Jazz for aficionados

Welcome back nsp hope you enjoyed your vacation. I third the agreement about Beck and Malmsteen. I could listen to Beck all day long but Malmsteen is downright annoying. That rock/classical thing is an acquired taste that I just do not have. My 3 favorite guitar players of all time, not saying they are "the best" just my favorites are as follows 

1. Jimi Hendrix. A master at creating lyrics and compositions with a technique like none other before or since. Playing the right handed guitar upside down I just love watching all of my live DVD's I have of his. He was also very influential guitarist. The fact that he made just 4 studio albums before he died and his estate still rakes in millions of dollars a year almost 50 years after his death...… well need I say more. Had he not died who knows? His playing was firmly rooted in the blues but he wanted to experiment more with jazz (he and Miles were going to work together) and funk (Band Of Gypsy's) and he was heading in that direction when he passed.


Jimi with Larry Young:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBErvhTAIWg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScIOufnqSw


2. Jeff Beck. I can hear just a few notes and recognize its him playing. Plays all genres of music exceptionally  except that classical shredding (which he could if he wanted) ala Malmsteen. The jazz/rock fusion albums "Wired" and "Blow By Blow" attest to his eclectic mastery as do his later "techno/funk infused" masterpieces like the album "Jeff." 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89OTZV-NHkU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pOKyNO9my8

3. John McLaughlin. What can I say?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQG7XpCiSVA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2GAAK3PFII

You could switch up McLaughlin and Beck but Jimi is still my number one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki5AfK0sFrs

I hope Janie Hendrix President and CEO of Experience, LLC, the official Jimi Hendrix Family Company, can get this out there on a remastered disc.

I know she is very motivated by money and has been slowly releasing her half brothers unrelease vault recordings, some bad some good over the years since she gained control of his estate.

I have the box set she put out "West Coast Seattle Boy" which, besides YouTube contains the only recorded version of the song Young/Hendrix jam, in its entirety (20:57). The LP "Nine To The Universe"(which I believe was never released on a CD) had a cut up version which is ridiculous.

Thank god for people uploading bootlegs like the above on YouTube.

I have already pre-ordered this. It looks like an excellent investment with a 5.1 surround mix of the original album!! https://www.amazon.com/Electric-Ladyland-50th-Anniversary-Deluxe/dp/B07GGPT67F

I am a Hendrix "completist" so the money is not an issue!!

Martia Ball, the flood;


       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBfYmxrULlQ

orpheus10, Thanks posting that.

Here is a great old blues song, about that flood, in which afterwards thousands of African Americans migrated north.


Kansas Joe McCoy’s lyrics, to me, exemplify the African American southern blues experience perfectly. Powerful and heartbreaking at the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swhEa8vuP6U

Lyrics:

If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break
If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break
And the water gonna come in, have no place to stay

Well all last night I sat on the levee and moan
Well all last night I sat on the levee and moan
Thinkin’ ’bout my baby and my happy home

If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break
If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break
And all these people have no place to stay

Now look here mama what am I to do
Now look here mama what am I to do
I ain’t got nobody to tell my troubles to

I works on the levee mama both night and day
I works on the levee mama both night and day
I ain’t got nobody, keep the water away

Oh cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do no good
Oh cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do no good
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to lose

I works on the levee, mama both night and day
I works on the levee, mama both night and day
I works so hard, to keep the water away


I had a woman, she wouldn’t do for me
I had a woman, she wouldn’t do for me
I’m goin’ back to my used to be

I’s a mean old levee, cause me to weep and moan
I’s a mean old levee, cause me to weep and moan
Gonna leave my baby, and my happy home.....

While we've touched upon almost every genre of music, there is one we haven't mentioned, we left out "Psychedelic".

My experience with this music was so fast and intense, that I almost forgot about it; but as I recall I actually lived that experience with the strange slides and topless dancer. I don't know if I even owned one psychedelic record, because it seems I was always where it was going on live, and that was an experience you had to have been there to know what I'm talking about; and as Forest Gump said; "That's all I'm going to say about that".



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWxMj6IQbJc


  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCkHanF4v1w


  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSUIQgEVDM4