FAvorite Session Musicians &Rhythm SEctions

[bassist15]

Someone was saying something about David Hood and Roger Hawkins so I wanted to know who your guys' favorite Sessionplayers and session rhythm sections. also name a few good albums that those people are featured on so I (and all of us) could maybe hear a bit more of them.

Willie Weeks & andy Newark - Young AMerican's by David Bowie
that is a great rhythm section and a great album

I also hear that Hood & HAwkins are great but i have never really heard to much of them.
Of Course Jamerson and teh drummer from the Funk Brothers
JAmes Brown always had great rhythm sections too

 

[Woodchuck]

Bernard Purdie/Chuck Rainey - Gaucho, Aja, Katy Lied, etc. - Steely Dan

 

[Davehenning]

Jamerson with Benny Benjamin (Motown)

Carol Kaye/Hal Blaine (too many records to name)

Purdie with Jerry Jermott. (king curtis live is one amazing record)

Nathan East with ANYONE. (Again, too many records to name)

PC with Jimmy Cobb (wes montgomery, miles davis, etc, etc)

Duck Dunn & Al Jackson (pretty much the entire Stax catalog)

Bootsy or Bernard Odum with Clyde Stubblefield or Jabo Starks (J. Brown)

 

[beavrangers]

Bonham and Jonesy.... Page and Plant would of been nothing without them

 

[NJL]

Dude, i'm in heaven!!!

Every single one of you has the best in taste. This is a fact!



You guys saved me a lot of typing...

 

[JimK]

I also hear that Hood & HAwkins are great but i have never really heard to much of them.

Try Wilson Pickett's "Hey Jude".

 

[Woodchuck]

Try Wilson Pickett's "Hey Jude".

Have you ever heard the back story on this song? Wilson was hilarious!

 

[JimK]

Bernard Purdie/Chuck Rainey - Gaucho, Aja, Katy Lied, etc. - Steely Dan

I agree 100%.
...plus Rainey & Porcaro on Katy Lied's "Your Gold Teeth II" & some of Rickie Lee Jones' stuff.

Which segues into David Hungate & Jeff Porcaro.

 

[JimK]

Have you ever heard the back story on this song? Wilson was hilarious!

No, you'll have to share it!
I did stumble across some CMT show where the rhythm section was talking about this track(so I'm assuming it was Hood & not Jemmott).
A very young & unknown Duane Allman was also a sessioneer on this album.

 

[Woodchuck]

PM sent, Jim.

 

[bassicinstinct]

Bernard Purdie/Chuck Rainey - Gaucho, Aja, Katy Lied, etc. - Steely Dan

Absolutely right.

"Ready" Freddie Washington and Keith Carlock are none too shabby on the "Morph" album either.

Also, Randy Hope-Taylor and/or Julian Crampton with Richard Bailey on numerous Incognito albums.

 

[JimK]

PM sent, Jim.

Thank you. Funny ****!

 

[JimK]

Also, Randy Hope-Taylor and/or Julian Crampton with Richard Bailey on numerous Incognito albums.

Not sure if it's the same Richard Bailey-
Anyway, Richard Bailey & Phil Chen on Blow By Blow.

 

[bassicinstinct]

JimK:

Agreed and, yes, it IS the same Richard Bailey. In fact, he and Hope-Taylor were the Jeff Beck rhythm section for a tour a while ago. I would like to have seen that.

 

[Woodchuck]

JimK:

Agreed and, yes, it IS the same Richard Bailey. In fact, he and Hope-Taylor were the Jeff Beck rhythm section for a tour a while ago. I would like to have seen that.

Randy also played guitar on that tour.

 

[bassicinstinct]

Woodchuck:

Didn't know that.

Did you manage to catch any of the shows?

 

[Woodchuck]

Woodchuck:

Didn't know that.

Did you manage to catch any of the shows?

No I didn't. He mentioned it in an interview. I think he said that he was playing a seafoam green Strat.

 

[bassicinstinct]

Woodchuck:

Gotcha.

You don't know if there are any live recordings around of that tour do you?

 

[mike sancho]

Chuck Rainey
Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Haslip
Jamerson
Jerry Jemmot
Freddie Washington
Lee Sklar

man there's a bunch of guys out there doing sessions that are great but these are the guys that come to mind immediatlely for me.

 

[BargeOn]

Michael Rhodes has been turning up a lot lately.
I like his sound. Nashville, does a lot of country, but he gets around.
Larry Carlton's Sapphier Blue is a good example
There is an interview at http://www.puremusic.com/rhodes2.html

I also enjoy Viktor Krauss, anouther Nashville session man, though I think he's exclusively URB. He's done great work with Bill Frisell. He's Allison Krauss' brother. Just released a CD of his own this year.

John