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Marcadores: Blues, Gospel, Rhythm and Blues, Soul
Champion Jack Dupree foi a personificação do blues de New Orleans e também um pianista de boogie woogie, verdadeiro “professor” em matéria de tocar em bares e cabarés, uma figura simpática que gostava de contar causos e piadas entre uma música e outra. Nasceu como William Thomas Dupree, em 4 de julho de 1910, na Louisiana. Seu pai era do Congo Belga e sua mãe, de origem afro americana e índio Cherokee. Ele ficou órfão aos dois anos de idade e foi enviado para o New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs, um orfanato para crianças de cor por onde também passou Loius Armstrong, sendo adotado por Olivia Gardner aos 14 anos de idade. Começou a tocar piano de forma autodidata e mais tarde aprendeu com Tuts Washington e com o lendário Drive’Em Down (Willie Hall), a quem ele chamava de pai e que lhe ensinou o “Junker’s Blues”, um clássico que se tornou notório na interpretação de Jack Dupree. Ainda jovem, começou sua vida de andarilho, viveu em Chicago onde trabalhou com Geórgia Tom, em Indianápolis e Indiana onde se juntou a Scrapper Blackwell e Leroy Carr. Além de tocar piano, ele fazia uns bicos de cozinheiro e quando esteve em Detroit, conheceu Joe Louis que o encorajou a iniciar uma carreira de boxer. Chegou a lutar 107 vezes conquistando a Golden Gloves (Luvas de Ouro) e outros campeonatos. Foi aí que ele ganhou o apelido de Champion Jack (Jack Campeão), que usou para o resto da vida.
Em 1940 ele deixou o box de lado e voltou para o piano. Estava com 30 anos e retornou a Chicago fazendo parte de um círculo de artistas que por ali gravavam, como Big Bill Broonzy e Tampa Red, este o apresentou ao famoso produtor de blues Lester Melrose, que produziu alguns de seus primeiros trabalhos para o selo Okeh. Mas em 1942 ele foi convocado para o exército indo servir no Pacífico, trabalhando como cozinheiro da marinha. Acabou sendo capturado pelos japoneses e viveu dois anos como prisioneiro de guerra.
Após a guerra, ele foi para Nova York afim de retomar sua carreira musical. Acabou dando sorte por lá e gravou para não menos que vinte e um diferentes selos incluindo Savoy, King e Atlantic. Pois, assim como o guitarrista John Lee Hooker, Dupree não ligava muito para obrigações contratuais e gravou sob diferentes pseudônimos entre os quais: Brother Blues, Big Tom Collins, Blind Boy Johnson, Meathead Johnson, Willie Jordan, e Lightnin' Jr. Mas foi com o seu próprio nome que ele emplacou um hit em 1955 em dueto com Teddy McRae chamado “Walking The Blues”, que ficou 11 semanas nas paradas de R&B. Na verdade, foi a única vez que ele fez parte de uma parada dessas em toda sua carreira. Em 1958 gravou aquela que para muitos é considerada a sua obra prima, o álbum Blues From the Gutter. Em suas músicas, Dupree falava do mundo ao seu redor, abordando temas como prostituição, cadeia, bebidas e drogas, muito embora ele não fosse lá um grande beberrão e sequer fazia uso de drogas. Mesmo vivendo em Nova York, Depree percebeu que não importava para onde fosse, não conseguia escapar do preconceito racial. Cansado de toda essa história, em 1959 resolveu se mudar para Europa onde viveu os últimos 32 anos de sua carreira, morando em países diferentes como Suíça, França, Inglaterra, Dinamarca e Alemanha. Nessa fase, lançou uma série de álbuns maravilhosos por diferentes gravadoras entre os quais o incrível From New Orleans To Chicago (1966), gravado na Inglaterra com a participação de John Mayall e Eric Clapton, que na verdade não estão em todas as faixas, mas só a participação em “Third Degree” e “Shim-Sham-Shimmy”, já vale o disco. A dupla aparece novamente ao lado de Dupree no álbum Raw Blues (1967), uma coletânea de participações de Mayall com astros do blues, tocando “Calcutta Blues” e “24 Hours”, dois blues de arrepiar. Outro disco bem bacana dessa fase britânica, é Scooby Dooby Doo (1969) produzido por Mike Vernon e com a participação de Mick Taylor dos Rollings Stones. De fato, muitos astros do British blues tiveram a honra de gravar um disco com ele como Alexis Korner em Champion Jack's Natural & Soulful Blues (1961), Paul Kossoff em Whe You Feel The Feeling You Was Feeling (1968) e Aynsley Dunbar que com sua banda The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, acompanhou Dupree no álbum The Heart Of The Blues Is Sound (1969). O cara era mesmo um ídolo para os músicos ingleses e ao que parece, também para o púbico, pois em Halifax, cidade inglesa onde morou entre 1970 e 80, foi encomendada uma placa de bronze em sua memória.
