Slagwerkkrant January 2020

 

The Afro Blues Quintet Plus One - New Directions Of The Afro Blues Quintet Plus One

 

The Afro Blues Quintet Plus One - New Directions Of The Afro Blues Quintet Plus One 

Mira Records ‎LP 3010 (1966)

Side One:

1. With A Song In My Heart

2. 3/4-5/4-7/2 (Liquid Landscape)

3. Afro Rock

4. Let My People Go

5. Victims Of Change

Side Two:

1. Mystic Mambo

2. Incantations

3. Freaks

4. Once In A Lifetime

Personnel:

Jim Keltner - drums

Joe DeAguero (Little Joe) - vibraphone 

Jack Fulks - saxophone, flute

William Henderson - piano, bass, vibraphone, flute   

Bill Fitch - percussion 

Norman Johnson - bass

Marcus Mumford - (Self-titled)

 

Marcus Mumford - (Self-titled)

Island Records 4587629 (2022)

Track Listing:

1. Cannibal

2. Grace

3. Prior Warning

4. Better Off High

5. Only Child

6. Dangerous Game

7. Better Angels

8. Go In Light

9. Stonecatcher

10. How

Personnel:

Jim Keltner - Finger Cymbals, Drums, Percussion (tracks: 1,6,9)

Marcus Mumford - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Drums, Vocals, Bass Guitar, Piano, Percussion

Blake Mills - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Organ, Synth, Drums, Percussion, Harmonium, Piano, Vocals, Gamelan, Guitarrón, Celesta, Twelve-String Guitar, Producer

Joseph Lorge - Baritone Guitar

Pino Palladino - Bass

Hideaki Aomori - Bass Clarinet

Sounwave - Drum Programming

Lemar Carter, Steve Ferrone - Drums 

Joseph Lorge - Guitar Synthesizer

Reuben James - Organ, Synth

Aaron Embry, Bryan Stevenson - Piano

Rob Moose - Strings

Abe Rounds - Tambourine

Brandi Carlile, Clairo, Danielle Ponder, Gavin Batty, Monica Martin, Muskers, Phoebe Bridgers - Vocals

Thomas Newman - Flesh And Bone OST

 

Thomas Newman - Flesh And Bone OST

La-La Land Records LLLCD 1597 (2022)

Track Listing:

1. Hinge (Main Title)

2. Blue Dimes

3. Ginnie Steals Ring / Twenty

4. Elliot Tone / Diner ? Ginnie By

5. Two Rode Together

6. Pudge's Warehouse / Gypsy Grandma

7. Moments / Talkin' To Rosie

8. Lazy J

9. Activity

10. Steal You Blind / Horses / Pond

11. Star-Crossed

12. Sink / First Picture / Flesh & Bone

13. Departures

14. Ghosts / The Picture

15. The People In The Picture / Separation

16. Elliot

17. Sour Fortune

18. Surprise (Film Version)

19. Arlis Arrives

20. Baby Kay / That Sound

21. Reckoning / Bruise (Film Version)

22. Everything He Told You (End Title)

Bonus Tracks

23. Hinge (Main Title) (Alternate Mix)

24. Twenty (Alternate)

25. Diner / Ginnie By (Alternate)

26. The Ride Together (Alternate)

27. Activity (Alternate)

28. Sink (Album Mix)

29. Departures (Alternate)

30. Ghosts (Alternate)

31. Surprise (Alternate Mix)

32. Baby Kay (Album Mix)

33. Bruise (Alternate)

34. Bruise (Album Mix)

35. Neutral Strings Wild

Personnel:

Jim Keltner, Michael Fisher - Percussion

Frank Marocco - Accordion

Leland Sklar, Annette C. Atkinson, Buell Neidlinger, Christian C. Kollgaard, Christopher Hanulik, Edward Meares, John Clayton, Margaret A. Storer, Norman Ludwin, Richard Treat, Stephens LaFever - Bass

Armen Ksajikian, Dan Smith, David Shamban, Erica Duke-Kirkpatrick, Jody Rubin, Larry Corbett, Paula Hochhalter, Robert L. Adcock, Sebastian Toettcher, Suzie Katayama, Vage Ayrikyan - Cello

Thomas Newman - Conductor

Thomas Pasatieri - Conductor

Steve Kujala - Flute, Woodwind

Charles F. Smith, Richard Ames Cox - Guitar

George Doering - Guitar, Mandolin, Autoharp

George E. Budd, Ralph E. Grierson - Keyboards

Michael Fisher - Marxophone, Strings [Bowed String]

Jeff Elmassian - Ocarina, Siren, Bass Clarinet

Bill Bernstein - Ocarina, Violin

George Budd - Dulcimer

Chas Smith - Steel Guitar

The Hollywood Studio Symphony

Thomas Newman - Piano, Autoharp

Dan Goldwasser - Producer

Rick Cox - Singing Bowls, Bells, Guitar

Barbra Porter, Carole S. Mukogawa, Dan Lionel Neufeld, David T. Stenske, Denyse N. Buffum, Diane Reedy, Evan N. Wilson, Herschel Wise, Karie L. Prescott, Linda S. Lipsett, Nancy K. Roth, Pamela Goldsmith, Rick Gerding, Robert L. Becker, Scott Haupert - Viola

