Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Miles Davis Inducted into Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Speaking of Rock & ROLL

Just so some of you on this great list can always learn something new 
 from it if you choose to or ever bother to research or ask and since 
Mike brought up the name of the "Headhunters"  who Herbie Hancock 
joined ( no he did not found the group)  nor did he write all their hit 
songs either.   The original HeadHunters  group that Herbie joined  was 
composed of James Levi, drums, Carl Lockett guitar, Paul Jackson, B-3 
Organ /vocals & Bass Guitar, ( considered by Bass Player Magazine as 
the World's Best)  John Turk on trumpet,  now the Music Director of 
Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco. Bernie Maupin sax and Bill 
Summers on Percussion, who has played with every major Jazz recording 
artist in the business from Ramsey Lewis to Stevie Wonder.

All of whom except Bernie Maupin and New Orleans, Bill Summers who 
moved away from the Bay Area, and back to New Orleans, were also in the 
founding members of  Tom Wiggins brain child, Saint Gabriel's Celestial 
Brass Band and have toured or played concerts with us off and on since 
1990.  After James Levi had to undergo double hip replacement and knee 
surgeries he retired from the marching band unit and was replaced by 
Minor Williams on drums and vocals,  who came from George Clinton's 
Band, Isaacc Hayes Band , The Gap Band and Parliment Funkadelic and his 
cousin Lenny Williams band from Tower of Power,
The original lineup also included Cornelius  "Snooky" Flowers on Bari 
Sax, ( Janis Joplin's Band Big Brother & the Holding Co.) and Sonny 
Lewis on Soprano Sax" Breeno Brown on Tenor Sax and Kevin Lockett on 
Trombone, and George Alexander on Trumpet, Al Hassan Wardlow on 
Trombone who did 20 years with Sun Ra Arkestra)  All Gold Record 
recording groups as I recall.


   Angelo Luster replaced Snooky on Bari,Sax and Jose Hernandez of 
Sacramento and long time Jimmy Smith's Sax man replaced Sonny Lewis on 
Soprano, and Sonny Fairley joined on alto sax in 1998, and Harley White 
Jr. from Sacramento on Sousaphone.  From the Sacramento Lancers 
marching band no less.     Snooky Flowers, James Levi and Paul Jackson, 
and George Alexander and Al Hassan Wardlow still appear from time to 
time for concert dates when their health allows.  But they can no 
longer tour with the marching band.    Carl Lockett doubles on drums 
and keyboards and guitar and vocals

Just for the record.   And Now You Know !

   No we did not play with Bix or Louis or Sidney, or Benny Goodman, or 
the house Dixieland band at Disneyland,  but we ain't exactly nobody's 
in show business either.   Yet we can't buy a Dixieland Festival gig no 
matter what songs we play. :))   So we go all over the world playing 
Major Jazz and Blues Festivals and playing what ? a lot
of pretty funky New Orleans Traditional Jazz and so called  Dixieland 
music.

Are we having fun as a Quasi Rock Band playing Dixieland and other OKOM 
music, you bet we are and we play to a young audience as well as an old 
one and guess what they both like us .   And we lay down the most 
Spiritual New Orleans Funeral you will ever hear, people just die to 
hear our music,  and yes you can use our PRE NEED plan and find out for 
yourself.  :))

It's very simple:  PAY NOW DIE LATER  we will be there ,   Or you can 
really do it correctly and have your own Funeral now and attend it 
yourself now there is a novel idea :))   If you are a musician you can 
say you played at your own funeral if you sit in.


Cheers,

Tom



-----Original Message-----
From: Mike <mike at railroadstjazzwest.com>
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:16:42 -0700
Subject: Re: Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Miles Davis Inducted into Rock & 
Roll Hall Of Fame

    Kinda reminds me of when the "Headhunters" album was released(w/ 
Herbie Hancock) the big debate then was whether or not it was a jazz 
album. 
 
 Mike 
 
 DWSI at aol.com wrote: 
  > Steve Barbone picked up on this article in the The New York Times 
Arts > Section Sunday and I'm glad he did. It raises an interesting 
question about the > value of music "categories." The article points 
out that many people are > unhappy with Miles being called a 
rocker--even though he contributed to early Rock > development--but 
that Miles himself didn't mind being called one. The article > seemed 
to be asking a question it never clearly articulated: Is Miles a > 
Rocker or a Jazzer? And if he's a jazz artist, does he qualify as a 
great > OKOM-type jazz artist? Now I see why they invented the term 
"fusion" to describe > where jazz is going. Why should we care about 
these fences around musical > categories? > > Dan (Backup Pianoman) 
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