Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames and Solo Tourdates 2019/20(UK)

Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames at Jazzfest Gronau - 04 May 2012, a photo by inesmusicpics on Flickr.

Georgie Fame injured in an accident  (news as of 17 Oct 2019):
"We are sorry to announce that Georgie Fame has been involved in an accident and has been taken to hospital where he is being treated for his injuries - including a broken hip and pelvis. This sadly means that he will be unable to perform several concerts.
Please stay tuned for re-scheduled dates once he is fit again, but in the meantime we wish him the very best for a full recovery." 

Line-up Blue Flames:
Georgie Fame vocals/organ/piano, Guy Barker - trumpet, Alan Skidmore - tenor sax, Antony Kerr - vibes, Tristan Powell - guitar, Alec Dankworth – bass, James Powell - drums

Trio:
Georgie Fame vocals/organ/piano,
Tristan Powell - guitar, voc.,
James Powell, dr.

08.11.2019 UK-Devizes, Corn Exchange      cancelled
10.11.2019 UK-London, Alexandra Palace   cancelled
11.11.2019 UK-Cardiff, The Earl Haig Memorial Club, Georgie & Sons     cancelled
16.11.2019 Bearsden, Scotland,  Baljaffray Parish Church, Grampian Way    sold out
14.12.2019 UK-Harrogate, Royal Hall,  The Manfreds with special guest Georgie Fame -Maximum Rhythm ‘n’ Blues

2020
31.03.2020 IE-Cork, Triskel Christchurch (Georgie Fame with Hugh Buckley and the Phil Ware Trio)
Georgie Fame, voice
Hugh Buckley, guitar
Phil Ware, piano
Dave Redmond, bass
Kevin Brady, drums

08.10.2020 NL-Utrecht, Tivoli Vredenburg, w/Peter Beets New Jazz Orchestra & others
(re-scheduled from October 2019)

Please doublecheck the dates before traveling!

for more check back the updated official website:
http://www.georgiefame.co.uk/

Here is a great article:

Georgie Fame reflects on his career ahead of Cork gig  

Here are some pictures of Georgie Fame and his sons at the gig in Kingston upon Thames: Georgie Fame in Concert at The Rose Theatre Kingston upon Thames, 18th Oct 15

Georgie Fame in Concert 2015

  

Line-up Blue Flames:
Georgie Fame vocals/organ/piano, Guy Barker - trumpet, Alan Skidmore - tenor sax, Antony Kerr - vibes, Tristan Powell - guitar, Alec Dankworth – bass, James Powell - drums

GEORGIE FAME FAMILY TRIO  
Georgie Fame - Organ/Vocal
Tristan Powell - Guitar/Vocal
James Powell - Drums


Here is an article (only in german) for the gig in Goeppingen:
SWP.de

found this on an fb-site:
Facebook: Georgie Fame Group 

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Georgie Fame's 'Yeh Yeh' topping the charts, Georgie Fame will be hitting the road with the great "The Blue Flames".

Here are some exciting news:
Good News


Zeitungsartikel aus der Neuen Württembergischen Zeitung/Göppinger Kreisnachrichten (newspaper article concerning Georgie's appearance at Volksbank Goeppingen 06.04.2014):  Mit Yeh Yeh in den Charts
Südwestpresse about the gig on 06 April 2014 in Goeppingen: Mit Swing und viel Humor
Another review: Georgie Fame & The Blues Flames at Ronnie Scotts, London

NEW!

Südwestpresse about the gig on 06.04.14 in Goeppingen:
Mit Swing und viel Humor

Some Reviews: Gig review: Blues Fest London 2014 (Georgie Fame a. o.) 
The Upcoming - Blues Fest 2014  
The Art Desk - Elvis Costello u. Georgie Fame  

Bill Wyman´s Rhythm Kings CD "Studio Time" is out in April 2018

cd cover 

Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings ‘Studio Time’ is out in April. This special set of studio recordings, the first ones to be issued since 2004, gathers up fifteen outtakes from eight different sessions, including two songs from as far back as March 1987 (before the actual formation of the Rhythm Kings). These previously overlooked and unheard gems have been newly mixed for this album by Bill Wyman and Terry Taylor. The booklet contains all the musician credits. You can pre-order now on CD or download from iTunes for the special pre-order price of £4.99! smarturl.it/studio_time

My King and Queen: Georgie Fame + Beverly Skeete (Amazon Exclusive Edition) VINYL

BillWyman.com:

We are delighted to announce the release of "My King and Queen: Georgie Fame + Beverly Skeete" as a 4LP box set. For this compilation, Bill Wyman has chosen forty three tracks that showcase the fantastic lead vocals of both Beverley Skeete, perhaps the UK’s busiest session singer, and Georgie Fame, a star (and legend) in his own right since 1964.

