triumphant mix of rock, blues and folk that Rolling Stone magazine ranked No. 9 on its greatest-ever albums list. The magazine credits "expert local sessionmen" with helping to create "an almost contradictory magnificence: a tightly wound tension around Dylan's quicksilver language and incisive singing."
According to billboard.com, South also backed up Eddy Arnold, Marty Robbins and Wilson Pickett.
But his music career was struck by tragedy when his brother, Tommy Souter, committed suicide in 1971. A biography of South on billboard.com says he moved to Maui and retired from recording for a time starting in the mid-'70s, and that his career was complicated by a rough-around-the-edges personality. South's last album was "Classic Masters" in 2002.
According to South's website, he was born in Atlanta on Feb. 28, 1940. As a child he was interested in technology and developed his own radio station with a one-mile transmission area.
In 1958, South recorded his debut single, a novelty song called, "The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor."
South was an inductee in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.
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Re: in memory of
by russ » Thu Dec 06, 2012 3:16 pm
David Warren Brubeck
December 6, 1920 - December 5, 2012
The end of an era. Our prayers go with you Dave.
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Christopher Morris - Variety:
Pianist-composer Dave Brubeck, whose rhythmically daring recordings made him one of jazz's major commercial and artistic players of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 91.
Brubeck's manager Russell Gloyd told the Associated Press that Brubeck died Wednesday of heart failure on his way to a cardiology appointment with his son Darius.
Bred in Northern California's cool school of the '50s, and engaged by the convergence of classical and jazz known as "third stream," Brubeck's singular quartet reached the top of the charts with the novel outing "Take Five" and the album "Time Out," which employed time signatures theretofore unexplored in the genre.
While Brubeck is best remembered for his storied group of that era -- which featured alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, bassist Eugene Wright and drummer Joe Morello -- he continued to strike out into fresh territory throughout his career, creating vibrant work for both small and large units.
He was born in Concord, Calif. His father was a former cowboy and cattle rancher; his mother had studied in Europe as a concert pianist and educated him in music as a boy.
Though Brubeck entered the College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., as a pre-med student, he did not excel in that discipline and was encouraged to pursue his music studies by a zoology teacher. Though he struggled with the music curriculum -- ironically, due to difficulty reading music -- he graduated from the school in 1942.
After playing in an Armed Forces band -- which also included future bandmate Desmond -- during WWII Army service, Brubeck returned to music studies with the noted composer Darius Milhaud at Oakland's Mills College. He also briefly took lessons from Arnold Schoenberg at UCLA.
Brubeck began his recording career at the fledgling Berkeley jazz label Fantasy Records, where he bowed with an octet set in 1949; he also organized a trio with drummer-vibraphonist Cal Tjader, himself later a star on Fantasy. Not long after he was seriously injured in a swimming accident in Hawaii, the keyboardist's first quartet, with Desmond, bowed in 1951.
The mating of Brubeck's lyrical yet aggressive playing and Desmond's airy, economical, so-called dry martini sound made the quartet a popular draw on college campuses; Fantasy capitalized on the group's rep with the 1953 albums "Jazz at Oberlin" and "Jazz at the College of the Pacific," which buoyed the young label's bottom line.
In 1954, the year he bowed on major Columbia Records with "Jazz Goes to College," Brubeck was singled out as one of jazz's top talents in a Time magazine cover story; to that point, Louis Armstrong had been the only jazzman vouchsafed similar coverage by the newsweekly.
Brubeck's prominence as a domestic and international touring attraction lifted his albums "Jazz Impressions of the U.S.A." and "Jazz Goes to Junior College" into the national top 30 in 1957. His classic unit coalesced with the addition of Morello in 1956 and Wright in 1959.
His '59 set "Time Out" secured his reputation forever. The Columbia album featured "Take Five," a Desmond composition penned in an offbeat 5/4 time signature. The album, which also included Brubeck's rhythmically askew "Blue Rondo a la Turk" and "Three to Get Ready," rose to No. 2 nationally in 1960, and an edited single version of "Take Five" became a jukebox hit and reached No. 25 in 1961. The LP became the first jazz album to sell a million copies.
