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| Delmark Records New Releases Delmark Records is ready with four new releases for 2007 (Street date February 20, 2007). First of them is Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - Live at the Ascension Loft, (recorded July 30, 2006) with Kahil El'Zabar, drums, earth drums, kalimba; Corey Wilkes, trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion; Ernest Dawkins, alto and tenor saxophone, percussion; Fareed Haque, electric and acoustic guitar. In a Down Beat review of their previous Delmark album, Freedom Jazz Dance (517) Paul de Barros wrote "The forms being advanced here-or at least merged in a creative, new way-are African-American syncopation (funk, jazz) and the vertically integrated multiple parts of African drum ensemble music. With folkish simplicity and beguilingly subdued dynamics, Ethnic heritage Ensemble-drums, guitar and two horns-achieves an effect something like an ad hoc percussion band walking the second line, with a little James Brown thrown in." Contains five original compositions. DVD also contains audio interview special feature. Jimmy Burns - Live at B.L.U.E.S.(recorded August 13, 2006). Born in Dublin, Mississippi in 1943, Jimmy Burns derived his earliest inspiration from the records of Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and others. After Jimmy moved to Chicago in the mid-'50s he discovered a scene that was perfect for the meld of traditional blues, churchy emotionalism, and forward-looking pop/R&B sophistication that by then comprised his musical aesthetic. When he finally signed with Delmark in the mid-'90s, he was primed and ready to take his place as a leading blues recording artist. Live at B.L.U.E.S. captures perfectly the indelible combination of ebullient good spirits, warm-hearted intimacy, and sharp-witted intelligence that characterizes Jimmy Burns, as both a musician and a man. With special guest vocalist Jesse "Too Many Cooks" Fortune. DVD contains 12 songs, two bonus tracks and an audio interview/commentary special feature. Also available: Leaving Here Walking (Delmark 694), Night Time Again (730) and Back To The Delta (770). Can't wait for a live version of "Leaving Here Walking"- one of the best original blues songs in a long time! Barrelhouse Buck McFarland - Alton Blues (recorded August 6, 1961). In February 1957, Bob Koester wrote in his newsletter, The Jazz Report, that recent rediscoveries of legendary artists Big Joe Williams and Rufus "Speckled Red" Perryman gave information on other forgotten musicians from the 1920s. Koester was told that Paramount and Decca recording artist Barrelhouse Buck McFarland was still around St Louis and he passed that info along to Charlie O'Brien, a fellow member of the St Louis Jazz Club and a St Louis policeman. Koester and O'Brien had resurrected many of the early St Louis artists, and Buck, the aged entertainer, rugged barrelhouse pianist and marvelous blues singer enjoyed the new interest in his work. Henry Brown, and especially Speckled Red, created new careers and Buck might have as well, but he passed just 8 months after this 1961 recording. Cowboy Roy Brown - Green Corn (recorded mid 50's). Cowboy Roy Brown was born in Arkansas on April 20, 1875, the son of a preacher. He and his sister learned to play guitar from their father who they accompanied when he played violin in church. In his twenties, Roy visited St Louis during the 1904 World's Fair and later moved to Kansas City, then Marion, Illinois and then drifted to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Deadwood, South Dakota. Roy eventually returned to St Louis where he was a street singer performing with his guitar and catalog of blues, folk and cowboy tunes. Roy and his band - a guitar named "Baby"' and a kazoo named "Leon"' - performed cowboy standards and popular tunes. Popular if you lived in the days of the cowboys! Previously unissued mid-'50s recording. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |