R.I.P Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

Carrie Fisher (1956 - 27.12.2016)American actress, best known for her role as Primcess Leia, Star Wars. Carrie Fisher suffered a medical emergency on a transatlantic flight from London to Los Angeles, and died on December 27 at the age of 60.
Debbie Reynolds  (1932 - 28.12.2016)American actress, singer, business woman, mother of Carrie Fisher died after suffering from a severe stroke just one day after her daughter.

R.I.P. Mose Allison (1927-2016)

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Mose John Allison, Jr. (November 11, 1927 – November 15, 2016) was an American jazz blues pianist, singer and songwriter.

Allison was born outside Tippo, Mississippi, on his grandfather's farm, known as the Island, "because Tippo Bayou encircles it.^" He took piano lessons from age five, picked cotton, played piano in grammar school and trumpet in high school, and wrote his first song at age thirteen.

Allison went to college at the University of Mississippi for a while, then enlisted in the U.S. Army for two years^. Shortly after mustering out, he enrolled at Louisiana State University, from which he graduated in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in philosophy.

Mose was an inspiration for so many music legends, Georgie Fame was one of them. 

News: New York Times - Mose Allison, A Font of Jazz and Blues, dies at 89

 

 

The Al Cohn Quintet – 1956
Stan Getz Quartet – Live in 1956/57
Stan Getz Quartet: The Soft Swing – 1957
Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note – 1959
Al Cohn & Zoot Sims Quartet – 1960
Al Cohn & Zoot Sims Quartet: You ’N Me -1960
Mose Allison: Back Country Suite – 1957
Mose Allison: Local Color – 1957
Mose Allison: Young Man Mose – 1958
Mose Allison: Ramblin’ with Mose – 1958
Mose Allison: Creek Bank – 1958
Mose Allison: Autumn Song – 1959
Mose Allison: Tranfiguration of Hiram Brown –1959
Mose Allison: I Love the Life I live – 1960
Mose Allison: Takes to the Hills – 1961
Mose Allison: I Don’t Worry ‘Bout a Thing – 1962
Mose Allison: Swingin’ Machine – 1963
Mose Allison: Mose Allison Sings – 1963
Mose Allison: The Word from Mose – 1964
Mose Allison: Mose Allison Alive! – 1965
Mose Allison: Wild Man on the Loose – 1965
Mose Allison: Down Home Piano – 1965
Mose Allison: Mose Allison Plays for Lovers – 1966
Mose Allison: V-8 Ford Blues – 1966
Mose Allison: Mose Goes – 1968
Mose Allison: Hello There Universe – 1969
Mose Allison: The Best of Mose Allison – 1970
Mose Allison: Western Man – 1971
Mose Allison: Retrospective – 1971
Mose Allison: Mose in Your Ear – 1972
Mose Allison: Seventh Son – 1973
Mose Allison: Creek Bank – 1975
Mose Allison: V-8 Ford Blues – 1966
Mose Allison: I’ve Been Doin’ Some Thinkin’ – 1968
Mose Allison: Your Mind is on Vacation – 1976
Mose Allison: Middle Class White Boy – 1982
Mose Allison: Lessons In Living – 1982
Mose Allison: Ever Since the World Ended – 1987
Mose Allison: The Best of Mose Allison – 1988
Mose Allison: Greatest Hits – 1988
Mose Allison: My Backyard – 1989
Mose Allison: At His Best – 1990
Mose Allison: Sings and Plays – 1991
Mose Allison: I Don’t Worry ‘Bout a Thing – 1991
Mose Allison: The Earth Wants You – 1993
Mose Allison: Pure Mose – 1994
Mose Allison: High Jinks! – 1994
Mose Allison: Allison Wonderland – 1994
Mose Allison: Middle Class White Boy – 1994
Mose Allison: Lessons In Living – 1994
Mose Allison: The Sage of Tippo
Mose Allison: Gimcracks and Gewgaws – 1998
Mose Allison: The London Chronicles Vol. 1- 2001
Mose Allison: The London Chronicles Vol. 2 – 2002
Mose Allison: The Way of the World – 2010
Mose Allison American Legend, Live in California- 2015

NEWS! Ben Waters at Meisenfrei Bremen 14th Nov 16



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Meisenfrei Blues Club and Doris proudly present

BEN WATERS & TOM WATERS
Father & Son Piano & Saxophon

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Ben Waters, einer der besten Boogie Woogie Pianisten weltweit, wird zusammen mit seinem 16-jährigen Sohn Tom, der als Saxofon-Wunderkind gilt, ein musikalisches Feuer­werk aus Boogie Woogie, Blues und Rock’n’Roll entfachen. Ben und Tom arbeiten u.a. mit den Rolling Stones, Ray Davies, Chuck Berry, Jools Holland, Jerry Lee Lewis, Shakin’ Stevens. Ben tourt mit seiner Band, zu der auch Tom gehört, durch Neuseeland, Kanada, Argentinien und Europa. In den USA spielte Ben mit ABC&D of Boogie Woogie (Axel Zwingenberger, Ben Waters, Charlie Watts, Dave Green) im Lincoln Center und am Broadway. Wenn Ben seinen Hochgeschwindigkeits-Boogie-Woogie in die Tasten hämmert, verpatzt er keine einzige Note. Bei aller Perfektion liegt die Betonung bei den Konzerten jedoch auf Spaß. Bens Fröhlichkeit und die Spielfreude von Vater und Sohn reißen das Publikum sofort mit. Ein unvergesslicher Abend ist garantiert.

Montag, 14. November 2016, 20 Uhr, Meisenfrei Blues Club, Hankenstr. 18, 28195 Bremenhttp://benwaters.com/
http://www.meisenfrei.de/

R.I.P Leon Russel (1942-2016)

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Leon Russell (born Claude Russell Bridges; April 2, 1942 – November 13, 2016) was an American musician and songwriter, who recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career.

Russell began his musical career at the age of 14 in the nightclubs of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He and his group the Starlighters, which included J.J. Cale, Leo Feathers, Chuck Blackwell and Johnny Williams^, were instrumental in creating the style of music known as the Tulsa Sound. After settling in Los Angeles, he studied guitar with James Burton. Known mostly as a session musician early in his career, as a solo artist he has crossed genres to include rock and roll, blues, and gospel music, playing with artists as varied as Jan & Dean, Gary Lewis, George Harrison, Gram Parsons, Delaney Bramlett, Ringo Starr, Doris Day, Elton John, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, the Byrds, Barbra Streisand, the Beach Boys, the Ventures, Willie Nelson, Badfinger, Tijuana Brass, Frank Sinatra, the Band, Bob Dylan, J.J. Cale, B.B. King, Dave Mason, Glen Campbell, Joe Cocker and the Rolling Stones.

Robert Vaughn died aged 83

Robert Vaughn in London 2014 (c) ines k.

More sad news:
Robert Vaughn Dies: ‘Man From U.N.C.L.E’ Star Was 83

Robert Vaughn, whose Napoleon Solo on NBC’s spy yarn The Man From Uncle set TV’s 1960s standard for suavity and crimebusting cool, died today after a brief battle with acute leukemia.


So glad that I met this man. Saw him so many times on tv and it was an honour to meet him in person in 2014 as he was the star of the Twelve Angry Men at the Garrick Theatre in London´s West End.

Web: Robert Vaughn Remembered: “Coolest Guy On TV”

Robert Francis Vaughn (November 22, 1932 – November 11, 2016) was an American actor noted for his stage, film and television work. His best-known TV roles include suave spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; wealthy detective Harry Rule in the 1970s series The Protectors; and formidable General Hunt Stockwell in the 5th season of the 1980s series The A-Team. In film, he portrayed quiet, skittish gunman Lee in The Magnificent Seven, Major Paul Krueger in The Bridge at Remagen, the voice of Proteus IV, the computer villain of Demon Seed, Walter Chalmers in Bullitt, Ross Webster in Superman III, and war veteran Chester A. Gwynn in The Young Philadelphians which earned him a 1960 Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

As grifter and card sharp Albert Stroller, Vaughn appeared in all but one of the 48 episodes of the British television drama series Hustle (2004–2012). From January to February 2012, he appeared in the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street as Milton Fanshaw, a love interest for Sylvia Goodwin, played by veteran English actress Stephanie Cole.

Mr. Leonard Cohen ist verstorben

Eine sehr traurige Nachricht:
Sänger, Komponist, Lyriker - und Meister der Melancholie: Leonard Cohen (21. September 1934 in Montreal; † 7. November 2016)  war einer der ganz Großen, "Hallelujah" und "Suzanne" machten ihn weltberühmt. Der Kanadier verstarb im Alter von 82 Jahren bereits am Montag, wie jetzt bekannt wurde.

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Bekannteste Singles:
Suzanne • So Long, Marianne • Bird on the Wire • The Partisan • Joan of Arc • Diamonds in the Mine • Dress Rehearsal Rag • The Stranger Song • Winter Lady • So Long, Marianne • Passing Through • Lover Lover Lover • Tonight Will Be Fine • Do I Have to Dance All Night (Live) • Memories • True Love Leaves No Traces • The Guests • Dance Me to the End of Love • Hallelujah • Take This Waltz • First We Take Manhattan • I’m Your Man • Ain’t No Cure for Love • Everybody Knows • I Can’t Forget • Closing Time • Democracy • The Future • Be for Real • Dance Me to the End of Love (Live) • Never Any Good • In My Secret Life • Boogie Street • The Letters • The Future (Live) • Show Me the Place • Darkness