Cover scan by Christopher Eddy 03/06/11. Autographed by Al Anderson.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
The Wildweeds: Greatest Hits...& More! Front Cover
Cover scan by Christopher Eddy 03/06/11. Autographed by Al Anderson.
The Wildweeds: Greatest Hits...& More! (Club 51 LP 51-2 1988)
Club 51 LP 51-2 1988
Dixieland Music LP Bud 24 1988
Track Listing:
Side 1:
Excuse Me Baby
No Good To Cry (Cadet Concept 5561) 1967
Never Mind (Cadet Concept 5561) 1967
Someday Morning (Cadet Concept 5572) 1967
Can't You See That I'm Lonely (Cadet Concept 5572) 1967
It Was Fun While It Lasted (Cadet Concept 5586) 1968
I'm Dreaming (Cadet Concept 7004) 1968
Happiness Is Just An Illusion (Cadet Concept 7004) 1968
Side 2:
Where Is Our Love
I Had A Girl [Ray Zeiner 1971 I Had A Girl / You Know My Love Poison Ring 721]
I Want You Here
No Good To Cry (Live) [Same version as www.wildweeds.net]
John King's Fair [Circa 1970]
Fantasy Child [Circa 1970]
There You Go [Circa 1970]
Belle [Circa 1970]
Personnel:
Al Anderson: guitar, vocals
Ray Zeiner: organ, clavinet, Wurlitzer electric piano, vocals
Bob Dudek: bass, vocals
Andy Lepak: drums, vocals
Martin 'Skip' Yakaitis: percussion, vocal
Bob DePalma: flute on "I Want You Here"
Al Lepak Sr.: additional percussion
Warren Bloom: bass on "You Know Your Love"
Bob Dudek: Drums on "You Know Your Love"
String Arrangement: Bert Keyes on "It Was Fun While It Lasted" and "I Had A Girl"
Horn Arrangement: Al Lepak Sr. on "Happiness Is Just An Illusion"
Dixieland Music LP Bud 24 1988
Track Listing:
Side 1:
Excuse Me Baby
No Good To Cry (Cadet Concept 5561) 1967
Never Mind (Cadet Concept 5561) 1967
Someday Morning (Cadet Concept 5572) 1967
Can't You See That I'm Lonely (Cadet Concept 5572) 1967
It Was Fun While It Lasted (Cadet Concept 5586) 1968
I'm Dreaming (Cadet Concept 7004) 1968
Happiness Is Just An Illusion (Cadet Concept 7004) 1968
Side 2:
Where Is Our Love
I Had A Girl [Ray Zeiner 1971 I Had A Girl / You Know My Love Poison Ring 721]
I Want You Here
No Good To Cry (Live) [Same version as www.wildweeds.net]
John King's Fair [Circa 1970]
Fantasy Child [Circa 1970]
There You Go [Circa 1970]
Belle [Circa 1970]
Personnel:
Al Anderson: guitar, vocals
Ray Zeiner: organ, clavinet, Wurlitzer electric piano, vocals
Bob Dudek: bass, vocals
Andy Lepak: drums, vocals
Martin 'Skip' Yakaitis: percussion, vocal
Bob DePalma: flute on "I Want You Here"
Al Lepak Sr.: additional percussion
Warren Bloom: bass on "You Know Your Love"
Bob Dudek: Drums on "You Know Your Love"
String Arrangement: Bert Keyes on "It Was Fun While It Lasted" and "I Had A Girl"
Horn Arrangement: Al Lepak Sr. on "Happiness Is Just An Illusion"
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
Sun Ra's Reading List
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=32741845http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=32741845
Boston Bonaparte Napoleon Boyd, Sr
Boston Boyd was the first black Greenville town councilmember. He was born a slave, owned by an Abner BOYD whose wife's name was Mary. He taught himself to read and write with the Bible. He became a large landowner in Greenville. He was the author of 3 books, and he taught Sunday School for 34 years. He accumulated and rented 36 homes in Greenville, mostly on Reade St. where he lived in a two-story house. All 36 homes were painted green. Boyd won a case in the US Supreme Court against the officials of Greenville who challenged his right to rent houses to Whites.