Em 1990 Champion Jack Dupree retorna aos Estados Unidos para participar, em sua terra natal, do famoso New Orleans Jazz Heritage Festival. Foi sua primeira visita à cidade desde 1954 e ele simplesmente se tornou a sensação do evento, aproveitando a oportunidade para se reunir com alguns do melhores músicos locais e gravar o aclamado álbum Back Home In New Orleans, produzido por Ron Levy, organista que tocava com B.B. King. Em 1991 ele voltou à América para tocar no mesmo festival e também no Chicago Blues Festival. Mais uma vez adentrou no estúdio para gravar as faixas que seriam lançadas nos discos Forever & Ever e One Last Time. Realmente foi a última vez. Vítima de câncer, faleceu em 21 de janeiro de 1992 na cidade de Hanover, na Alemanha, onde residia. Deixou três esposas, sete filhos e um grande catálogo de gravações, o legado de obras primas de um dos maiores Bluesman de todos os tempos.
Fontes: Wikepedia, Cascade Blues, Wirz.de, Musician Guide e All Music Guide.
CHAMPION JACK DUPREE
William Thomas Dupree, best known as Champion Jack Dupree, was an American blues pianist. His birth date is disputed, given as July 4, July 10, and July 23, in the years 1908, 1909, or 1910. He died January 21, 1992. He was the embodiment of the New Orleans blues and boogie woogie pianist, a true barrelhouse "professor". His father was from the Belgian Congo and his mother was African American and Cherokee. He was orphaned at the age of 2 and sent to the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs (also the alma mater of Louis Armstrong). He taught himself piano there and later apprenticed with Tuts Washington and the legendary Drive'em Down, whom he called his "father" and from whom he learned "Junker's Blues". He was also "spy boy" for the Yellow Pochahantas tribe of Mardi Gras Indians and soon began playing in barrelhouses, drinking establishments organized around barrels of booze. As a young man he began his life of travelling, living in Chicago, where he worked with Georgia Tom, and Indianapolis, Indiana, where he hooked up with Scrapper Blackwell and Leroy Carr. While he was always playing piano, he also worked as a cook, and in Detroit he met Joe Louis, who encouraged him to become a boxer. He ultimately fought in 107 bouts and winning Golden Gloves and other championships, and picking up the nickname Champion Jack, which he used the rest of his life.
He returned to Chicago at age 30 and joined a circle of recording artists, including Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red who introduced him to legendary blues record producer Lester Melrose, who claimed composer credit and publishing on many of Dupree's songs. Dupree's playing is almost all straight blues and boogie woogie, with no ballads or pop songs, not even blues ballads. He was not a sophisticated musician or singer, but he had a wry and clever way with words: "Mama, move your false teeth, papa wanna scratch your gums." He sometimes sang as if he had a cleft palate and even recorded under the name Harelip Jack Dupree. This was an artistic conceit, as Dupree had excellent clear articulation, particularly for a blues singer. He sang about life as he found it, singing about jail, drinking, drug addiction, although he himself was a light drinker and did not use other drugs. His "Junker's Blues" is still sung in New Orleans, and was also transmogrified by Fats Domino into his first hit "The Fat Man". Dupree's songs included not only gloomy topics, such as "TB Blues" and "Angola Blues" (about the infamous Louisiana prison farm), but also cheerful subjects like the "Dupree Shake Dance": "Come on, mama, on your hands and knees, do that shake dance as you please".
