Happy B'Day Dec 20 to Pat Hare innovative blues guitarist w/ Muddy Waters & James Cotton! Farther Up The Road youtube.com/watch?v=QkgO... Cotton Crop Blues youtube.com/watch?v=Z9u9... 40 Days & 40 Nights youtube.com/watch?v=cwxY... #Blues #bluesmusic #bluesguitar #guitarist #muddywaters

Happy B'Day Dec 20 to Walter "Wolfman" Washington late great New Orleans blues guitar maestro! Wolf Tracks youtube.com/playlist?lis... Wolf At The Door youtube.com/playlist?lis... My Future Is My Past youtube.com/playlist?lis... #Blues #bluesguitar #bluesmusic #NewOrleans #guitarist

DECEMBER 20TH Happy Birthday Ted Fio Rito! (December 20, 1900 - July 22, 1971) Ted Fio Rito, was an American composer, orchestra leader, and keyboardist, on both the piano and the Hammond organ, who was popular on national radio broadcasts in the 1920s and 1930s…… open.substack.com/pub/onthisda...

Walter Page, far left, with the Count Basie Orchestra. Photo from Dave Dexter, Jr. Collection, LaBudde Special Collections, Miller Nichols Library, UMKC

"You could tell right away that they didn't just respect him because he was the boss. They really liked him and felt close to him because he was also one of them." - Count Basie Walter Page February 9, 1900 - December 20, 1957

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#NowPlaying disc 5 of the career spanning 6CD box set… Alan Skidmore - A Supreme Love Skid recorded live in various lineups, in various parts of Europe, 2000 - 2008 Jaw droppingly good 👍😎 #Jazz #UKjazz #AfroJazz JazzSky

Happy B'Day December 19 to Professor Longhair New Orleans piano genius! Crawfish Fiesta youtube.com/playlist?lis... New Orleans Piano youtube.com/playlist?lis... Go To Mardi Gras youtube.com/watch?v=6K1n... Tipitina youtube.com/watch?v=lgTK... #pianist #neworleans #drjohn #themeters #blues

Happy B'Day December 19 to Cornell Dupree blues & r&b guitar master! Rainy Night In Georgia youtube.com/watch?v=bDRb... Live At Fillmore West youtube.com/playlist?lis... Rock Steady youtube.com/watch?v=fGav... Bop 'n’ Blues youtube.com/watch?v=9qNt... #Blues #Jazz #guitarist #arethafranklin

BOTD, 1918: Professor Longhair (d. 1980). Heard here putting his stamp on a Hank Williams classic. #1001CoverSongs Song # 63: youtu.be/BQwZEbPSEM8?...

DECEMBER 19TH Happy Birthday Joe "King" Oliver! (December 19, 1881 - April 10, 1938) open.substack.com/pub/onthisda... #December19 #December19th #JoeOliver #KingOliver #Cornetist #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Blues #Ragtime #78rpm#JAZZ #HotJazz #ClassicJazz #Music #Birthday

"I remember Bobby as a young man. His brilliance, his jovial attitude and his depth of soul - or depth of being, I should say. No matter what he was doing he always had his personal voice. You'd know that it was Bobby Timmons doing it." - Reggie Workman Happy Birthday Bobby Timmons 19 December 1935

This is fantastic 👍😎 Lucky Thompson - Nothing But The Soul (2002) Recorded in Paris 1956 Absolutely marvellous stuff, you just can’t go wrong with Lucky Thompson! #NowPlaying #Jazz JazzSky

DECEMBER 18TH Happy Birthday Fletcher Henderson! (December 18, 1897 – December 29, 1952) open.substack.com/pub/onthisda... #DECEMBER18 #DECEMBER18TH #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #Blues #Ragtime #78rpm #SuzySolidor #TinPanAlley #Recordings #HotJazz #ClassicJazz #Music #Jazz #chanteuse

Happy B'Day Dec 18 to Keith Richards, Rolling Stone! Satisfaction youtube.com/watch?v=nrIP... Jumpin’ Jack Flash youtube.com/watch?v=KXUJ... Honky Tonk Women youtube.com/watch?v=urqA... Let It Bleed youtube.com/playlist?lis... #THeRollingStones #MickJagger #RocknRollMusic #chuckberry #guitarist

Happy B'Day Dec 18 to blues guitar maestro Pee Wee Crayton! Blues After Hours youtube.com/watch?v=IXaA... Do Unto Others youtube.com/watch?v=uqp2... Texas Hop youtube.com/watch?v=1B7b... Things I Used To Do youtube.com/playlist?lis... #tbonewalker #Blues #bluesguitar #bluessinger #fender

