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Nov 20, 2018 · Catch The Wedding Present’s “Tommy 30th Anniversary Tour” in December in Portsmouth, Exeter, Bristol, Stoke (see you down the front!), Bradford, Galashiels, Carlisle, Leicester, London and Liverpool. Full details of “All this and more” on Scopitones website. Also follow Charlie on Twitter along with his bandmates David Danielle and Terry.
Jul 5, 2014 · The Kibblesworth Ravens Juvenile Jazz Band in May 19895 of 30. The Felling Royals Juvenile Jazz Band on their way to South Shields Carnival, 19846 of 30. The Penshaw Hillsiders Jazz Band, 1970s7 ...
Jul 29, 2019 · In the sparkling little coastal town of Corpus Christi, Texas one of the blues’ most predominant drummers, Chris ‘Whipper’ Layton, was born. In the 1980s Chris Layton rose to prominence as one third of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. The trio were a phenomenon and brought the blues back into focus in a time of big hair, leg warmers ...
John Clayton (bassist) John Lee Clayton Jr. (born August 20, 1952) [1] is an American jazz musician, classical double bassist, arranger, and composer. He is the father of pianist Gerald Clayton and the brother of saxophonist Jeff Clayton, with whom he formed the Clayton Brothers; and the Clayton–Hamilton Jazz Orchestra with Jeff Hamilton.
- Introduction
- Live Was An Important Part of The Strategy
- The 1971 Tour
- 1972 Winter and European Tours
- 1973 Space Concert and Paramount Northwest
- 1974 Asia and Japan
- 1975 and The Star’S Don’T Align
- Shaefer Music Festival ’75
- 1976 Time to Breakup The Band
- Unauthorized/Bootleg Releases
Creed Taylor spent much of late 1969, and 1970 signing artists, inking deals, and releasing initial albums for the newly independent Creed Taylor International company and CTI jazz label. As 1971 rolled around, Creed put in motion a plan to launch a more popular soul/jazz/funk label named KUDU. Also, in 1971, CTI sent out the CTI All-Stars tour, fo...
Increasingly, as the closure of small clubs occurred, musicians—especially jazz instrumentalists—were finding it increasingly difficult to secure gigs that could sustain them outside of the studio setting. Long road tours had a devastating and exhausting impact on the musicians, especially in the South. Segregation was still a real issue to contend...
For the 1971 tour, musicians included Hubert Laws on flute, Hank Crawford on alto sax, Stanley Turrentine on tenor sax, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Johnny Hammond on electric piano and organ, Airto Moreira on percussion, Billy Cobham on drums and Ron Carter on bass. We know George Benson is on the album, so he must have been a late addition or alte...
In 1972, following on from what was apparently a very successful Summer-Jazz tour, CTI announced details would first be domestic only midwest college winter tour, coordinated with the release of the Summer Jazz “Live At The Hollywood Palladium” album. After the domestic tour, the CTI All Stars would for the first time tour internationally. The earl...
For 1973, CTI started out by tweaking their concert formats. Vic Chirumbolo, the CTI marketing vice president, said “CTI has broken down its large artist touring package into “mini concerts” with two and three acts like Grover Washington Jr. and Gabor Szabo or Johnny Hammond-Esther Phillips. Hank Crawford or Stanley Turrentine and Hubert Laws. This...
Almost a year to the day from the CTI All-Stars performance at the Paramount Northwest, they’d find themselves back, with another date in Vancouver, before flying direct to Japan to perform live for the first time. Japan, and to an extent, Korea, had long been fanatical consumers of jazz, not least because of the presence of US troops. Today Japan ...
By 1975 most of the CTI ensemble that had been with the label since the initial 1971 All-Star performance where either for the first time, or again, stars in their own right, or moved on to other labels. As Chirumbolo had indicated in 1973, the artists were now focused more on doing their own thing. On the music scene, disco was the big thing and m...
After the Schaefer Music Festival in August, CTI live moved back to the West Coast for full-on individual album promotion. Hubert Laws made his debut for the west coast leg of his national tour with an appearance at the Monterey Jazz Festival on September 21st. Laws was then featured with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of...
While the 1971 Summer Jazz tour announced the arrival of the CTI ALL-Stars, 1976 started by signaling the end. On January 16th, Washington and Benson had shared lead billing at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. In his review of the concert for the San Francisco Examiner, Jazz critic Phillip Elwood wrote “Benson and Washington have a number of thing...
My interest in the CTI All-Star live performances started when I was offered a CD recording of the Olympic Jazz concert. The seller wanted an over optimistic $50 plus postage. I declined. that started me wondering and searching for other unapproved or bootleg recordings. While I am now in possession of three different live concerts, listed above, a...
Pandemonium is a brand new recording from 2020 that includes early blues, ragtime and jazz favorites, three original songs composed by members of the band and featured vocals by Marilyn Keller. CDs may be pre-ordered at this time for shipment in February 2021.
Aug 13, 2019 · In the midst of CD and vinyl being left behind in favor of Napster Layton says he and Shannon weren’t sure what the outcome of the record would be for a band unable to tour due to the fact they were the only two permanent members. But despite their second guessing, the album was a complete success, and garnered astounding reviews across the ...
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