On his best known LP, 1958's Blues from the Gutter for Atlantic, he was accompanied on guitar by Larry Dale, whose playing on that LP inspired Brian Jones (of Rolling Stones fame: "Yeah! I have to play this… what a sound"). Dupree was also noted as a raconteur and transformed many of his stories into songs. "Big Leg Emma's" takes its place in the roots of rap music as the rhymed tale of a police raid on a barrelhouse. In later years he recorded with John Mayall, Mick Taylor, and Eric Clapton. Although Jerry Lee Lewis did not record Dupree's "Shake Baby Shake" as suggested by some sources, the lyrics in his version of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" -- "You can shake it one time for me!" -- echo Dupree's song. Indeed, Dupree's 1957 rerelease of "Shake Baby Shake" may have been a response to the success of Jerry Lee Lewis's record in that year. Dupree's career was interrupted by military service in World War II. He was a cook in the United States Navy and spent two years as a Japanese prisoner of war.
His biggest commercial success was "Walkin' the Blues", which he recorded as a duet with Mr. Bear. This led to several national tours, and eventually to a European tour. Dupree moved to Europe permanently 1959, the first of many blues stars to make the move to a less racially prejudiced environment. During the 70's and 80's he lived in Halifax, where a bronze plaque has been commissioned in his memory. He continued to record in Europe( with Kenn Lending Band ,Louisiana Red a. o.) and also made many live appearances there, also still working as a cook specializing in New Orleans cuisine. He returned to the United States from time to time and appeared at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. He died in Hannover, Germany of cancer.
From: Wikepedia
Blues From The Gutter[*]
From New Orleans To Chicago[*]
Raw Blues[*]
Scooby Dooby Doo[*]
And His Blues Band[*]
Back Home In New Orleans[*]
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Johnny Winter has been flattening audiences since he blew out of Texas like a white tornado in 1968. At the tail end of the blues revival when British blues rockers were co-opting America's only indigenous art form, Johnny staked his claim to the title of reigning blues guitar hero with blinding chops as hot as a jalapeno and authentic blues feel as deep, wide and muddy as the Rio Grande. Johnny's studio releases are an unparalleled record of the evolution of a blues master who has never stopped growing and perfecting his unique artistic vision of the music as a living, breathing entity meant to be expressed with spontaneity and unbounded enthusiasm in concert. To the everlasting gratitude of his fans, he has recorded a tremendous number of his shows, amassing an archive of forty plus years of musical treasures. They are now being carefully and painstakingly mastered and will be released over the next several years as the Live Bootleg Series on Friday Music.
Volume One covers a collection of Johnny's vintage performances featuring bassist Jon Paris and drummer Bobby T, his power trio at the time playing with fiery abandon and thundering drive. From his signature hair-raising scream of A LITTLE ROCK AND ROLL! that introduces Johnny B. Goode to his stomping bonus track cover of Bobby Womack's R&B classic It's All Over Now, this musical journey is one of blues and rock, heart and soul. If there is any doubt that he is the premier interpreter of the Rolling Stones, one need only to listen to his cataclysmic version of Jumpin' Jack Flash, to dispel any rumors. It's no wonder Keith and Mick gladly handed him their Silver Train to cover. Any Texan worth his salt and tequila includes Freddie King's Hide Away in his repertoire, but Johnny knows it from the inside out and makes the well- worn classic his own. Ever conscious of his true roots in country blues, he delivers a Southern fried Rollin' and Tumblin' for the ages, stamping it as bonafide with his slashing slide guitar. Further demonstrating his versatility, his original, brooding Stranger makes a case for this overlooked aspect of his talent. As Johnny is quick to point out when anyone calls his recent resurgence as a comeback, But I never went anywhere! These priceless, previously unreleased live recordings only further serve to fill in the gaps in a legacy that continues to be added to with every passing contemporary show and recording.
Review by Dave Rubin - Guitar Player Magazine
01. Johnny B Goode
02. Messin With The Kid
03. Help Me
04. Hideaway
05. Come On In My Kitchen
06. Rollin' and Tumblin'
07. Stranger
08. Jumpin Jack Flash
09. Boney Maroine
10. It's All Over Now
I always knew I d make it, Johnny Winter, cigarette dangling from his lips, told me after a gig one night in 2007 as his tour bus rolled on through the darkness of rural Virginia. I never doubted it. I always knew that playing music was what I was meant to do, and I never even thought about doing anything else. Live Bootleg Series Volume II the second installment in Friday Music s artist-approved releases displays the same unshakable confidence that made Johnny Winter one of the 20th century s most important and influential guitarists. It also illuminates the native Texan s lifelong love affair with the blues, not to mention his absolute mastery of the guitar. Johnny s own searing Black Cat Bone, a tune he first recorded for 1969 s The Progressive Blues Experiment, kicks things off, and it s followed by a true blues story: a tale of persecution, the Mose Allison-penned Parchman Farm, which Johnny transforms into a heavy, groove-laden rocker.
Up next is Rock Me Baby, a hit for B.B. King. To this day, Johnny fondly recalls the night in 1962 in his native Beaumont when B.B., playing a local blues club called The Raven, hesitantly allowed a young Johnny Winter after first checking to see if he had a union card to sit in with his band. (Johnny did, in fact, take the stage that night, and he earned a standing ovation for his efforts.) This riff-heavy reading of B.B. s classic is vintage Johnny, sporting his deep-throated growl and soaring, overdriven blues-rock guitar lines. An undeniable highlight of this collection is the jaw-dropping, 15-minute reading of Willie Brown s Mississippi Blues. Alongside a wailing harmonica, Johnny expertly builds the tune from the bottom up, each turnaround giving way to yet another verse that seems to up the ante even more. By the time the tune concludes its sixth minute and the entire band kicks in, the guitar lines have become simply torrid and there s still a lot more ahead. It sets the table beautifully for what comes next, Johnny s incendiary take on Robert Johnson s Crossroads, which rocks firmly in the spirit of Cream. Closing this collection is a simply unforgettable Red House, in which Winter dedicates the tune to Al Hendrix in memory of his late son Jimi.
Review by Sean McDevitt
01. Black Cat Bone
02. Parchman Farm
03. Rock Me Baby
04. Mississippi Blues
05. Crossroads
06. Red House (Bonus Live Recording)
Like any life-changing, chromosome-rearranging event, all guitar fans remember their first time seeing Johnny Winter perform live. For me, the year was 1973, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Johnny was then embarking on his Still Alive and Well comeback tour. Appearing onstage all in white, his platinum-white hair flowing down to his elbows and playing a blinding white Gibson Firebird V, Johnny beamed with the unbridled energy of a force from some distant galaxy. His performance a combination of earth-shattering guitar playing, searing vocals and wildly energetic stage presence--was nothing short of brilliant. He rocked the Garden so hard that night, the entire building shook in rhythm with the music. During the barn-burning boogie track Rock & Roll, I literally believed that the Garden was going to blast apart at the seams. In the ensuing years, I have seen Johnny perform countless times in arenas, amphitheaters, 1200-seaters, sardine-canned packed clubs (such as NYC s legendary Lone Star Café), rehearsal studios, and even Johnny s own living room. Seeing and hearing Johnny Winter play live is an experience like no other, because, simply stated, no other guitar player has ever entwined raw power, pure emotion, conviction, and virtuosity more effectively than he has.
Live Bootleg Series: Vol. 3 opens with Mojo Boogie. Johnny leads off the tune with some unaccompanied virtuoso slide work, his guitar tuned to open D (one of his favorite tunings for slide), before the band kicks in for a blazing extended intro solo, with bassist Paris offering some double duty by coping Johnny s slide melodies note-for-note on harmonica. The second cut, Stranger Blues, is a killer Elmore James boogaloo that Johnny rips apart with more slide work in open D. This is the type of hard-rockin blues Johnny first introduced to the world back in 1969 with his seminal release, The Progressive Blues Experiment. On the third track, I Smell Trouble Johnny displays the kind of mind-blowing speed and virtuosity that he usually reserves for long workouts over slow blues, while Boot Hill is a hard-driving mid-tempo shuffle on which Johnny effortlessly combines slide guitar with some of the fastest single-note work he s ever recorded.
Next up is a very rare live take of Robert Johnson s Stones in My Pass Way, played in front of a small but appreciative audience. Johnny performs the song unaccompanied with a slide on a National steel guitar tuned to open G. I learned about open tunings from listening to Robert Johnson's King of the Delta Blues, Johnny told me back in 1989. I picked up the concept of using open tunings just by using my own ears, and when I discovered how the open tunings worked with the slide, it was quite a revelation. I m Gonna Murder My Baby, was written by one of Johnny s big guitar influences, Pat Hare. Says Johnny, I m Gonna Murder My Baby is the heaviest blues song ever written! This collection rounds out with a smoldering version of Johnny s most well known track, his slide guitar tour-de-force arrangement of Bob Dylan s Highway 61 Revisited. Johnny Winter is regarded as one of the greatest, most original and most influential slide guitarists ever, and this track offers ample testament to that fact. Today, Johnny Winter is still touring steadily all over the globe, playing and singing as only he can and bringing audiences to their feet wherever he goes. Until the next time you get to see him perform live, Live Bootleg Vol. 3 will keep you covered.
Review by Andy Aledort
1.Mojo Boogie
2.Stranger Blues
3.I Smell Trouble
4.Boot Hill
5.Stones In My Pass Way
6.I'm Gonna Murder My Baby
7.Highway 61 Revisited
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Interessante trabalho do historiador Alan Lomax sobre as canções dos prisioneiros negros nas fazendas de trabalhos forçados, aonde nasceram os primeiros blues.
Eis aqui um abrangente trabalho de documentação do blues através dos tempos, realizado pelo cineasta Martin Scorsese, essa maravilhosa seleção foi trilha de um documentário que eu ainda não tive o prazer de assistir, mas gostaria muito.
Coletânea que reúne os principais intérpretes do blues nos seus primeiros anos através de uma ótima seleção de músicas.
Já essa seleção é um trabalho feito pelo famoso cartunista Robert Crumb e foi uma espécie de brinde para quem comprou um calendário com arte de blues que ele lançou este ano. A proposta é similar ao disco a cima, mas trazendo nomes não tão manjados entre os mestres do estilo.
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Depois de postar Jack Bruce e Ginger Baker, tocando jazz entre virtuosos, nada mais justo que completar essa “cremosa” trilogia com Eric Clapton mandando ver um jazz entre feras do gênero. Isso mesmo “Mr. Slowheands” tocando jazz! Se você achava que tal coisa não era possível, então saiba que já aconteceu e o disco está aqui para comprovar o fato. Quem teve a oportunidade de assistir ao DVD Legends Live at Montreux 1997, lançado apenas recentemente, teve uma idéia do que é isso. Na verdade é mais como Clapton tocando jazz, r&b, funk e blues. Foi uma das raras investidas que ele fez no estilo, portanto não espere nada muito aguçado.