His first book - The Seventh Wonder of the World; Discoveries of the Twentieth Century, Natural Science was published in 1903. His second book was called Search-Light on the Bible with Natural Science; Discoveries of the Twentieth Century. His third book and final book was called Searchlight on the Seventh Wonder; X-ray and Searchlight on the Bible with Natural Science, and Revised Searchlight on the Seventh Day Bible and X-Ray by Organic, Supernatural and Artificial Science; Discoveries of the Twentieth Century.
In the last book he rebuked Christianity in this country and remarked that "no race can hope to survive [when] all of its greivances have to be settled by other races who are opposed to them as equals, on account of color."
Two weeks before he died, Boston bought two hundred acres of cleared land and seventy five acres of virgin timber. His daughter stated that he instructed her to allow people to live on the land rent-free during the depression era.
Boston Bonaparte Napoleon Boyd, Sr
Boston Boyd was the first black Greenville town councilmember. He was born a slave, owned by an Abner BOYD whose wife's name was Mary. He taught himself to read and write with the Bible. He became a large landowner in Greenville. He was the author of 3 books, and he taught Sunday School for 34 years. He accumulated and rented 36 homes in Greenville, mostly on Reade St. where he lived in a two-story house. All 36 homes were painted green. Boyd won a case in the US Supreme Court against the officials of Greenville who challenged his right to rent houses to Whites.
His first book - The Seventh Wonder of the World; Discoveries of the Twentieth Century, Natural Science was published in 1903. His second book was called Search-Light on the Bible with Natural Science; Discoveries of the Twentieth Century. His third book and final book was called Searchlight on the Seventh Wonder; X-ray and Searchlight on the Bible with Natural Science, and Revised Searchlight on the Seventh Day Bible and X-Ray by Organic, Supernatural and Artificial Science; Discoveries of the Twentieth Century.
In the last book he rebuked Christianity in this country and remarked that "no race can hope to survive [when] all of its greivances have to be settled by other races who are opposed to them as equals, on account of color."
Two weeks before he died, Boston bought two hundred acres of cleared land and seventy five acres of virgin timber. His daughter stated that he instructed her to allow people to live on the land rent-free during the depression era.
WKCR 2010 Sun Radio Omniversity Part 1 Playlist: Sun Ra Arrival Day Celebration
http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/program/transfigured-night/transfigured-night-playlist-05222010
Sun Radio Omniversity Part 1 - Sun Ra Arrival Day Celebration
Transfigured Night playlist for 05/22/2010
Submitted by Charles Blass on Wed, 2 Jun 2010, 10:52pm
DJs: Charles Blass
Artist Title Album Label
Sun Ra Sunset on the Nile NYC Battery Park Sept. 7, 1985
Sun Ra Rocket #9 Stockholm 10-12-71
Sun Ra Watusi Helsinki 10-14-71 Transparency
Cosmic Rays The Second Stop Is Jupiter The Second Stop Is Jupiter Norton
Sun Ra Prelude to Stargazers/ The Mayan Temples Mayan Temples Black Saint
Sun Ra Interview 3-21-92 w/ Sun Ra by Charles Blass - including excerpts from WKCR solo piano 1977 concert
Sun Ra Islands in the Sun Janus Saturn
Sun Ra The Alter Destiny/ Monorails and Satellites/ The Galaxy Way Monorails and Satellites Saturn
Nu-Sounds Spaceship Lullaby Interplanetary Melodies Norton