Happy B'Day Dec 18 to Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson jump blues giant! Cherry Red youtube.com/watch?v=NRam... Somebody’s Got To Go youtube.com/watch?v=VLpP... Kidney Stew youtube.com/playlist?lis... #Blues #jumpblues #saxophone #bluessinger

Happy B'Day Dec 18 to saxophonist Bobby Keys (The Rolling Stones)! Brown Sugar youtube.com/watch?v=Bar7... Live With Me youtube.com/watch?v=R_UA... Rip This Joint youtube.com/watch?v=2C53... Whatever Gets You Through The Night youtube.com/watch?v=6lFT... #rocknroll #saxophone #TheRollingStones

Happy B'Day Dec 18 to Lonnie Brooks blues guitar master! The Crawl youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Lr... Deluxe Edition youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lonnie Brooks Playlist youtube.com/playlist?lis... #Blues #bluesguitar #chicago #bluesmusic #alligatorrecords #electricguitar

Easing into the day with… Ruby Braff & Ellis Larkins - Duets Volume Two (2000) Beautifully sublime sounds recorded by Ruby & Ellis in 1956 for Vanguard Records. Wonderful stuff 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz JazzSky

"My feeling is to constantly be probing and trying to reach different levels of depth, you know. With each approach to a composition. Just trying to get a little more of yourself out through the framework that you're dealing with." Happy Birthday Harold Land born December 18, 1928

"The roots are from the blues, that's where your thing actually come from. I could even go back as far as, say, spirituals. Blues and spirituals, I don't know which came first." Happy Birthday Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson born December 18, 1917

Rockabilly's eccentric wildman Hasil Adkins performs "She Said" live at a 1986 club show. Song was covered by The Cramps (on the Off the Bone anthology). Adkins died in 2005. #Rockabilly m.youtube.com/watch?v=oyZe...

This is fantastic 👍😎 The Oscar Peterson Trio - At The Stratford Shakespearean Festival Oscar, Herb and Ray recorded live at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Ontario, August 8, 1956 Just what the doctor ordered! #NowPlaying #Jazz JazzSky

DECEMBER 17TH Happy Birthday Ray Noble! (December 17, 1903 – April 3, 1978) open.substack.com/pub/onthisda... #DECEMBER17TH #DECEMBER17 #BritishDanceBand #BritishDanceOrchestra #RayNoble #AlBowlly #SyOliver #NobleSissle #OTD #BOTD #JAZZ #JazzAge #MusicSky #Blues #78rpm #TinPanAlley #Music #1920s

Art Neville The Meters brilliant vocalist-keyboardist born Dec 17! Mardi Gras Mambo youtube.com/watch?v=paEF... The Meters Complete Josie, Reprise & Warner Recordings youtube.com/playlist?lis... #TheMeters #aaron

James Booker The Bayou Maharajah, legendary New Orleans piano virtuoso born Dec 17! Junco Partner youtube.com/playlist?lis... Resurrection of the Bayou Maharajah youtube.com/playlist?lis... #NewOrleans #pianist #virtuoso #drjohn #allentoussaint

"I've always been interested in music. Music was played all the time at my home. An uncle is a record collector who'd send all over the world for records. I had a unique experience of hearing music that wasn't played anywhere else." Happy Birthday Ronnie Boykins born December 17, 1935

"The IDEA is everything, and can be realised in many different ways. The changes in audio technology, mainly sampling and digital manipulation, have given a wider 'palette' from which to paint my sounds, but they don't choose the IDEA." Happy Birthday Ron Geesin born 17 December 1943

This is absolutely phenomenal 👍😎 Ronnie Scott & Sonny Stitt - The Night Has A Thousand Eyes (1997) Ronnie & Sonny’s twin tenor attack backed by Stan Tracey, Malcolm Cecil and Jackie Dougan / Ronnie Stephenson. Recorded live At Ronnie Scott’s, May 8 & 29, 1964 #NowPlaying #Jazz JazzSky

DECEMBER 16TH Happy Birthday Noel Coward!! (December 16, 1899 – March 26, 1973) open.substack.com/pub/onthisda... #December16 #December16th #NoelCoward #Calloway #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Blues #Ragtime #78rpm #TinPan #HotJazz #ClassicJazz #Music #Jazz #Razaf #Gluskin

DECEMBER 15TH open.substack.com/pub/onthisda... #December15 #December15th #JohnHammond ##FatsWaller #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #EarlyBlues #Ragtime #78rpm #OldMusic #jugBand #TinPanAlley #EarlyRecordings #HotJazz #ClassicJazz #Music #A.P.Carter #CarterFamily #MUSIC #JAZZ

"A situation I feel strongly about is that, in jazz, a whole era of musicians seems to have been overlooked, thanks to writers. It's good that so much attention is focused on sixty-year-old players; I wouldn't want to get to sixty and be forgotten myself." Happy Birthday Curtis Fuller Dec 15, 1932

"There's a freedom in anarchy, but there's another freedom that comes from knowledge, then there's another freedom that comes that really is the freedom we seek. And that's what all of us want, is this freedom." Happy Birthday Barry Harris December 15, 1929

"I have never tried to study surveys or go into any kind of research to find out what people want, what they like, and try to give it to them. I don't think that's our purpose - or mine, anyway." Happy Birthday Stan Kenton born December 15, 1911

"I'm still a perpetual student, learning more and more about less and less. I find musically that's true as well." Davy Graham 26 November 1940 - 15 December 2008

Easing into the day with… Jack Jenney - Jack Jenney And His Orchestra (1951 10”LP) Fantastic, trombone led, swinging sounds 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz #Swing #Vinyl JazzSky

Charlie Rich live on Jimmy Dean’s show playing some cool jazz & blues. youtu.be/WrMfMR6HRPM?...

DECEMBER 14TH Happy Birthday Sydney Lipton!! (December 14, 1905 – July 19, 1995) open.substack.com/pub/onthisda... #December14 #December14th #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Blues #78rpm #TinPanAlley #HotJazz #ClassicJazz #Music #SydneyLipton #BritishDanceBand #MUSIC #JAZZ

"Jazz is a universal language. Any country in the world you might go to, if you took out your horn and played a chorus of the blues, if there were other musicians around, they would understand your message. Yes, it breaks down the barriers, absolutely." Happy Birthday Clark Terry December 14, 1920

"My first and great mentor. The depth of his pianism is magnificent, and he blessed me with his wise guidance throughout my young years in Memphis. The seeds he planted still grow." - Charles Lloyd Happy Birthday Phineas Newborn Jr. born December 14, 1931

"I'm not trying to be way out. What I wrote and what I played is a reflection of theory as I know it and as I apply it to my ideas. No twelve-tone rows, nothing like that. But I was hoping that someone might find it a little interesting." Happy Birthday Leo Wright born December 14, 1933

"With jazz you don't have to speak a language. You can go to any country in the world and play with musicians, and you understand each other. It's a feeling for the music." Happy Birthday Cecil Payne December 14, 1922

Happy Birthday Budd Johnson born December 14, 1910

This is all kinds of wonderful 👍😎 Disc 3 of The Complete Roost Johnny Smith Small Group Sessions (2002) Which contains… “The Johnny Smith Quartet” (1955, tracks 1-10) & “The New Johnny Smith Quartet” (1956, tracks 11-20) Absolutely sublime! #NowPlaying #Jazz #JazzGuitar JazzSky

"I always dug colour and the drummers who knew how to use it. There were percussionists at the old Capitol Theatre on Broadway. Duke and I would go by and see a picture... Those cats could play. I took some of their stuff and used it in my own way." Happy Birthday Sonny Greer December 13, c. 1895

This is absolutely incredible 👍😎 Keely Smith with The Frankie Capp Orchestra - Keely Sings Sinatra (2001) Keely is in her early seventies here and still has a wonderful voice, both on the ballads and the swingers! Such a great album! #NowPlaying #Jazz #Swing #JazzVocals Jazzsky

Now then, a chair must be 8 feet away from the loudspeakers. 250 quids worth of equipment here, all set up, waiting to blast me out of my chair. Bom bom bomb bom! This is more like it.This is better than whodunits. 250 quids worth eh? All I need now is a record! #TheMissingPage

DECEMBER 12TH Happy Birthday Fred Elizalde! (December 12, 1907 – January 16, 1979) open.substack.com/pub/onthisda... #December12 #December12th #ELIZALDE #Vintage#MUSIC #Uke #Ukulele #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Blues #78rpm #TinPanAlley #HotJazz #ClassicJazz #Music #JAZZ

Happy B'Day Dec 12 to Lonesome Sundown swamp blues great (1928-1995)! My Home Is A Prison youtube.com/watch?v=6qi-... Gonna Stick To You Baby youtube.com/watch?v=c08V... I’m A Mojo Man youtube.com/watch?v=_tPv... #Blues #bluesmusic #excellorecords #swampblues #slimharpo #johnleehooker