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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 1d

#nowplaying 'To Swing or Not to Swing' (Barney Kessel Volume 3) from 1956. A few years ago I picked up an original UK copy from 1958 for a good price, so I'm revisiting it this morning...
#jazzsky #vinylcommunity #musicsky #classicalbums

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 1d

"I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence"
Remembering the great Barney Kessel, born OTD in 1923 in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
#jazzsky #jazzguitar #musicsky #barneykessel

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 2d

"All you have to do is be able to feel."

Art Blakey
October 11, 1919 - October 16, 1990

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 2d

2) The total effect of this incredible apparatus produced the most buzzing, sizzling, African-sounding music I have ever heard..." - Barry Lee Pearson.
Remembering Big Joe Williams born OTD 1903 in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi-I still have my mums copy of 'Blues on Highway 49'
#oktibbehacounty

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 2d

1) "Williams was playing an electric nine-string guitar through a small ramshackle amp with a pie plate nailed to it and a beer can dangling against that. When he played, everything rattled but Big Joe himself...
#blues #musichistory #mississippi

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 3d

“‘Wake of the Flood’ was kind of a real departure. It was like a new era in the Grateful Dead. It started something different.” - Donna Jean Godchaux

‘Wake of the Flood’ was released OTD in 1973. Gorgeous stuff, and one of my favourite Dead albums.
#gratefuldead #musicsky #classicalbums

Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 3d

*My New Article*
Light the lanterns, situate yourself at a nearby hearth and check out my autumn almanack, the top ten British albums for the golden season..
#writing #topten #autumn #musicsky #folk #folkjazz #british

Top 10: Autumn

For the season of mellow fruitfulness, BEN FINLAY discovers the best autumnal albums.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 4d

10/14/72: Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris
w/Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider (Varda & Trintignant in on screenplay)
More:
The legendary Kael rev: criterion.com/current/post...
Must-read @szacharek.bsky.social: time.com/5464020/bern...
Also @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 4d

2) I first bought the album on double cassette from Debenhams, Southampton in 1987. The band are at their peak here, and I've come back to it time and again.
#Genesis #musicsky #vinylcommunity

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 4d

1) Released OTD in 1977, 'Seconds Out' by Genesis, the band's second live album, predominately recorded in June 1977 at the Palais des Sports in Paris. It was the last album to feature guitarist Steve Hackett and the first to feature the American powerhouse drummer Chester Thompson.
#musicsky

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 4d

#nowplaying recorded OTD in 1960 at the Renaissance club in Hollywood, but not released until 1985, a great live album by Ben Webster, featuring Jim Hall on guitar, Jimmy Rowles on piano, Red Mitchell on bass and Frank Butler on drums. Beautiful.
#jazzsky #musicsky #vinylcommunity

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 5d

#nowplaying 'Love In Us All' (1974), an underrated gem by Pharoah Sanders, who was born OTD 1940 in Little Rock, Arkansas
#jazzsky #musicsky #freejazz

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 5d

2) which I purchased in Mole Jazz records, Kings Cross in the late 1990s... 'Miles & Carlos: Music and Philosophy of the Street', by Ralph J.Gleason in Rolling Stone, October 1972 is pictured below...
#jazzsky #musicsky #santana #milesdavis #fusion #classicalbums #RalphJGleason

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 5d

1) Jazz-fusion-tastic! 'On the Corner' by Miles Davis and 'Caravanserai'by Santana, were released OTD in 1972 - I found the review of both (and other very rare cuttings) inside a second-hand copy of Miles Davis' 'Get Up With It'...
#jazzsky #musicsky #santana #milesdavis #fusion #classicalbums

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Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 8d

"America is in fact a dictatorship. Your President has total power, unlike the leaders of the Soviet Union. He is your Commander-in-Chief. Also he is in charge of foreign affairs."
Today we shall mostly be reading Derek Lambert, born 10 Oct 1929.
thelionandunicorn.com/2018/05/16/r...

Rear-view review: The Red House

DAN ATKINSON on a Cold War tale of a doubting communist.

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 8d

'Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy'.
'Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture'...
Remembering the High Priest of Bebop, Thelonious Sphere Monk, born OTD 1917 in Rocky Mount, Carolina.
#jazzsky #musicsky #legends #musichistory #monk

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 10d

Done and dispatched, an autumnal themed top ten which will be coming soon...
@lionunicorn.bsky.social #topten #autumn #classicalbums #folk #jazz #britishmusic #writingcommunity #musicsky

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 11d

Remembering guitarist Mel Brown, born OTD 1939. As well as backing Bobby Bland, Etta James and Johnny Otis he made several albums for ABC Impulse! and was a member of the house band at Antone's Night Club in Austin for many years. A wonderful player, with a rich, deep tone.
#musicsky #blues #jazz

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 11d

"Jo Jones, an elegant, swinging dude, always had a style of his own. When he was with us, you could hear him, feel him — everything was right there." - Count Basie
Remembering one of the greatest ever drummers, the impeccable Papa Jo Jones, born OTD 1911 in Chicago
#jazzsky #musicsky

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 13d

Led Zeppelin III was released OTD in 1970. Conceived in a remote cottage in Snowdonia, it is one of the great records that came from the era of bands 'getting it together in the country'. Read about Zep 3 and other albums made in that fashion here: @lionunicorn.bsky.social 👇
#musicsky #ledzeppelin

Top 10: Getting it together in the country

Fleetwood Mac, Gong, Paul Weller… they’re all in BEN FINLAY’s guide to getting it together in the country.

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 14d

#nowplaying OTD in 1972 Freddie Hubbard recorded the first of two sessions for what was to become the album 'Sky Dive', released in Jan 73. It featured CTI alumni Ron Carter, Billy Cobham, Hubert Laws & George Benson, who notably plays some great guitar, particularly on 'Povo'
#jazzsky #musicsky

Povo

YouTube video by Freddie Hubbard - Topic

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 15d

'Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.'
One of the best ever quotes about guitar playing.
Remembering the great Stevie Ray Vaughan, born OTD 1954 in Dallas, Texas, & gone far too soon.

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 16d

#nowplaying Recorded #OTD in 1961 at Van Gelder Studios (released in Jan '62) 'Mosaic' by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, featuring:
Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
Curtis Fuller – trombone
Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone
Cedar Walton – piano
Jymie Merritt – bass
Art Blakey – drums
Deep joy.
#jazzsky

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 16d

2, It was photographed by Storm Thorgeson in a field outside of Potters Bar, Hertfordshire (Oddly enough, Potters Bar was home to my parents before I arrived...)
#musicsky #pinkfloyd #classicalbums #progrock #cassettes

Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 16d

1, Calling all old 'heads'... released on this day in 1970, Pink Floyd's first number one album, 'Atom Heart Mother'.
This is the cover of the cassette copy that I remember owning as a teenager.
The artwork is by Hipgnosis, the name of the cow Lulubelle the third.
#pinkfloyd #musicsky

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