Hey now! Check it…
Jimmy Witherspoon with Brother Jack McDuff, Blues Is Now
J.J. Cale, Shades
Charles Earland, Leaving This Planet
Ray Charles, Doing His Thing
Hoyt Axton. Joy To The World
Ray Brown Trio, Soular Energy
Danny Barnes, Pizza Box
Emmylou Harris, Pieces Of The Sky
Gene Clark, No Other
Otis Spann, The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions
Also, I highly recommend this marvelous show from the best band on the planet, TTB, from Red Rocks last month. This music heals.
Check out this clip of George Duke and Charles Earland. Dueling B3’s. Wish we had more concerts like this these days…
And next we have Johnny Rivers with a killer band. Jim Gordon on drums and the great Michael Melvoin (from my alma mater) on piano. Playin the hell out that piano
“Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When I improvise and I’m in good form, I’m like somebody half sleeping. I even forget there are people in front of me. Great improvisers are like priests; they are thinking only of their god.”
-Stéphane Grappelli