Ensemble of Chicago live in concert. I never saw them but remember seeing a documentary about them on Channel 4 in the early 1980's when I was a teenager and their music scared the sh/t out of me. Must admit, I love this kind of stuff now.
This one wasn't a single but is good enough to have been. More melancholy but building to a typical booming James chorus.
I love this record which was made in December 1932 and features the likes of trumpeter "Hot Lips" Page, Tenor sax by Ben Webster and COunt Basie on piano. The arrangement was made by Eddie Durham, a piano of electric guitar as well as the person who wrote the arrangement of "in the mood" for Glenn Miller. I love the way that this band starts to furiously riff about 2 minutes in - they were about five years ahead of their time. If I could go back in the past to listen to music, Kansas City in the 1930's is one of he place I would choose. Strange to think that this city was one of the last remaining places where Ragtime clung on in popularity until the 1920s but by the late 30's / early 1940s had produced Charlie Parker, the key figure in Modern Jazz.
Happy Birthday to the "Godfather of Shock Rock", Alice Cooper who turns 70 today. He was born Vincent Furnier in Detroit on this day in 1948.... This song was massive when I was Ten, can remember singing it with friends in the Summer holidays...
As Woolstonian has posted, James Frontman, Tim Booth is 58 today, having been born in Bradford in 1960...
Love this group . They also have the best album cover / Named album EVER The album is called You can tune a piano , but you can't tuna fish .....
Art Ensemble of Chicago with guest singer Fontella Bass who was, at one time, married to this band's trumpeter Lester Bowie:-
Ok, no notable birthdays today, so I thought that i would self indulge in posting some of my Indie singles from back in the day. 80s and 90s Indie was so fresh, new and exciting back then (I must be getting old!)...