Sun Ra We Roam the Cosmos What's New Saturn
Sun Ra Sometimes I'm Happy/ Astro Nation Dance of the Living Image Transparency
Sun Ra Code of Interdependence/ Somebody Else's Idea/ The Wind Speaks My Brother the Wind Vol. II Saturn
Sun Ra Arkestra They're Peepin A Song for the Sun El Ra
Nu Sounds Black Sky and Blue Moon/ Dreams Come True The Second Stop Is Jupiter Norton
Sun Ra Dreams Come True Deep Purple Saturn
Sun Ra Interplanetary Music Interstellar Low Ways Saturn
Sun Ra Neptune Discipline 27-II Saturn
Sun Ra Calling Planet Earth Live at the Gibus Saturn
Sun Ra Intergalactic Research Continuation Saturn
Sun Ra To Nature's God Live in Egypt Saturn
Sun Ra There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of) Lanquidity Philly Jazz
Sun Ra They'll Come Back Slug's June 7, 1972 Transparency
Sun Ra Space is the Place Space is the Place Blue Thumb
Sun Radio Omniversity Part 1 - Sun Ra Arrival Day Celebration
Transfigured Night playlist for 05/22/2010
Submitted by Charles Blass on Wed, 2 Jun 2010, 10:52pm
DJs: Charles Blass
Artist Title Album Label
Sun Ra Sunset on the Nile NYC Battery Park Sept. 7, 1985
Sun Ra Rocket #9 Stockholm 10-12-71
Sun Ra Watusi Helsinki 10-14-71 Transparency
Cosmic Rays The Second Stop Is Jupiter The Second Stop Is Jupiter Norton
Sun Ra Prelude to Stargazers/ The Mayan Temples Mayan Temples Black Saint
Sun Ra Interview 3-21-92 w/ Sun Ra by Charles Blass - including excerpts from WKCR solo piano 1977 concert
Sun Ra Islands in the Sun Janus Saturn
Sun Ra The Alter Destiny/ Monorails and Satellites/ The Galaxy Way Monorails and Satellites Saturn
Nu-Sounds Spaceship Lullaby Interplanetary Melodies Norton
Sun Ra We Roam the Cosmos What's New Saturn
Sun Ra Sometimes I'm Happy/ Astro Nation Dance of the Living Image Transparency
Sun Ra Code of Interdependence/ Somebody Else's Idea/ The Wind Speaks My Brother the Wind Vol. II Saturn
Sun Ra Arkestra They're Peepin A Song for the Sun El Ra
Nu Sounds Black Sky and Blue Moon/ Dreams Come True The Second Stop Is Jupiter Norton
Sun Ra Dreams Come True Deep Purple Saturn
Sun Ra Interplanetary Music Interstellar Low Ways Saturn
Sun Ra Neptune Discipline 27-II Saturn
Sun Ra Calling Planet Earth Live at the Gibus Saturn
Sun Ra Intergalactic Research Continuation Saturn
Sun Ra To Nature's God Live in Egypt Saturn
Sun Ra There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of) Lanquidity Philly Jazz
Sun Ra They'll Come Back Slug's June 7, 1972 Transparency
Sun Ra Space is the Place Space is the Place Blue Thumb
Friday, March 26, 2010
The Chicago link between Sun Ra and the Governor of Massachusetts (March 24, Chicago Jazz Music Examiner, Neil Tesser)
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-26698-Chicago-Jazz-Music-Examiner~y2010m3d24-The-Chicago-link-between-Sun-Ra-and-the-Governor-or-Massachusetts?cid=publish_facebook:26698
The Chicago link between Sun Ra and the Governor of Massachusetts
March 24, 1:19 AM, Chicago Jazz Music Examiner, Neil Tesser
Later today, the Governor of Massachusetts will officially present a collection of memorabilia – hundreds of musical scores, photos, recordings, and other items – to the Berklee College of Music’s Africana Studies Archive. They’re making a full day of it, too, with performances by students and faculty at Berklee (the leading jazz school in America), along with speeches by the Governor, school officials, and the celebrated poet and activist Amiri Baraka.
What follows is a simple little tale of how that collection of memorabilia made its way to Boston via New York, Chicago -- and the planet Saturn.
It starts, however, in East Moline, 150 miles west of Chicago – the birthplace of Laurdine Kenneth Patrick in 1929. Along the way to becoming a jazz saxophonist, Laurdine (quite understandably) acquired the more manageable nickname “Pat." And that's the name you find on all of the early recordings by the cosmo-musical explorer Sun Ra.
In fact, as award-winning author John Szwed points out in his much admired biography of Sun Ra, Patrick played an extremely important role in the career of the young bandleader, back when Ra was the Chicago pianist still known as Herman “Sonny” Blount. This was before he created his personal philosophy, a mystic hodgepodge hybridized from science fiction and Egyptian mythology, which became one of Sun Ra’s trademarks -- along with the visionary, rollicking music that accompanied it.
Patrick, who specialized in baritone sax but also excelled at alto (and occasionally played electric bass), had moved to Chicago primarily to study at DuSable High School with the legendary bandleader Walter Dyett. Even then, Dyett enjoyed a reputation for developing disciplined and motivated musicians. And Patrick stands out among the most impressive DuSable alumni, who have included saxophone great Von Freeman, bass icon Wilbur Ware, and the peerless vocalist Dinah Washington).
In 1952, Patrick joined Blount/Ra in a new trio on Chicago's south side; it would eventually blossom into one of the most unusual and influential orchestras in jazz, the Sun Ra Arkestra (as it was most often called). The band was known as much for their metallic capes and headgear -- trust me, Gene Simmons had nothing on these guys -- as for their innovative, other-worldly music. Over the decades, Patrick would come and go, a testament to the high regard in which Sun Ra held him: other key members of the Arkestra lived communally under the watchful eye of the leader (in part so that “Sunny” could ensure their abstinence from vices of all kinds).
In 1963, the versatile Patrick hired on as musical director of Mongo Santamaria’s Latin-jazz group – the one that had the giant hit “Watermelon Man.” Everyone knows that tune. Not so many recall another Santamaria hit called “Yeh! Yeh!” Patrick wrote that one; eventually it gained lyrics and climbed the pop charts, thanks to British rock-&-roller Georgie Fame’s hit recording of 1965.
Patrick also recorded with John Coltrane and performed in Duke Ellington’s band. He worked with Thelonious Monk and Clark Terry and co-founded a group called Baritone Retinue. All along the way, he was collecting musical experiences – and memorabilia. And he often returned to Sun Ra, as he did for the 1970 performance in Berlin documented below.
By then, his son Deval Patrick– born in 1956, but estranged from his father for years – had turned 14. Having moved with his mother to Massachusetts, he graduated from the prestigious Milton Academy in 1974. Then he went to Harvard. Then Harvard Law, in 1979. Fifteen years later, he was named Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights under President Clinton. And in 2006, Deval Patrick became the first African-American Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
It is in that capacity that he dedicates to Berklee the collection of his father’s memorabilia and writings. He also does this in the capacity of a respectful son: Pat Patrick died in 1991, but not before he and Deval could reconcile. Although the father did not approve of his son’s entry into mainstream politics, they nonetheless found common ground in the music.
On Tuesday, the Governor told the Boston Herald: “What’s satisfying is having his material appreciated. Frankly, even for my sisters and me, we weren’t quite sure what we were sitting on . . . It seemed to have value because my father had paid attention to accumulating and preserving it during his life. So it’s great to have the folks at Berklee, who seem so excited about this material, take custody of it and share it with students.”
Today, the son of a man who played with the Sun of Saturn honors his father with a trove of history – and at least a bit of stardust, emanating from his Chicago roots.
Caption: Saxophonist Pat Patrick with his son, circa 1959.
The Chicago link between Sun Ra and the Governor of Massachusetts
March 24, 1:19 AM, Chicago Jazz Music Examiner, Neil Tesser
Later today, the Governor of Massachusetts will officially present a collection of memorabilia – hundreds of musical scores, photos, recordings, and other items – to the Berklee College of Music’s Africana Studies Archive. They’re making a full day of it, too, with performances by students and faculty at Berklee (the leading jazz school in America), along with speeches by the Governor, school officials, and the celebrated poet and activist Amiri Baraka.
What follows is a simple little tale of how that collection of memorabilia made its way to Boston via New York, Chicago -- and the planet Saturn.
It starts, however, in East Moline, 150 miles west of Chicago – the birthplace of Laurdine Kenneth Patrick in 1929. Along the way to becoming a jazz saxophonist, Laurdine (quite understandably) acquired the more manageable nickname “Pat." And that's the name you find on all of the early recordings by the cosmo-musical explorer Sun Ra.
In fact, as award-winning author John Szwed points out in his much admired biography of Sun Ra, Patrick played an extremely important role in the career of the young bandleader, back when Ra was the Chicago pianist still known as Herman “Sonny” Blount. This was before he created his personal philosophy, a mystic hodgepodge hybridized from science fiction and Egyptian mythology, which became one of Sun Ra’s trademarks -- along with the visionary, rollicking music that accompanied it.
Patrick, who specialized in baritone sax but also excelled at alto (and occasionally played electric bass), had moved to Chicago primarily to study at DuSable High School with the legendary bandleader Walter Dyett. Even then, Dyett enjoyed a reputation for developing disciplined and motivated musicians. And Patrick stands out among the most impressive DuSable alumni, who have included saxophone great Von Freeman, bass icon Wilbur Ware, and the peerless vocalist Dinah Washington).
In 1952, Patrick joined Blount/Ra in a new trio on Chicago's south side; it would eventually blossom into one of the most unusual and influential orchestras in jazz, the Sun Ra Arkestra (as it was most often called). The band was known as much for their metallic capes and headgear -- trust me, Gene Simmons had nothing on these guys -- as for their innovative, other-worldly music. Over the decades, Patrick would come and go, a testament to the high regard in which Sun Ra held him: other key members of the Arkestra lived communally under the watchful eye of the leader (in part so that “Sunny” could ensure their abstinence from vices of all kinds).
In 1963, the versatile Patrick hired on as musical director of Mongo Santamaria’s Latin-jazz group – the one that had the giant hit “Watermelon Man.” Everyone knows that tune. Not so many recall another Santamaria hit called “Yeh! Yeh!” Patrick wrote that one; eventually it gained lyrics and climbed the pop charts, thanks to British rock-&-roller Georgie Fame’s hit recording of 1965.
Patrick also recorded with John Coltrane and performed in Duke Ellington’s band. He worked with Thelonious Monk and Clark Terry and co-founded a group called Baritone Retinue. All along the way, he was collecting musical experiences – and memorabilia. And he often returned to Sun Ra, as he did for the 1970 performance in Berlin documented below.
By then, his son Deval Patrick– born in 1956, but estranged from his father for years – had turned 14. Having moved with his mother to Massachusetts, he graduated from the prestigious Milton Academy in 1974. Then he went to Harvard. Then Harvard Law, in 1979. Fifteen years later, he was named Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights under President Clinton. And in 2006, Deval Patrick became the first African-American Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
It is in that capacity that he dedicates to Berklee the collection of his father’s memorabilia and writings. He also does this in the capacity of a respectful son: Pat Patrick died in 1991, but not before he and Deval could reconcile. Although the father did not approve of his son’s entry into mainstream politics, they nonetheless found common ground in the music.
On Tuesday, the Governor told the Boston Herald: “What’s satisfying is having his material appreciated. Frankly, even for my sisters and me, we weren’t quite sure what we were sitting on . . . It seemed to have value because my father had paid attention to accumulating and preserving it during his life. So it’s great to have the folks at Berklee, who seem so excited about this material, take custody of it and share it with students.”
Today, the son of a man who played with the Sun of Saturn honors his father with a trove of history – and at least a bit of stardust, emanating from his Chicago roots.
Caption: Saxophonist Pat Patrick with his son, circa 1959.
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