Adriana Zoppo, Anatoly Rosinsky, Armen Garabedian, Berj Garabedian, Bruce Dukov, Cynthia L. Moussas, Diana Halprin, Dimitrie Leivici, Ezra Kliger, Haim Shtrum, Harris Goldman, Israel Baker, James Getzoff, Jay Rosen, Joel Derouin, Joseph Goodman, Joy Lyle, Maria Newman, Michael B. Markman, Michelle Richards Kikuchi, Peter Kent, Richard L. Altenbach*, Robert Peterson, Roger D. Wilkie, Ronald Folsom, Russ Cantor, Shari Zippert, Shoshana Claman, Sid Page - Violin

Jeff Elmassian - Woodwind

George Harrison Only Liked Drum Machines When Jim Keltner Played Them

 

George Harrison enjoyed drum machines, but only when his friend Jim Keltner played them. The former Beatle was never interested in using the latest technology to record his music. The inhuman-sounding drum machines of the 1980s were at the top of his list of instruments he avoided as much as possible.

However, Keltner did something with the instrument, making it sound just a little better to George.

George Harrison and Jim Keltner became close in the 1980s

Keltner drummed for George’s fellow Beatle, John Lennon. That’s how the pair met. Later, Keltner added drums to tracks on George’s 1987 album Cloud Nine. Keltner was also an unofficial member of the former Beatle’s supergroup, The Traveling Wilburys.

In 1987, George spoke with Anthony DeCurtis (per George Harrison on George Harrison: Interviews and Encounters) about the recording process for Cloud Nine. George had Keltner and his former bandmate, Ringo Starr, as drummers on the album. So, he was in safe hands. Together, the drummers allowed George to keep the album’s sound authentic.

“I always had in mind that when I did this record, I would like to have these proper drummers, and more or less do it like I did it in the late ’60s, early ’70s, which is to say [Jim] Keltner and Ringo,” George said.

“Those two are perfect. Jim is a very great session drummer, and he’s always kept ahead of or up to the technology, so Jim could just as well sit down on his drum kit and play whatever you need. At the same time, if you want to have a machine play it, Jim can play that machine like nobody else, and make it sound like real drums. I mean, he’s called the ‘Stenographer of Soul.'”

If George wanted drum machines, he went to Keltner

As Geoge told DeCurtis, Keltner knew how to play the drum machine. He told Guitar Player that Keltner knew how to make drum machines sound more authentic.

“We only used them on two tracks on the album, I think,” George said. “But Jim Keltner, who is ace as a drummer with a real kit, is the best that I’ve ever heard on the drum machine, too. We loaded all his sounds in, or put him with Ringo’s kick in, and various snare sounds.

“But the engineer got a really full sound. Like the drumming on ‘Mind Set On You’ is all machine. Jim also can make it swing, so it’s not ridged. I don’t mind them on demos, and I don’t mind them when Jim plays them, but basically I don’t really enjoy machines and MIDI and all that DX7.

“Everybody’s got it, and the sound has got so boring. I just wanted to do more live, like a band, with Ringo and them. Nowadays, people are so conscious of perfect timing but I like to have some human element to it. I supposed I’m just old fashion, from that old school.

“I tried to make the record so that I like it, too; fortunately, that’s one of the reasons I like to work with Jeff. He dislikes the things that I dislike about current music and certain sounds.”

George hated drum machines

In his interview with DeCurtis, George continued to say that the music being made in the 1980s sounded the same because they all sampled the same music. Thankfully, Jeff Lynne, George’s co-producer on Cloud Nine, knew how to make drum machines sound good.

“Everything’s become so dependent on sampled sounds,” George explained. “I don’t mind sampled sounds, but rather than find one that’s already in there [referring to synthesizer pre-sets and the like —Ed.]—and this is a great thing about Jeff.

“Say we wanted to sample a snare drum sound, and this is something Keltner pointed out as well. This is the difference between the ‘now’ kind of consciousness where you get this drum sound, put it in your machine, and then you save it onto your disc. This is what Jim and all these engineers and millions of people will do.

“With Jeff, he just gets a good drum sound, say a specific snare drum sound, and he’ll use that. And then, he doesn’t have Keltner saying to him, ‘You mean you don’t have a disc drive on your drum machine? What happens when you want to use it again?’ He said, ‘I don’t use it again, I’ll make another one.’ And I like that idea, I like that approach. Everything, then, is …

“Fresh, yeah. Otherwise, you’ve got people who now are just copying sounds off everybody else’s records, and it becomes like … washing-up liquid [indistinct].”

George was old school in every sense of the word. Fortunately, he had Keltner and Lynne to help him when he did need a drum machine.

Mike Baggetta, Jim Keltner & Mike Watt - Everywhen We Go

 

Mike Baggetta, Jim Keltner & Mike Watt - Everywhen We Go

Big Ego Records BIG022 (2022)

Track Listing:

1. Everywhen We Go

2. This Is Not a Euphemism

3. In The Center

4. Yank It Out

5. Fake Break

6. Not Enough of Time

7. Fearmongers

8. Measure of a Life (Intro)

9. Measure of a Life

10. Everywhen We Go (Slight Return)

Personnel:

Jim Keltner - drums, percussion

Mike Baggetta - acousticuitar,  electric guitar

Mike Watt - bass

Chris Schlarb - producer

Mojo - August 2022

 

Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band - Live at The Greek Theater 2019

 

Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band - Live at The Greek Theater 2019

BFD 819376041858 (2022)

Track Listing:

1. Matchbox

2. It Don’t Come Easy

3. What Goes On

4. Evil Ways

5. Rosanna

6. Pick Up The Pieces

7. Down Under

8. Boys

9. Don’t Pass Me By

10. Yellow Submarine

11. Cut The Cake

12. Black Magic Woman

13. You’re Sixteen

14. Anthem

15. Overkill

16. Africa

17. Work To Do

18. Oye Como Va

19. I Wanna Be Your Man

20. Who Can It Be Now?

21. Hold The Line

22. Photograph

23. Act Naturally

24. With A Little Help From My Friends

Personnel:

Jim Keltner - drums (24)

Ringo Starr - vocals, drums

Steve Lukather - guitar, vocals

Colin Hay - guitar, vocals

Hamish Stuart - bass guitar, guitar, vocals

Gregg Rolie - keyboards, vocals

Warren Ham - saxophone, percussion, vocals

Wally Palmar, Richard Page, Edgar Winter, Eric Carmen, Joe Walsh, Nils Lofgren - vocals

Gregg Bissonette - drums

George Martin - producer

DW50 Founder's Feed - Episode 16 // Classic Keltner

 

Gaby Moreno - Alegoría

 

Gaby Moreno - Alegoría

Sony Records 580424 (2022)

Track Listing:

1. Nobody's Wrong

2. Cuando Nadie Miraba

3. Til Waking Light

4. Si En El Fondo

5. Lost On A Cloud

6. Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow

7. Soñar Otra Vez

8. Dulce Amor

9. Colibrí

10. Lamento

Personnel:

Jim Keltner - Drums (7,9)

Gaby Moreno - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, 12-string Guitar, Producer

Larry Goldings - Hammond B3 Organ

Marc Ribot - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar

Greg Leisz - Slide Guitar

Tony Scherr - Bass

Patrick Warren - Keyboards

Eric Heywood - Pedal Steel Guitar

Chris Thile - Mandolin, Vocals

Davíd Garza - Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Electric Guitar, Hammond B3 Organ

Sebastian Aymanns - Conga, Drums

Noah Georgeson - Synthesizer

Rachel Eckroth - Synthesizer,Piano

Kimon Kirk - Bass

Tyler Chester - Piano, Keyboards, Hammond B3 Organ

Keefus Ciancia - Synthesizer, Keyboards

Elizabeth Goodfellow - Marimbas

Karl Wingate - Background Vocals

Michael Bublé - Higher

 

Michael Bublé - Higher

Reprise Records 093624874850 (2022)

Track Listing:

1. I’ll Never Not Love You

2. My Valentine

3. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

4. Make You Feel My Love

5. Baby I'll Wait

6. Higher

7. Crazy

8. Bring It On Home To Me

9. Don't Get Around Much Anymore

10. Mother

11. Don't Take Your Love From Me

12. You're The First, The Last, My Everything

13. Smile

Personnel:

Jim Keltner, Abe Laboriel Jr., Greg Wells, Russ Miller, Victor Indrizzo - Drums

Michael Bublé - Vocals

Nicholas Jacobson-Larson, Callum Au, David Campbell - Arranger

Greg Wells - Producer, Percussion

Paul McCartney, Bob Rock, Jason "Spicy G" Goldman, Alan Chang - Producer

Alex Hahn, Howard McGill, Matt Richards, Simon Marsh - Alto Saxophone

Allie Feder Kramer, Alvin Chea, Andre Washington, Andrea Jones, Angela Fisher, Anna Schubert, Anna Sheridan, Anthony Parnther, Arnold Geis, Ashley Morgan, Ayo Awosika, Baraka May Williams, Briana Lee, David Daughtry, David Loucks, Dylan Gentile, Edie Lehmann Boddicker, Elissa Johnston, Gerald White, Gregory Fletcher, Holly Sedillos, Jason Morales, Jennifer Hayden-Jones, Jeremy Silver, Kevin Dorsey, Laurhen Beato, Markita Knight, Michael Lichtenauer, Monique Donnelly, Nelson Beato, Nita Whittaker, Randy Crenshaw, Reid Bruton, Rick Logan, Sarah Lynch, Sharon Youngblood, Shelley Scarr, Suzanne Waters, Tiffany Smith, Toiya Barnes, Will Goldman, Will Wheaton - Backing Vocals

Adam Schroeder, Claire McInerney - