Almost Summer Reggae / Rocksteady! Ernest Ranglin - Straight Flush [Mojo Rocksteady Beat] Rock Steady n Jazz!

Straight flushErnest Ranglin & Sound DimensionMojo Rocksteady Beat

Le Ramasseur De Mégots

now Le Ramasseur posted this but it cut off ( it says 3.07 but cuts after 2.19 don’t know why!) and I REALLY don’t know why so I went looking for the complete!

and then found THIS!

with Robbie Krieger!

Dr John and Thelonious Monk! - [MoJo interview Michael Simmons]

Photograph: Alan Messer/Rex

"A crowning moment came when Dr. John shared a bill with bebop’s high priest Thelonious Monk – a devotee of hip chapeaus – at the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco. Monk was quoted as digging Mac’s piano playing and saying of the DJTNT sobriquet: “That name is a motherf*cker!”

“He came up to the band room,” remembers Mac, “and put a hat on my head. It was a hat from Africa. And I thought, Wow, I’m honoured, ’cos it was from Monk and I loved that cat! [As part of the show] I walked through the audience – same thing every night – and it was took off my head. Somebody just snatched it. They musta recognised Monk had that brim on. I went and apologised to Monk after the gig.”

Monk wasn’t the only jazz giant Mac met, although one time he was greeted with more than a hat. “I met Art Blakey back in the game, sneakin’ through his pad. I kicked over a metal wastebasket and he cocked a gun. It was a 9mm Walther. I remember his daughter sayin’, ‘You gonna shoot him, Daddy?’ He said, ‘Not yet.’” [sic!]

Rebennack was in Blakey’s apartment with a couple of other junkie musicians, looking to score from a neighbour. Years later he made an album, Bluesiana Triangle, with Blakey and David ‘Fathead’ Newman. Blakey was kind enough not to mention the incident. And 24 years ago Mac Rebennack got clean and has remained clean ever since.

Interview by Michael Simmons / Mojo, 2013

From around the Internet :: John Lee and Carlos Santana

The maestro - John Lee Hooker with Carlos Santana

“John Lee Hooker was hilariously funny to be around,” recalls Carlos Santana. “He always had two gorgeous ladies to the left, two gorgeous ladies to the right. On one side, they’re feeding him Junior Mints, and the other side, they’re feeding him fish and chips. So he’s eating fish and chips and mints, man, with these four gorgeous women just massaging his hot soft hands. I never knew anybody like that guy.”

Everybody respected John,” recalls  Charlie Musselwhite,

“His style, especially the solo style, was so unlike anybody else. Nobody had that sound on guitar, or played that particular way. And man, when I would listen to the radio late at night, John Lee coming across the radio waves playing Hobo Blues, it just sounded so cool – even sinister. Just a man by himself, playing guitar. And, you know, he was serious.” 

“One story I could tell, I don’t know if I should or not, but it’s a good one,”“Madonna wanted him to be in a video with her. And John’s manager put him on the phone with Madonna, and he talked to her, and he’s giving her the old, ‘I just love all your music,’ and  ‘Oh yeah, I’d love to be in the video with you.’ And when he got off the phone, he told his manager, ‘I ain’t doing it.’ Not only was he not doing it, but he didn’t know who Madonna was, and didn’t care.”

- MOJO Magazine 

Photo by Jay Blakesberg

 

Steve Marriott, Small Faces, Humble Pie – Afterglow! - Free CD MOJO Magazine (only good song)

This is an odd little curio and features the April issue free CD from MOJO magazine. . . my advice would be to go out and buy the latest issue if you are keen. Back issues still available. 

 It is a great magazine and worth subscribing to but if you want a taste of this one there's this:

AFTERGLOW! Rare Live Steve Marriott - MOJO - Only Good Song

Steve Marriott -  Small Faces, Humble Pie – Afterglow (Rare! Live! Unreleased!) - 2021

Free CD with MOJO magazine April 2021 surveying the music of Steve Marriott.

01. Steve Marriott – Get Down To It

02. Billy Nicholls – Girl From New York

03. The Moments – Blue Morning

04. Steve Marriott's Deluxe Band – Wossname (Previously Unreleased)

05. Small Faces – All Or Nothing (Live)

06. Steve Marriott And The Official Receivers – Five Long Years (Live)

07. Humble Pie – Cold Lady

08. Small Faces – Jenny's Song (Take 1)

09. Steve Marriott – You Spent It

10. Steve Marriott – Imaginary Love (Alternative Version)

11. Steve Marriott Featuring Toby Marriott – Toe Rag

12. Stephen Marriott – Consider Yourself

13. Steve Marriott With The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra – Soldier

14. Humble Pie – Poor Man's Rich Man

15. Steve Marriott – Teenage Anxiety (Previously Unreleased)

MOJO

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MOJO April 2021