Happy New Year!!

GD
12/31/85
Oakland, CA

with commentary from Father Guido Sarducci and Ken Kesey


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Mingus

I'm gonna keep the JAZZ theme goin'...

Umbria Jazz Festival, Todi, Italy
July 28, 1974

Charles Mingus (bass)
Dannie Richmond (drums)
Don Pullen (piano)
George Adams (tenor sax)
Hamiet Bluiett (baritone sax)


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Freddie Hubbard RIP

Dec 29 2008 -- 17:49 PST LOS ANGELES, (AP) --

Freddie Hubbard, the Grammy-winning jazz musician whose style influenced a generation of trumpet players and who collaborated with such greats as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, died Monday, a month after suffering a heart attack. He was 70.

A towering figure in jazz circles, Hubbard played on hundreds of recordings in a career dating to 1958, the year he arrived in New York from his hometown Indianapolis, where he had studied at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music and with the Indianapolis Symphony.

Soon he had hooked up with such jazz legends as Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley and Coltrane.

"I met Trane at a jam session at Count Basie's in Harlem in 1958," he told the jazz magazine Down Beat in 1995. "He said, `Why don't you come over and let's try and practice a little bit together.' I almost went crazy. I mean, here is a 20-year-old kid practicing with John Coltrane. He helped me out a lot, and we worked several jobs together."

In his earliest recordings, which included "Open Sesame" and "Goin' Up" for Blue Note in 1960, the influence of Davis and others on Hubbard is obvious, Weiss said. But within a couple years he would develop a style all his own, one that would influence generations of musicians, including Wynton Marsalis.

"He influenced all the trumpet players that came after him," Marsalis told The Associated Press earlier this year. "Certainly I listened to him a lot. ... We all listened to him. He has a big sound and a great sense of rhythm and time and really the hallmark of his playing is an exuberance. His playing is exuberant."


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Milt Jackson

'The Rev'
1990

listen to Bags groooooove


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Bobby Bare

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Happy Birthday Chief!

Mohawk River

The Chief's 'Official Birthday Song'

This is not the original version but a cover of the Ramsay Midwood classic. If you'd like to hear the original version click here.

Happy Birthday Chief...a'boondogglin' we go.


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Merry Christmas, yo

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Ramones

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Garcia & Grisman

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Warfield Theatre
12/91


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The King

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Snow Miser - Heat Miser

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Los Straitjackets

Christmas In Vegas
featuring the Pontani Sisters


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I Wish It Was Christmas Today

SNL Christmas Song


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Bowie & Bing

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12 Days of Christmas Videos

September 1978
Capitol Theatre
Passaic NJ


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12 Days of Christmas Videos

Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis


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12 Days of Christmas Videos

My favorite Christmas song. Charles Brown could sing the phone book and it would sound warm and inviting.


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The 12 Days of Christmas *Videos*

The Brian Setzer Orchestra


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Maggies Farm

Rolling Thunder Revue
Fort Collins, Colorado
23 May 1976


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Burning Spear

turn up yer BASS


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Classic

Les Paul & Mary Ford
1954


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Aleck Rice Miller

aka Sonny Boy Williamson II

nobody plays harp like SonnyBoy


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John Lennon

it was 28 years ago today...


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Sleep Walk

The Ventures
featuring
Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter

I'm working 10p-10a tonight so I thought this was appropriate


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Johnny 'Guitar' Watson

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15 years ago...

Frank Zappa passed away.

Here's a CLASSIC.


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Odetta RIP

my heart aches a little today

Odetta obit




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So, you like WEEN?

This is one of my favorite tv clips of us. "Pure guava" was still a new record and we had just written this song. I think this is one of our last performances as a duo. This was filmed early in the morning and we were very stoned.

Dean Ween
1993


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Blackbird

G Love
and
Brodeeva


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