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#141
gebass6 said:
Kittyhawk.
One of the first bands to use the Chapman Stick.
I saw this very show on PBS in the early 80's.
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Edit:Not long after I bought my first bass,I see a Chapman Stick on the wall of a local music store in 1980.
It was one of the first series.
It was $600.00 as I remember.
I should have scooped it up,but I had just bought my first bass a few months earlier.
I had no concept of having more than one instrument.
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I'll do you two better. In the mid '70s I was at a music shop in Cincinnati when Emmett walked in with a Stick to demo for the store. :bassist:

I saw Kittyhawk at a club in Columbus in 1981. :bassist: Loved the format of the band, and of course, their music. :bassist:
 
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Jeff Scott said:
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That’s cool. I’m going to listen to the whole album later and also Ginger Baker Trio, and Kazumi Watanabe. I’ve downloaded so much new stuff from this thread already. Was getting in to Jeff Beck last night. Can’t believe all these years I’d just assumed he was some MOR blues inspired guy.
I’ve also been reminded of Jan Garbarek, who I used to play a lot in the record store.
So much good music. Fusion is a cloth with ragged edges. There’s a lot of cross over. I could hear dance music (think: Jamiroquai) in that first Adam Nitti track.
 
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Yonni said:
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That’s cool. I’m going to listen to the whole album later and also Ginger Baker Trio, and Kazumi Watanabe. I’ve downloaded so much new stuff from this thread already. Was getting in to Jeff Beck last night. Can’t believe all these years I’d just assumed he was some MOR blues inspired guy.
I’ve also been reminded of Jan Garbarek, who I used to play a lot in the record store.
So much good music. Fusion is a cloth with ragged edges. There’s a lot of cross over. I could hear dance music (think: Jamiroquai) in that first Adam Nitti track.
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Jeff Becks’ song Definitely Maybe, was the first song I heard from him. Set my path in a new direction.
 
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I gotta say I”m seeing a lot of my late 20th century favorites coming up on this thread who I’ve never seen mentioned on TB before, including a couple albums I’d almost forgotten
I’d owned.

I used to schlep my rig in an 81 Honda wagon with the license plate JAZROCK.
 
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#152
Sid Fang said:
And I though I was the only person who bought Iron Path!
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I heard them at a packed show in Cambridge Mass, Middle East rock club downstairs room. Probably the lowest and highest frequencies I ever heard from musicians. Lazwell's bass cabs, oh my. (Although the Swans take the award for density)
also saw Ronald Shannon Jackson and The Decoding Society...another Bill Lazwell asssociate, 2 electric bass band, fusion of Africa and Ornette Coleman. The Decoding Society was an all star cast including Vernon Reid (trumpeter Henry Scott played the highest notes I have ever heard on trumpet in person, higher than Adam Rapa. I never heard Cat Anderson...
 
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#156
BassBrass said:
I heard them [Last Exit] at a packed show in Cambridge Mass, Middle East rock club downstairs room.
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I grew up in the American midwest, went to school and started my career in the SF Bay Area, then emmigrated to France in the early 1990s. But I know the downstairs room of the Middle East! I used to do business with one of the big tech companies out on Route 128 (when that was "a thing"), but quickly learned that for food, drink, and culture, I was best off taking a hotel in Cambridge. Happened to spot that Tom Cora's band Curlew were playing this place I'd never heard of called the Middle East. Don't remember how I knew about them, but decided it was worth finding the address. Good show. Great club. Never had a chance to go back.
Probably the lowest and highest frequencies I ever heard from musicians. Lazwell's bass cabs, oh my. (Although the Swans take the award for density)
also saw Ronald Shannon Jackson and The Decoding Society...another Bill Lazwell asssociate, 2 electric bass band, fusion of Africa and Ornette Coleman....
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I've never seen Bill Laswell perform live, despite his being a big influence on my tastes. But you have uncovered yet another distinct fusion lineage here, the harmolodic free jazz / rock fusions of Ronnald Shannon Jackson, Jamaladeen Tacuma, and especially James Blood Ulmer. "Living Colour" is arguably the most commercially successful group out of that lineage.
 
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#157
Sid Fang said:
But you have uncovered yet another distinct fusion lineage here, the harmolodic free jazz / rock fusions of Ronnald Shannon Jackson, Jamaladeen Tacuma, and especially James Blood Ulmer. "Living Colour" is arguably the most commercially successful group out of that lineage.
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Here are a couple of songs from a show where Corey sang with the aforementioned JGP.





Note Adam Holzman on keys, from another aforementioned band in this thread (The Fents).

I saw this band the week before this Iridium show, at a local, to me, jazz club (sans Corey).

The evening before I saw the JGP, I saw the Stu Hamm band at the same venue, with a different drummer but with Alex on guitar. It was very interesting to see/hear Stu in two very different roles as a bassist with those two bands.

Here is Stu at the trio show with Alex.




You can see us in the audience!
 
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