This box set marks the first appearance of any Rhythm Kings recordings on vinyl and the Amazon.co.uk Exclusive Edition will contain a print signed by Bill Wyman himself and limited to just 500 copies! http://amzn.to/2xpOtmk

Disc: 1

  1. "1. Anyway The Wind Blows

  2. Cadillac Woman

  3. Can't Get My Rest At Night

  4. Days Like This

  5. Down Home Girl

  6. Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You

  7. Hit That Jive Jack

  8. I Can't Dance

  9. Jealous Girl

  10. Just For A Thrill"

Disc: 2

  1. "1. Keep On Truckin'

  2. Do You Or Don't You

  3. Motorvatin' Mama

  4. Rhythm King

  5. Rough Cut Diamond

  6. Streamline Woman

  7. The Joint Is Jumping

  8. Tomorrow Night

  9. Walking One & Only

  10. Where's The Money"

Disc: 3

  1. "1. A True Romance

  2. Bad To Be Alone

  3. Bye Bye Blues

  4. Crazy He Calls Me

  5. Cry Baby

  6. Every Sixty Seconds

  7. Groovin'

  8. He's A Real Gone Guy

  9. I Put A Spell On You

  10. I Want To Be Evil

  11. Long Walk To DC

  12. Love Letters"

Disc: 4

  1. "1. Snap Your Fingers

  2. Mojo Boogie

  3. My Handy Man

  4. Oh Baby

  5. Ring My Bell

  6. Spooky

  7. That's How Heartaches Are Made

  8. This Ain't United Nations

  9. Trust In Me

  10. When Hollywood Goes Black And Tan

  11. Yesterdays"

Product Description

This Exclusive Edition will contain a print signed by Bill Wyman himself and limited to 500 copies. This four LP box set features some of the best studio recordings by Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, the ten-piece band that Bill put together after leaving the Rolling Stones in 1992. Whilst the band features guest appearances by all-star musicians (including Mick Taylor, Eric Clapton, Chris Rea, George Harrison, Gary Brooker and Peter Frampton on these recordings), it has an allstar core line-up that features Georgie Fame, Beverley Skeete, Albert Lee, Terry Taylor and Bill Wyman himself of course. For this compilation, Bill Wyman has chosen forty three tracks that showcase the fantastic lead vocals of both Beverley Skeete, perhaps the UK's busiest session singer, and Georgie Fame, a star (and legend) in his own right since 1964 of course. Each singer has two LPs: Georgie's features his renditions of songs by the likes of J.J. Cale, Mose Allison, Dan Hicks, and Bill Wyman & Terry Taylor, while Beverley's features her take on songs by Nellie Lutcher, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, J.B. Lenoir and The Rascals. This box set marks the first appearance of any Rhythm Kings recordings on vinyl. The four LPs are housed in an attractive rigid outer slipcase and the inner sleeves feature all the musician credits.

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

(c) Plattencover 


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

Winfield Scott "Scotty" Moore III † (December 27, 1931 – June 28, 2016)

Winfield Scott "Scotty" Moore III (December 27, 1931 – June 28, 2016) was an American guitarist and recording engineer. He is best known for his backing of Elvis Presley in the first part of his career, between 1954 and the beginning of Elvis's Hollywood years. He was ranked 29th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2011. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 and the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2015. . Wikipedia

 

 

50th Anniversary of Pirate Radio Beat Boat Cruise feat. Georgie Fame a. o.

50th Anniversary of Pirate Radio Beat Boat Cruise

Ship: Marco Polo 

Departs: London Tilbury 

Sail Date: Wednesday 6th Aug 2014 

Duration: 3 nights

Featuring Georgie Fame, Zoot Money, Eddie Floyd plus DJ's Johnnie Walker

& Emperor Rosko, supported by house band The Rhythm Kings.

The Rhythm Kings are: 

Terry Taylor (guitar+vocals), 

Beverley Skeete (vocals)

Geraint Watkins (keyboards and vocals), 

Graham Broad (drums), 

Frank Mead (horns & harmonica) 

and Nick Payn (horns & harmonica), 

Greg Harewood (bass).

For more informations please go to:

Pirate-Radio-Beat-Boat-Cruise 

  

Happy Birthday, Mr. Georgie Fame!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mr. Georgie Fame!

Der englische "Rhythm and Blues"-, Jazz-Sänger, Keyboard-Spieler und einmaliger Performer wird heute 71 Jahre alt. Gratulation Mr. Powell!

New CD: Georgie Fame & Madeline Bell – Singer

Singer, the new album written by Georgie Fame and Steve Gray, and performed by Madeline Bell, tells the life story of a female vocalist. The live concert performance, recorded in Tilburg, Holland in 2004 will be available for the first time from the 7th April.
In Georgie’s own words:
“In the autumn of 1984 composer and arranger Steve Gray and myself were involved in a concert for Dutch radio with the renowned Metropole Orchestra, with whom we had both worked individually in the past. Another member of that production was the well known Dutch entertainer Edwin Rutten. The three of us went to supper after the concert and Edwin suggested that Steve and I might compose an original work which could be performed with the Metropole Orchestra. We were flattered and a little excited by the prospect but nothing further was discussed.In January 1985 I was on one of my regular tours of Australia when Steve called me in Sydney to say that he’d heard from Holland and the project was on!. Furthermore, the proposed recording dates were March 3rd/4th and 5th. I wasn’t due back in England until mid-February but Steve said he would make a start with some ideas until I returned. We lived not that far from each other and I went over to his place as soon as I got back from Australia. Steve had prepared a handful of melodies and it was decided that the work should be about a female singer’s life story – in a nut shell. We both agreed that the subject of the story should be played/sung by one of our great friends and favourite artists, Madeline Bell. I was to be the narrator and we had barely three weeks to complete the project.

Available to pre-order from:Propermusic.com | Amazon.co.uk
iTunes (coming soon

Proper Records

More links:

Georgie Fame Biography (English)Georgie Fame on Concerto, an Austrian website (German)

The Georgie Fame Discography
Robert Ryan: 'When I met Georgie Fame'  
The Guardian: Why the evergreen Georgie Fame is peerless

More stuff about Georgie:

The INDEPENDENT:
Pop music: Fame at the Flamingo: golden years in Soho 

Georgie Fame and his band were regular performers at a nightclub that was a catalyst for British music in the early Sixties. He looks back at the scene of his best years in London with James Maycock.

The early Sixties: political scandals, mods, defecting spies, the Pill, and TV shows such as Ready, Steady, Go. The class system was crumbling, sexual morals were changing and American clothes, comics and music, especially black music, were in demand. And Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames were performing regularly at The Flamingo, Wardour Street, between 1962 and 1965.

This bawdy Soho nightclub played a small but important part in the intrigue and excitement that generated the atmosphere of the first half of the Sixties. Fame recalls that "there were only a handful of hip young white people that used to go to The Flamingo. When I first went there as a punter I was scared. Once I started to play there, it was no problem."

The club closed at 6am, enabling musicians like Alexis Korner to play there after performing elsewhere. Christine Keeler finished working in Bond Street at 3am and often dashed over to Wardour Street for the next three hours. Fame remembers that half the clientele were West Indian while "the other half were black American GIs mixed up with a few gangsters and pimps and prostitutes". The West Indian "Lucky" Gordon, and Johnny Edgecombe were, according to him, "both involved with Christine Keeler down The Flamingo". "Lucky" Gordon's brother, "Psycho" Gordon, occasionally joined Georgie Fame's group on stage.

As well as being captivated by jazz and such blues musicians as Willie Mabon, Fame was one of the first white artists to be intrigued by ska, sniffed at by the British music press. He heard it in Jamaican cafes in and around Ladbroke Grove, and his trumpeter, Eddie Thornton, was Jamaican.

His group also performed at The Roaring Twenties, a nightclub off Carnaby Street run by Count Suckle, an influential Jamaican DJ. Fame says: "Suckle had a fantastic record collection. He used to get direct imports from Memphis and the Caribbean ... all the old bluebeat stuff was being played in the clubs where we played."

Fame made firm friends with many black American soldiers who visited the Flamingo. They would play him the latest jazz and blues releases from America, three of which affected him so powerfully that they inspired him to move from the piano to the Hammond organ. Hearing "Midnight Special" by Jimmy Smith, "Grooving With Jug" by Gene Ammons and Richard "Groove" Holmes and "Green Onions", the seminal single by Booker T and the MGs within two days convinced him he had to change.

Fame describes the Flamingo as "a great breeding ground". The lauded British jazz musician Tubby Hayes and the Johnny Birch Quartet, which included Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce, who later launched Cream with Eric Clapton, often performed at the club. Members of Duke Ellington's orchestra and Count Basie's group, when touring England, were also drawn to it. Fame remembers one face in the crowd: "Cassius Clay, as he was then, came down when he first fought Henry Cooper. Cassius would come into town and say, `Where do the brothers hang out?' He'd be told they all go down The Flamingo."

During these years, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames completed a forbidding but exhilarating schedule. As well as performing at Klook's Kleek, Ricky Tick's and The Scene during the week, they would often appear in two non- adjacent counties on Saturday night. "We'd be coming in from playing an American air force base somewhere in Suffolk and we'd throw the gear back in the wagon and drive back to London and get back to the all-nighter in time for our set. We did the one o'clock and the 4.30am set. The guys would open the way through the crowd for us and help us carry the shit on to the stage." A stabbing at the Flamingo prompted the American air force authorities to ban servicemen from the nightclub, which would soon throng with mods.

"Yeh Yeh" was originally recorded by the Latin percussionist Mongo Santamaria, but the jazz singer Jon Hendricks added the lyrics and performed his version at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1963. Fame bought the album of this concert and the song was soon added to his repertoire. His own recording of it reached the top of the British charts in January 1965, displacing "I Feel Fine" by The Beatles. His success led to less frequent performances at the Flamingo, which today he confesses was "my greatest time in London".

In 1966, Rik Gunnell, the owner of club and manager of Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, persuaded Fame to dissolve his group and concentrate on a solo career, "Mitch" Mitchell, the drummer in the Blue Flames, was hired to join Jimi Hendrix's group the day that Georgie Fame and Blue Flames disbanded. Fame was not overjoyed at some of the material he was expected to record as a solo artist, but it did give him the opportunity to tour with Count Basie, an experience he describes as "terrific".

Today, Fame, who was christened with the name of Clive Powell, exudes a boyish charm and commands respect from his musical peers. For the past 10 years he has worked intimately with Van Morrison's projects as well as performing his eclectic style of music with his own group, which now includes his two sons, Tristan and James. He has recently recorded with Bill Wyman and regularly plays with big jazz orchestras in England and on the Continent.

His passion for the power of the blues, jazz, ska and Sixties soul music remains undimmed: "When I do gigs in England I have a lot of young people coming up and asking me to take the back off the Hammond organ to look inside it because they can't believe it makes that noise. They've all been raised on that digital nonsense."

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Flamingo Jazz Club, Soho
The Flamingo club opened it's doors in 1952 in Wardour St., originally called "Jazz at the Mapleton". The Flamingo operated out of a dingy basement until the first half of the 1960s, has become legendary amongst cultural buffs of the city and was recently featured in the BBC2 documentary Soul Britannia, which looked at the history of Soul music in the UK. The club is also referred to in Albert Lee's biography in connection with Chris Farlowe. The Flamingo was THE place to go in 1966 along with the Marquee just down the road and The Ship opposite.

Heaven and Hell in Soho - situated next door but one to the 2is. Another legendary 50s coffee bar in London.








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Bill Wyman´s Rhythm Kings Autumn Tour 2013 (UK) - Various Reviews and photos

 

Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings toured the UK in 2013 – 26 gigs across the country in October and November. The last gig took place at the Royal Theatre Plymouth on 30 November 2013.

Featuring:
Bill Wyman - bass, vocals
Beverley Skeete - vocals, percussion
Terry Taylor - guitar, vocals
Albert Lee - guitar, keyboards, vocals
Graham Broad - drums, backgr vocals
Nick Payn - saxophone, flute, harmonica, backgr vocals
Frank Mead - saxophone, harmonica, percussion, vocals
Geraint Watkins - keyboards, vocals
- Georgie Fame had to pull out after the Manchester gig due to illness -

Special guest:
Maria Muldaur - vocals, percussion


Some Reviews and Photos (follow the links):

• My photos from October gig at the Orchard Theatre in Dartford
• My photos from October gig at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester 
• My photos from November gig at the Symphony Hall in Birmingham, at the Guild Hall in Preston, Venue Cymru Llandudno and the Colosseum in Watford

• Bill Wyman, Actual article and interview with Yorkshire Post, Leeds gig on 12 Nov 2013

• Great review with photos by Fatea.Records on the gig at The Sage Gateshead, 19 Nov 2013
• My photos from Floral Pavilion, New Brighton on 22 November 2013
• My photos from G-Live, Guildford on 23 November 2013
• My photos from the Barbican gig on 25 November 2013
• Review by Music.News on the Barbican Gig on 25 November 2013 
• London Jazz News Review (London Barbican)
• My photos from The Dome, Brighton on 26 November 2013  
• My photos from Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, 27 November 2013

• My photos from Lighthouse, Poole, 29 November 2013
• My photos from Theatre Royal, Plymouth, 30 November 2013