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Listed: The Spatulas — Part 2
The Listed by members of The Spatulas is continued.
5 of Lila Jarzombek’s fave tunes:
Linda Smith — In This, 1988-'96
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I love this particular cassette! Linda Smith is such a great songwriter. Her orientation to playing and home recording is a source of inspiration for me!
Dadamah — Brian’s Children, 1994
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One of my favorite New Zealand bands. Love the pace and density of this song.
Relatively Clean Rivers — The Persian Caravan, 1976
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I love this entire album and the guitar playing on it! Was hard to choose my favorite song, they’re all so good.
Mirrors — How Could I, 1974
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This song makes me think about playing with the Spatulas! Maybe someday we will have an organ or keyboard….or flutes!?
International Harvester — Sommarlåten, 1976
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Late 60’s/early 70’s Psychedelic Swedish rock band related to Parson Sound and the later group Trad Gras & Stenar. Such great jams and the guitar playing just rips. Always makes me excited to play after listening.
4 tunes Jon Grothman’sbeen hitting pretty hard on the reg:
Les Rallizes Dénudés — Memory is Far Away, 1967-'69
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One of the heaviest bands in the world wistfully chooglin’ and burnin’ a kazoo.
Makanda Ken McIntyre — Mambooga, 2004
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This amazing woodwind quartet was all performed and overdubbed by Makanda Ken McIntyre. It sounds like Eric Dolphy calliope music.
How To Get Rich in Rotterdam — Swinging With Ingeborg, 1980s
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Dutch weirdos making weird Dutch music. Effective use of wah.
Pressler / Morgan — Hand Piece, 1979
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Very cool Cleveland poetry punk band.
#dusted magazine#listed#the spatulas#linda smith#dadamah#relatively clean rivers#mirrors#international harvester#les rallizes dénudés#makanda ken mcintyre#how to get rich in rotterdam#pressler / morgan
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Join us for Jazz on the Green
Saturday should be a beautiful day to paint with sparc! and listen to Jazz!! You're invited to The Makanda Project’s final concert of the summer. Join sparc! the ArtMobile for an open air painting studio during the annual September Makanda Ken McIntyre birthday celebration.
Jazz on the Green will be held at the First Church in Roxbury, 10 Putnam Street, Roxbury (rain location: inside church) - 1pm-4pm
Jazz on the Green (2019) featuring guest artist Robert Murrell.
At intermission there will be poetry by Vanessa Silva and a performance by student vocalists from the Butterfly Project. The music program will consist entirely of McIntyre compositions, including some of Makanda’s more recent “discoveries” as the ensemble continue to explore his large body of unrecorded work, and continue becoming more and more impressed with his brilliance as a composer.
Jazz on the Green (2021) featuring guest artist and former sparc! Team member Beatriz Whitehill
This event is for all ages and stages. Materials provided by sparc!
Jazz on the Green (2019) with community member and her wonderful painting
#sparctheartmobile#CommunityArt#Art&Healing#JoyMaking#OurCommunity#MakingArtTogether#ArtForAll#ArtHeals#ArtInPublicLife#IgnitingArtAndDesign#Roxburylove#TheMakandaProject
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From left to right: Dewey Redman, Makanda Ken McIntyre, Charlie Haden, Amina Claudine Myers and Paul Motian.
This photo was taken at the Liberation Music Orchestra's "Dreamkeeper" recording session, April, 1990. Photo by Cheung Ching-Ming
#Dewey Redman#saxophonist#Makanda Ken McIntyre#Charlie Haden#bassist#Amina Claudine Myers#pianist#vocalist#Paul Motian#drummer#jazz#free jazz#photography
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PHCC Concert Series Presents: Loren Daniels Trio Exchange Thursday, March 19 7pm Free, donations accepted Loren Daniels Trio Exchange Loren Daniels: piano/vocal Rich Mollin: bass Jeff Siegel: drums Performing: Ticket To Ride - a vocal jazz exploration of The Beatles' songbook Pianist/composer Loren Daniels brings a multiplicity of musical experiences to bear on every project he joins. As a player, he’s performed with many notable jazz practitioners including Milt Jackson, Rufus Reid, Makanda (Ken) McIntyre, Warren Smith, Eliot Zigmund and Jon Faddis. As a bandleader/musical director, Loren has nurtured and developed recording and performance projects for the Pittman/Daniels Quartet, vocalist Macy Chen, bassist August Riska and singer/songwriter Deborah Thurlow. Loren’s compositions have been performed by large and small jazz ensembles, choral ensembles, in collaboration with choreographers, for theatrical pieces and educational musicals and for television soundtracks. As an educator, he taught music for many years in Teaneck, NJ public schools and continues to teach music privately. Loren created Jazz In The Spirit (a jazz worship series) at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Teaneck, NJ and continues as its artist in residence and music coordinator. He studied music at Hofstra University, Berklee College of Music, SUNY at Old Westbury (B.S. in Music/Education) and NYU (M.A. in Music Education). Loren is currently performing with the Reggie Pittman/Loren Daniels Quartet, the Bradford Hayes Quartet, One More Once Big Band, the August Riska Trio and vocalists Macy Chen, Cynthia Soriano and Deborah Thurlow. This project is made possible in part through support from the County of Ulster’s Ulster County Cultural Services & Promotion Fund administered by ARTS MID-HUDSON (at Pine Hill Community Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9XrJB-A08S/?igshid=dnjocxwl4qad
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Makanda Ken McIntyre was an American jazz musician and composer. #wikipedia #nationaljazzappreciationmonth #woodwind #saxophone #oboist #flute #makandakenmcintyre
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Tres Viejos by Yoham Ortiz Tres Viejos is inspired by three very influential people in my life: Dr. Rafael Ortiz (my dad), Warren Smith, and Dr. Makanda Ken McIntyre. #yohamortiz
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Jazziversaries Sept 7th 1st set
Little Milton (guitar, electric) 1934 -2005 :: James Milton Campbell, Jr. better known as Little Milton, was an American electric blues, rhythm and blues, and soul singer and guitarist, best known for his hit records “Grits Ain’t Groceries” and “We’re Gonna Make It.”
By age twelve he had learned the guitar and was a street musician, chiefly influenced by T-Bone Walker and his blues and rock and roll contemporaries. In 1952, while still a teenager playing in local bars, he caught the attention of Ike Turner, who was at that time a talent scout for Sam Phillips’ Sun Records. He signed a contract with the label and recorded a number of singles. None of them broke through onto radio or sold well at record stores, however, and Milton left the Sun label by 1955.
After trying several labels without notable success, including Trumpet Records, Milton set up the St. Louis based Bobbin Records label, which ultimately scored a distribution deal with Leonard Chess’ Chess Records.
As a record producer, Milton helped bring artists such as Albert King and Fontella Bass to fame, while experiencing his own success for the first time. After a number of small format and regional hits, his 1962 single, “So Mean to Me,” broke onto the Billboard R&B chart, eventually peaking at #14.
Following a short break to tour, managing other acts, and spending time recording new material, he returned to music in 1965 with a more polished sound, similar to that of B.B. King.
After the ill-received “Blind Man” (R&B: #86), he released back-to-back hit singles. The first, “We’re Gonna Make It,” a blues-infused soul song, topped the R&B chart and broke through onto Top 40 radio, a format then dominated largely by white artists. He followed the song with #4 R&B hit “Who’s Cheating Who?” All three songs were featured on his album, We’re Gonna Make It, released that summer.
Throughout the late 1960s Milton released a number of moderately successful singles, but did not issue a further album until 1969, with Grits Ain’t Groceries featuring his hit of the same name, as well as “Just a Little Bit” and “Baby, I Love You”. With the death of Leonard Chess the same year, Milton’s distributor, Checker Records fell into disarray, and Milton joined the Stax label two years later. Adding complex orchestration to his works, Milton scored hits with “That’s What Love Will Make You Do” and “What It Is” from his live album, What It Is: Live at Montreux.
He appeared in the documentary film, Wattstax, which was released in 1973. Stax, however, had been losing money since late in the previous decade and was forced into bankruptcy in 1975.
After leaving Stax, Milton struggled to maintain a career, moving first to Evidence, then the MCA imprint Mobile Fidelity Records, before finding a home at the independent record label, Malaco Records, where he remained for much of the remainder of his career. His last hit single, “Age Ain’t Nothin’ But a Number,” was released in 1983 from the album of the same name.
In 1988, Little Milton was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame and won a W.C. Handy Award.
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Latimore (vocalist) 1939 :: Jazziversary greetings to Benjamin “Benny” Latimore known professionally simply as Latimore, an American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist. His first professional experience came as a pianist for various Florida-based groups including Joe Henderson and Steve Alaimo.
He first recorded around 1965 for Henry Stone’s Dade record label in Miami, Florida. In the early 1970s he moved to the Glades label, and had his first major hit in 1973 with a jazzy reworking of T-Bone Walker’s “Stormy Monday”, which reached #27 on the R&B chart.
His first national hit was a cover of Gladys Knight’s “If You Were My Woman” (#70 R&B). His biggest success came in 1974, with “Let’s Straighten It Out”, a #1 R&B hit which also reached #31 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. He followed it up with more hits including “Keep The Home Fire Burnin’” (#5 R&B, 1975) and “Somethin’ ‘Bout ‘Cha” (#7 R&B, 1976). The hits dissipated in the late 1970s.
Latimore moved to Malaco Records in 1982, releasing seven albums of modern soul music with that label. He briefly left the label in 1994 and released a song for the J-Town label, “Turning Up The Mood”, before returning to Malaco in 2000 with: “You’re Welcome To Ride”. Next Latimore recorded an album with Mel Waiters’ label, Brittney Records, called Latt is Back.[3]
Later, Latimore collaborated with Henry Stone on a new record label called LatStone; which released his first new album in six years called: Back ‘Atcha.
He has continued to work as a session pianist. He appeared most recently on Joss Stone's albums, The Soul Sessions (2003) and Mind Body & Soul (2004), along with fellow Miami music veterans Betty Wright, Timmy Thomas and Willie Hale, and made an appearance in May 2014 on Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight show.
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Makanda Ken McIntyre (saxophone) 1931-2001 :: was an American jazz musician and composer. In addition to his primary instrument, the alto saxophone, he also played flute, bass clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and many other woodwind instruments, as well as double bass, drum set, and piano.
He recorded thirteen albums, one of which was released posthumously. He composed well over 400 compositions, and wrote about 200 arrangements, reflecting the culture of his Caribbean and African American roots, including blues, jazz, and calypso. His very first album entitled Stone Blues was recorded in 1960, accompanied by local Boston musicians with whom he had been rehearsing for several years.
Over the course of his career, McIntyre performed or recorded with: Nat Adderley, Jaki Byard, Ron Carter, Eric Dolphy, Charlie Haden, Daoud A. Haroon, Richard Harper, David Murray, Cecil Taylor and Reggie Workman, among others, and was a member of the innovative group Beaver Harris and the 360 Degree Ensemble.
After serving two years in the U.S. Army, McIntyre earned a bachelor’s degree in music composition from the Boston Conservatory in 1958, with a certificate in flute performance, and a master’s degree in music composition from the Boston Conservatory in 1959. He also went on to earn a doctorate (Ed.D.) in curriculum design from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1975.
In 1971 he founded the first African American Music program in the country at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury, teaching there for 24 years. He also taught at Wesleyan University (where he recorded with Richard Harper and collaborated with Daoud A. Haroon), Smith College, Central State University, Fordham University, and the The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.
In the early 1990s he changed his name to Makanda Ken McIntyre. While performing in Zimbabwe, a stranger handed him a piece of paper with the word “Makanda” written on it; the word means “many skins” in the Ndebele language and “many heads” in Shona.
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Joe Newman (trumpet) 1922-1992 :: was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator, best known for his time with Count Basie.
Newman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to David (pianist) and Louise Newman, a musical family, having his first music lessons from David Jones.
He attended Alabama State College, where he joined the college band (the Bama State Collegians), became its leader, and took it on tour.
In 1941 he joined Lionel Hampton for two years, before signing with Count Basie, with whom he stayed for a total of thirteen years, interrupted by short breaks and a long period (1947–1952) spent first with saxophonist Illinois Jacquet and then drummer J. C. Heard.
During his second period with Basie, which lasted for about nine years, he made a number of small-group recordings as leader. He also played on Benny Goodman’s 1962 tour of the Soviet Union.
In 1961 Newman left the Basie band, and helped to found Jazz Interactions, of which he became president in 1967. His wife, Rigmor Alfredsson Newman was the Executive Director. Jazz Interactions was a charitable organisation which provided an information service, brought jazz master classes into schools and colleges, and later maintained its own Jazz Interaction Orchestra (for which Newman wrote).
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Buddy Holly (conductor/Composer) 1936-1959:: Charles Hardin Holley known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll.
Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as “the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll.”
His works and innovations inspired and influenced contemporary and later musicians, notably The Beatles, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Don McLean, Bob Dylan, Steve Winwood, and Eric Clapton, and exerted a profound influence on popular music.
Holly was one of the inaugural inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Holly No. 13 among “The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time”
Holly set the template for the standard rock and roll band: two guitars, bass, and drums. He was one of the first in the genre to write, produce, and perform his own songs.
Holly managed to bridge the racial divide that marked music in America. Along with Elvis and others, Holly made rock and roll, with its roots in rockabilly country music and blues-inspired rhythm and blues music, more popular among a broad white audience.
From listening to their recordings, one had difficulty determining if the Crickets, the name of Buddy’s band, were white or black singers. Holly indeed sometimes played with black musicians Little Richard and Chuck Berry, and incorporated the Bo Diddley beat in several songs.
The Crickets were only the second white rock group to tour Great Britain. Holly’s essential eyeglasses encouraged other musicians, such as John Lennon, also to wear their glasses during performances.
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Paint Jazz Recap
Saturday, September 9th was a joyous day of music and painting with sparc! the ArtMobile and The Makanda Project on the lawn of the First Church in Roxbury. Concert goers celebrated the birthday of “Makanda” Ken McIntyre and the sparc! team welcomed concert goers to listen to the band and paint whatever came to their mind. From pointillism, to abstraction and nature, we loved seeing all the creative ways the canvases were transformed.
So many creative patterns and colors
Owen, a third year sparc! team member spent the afternoon live painting the event! He captured the warm, buzzing energy of the event until the first drops of rain fell.
Thank you to all who came by and the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry for hosting Jazz on the Green!
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Makanda Project's Fall Concert with sparc! the ArtMobile & MAAM
An outdoor jazz concert and an open-air art studio - what could make for a more perfect combo! This Saturday, join sparc! the ArtMobile and @MAAM for an art-making experience for all ages. Express your creativity in bright fabric on the cover of a journal - sparc! will bring the art supplies, you bring your family and friends.
Painting by artist Lucilda Dassardo-Cooper at Jazz & Art Day with Makanda Jazz Project in 2016.
sparc! be there from 1-4pm as will a live painting artist (MassArt student Beatriz Whitehill ‘24), vendors, and a food truck. Come on out!
The Makanda Jazz Project (the jazz ensemble) will - as always - be playing tunes from Roxbury’s own Makanda Ken McIntyre who would have celebrated his 90th birthday this fall!
Location: First Church in Roxbury, 10 Putnam Street, Roxbury
Lucilda Dassardo-Cooper painting at Jazz & Art Day in 2016 .
#sparctheartmobile #paintjazz #Roxburylove #MAAMboston #Makanda
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