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Live Performances Bad Benson!

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While a fan of George Benson’s earlier works with the greasy B3 bands of Brother Jack McDuff and Dr. Lonnie Smith, I was not a big fan of the direction he took on some of his jazz-pop crossover recordings.   When the Indy Jazz Fest announced he would be one of the headliners at the 2011 festival, I wasn’t that excited but  I hadn’t seen him in years and wanted to photograph him.   Much to my surprise, Benson put on a fantastic show to an overflow crowd at Opti-Park.  At 68 years of age, he voice was great and his playing was great!  He even stopped by another stage for 45 minutes prior to his performance to catch the Guitar Summit, featuring Bill Lancton, Sandy Williams, Frank Steans and Henry Johnson….which was great to see.

 

Live Performances Buddy Guy

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The legendary bluesman Buddy Guy.  This image was made in Indianapolis in June 2008.

 

Live Performances Bill Dixon with the Exploding Star Orchestra

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This photograph of the great trumpet player Bill Dixon was made in Chicago during the 2007 Chicago Jazz Fest.  Dixon was a featured performer with the Exploding Star Orchestra.

 

 

 

Live Performances Billy Wooten

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These images of Vibist Billy Wooten and guitarist Steve Weakley were made during the summer of 2011, just prior to their performance at the Arts Garden in downtown Indianapolis.  Both of these guys are fun to be around, very upbeat and positive with a ton of interesting stories about the late 60′s & early 70′s in Naptown.

I met Billy for the first time around 2004.  The naming rights to the Indy Jazz Fest had been purchased by the American Pianist Association earlier in the year after being run by the original organization for several years.  Many of the musicians in town were not happy with the direction of the festival and local musician Keni Washington and others organized a one night festival to take place the day after the Indy Jazz Fest.  The best of the best Indianapolis musicians were in attendance….Slide Hampton, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Spaulding, Jimmy Coe, Pookie Johnson, Phil Ranelin and just about every other jazz musicians associated with the Indy scene.  Billy was one of the guys playing this night.  Shortly after the set ended, everyone will milling around on stage and I decided to join them.  I got into a conversation with Jimmy Spaulding as I had met him the prior year.  Freddie Hubbard joined the conversation along with Billy.  Freddie and Jimmy had lived next to each other growing up so much of the conversation was reminiscing about that.  Although I don’t recall exactly what Billy and I spoke about, I recall I left there thinking here was a guy with a lot to say.

Billy was born in NYC and after spending most of the 60s on the road, he visited and ultimately moved to Indianapolis.  Billy has played with many great artists during his career including Donny Hathaway, Jerry Butler, Gladys Knight & Smokey Robinson.    Billy had a great band here in Indy called “Wooden Glasss” which was my introduction to his music.  In 1972, Billy recorded a now-legendary lp called “Wooden Glass Live featuring Billy Wooten” which was recorded in Indianapolis at a club called “The 19th Whole” where Billy played for 6 years.  If you’re a fan of the B3, guitar, vibes, drums and just funky music in general, track this cd down!  In addition, you’ll find Billy on “Visions” and “Shades of Green”, two recordings with one of my favorite guitarists, Grant Green.  Billy along with drummer Mad Harold Cardwell, another Indy based musician spent about 3 years with Grant.

Billy and long time friend and great guitarist Steve Weakley

 

 

Billy’s vibes and mallets

 

 

 

 

Billy Wooten

 

Live Performances David Baker’s 80th Birthday Celebration!

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David Baker, the legendary musician, composer and Professor of Music at Indiana University was honored during his 80th Birthday Celebration on December 21st.  The black tie celebration took place at the Jazz Kitchen.  The night kicked off with a cocktail party, accompanied by pianist David Linard’s Trio.  As a student of Professor Baker’s for the past three year and this year’s recipient of the Owl Studios “Emerging Jazz Artist Program” (EJAP), expect a lot more to be heard from him in the future!

During a wonderful buffet, we were treated to a solo piano performance by another fine pianist, Zach Lapidus.  Zach was a finalist in the 2011 APA’s Cole Porter Piano Competition and another one to look out for.  Following Zach’s performance, David was presented with the prestigious “Sagamore of the Wabash” award.   An award given by the Governor, past recipients include artists, astronauts, musicians, presidents, politicians and other citizens considered to have contributed greatly to our “Hoosier” heritage.   Finally, the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra took the stage to perform new arrangements of several David Baker’s compositions.  This music is finally available on a newly released recording called “Basically Baker”.  Pianist Monika Herzig was on hand as well.  Monika recently completed a very good book on David’s life called “David Baker: A Legacy in Music”.

 

 

It was a great night and I was happy to be a small part of it.  Certainly a celebration befitting a man with David’s credentials!

There will be another tribute to Professor Baker on the IU campus on January 21, including a panel discussion and several performance.  See more here.

For more on David Baker and his music,  go here  and don’t forget to check out David Brent Johnson’s outstanding Night Lights Program featuring Baker.  Don’t stop there, Night Lights has many wonderful musician profiles and music on the “archive” tab….check them out and support the program if possible.

Live Performances Benny Golson @ the Jazz Showcase

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A standing room only crowd was in attendance at Joe and Wayne Segal’s Jazz Showcase to see a great performance by the legendary musician, writer, composer and story-teller Benny Golson.  At 80+ years old, Benny can still still bring it better than some half his age.  As with most of his performances over the past several years, Benny stuck to the many standards he composed including “I Remember Clifford, Stablemates and Along Came Betty, among a few others.   As usual, Benny shared stories of how these tunes came about.   In addition to Benny on tenor, the rest of the band was comprised of pianist Michael Kocur, bassist Larry Gray and Dana Hall.

 

Live Performances Crispus Attucks: Where it All Began

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This photograph of the great Steve Weakley was made for  a fundraiser I put together with radio personality Chuck Workman to bring some attention to the Crispus Attucks Museum and the scores of great musicians that attended the school from the 1940s through the 1980s.   In addition to Steve’s solo career, he was the guitarist for the late 60s soul-jazz band, Funk Inc.

Some of the musicians that went to Crispus Attucks include J. J. Johnson, Wes Montgomery and his brothers Monk and Buddy, Slide Hampton, Jimmy Spaulding, David Baker, Phil Ranelin, Russell Webster, Pookie Johnson, Jimmy Coe and Bill Penick…..really the list is just too long to mention here.

Crispus Attucks alumni performing during this event were tenor player Bill Penick, bassist Rudy Finnell, pianist Carl Hines, guitarist Steve Weakley, trumpeter Clifford Ratliff and the youngest of them, drummer Kenny Phelps. During the 90 minute performance, each of the musicians had a chance to share some memories of attending the school.  An award was also given to Gilbert Taylor, the founder of the museum.

 

In addition to the performance, I donated photographs of each of the musicians to the museum for their permanent collection.

If you get a chance, please pay a visit to to The Crispus Attucks Museum, Monday through Saturday.

 

 

Live Performances Jeremy Pelt Quintet @ the Jazz Showcase

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Live Performances The 5th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Fest

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I had a great time at the 5th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Fest on the south side of Chicago.  Despite a little rain on Sunday morning, the festival managed to attract over 25,000 jazz fans over the two-day event.  With thirteen venues/stages in place,  a lot of the shows overlapped to some degree, though I still managed to catch eight shows over the two days.

First up on Saturday was a Tomeka Reid Trio, comprised of Tomeka on cello, Josh Abrams on bass and an unknown guitarist.   This set took place at the Oriental Institute and was of my favorite sets but at 30 minutes, too short!  I’ve seen Tomeka is several setting and none of them dissapoint.  The trio did play a second set an hour or so later but I was on the move to my second performance, this time on the Midway Plaisance…featuring “Rhythms of Thunder” featuring drummers Dana Hall, Charles Heath and Ernie Adams.   Rarely do you see a band with 3 drummers playing at once but here you have it.   Certainly a high energy show…at times I thought Dana Hall was going to fly off his stool…..the crowd loved this show!!!  Probably my favorite young bassist in Chicago, Junius Paul was on bass.

I then went over to the International House to catch a trio with guitarist Fareed Haque, the very excitable B3 organist  Tony Monaco and a drummer that I don’t recall his name.  I’m a huge fan of B3 trios so I really liked this set.  From here, it was over to Mandel Hall to catch probably my favorite show of the festival….the Don Byron “New Gospel Quartet” with the amazing vocalist DK Dyson.  I had seen Byron on another occasion and was not that thrilled…this was another thing altogether.  Byron, animated and talkative was outstanding on both clarinet and tenor saxophone and Dyson’s performance was great!  Bassist Brad Jones, pianist Xavier David and drummer Pheeroan akLaff rounded out the quartet…really loved Xavier’s playing.  At one point Dyson left the stage and walked around the room singing.  When I looked back at the stage, akLaff was gone and Byron was playing drums.  Minutes later, akLaff came back on stage in his boxer shorts and nothing else.  I don’t know exactly what happened and I won’t speculate…I’ll leave it at that!

Next up was the Everett Greene Quartet.  Being from Indianapolis, it was great to see my  good friends and fellow hoosiers up on stage in the beautiful Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.  Not sure how many people this place holds but it was packed to the rafters to see a truly amazing vocalist backed by drummer Kenny Phelps, bassist Frank Smith and pianist Craig Hicks.  The chapel is huge with ceilings that look two hundred feet high….the place is cavernous but I thought the sound was very good.  Staying put in the chapel, it was time for the headliner for this night, The 3 Ellas, featuring vocalists Frieda Lee, Spider Saloff and Dee Alexander, a Chicago favorite!  This was a fun performance as each of the women took turns paying tribute to the great Ella Fitzgerald.  Backing the 3 Ellas tonight, Jeremy Kahn on piano, Jim Cox on bass and Charles Heath on drums.  I think half the shows I went to had Heath sitting in on drums…the guy is everywhere!

The final performance of the night, a jam session, returned to Mandel Hall.  This was hosted by Dee Alexander and started about 12:30 a.m.  Featuring many of the musicians that performed during the day and some that didn’t.  I think this ended about 1:30-2:00 a.m…..I was beat!

I only caught one show at the festival on Sunday….but it was fantastic.  Bassist Tatsu Aoki and his Miyumi Project performed at the Midway Plaisance,  raining throughout…maybe 30 people in seats and umbrellas out, these folks got to see a great show.  Featuring Tatsu on bass, Ed Wilkerson and Jeff Chan on tenor, Amy Homma on drums, Coco Elyesses on congas and Mwata Bowden on many things…this show was a highlight for me.

While I mentioned only a few of the venues, there were 13 in all….the primary stage is the James W. Wagner stage on the Midway Plaisance, the Court Theater, the beautiful DuSable Museum, Frank Lloyd’s Robie House, the Hyde Park Art Center, the Hyde Park Bank, the Hyde Park Union Church, the International House, the Little Black Pearl, Mandel Hall, the Oriental Institute, the amazing Rockefeller Memorial Chapel and the Smart Museum of Art.

One thing I forgot to mention is that saxophonist Geof Bradfield was this years artist-in-residence.  Despite playing several time, I managed to not see him at all which is very disapointing!   My other dissapointment was missing the Ben Patterson Trio @ the Black Pearl.  I was basically walking venue to venue and lugging too much equipment around, bad timing prevented me from making it to the show….hope to catch up to him soon….very soulful guy on the B3.

 

Live Performances Indy Jazz Fest

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