Ryland Peter (Ry) Cooder (Los Angeles, 15 maart 1947) is een Amerikaans gitarist en producer. Aanvakelijk werkte hij als slide gitarist. Cooder heeft veel gewerkt als studiomuzikant waarbij hij aan vele film-soundtracks heeft meegewerkt. Cooder verzorgde onder andere de filmmuziek voor Paris, Texas (1984) van Wim Wenders. Ook speelde hij onder meer in Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band.
In 1978 kwam het album Jazz uit ,waarop Ry terug ging naar de Jazzmuziek uit de jaren 20 en 30.Ter gelegenheid hiervan werden er een paar concerten gegeven met veel van de muzikanten die aan dit album meewerkten onder leiding van de co-producer van het album Joseph Byrd.
Dit concert is opgenomen 16 November 1978 in Chicago,Illinois
Maria Helena There,s No Restricted Signs in Heaven
De beelden zijn natuurlijk niet van topkwaliteit,het geluid is matig,maar jongens,wat vind Arthur dit mooi!
Shadrack In A Mist Flashes[instrumental]
Ry about this songs...
Bix Biederbecke,of Davenport.lowa,learned cornet from some of the earliest jazz records amd firsthand from the jazz players to come north from New orleans.
By the time of his death in 1931 at 29,he was a legend among his fellow musisians for his beautiful cornet music.But he was also interested in concert piano and particularly in the impressionistic style that Gershwin later became associated with,,Davenport Blues,, ,,Flashes,, and ,,In a Mist,, are representet here in a salon/jazz context that brings uot the atmosphere of Bix strange music.
Gospel vocal quartet:
Bill Johnson
Jimmy Adams
Clifford Givens
Simon "Pico" Payne
Nobody (Bert Williams)
Ry about Bert Williams..
The great Bert Williams was the first black artist to reach crossover stardom in Vaudeville.He would appear on stage in a broken-down tuxedo and black face(as if to mark the passing of Coon songs and minstrelsey)and recite his sardonic double-edged monologues.He got star billing with Ziegfield,icredible for the times,and his Colombia records like ,,Nobody,, and ,,Samuel the Night Porter,,were big sellers.
Orchestra arranged and conducted by Joseph Byrd
Ry Cooder - acoustic guitar and vocals
with:
David Lindley - mandolin
Art Baron - trombone
Joe Wilder - trumpet
Phillip Bodner - reeds
Walter Kane - reeds
Harvey Pittel - reeds
Tom Collier - vibraphone
Phillip Namenworth - piano
George Duvivier - bass
Mark Stevens - drums
Not only
had we played Antwerp in July of 2009 but we had played the same
beautiful Openluchttheater Rivierenhof,
so we got all that squared away. Lu really love the sound on stage, so
the technical problems of the night before in Amsterdam were completely
behind us. This one did have a rather
unusual ending.(L.W)