A formação foi composta por jazzistas de primeira grandeza, apesar do resultado um tanto quanto modesto: Marcus Miller no baixo, David Sanborn no sax, Joe Sample nos teclados e Steve Gadd na bateria. Na faixa de abertura do disco um, uma levada funk, temos a impressão de que é David Sandorn quem da à deixa para Clapton se soltar e sair solando. Somente em “Ruthie” e “Put It Where You Want It” que se ouve o Clapton de sempre se sobressaindo. É difícil dizer ao certo se quando Clapton formou esse grupo, no verão de 1997, ele tencionava apenas participar dos festivais de jazz ou se ele procurava por novos rumos. O selo bootleg, Mid Valley Records, fez o lançamento de Legends Flawless a partir das gravações dos ensaios que o grupo fez no S.I.R. Rehearsal Studios de Hollywood, Califórnia, por ocasião das apresentações no Montreux Jazz Festival (4 de julho); North Sea Jazz Festival (Holanda, 11 de julho) e no Festival de Jazz de Vitoria-Gasteiz (Espanha, 17 de julho), condensando as horas de ensaios gravados em dois CDs.
Eu peguei esse arquivo no site Guitar 101 e o cara que postou isso lá, baixou o material de um tal de BluesFan. Em suas notas sobre o disco, BluesFan comentou: “Eu não estou bem certo sobre o que essas faixas são realmente. O disco dois soa mesmo como um ensaio, muito bem tocado é verdade. Mas o no disco um, tenho a impressão de que as músicas foram trabalhadas com a intenção de se gravar um álbum. A fofoca que correu entre os “claptonmaníacos”, foi que Roger Forrester (manager do EC na época) foi mortalmente contra a Clapton dividir a sua fama com quem quer que fosse, e assassinou o álbum”.
Realmente acho que as suspeitas do nosso amigo BluesFan, têm lógica, pois as músicas do segundo disco realmente dão à impressão de um grupo de amigos levando um som, enquanto as do primeiro estão bem lapidadas e resolvidas. A repetição de alguns temas prova que eles procuravam diferentes soluções para as faixas. Talvez toda essa impressão se deva pela excelência dos músicos aqui reunidos, mas é possível que os boatos sobre Roger Forrester tenham algum fundamento, afinal eles foram para um estúdio e gravaram uma série de takes.
Se o empresário dele aprova ou não, eu não estou nem aí. Porque a idéia de se ouvir Eric Clapton tocando jazz é boa demais para se deixar passar, fazendo deste primoroso Legends Flawless uma peça imprescindível na coleção de qualquer “claptonmaníaco” que se preze!
Eric Clapton - Legends Flawless
Clapton The Jazzman? Actually, it's more like Eric Clapton plays jazz, R&B, funk and blues. Those who picked up the Legends - Live At Montreux 1997 DVD, which was only released last year, would have an idea of Clapton playing jazz. It's one of those rare jazz forays that Clapton made but don't expect cutting edge jazz here.The lineup is quite stellar, though on the mainstream side - Marcus Miller on bass, David Sanborn on saxophone, Joe Sample on keyboards and piano and Steve Gadd on drums. For example, the opening track on Disc One (of the Rehearsals) is more funky than expected though it is David Sanborn who seems to be giving Clapton a run for his money. It's only on Ruthie and Put It Where You Want It that one hears the "usual" Clapton striking out.
Whether Clapton formed the group (in the summer of 1997) specifically to play the jazz festivals or this was a new direction he was trying out is anyone's guess. Mid Valley Records has released Legends Flawless, an eight-CD set that comprises two rehearsal discs and appearances by the group at the Montreux Jazz Festival (July 4, 1997); North Sea Jazz Festival (Netherlands, July 11, 1997) and the Festival de Jazz de Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain, July 17, 1997).
Thanks to BluesFan for sharing the tracks on the internet. In his notes on these two Rehearsal discs, BluesFan says: "I am somewhat skeptical as to what these tracks really are. Disc Two does sound like rehearsals but pretty darned polished ones. Disc One, on the other hand, could be pretty final takes for an album. The scuttlebutt amongst my Claptonophile cronies is that Roger Forrester (EC's manager at the time) was mortally opposed to anything where Eric had to share the billing with anyone else, and killed the album."
Not exactly drive time jazz, it's still easy listening and fairly entertaining. The idea of Clapton playing jazz is too good to pass by and the pristine sound here makes this set a definite must for Clapton fans.
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