At the height of his eminence in the early '60s, Brubeck cut the bestsellers "Time Further Out" (No. 8, 1961) and "Bossa Nova U.S.A." (No. 14, 1963). He also penned the enduring jazz standards "The Duke" (a homage to Duke Ellington, one of his key influences) and "In Your Own Sweet Way." A 1966 greatest hits package went gold. Though Brubeck disbanded the classic quartet in '67, a reunion with Desmond, "Duets," reached the charts in 1975; the unit reunited in 1976, a year before the altoist's death.
Brubeck continued to work in small groups throughout his career, most notably in a 1968-73 band that included cool baritonist Gerry Mulligan. For five years in the '70s, he led Two Generations of Brubeck, a combo that included three of his sons. In later years he recorded prolifically for the independent label Telarc.
But he also applied himself to extended composition in such works as the oratorio "The Light in the Wilderness," cantatas "The Gates of Justice" and "Truth is Fallen," the mass "To Hope!" and, in 2006, "Cannery Row Suite," an opera based on John Steinbeck's works.
Brubeck's many honors included the National Medal of the Arts (1994), a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy (1996), designation as Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts (2000) and the Kennedy Center Honor (2009).
Onscreen, Brubeck appeared in the jazz-themed 1961 British pic "All Night Long" alongside bassist Charles Mingus. In 2010, "Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way," a documentary by Bruce Ricker produced by Clint Eastwood, aired on TCM in celebration of the musician's 90th birthday.
He is survived by his wife and six children.
December 6, 1920 - December 5, 2012
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The end of an era. Our prayers go with you Dave.
_________________________________________
Christopher Morris - Variety:
Pianist-composer Dave Brubeck, whose rhythmically daring recordings made him one of jazz's major commercial and artistic players of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 91.
Brubeck's manager Russell Gloyd told the Associated Press that Brubeck died Wednesday of heart failure on his way to a cardiology appointment with his son Darius.
Bred in Northern California's cool school of the '50s, and engaged by the convergence of classical and jazz known as "third stream," Brubeck's singular quartet reached the top of the charts with the novel outing "Take Five" and the album "Time Out," which employed time signatures theretofore unexplored in the genre.
While Brubeck is best remembered for his storied group of that era -- which featured alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, bassist Eugene Wright and drummer Joe Morello -- he continued to strike out into fresh territory throughout his career, creating vibrant work for both small and large units.
He was born in Concord, Calif. His father was a former cowboy and cattle rancher; his mother had studied in Europe as a concert pianist and educated him in music as a boy.
Though Brubeck entered the College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., as a pre-med student, he did not excel in that discipline and was encouraged to pursue his music studies by a zoology teacher. Though he struggled with the music curriculum -- ironically, due to difficulty reading music -- he graduated from the school in 1942.
After playing in an Armed Forces band -- which also included future bandmate Desmond -- during WWII Army service, Brubeck returned to music studies with the noted composer Darius Milhaud at Oakland's Mills College. He also briefly took lessons from Arnold Schoenberg at UCLA.
Brubeck began his recording career at the fledgling Berkeley jazz label Fantasy Records, where he bowed with an octet set in 1949; he also organized a trio with drummer-vibraphonist Cal Tjader, himself later a star on Fantasy. Not long after he was seriously injured in a swimming accident in Hawaii, the keyboardist's first quartet, with Desmond, bowed in 1951.
The mating of Brubeck's lyrical yet aggressive playing and Desmond's airy, economical, so-called dry martini sound made the quartet a popular draw on college campuses; Fantasy capitalized on the group's rep with the 1953 albums "Jazz at Oberlin" and "Jazz at the College of the Pacific," which buoyed the young label's bottom line.
In 1954, the year he bowed on major Columbia Records with "Jazz Goes to College," Brubeck was singled out as one of jazz's top talents in a Time magazine cover story; to that point, Louis Armstrong had been the only jazzman vouchsafed similar coverage by the newsweekly.
Brubeck's prominence as a domestic and international touring attraction lifted his albums "Jazz Impressions of the U.S.A." and "Jazz Goes to Junior College" into the national top 30 in 1957. His classic unit coalesced with the addition of Morello in 1956 and Wright in 1959.
His '59 set "Time Out" secured his reputation forever. The Columbia album featured "Take Five," a Desmond composition penned in an offbeat 5/4 time signature. The album, which also included Brubeck's rhythmically askew "Blue Rondo a la Turk" and "Three to Get Ready," rose to No. 2 nationally in 1960, and an edited single version of "Take Five" became a jukebox hit and reached No. 25 in 1961. The LP became the first jazz album to sell a million copies.
At the height of his eminence in the early '60s, Brubeck cut the bestsellers "Time Further Out" (No. 8, 1961) and "Bossa Nova U.S.A." (No. 14, 1963). He also penned the enduring jazz standards "The Duke" (a homage to Duke Ellington, one of his key influences) and "In Your Own Sweet Way." A 1966 greatest hits package went gold. Though Brubeck disbanded the classic quartet in '67, a reunion with Desmond, "Duets," reached the charts in 1975; the unit reunited in 1976, a year before the altoist's death.
Brubeck continued to work in small groups throughout his career, most notably in a 1968-73 band that included cool baritonist Gerry Mulligan. For five years in the '70s, he led Two Generations of Brubeck, a combo that included three of his sons. In later years he recorded prolifically for the independent label Telarc.
But he also applied himself to extended composition in such works as the oratorio "The Light in the Wilderness," cantatas "The Gates of Justice" and "Truth is Fallen," the mass "To Hope!" and, in 2006, "Cannery Row Suite," an opera based on John Steinbeck's works.
Brubeck's many honors included the National Medal of the Arts (1994), a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy (1996), designation as Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts (2000) and the Kennedy Center Honor (2009).
Onscreen, Brubeck appeared in the jazz-themed 1961 British pic "All Night Long" alongside bassist Charles Mingus. In 2010, "Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way," a documentary by Bruce Ricker produced by Clint Eastwood, aired on TCM in celebration of the musician's 90th birthday.
He is survived by his wife and six children.
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Re: in memory of
by KenB » Fri Dec 07, 2012 4:38 pm
Hi Russ
I’m so glad you picked up on this. Dave Brubeck is an important figure in the jazz pantheon of artists, but not everyone here will know of his prolific output. His early work was mainstream enough to cross over into the top 40, believe it or not. I’ve got some of that early work with Paul Desmond but hardly anything from the late period. Sorry to learn of his passing.
I’m so glad you picked up on this. Dave Brubeck is an important figure in the jazz pantheon of artists, but not everyone here will know of his prolific output. His early work was mainstream enough to cross over into the top 40, believe it or not. I’ve got some of that early work with Paul Desmond but hardly anything from the late period. Sorry to learn of his passing.
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Re: in memory of
by Harvey2 » Sat Dec 08, 2012 6:48 am
KenB wrote:Hi Russ
I’m so glad you picked up on this. Dave Brubeck is an important figure in the jazz pantheon of artists, but not everyone here will know of his prolific output. His early work was mainstream enough to cross over into the top 40, believe it or not. I’ve got some of that early work with Paul Desmond but hardly anything from the late period. Sorry to learn of his passing.
It's always sad to learn that someone special or not so special has passed on. However, cliche or not, DB had a good long life and his legacy remains forever. I still play my TIME OUT album (180g vinyl issue) when I want to chill out or impress my young friends ;-). Growing up in Leeds during the 1960s I used to hang out at the best coffee bar in town, Take Five, which used to have pictures of Brubeck on the walls and played his music as background listening. This was long before the advent of those horrible Starbucks type things, I won't call them cafes because they're nothing like but Take Five was cool. You got frothy expresso coffee and cakes such as Rum Baba which were really delicious. It was a really nice place to take your girlfriend on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon before going to the flicks (cinema) to see the latest James Bond movie.
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Re: in memory of
by craig » Sun Dec 09, 2012 9:15 am
Harvey that is a great image .. so i assume lots of "mods" hung out there .. and i would love to be enjoying a rum baba this morning with my home brewed coffee
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