Bob Dylan - "Every Grain of Sand"

 

"Every Grain of Sand" is a song written by Bob Dylan, recorded in Los Angeles in the spring of 1981 and released in August of that year on Dylan's album Shot of Love. It was subsequently included on the compilation Biograph. An early version of the song, recorded in September 1980 and featuring Jennifer Warnes on backing vocal, was released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 

Every grain of sand  Bob Dylan 1981 from Lax River on Vimeo.

 

EMILY REMLER (September 18, 1957 – May 4, 1990)

Emily Remler (September 18, 1957 – May 4, 1990) was an American jazz guitarist, active from the late 1970s until her death in 1990

 Born in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey,^[1] Remler began guitar at age ten. She listened to pop and rock guitarists like Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Winter. At the Berklee College of Music in the 1970s, she listened to jazz guitarists Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, Herb Ellis, Pat Martino, and Joe Pass.^[2]

 

  

How Intensive (Jobim) 

 Remler settled in New Orleans, where she played in blues and jazz clubs, working with bands such as Four Play and Little Queenie and the Percolators before beginning her recording career in 1981. She was praised by jazz guitarist Herb Ellis, who referred to her as "the new superstar of guitar" and introduced her at the Concord Jazz Festival in 1978.

In a 1982 interview with People magazine, she said: "I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old, heavy-set black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery."

  

Tenor Madness ( Sonny Rollins) 

 Her first album as a band leader, Firefly, gained positive reviews, as did Take Two and Catwalk. She recorded Together with guitarist Larry Coryell. She participated in the Los Angeles version of Sophisticated Ladies from 1981–1982 and toured for several years with Astrud Gilberto. She also made two guitar instruction videos.

  

  "Blues For Herb."

 In 1985, she won Guitarist of the Year in Down Beat magazine's international poll. In 1988, she was artist in residence at Duquesne University and the next year received the Distinguished Alumni award from Berklee. Bob Moses, the drummer on Transitions and Catwalk, said, "Emily had that loose, relaxed feel. She swung harder and simpler. She didn't have to let you know that she was a virtuoso in the first five seconds."

    

'Secret Love'

 Remler married Jamaican jazz pianist Monty Alexander in 1981; the marriage ended in 1984. Thereafter, she had a brief relationship with Coryell following her first divorce.^[5]

Her first guitar was her brother's Gibson ES-330. She played a Borys^[6] B120 hollow body electric towards the end of the 1980s. Her acoustic guitars included a 1984 Collectors Series Ovation and a nylon string Korocusci classical guitar that she used for bossa nova.

  

 Red Blues Bossa Nova

 When asked how she wanted to be remembered she remarked, "Good compositions, memorable guitar playing and my contributions as a woman in music...but the music is everything, and it has nothing to do with politics or the women's liberation movement."

  

 Remler bore the scars of her longstanding addictions, including dilaudid, and heroin (which is believed to have contributed to her death). She died of heart failure at the age of 32 at the Connells Point home of musician Ed Gaston, while on tour in Australia.

                                          Emily Remler 18 September 1957-4 mei 1990 

Nederlanse Emily Remler Website http://www.emilyremler.nl/index.html 

 Officiele site www.allthingsemily.com

Life is a lot like jazz. . . it’s best when you improvise. — George Gershwin

Van Morrison - Jazz Gent (Belgium) 17 July 2015

(foto Arthur)

10 jaar geleden (min een week) stond ik voor hetzelfde podium,toen een een prachtconcert van Van Morrison(zie mijn eerdere blogberichten).Deze keer waren mijn verwachtingen niet zo hooggespannen(mijn laatste VM concerten waren toch wat aan de vlakke kant)maar dat was volkomen onterecht.Het werd een formidabel optreden,Van in grote vorm ,begeleid door een geweldige band.

De setlist: 

                                                                     1.Celtic swing
                                                                     2.Close enough for jazz
                                                                     3.By his grace

                                          (film by Hans van Bruinessen)
                                           4.Carrying a torch (  Dana Masters ,vocals))
                                             

                                 5.Baby please don't go (plus medley)

                                         (film by Arthur)

                                        6.I believe to my soul
                                        7.Moondance
                                        8.Days like this
                                        9.Precious time
                                       10.Tore down a la Rimbaud
                                       11.Enlightenment
                                 

                                          (film by Arthur)

                                         12.In the afternoon ( Burn baby burn)
                                         13.Whenever God shines ( with Dana Masters.vocals))
                                         14.Think twice before you go

                                            (film by Arthur)
                                          15.It's all over now baby blue

                                          (Film by Hans van Bruinessen)

                                           16.And the healing has begun
                                           17.Help me

Van Morrison verlaat het podium het podium en in de meeste gevallen komt Van terug met als toegift het onvermijdelijke Gloria. Het blijkt maar weer ,het is een bijzonder avond,de gitaren worden teruggezet en volkomen onverwacht zet Van Morrison het prachtige Ballerina in,een van de hoogtepunten van een toch al prachtige avond.

                                         (film by Huub Kurstjens)
                                        18.Ballerina
                                        19.Gloria  

Na precies 90 minuten verlaat VM het podium (jawel Van is nog steeds een man van de tijd)de band gaat nog even lekker los met Gloria ,en het is afgelopen.Een gedenkwaardige avond en wat mij betreft

                                          Van Morrison is Back On Top!!!

                                                   Big hand For The band
Paul Moran -Keyboard/Trompet,David Keary - Gitaar, Paul Moore -Bass,Robbie Ruggiero-Drums
Dana Masters - Vocals