While on his wayward adventures in America, Steve Fly Agaric 23 hooked up with drummer Alan Hertz and his band, together with Eric Levy who was also playing with Garaj Mahal, bassist and good friend Liam Hanrahan and Jason Conception sitting in for Tal Morris on guitar. In 2003 the band recorded a spectacular album in Berkeley; the selections made here are from the California leg of a short tour the same year, after which they travelled to Los Angeles and then back to San Francisco Bay Area where the band resides: Alan Hertz, drums; Eric Levy, keys; DJ Fly Agaric 23, sounds, turntables; Liam Hanarhan, bass; and Jason Conception, guitar, recorded live at Moe’s Alley in Santa Cruz, CA on September 18, 2003.
Episode 886 is coming again from the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard University Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts where I’ve been in residence for the month of October, and tonight I’m featuring a program of music from the brand new album by Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite called 100 Years of Blues, interspersed with segments of a long conversation between Elvin Bishop and Robert Jr. Whiitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine.
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
100 YEARS OF BLUES
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 886
Cass Corridor, Detroit, October 22, 2020 [20663]
Yusef Lateef: Happyology
Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite: One Hundred Years of Blues
Elvin Bishop Conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens
Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite: What The Hell?
Elvin Bishop Conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens
Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite: Birds of a Feather
Elvin Bishop Conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens
Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite: Old School
Elvin Bishop Conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens
Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite: If I Should Have Bad Luck
Elvin Bishop Conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens
Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite: Good Times
Elvin Bishop Conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens
Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite: Blues For Yesterday
Elvin Bishop Conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens
Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite: Help Me
Elvin Bishop Conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens
Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite: Blues Why Do You Worry Me
Elvin Bishop Conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens
Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite: South Side Slide
Charlie Parker: They Can’t Take That Away From Me (July 5, 1950)
A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Program produced, edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair
Radio Free Amsterdam would like to pay tribute to the mighty Sonny Fortune, who passed away this week at the tender age of 79.
Fortune played with all the greats, and soared upon some of my own personal favourite albums, including the electric Miles Davis albums “Agarta” and “Get Up With It”.
May the music live on and future generations live to enjoy the music of Sonny Fortune, multi instrumetalist, Sax legend and composer.
Mr. Fortune was known for his mix of urgency and grace, and his stalwart command — not just of the alto saxophone, his primary instrument, but also of the flute, clarinet, and soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones. He made his biggest impact as a sideman with the likes of Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner and Mongo Santamaria.–NYT
Miles Davis- November 8, 1974 Bottom Line Club, New York City, featuring:
Miles Davis: Miles Davis (tpt, org); Sonny Fortune (ss, as, fl); Pete Cosey (g, perc); Reggie Lucas (g); Dominique Gaumont (g); Michael Henderson (el-b); Al Foster (d); Mtume (cga, perc)
