Here Today... Gone To Hell!

ok....so, im getting a new ipod...and im taking an exam so i can get a 'degree' in music...well..if i want to pass i have to? ''widen my range of music that i listain too''....so i wanted to put some new kind of music on my ipod, but im not really familliar with any 'proper' blues or jazz music..but i really like the idea of 'returning to rock n roll's roots'.........so if anyone knows of an artist or band who does blues or jazz....or even a good song....id really appreciate if you could tell me.......this could mean the difference between me getting a good grade or failing miserably....... :nervous:


thanx alot


/aimz
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Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, Elvis..

Let me start you off right with some reviews I wrote a while back on some older blues and jazz tunes.

1. "I'm Gonna Murder My Baby" - Pat Hare (1954)

Born in 1930 as Auburn Hare in Arkansas....died the day after my birth...September 26th, 1980 in a prison in Minnesota.? Pat Hare started out his career on the guitar in Howlin' Wolf's first electric incarnation.? He would go on to record with some of the great artists on Sun's blues label.? In 1954 he would record this diddy about mudering his lady for doing the dirty deed with another fellow.? For the next few years his alcoholism got the best of him, yet he managed to record with Bobby "Blue" Bland on the song "Farther On Up The Road" in 1957.? He would then move to Chicago and join Muddy Water's band and play on the amazing album "Live at Newport" with Waters, James Cotton and Otis Spann.? In 1962 Hare moved to Minnesota to tour with George "Mojo" Buford and would live out his song on a fateful night after an arguement with his girlfriend in a hotel room.? Police received calls of a domestic spat between the two and when they arrived they found his girlfriend shot dead.? A police officer attempted to apprehend Pat and was fatally shot in the process.? Pat Hare would spend the rest of his life in a Minnesota prison until his death from cancer.? The saying "You gotta live the blues, to play the blues" has no truer meaning than this situation...strike that, reverse it.

2. "The Time Have Come" - Robert Nighthawk (live, 1964)

Born in 1909 as Robert Lee McCollum in Arkansas...died November 1967 of a heart attack.? Robert started his career very early after leaving home...he joined a barrage of different groups such as the Memphis Jug Band.? Around this time he learned the art of the slide guitar from one mr. Houston Stackhouse and would adopt this playing style as his assault.? After rambling around playing any and everywhere he would eventually adopt his mother's maiden name of McCoy and settle in St. Louis where he would play with Sonny Boy Williamson and Big Joe Williams.? Some vital early recordings were made and then Sonny Boy and Big Joe went to Chicago and Robert continued to ramble around until finally dissappearing for around a decade.? Eventually he would reappear as Robert Lee Nighthawk (taken from one of his earlier compositions 'Prowling Night Hawk') and was found buskering in Chicago.? He came to prominence again and did a a few recordings and a few club shows including one at Maxwell St. which this recording was taken from in 1964.? He would eventually return to Arkansas where he would appear on the local radio show for one final performance before his death.

3. "Things Ain't What They Used To Be" - Duke Ellington (1965)

What more can be said about Duke Ellington...his history is far too large to even begin to summarize so do yourself a favor and check it out. Born 1899, died 1974...he was the innovator of Jazz.? He composed over 2000 songs and featured some of the greatest jazz musicians in his bands.? This little piece I've mentioned is touching and was recorded in 1965.

1. "Sleeping In The Ground" - "Sweet" Sam Myers (1956)
This tune is the ultimate slap in the face to that loved one that's broken your heart and left you sullen and sprained.? Written and recorded in 1956 as a 45 RPM single and released with the title number ACE 356...this gem is the epitome of the Mississippi Blues.? Sam sings and plays harmonica on this one. The song has went on to be covered by Eric Clapton and others.? Sadly, the great Sam Myers passed away earlier this year from cancer.

That's just a little smidgeon of some of the stuff.

Jazz-wise....everything is Duke Ellington...Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Art Tatum etc....all those dudes would come later, but Duke shaped jazz into what it is.
Blues wise...there's so much stuff out there...Robert Johnson is probably most famous due to his short life as a recording artist...Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter had some earlier blues songs in the early 30's that could be considered predecessors to rock n roll...Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James, Robert Nighthawk, Sonny Boy Williamson....the list goes on....but in the early 50's around the start of what is considered rock 'n roll, you want to check out some early written pieces by Ike Turner and Little Richard who kind of took jazz, r and b and jump blues all together and made something incredible.


Also if you want something that predates everything and was one of the first commercially available recordings try the group mentioned earlier the Memphis Jug Band...a little tune called Sun Brimmer's Blues.  It's from the mid 20's.  Sort of has an uptempo swing to it with a little harmonica and jugs for bass.

Howlin Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Early Johhny Cash, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudop, Hank Williams too name a few.


Go to your local record or book store and pick "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues". Its jam packed with Blues and Rockabily.

Muddy Waters & Louis Armstrong

Cheers,
W.R.

Billy Strayhorn : Lush life

Add Cole Porter

some jazzaz:

Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorious (Weather Report, Teen Town.)

I'm goin' out on a limb here, and I'm going to say he died in the old Stillwater Prison. Hell, might've been locked up with my grandpa for all I know.


Hmm. I'll have to check this song out, thanks for the recomendation.

yeah thanxs every-one this is great.....kepp em comin!....... :beer:

All I remember reading was that the prison he died in was in St. Paul.  Not sure the actual name.

Ah,

Herbie Hancock - Chameleon

Weather Report - Birdland

Hmm...I don't think St. Paul had a prison...unless they did back in the day. :-\

The only Federal Prisons I know about 'round here are; Stillwater, St. Cloud, Red Wing, Lino Lakes [I believe] and there is like two more that I can't think of off hand.

3 words for you:
T
Bone
Walker

it's 2 years since anyone posted here, but i just gotta say, always hated jazz


BUUUTTTT chet baker is pretty fuckin brilliant!

Django Reinhardt.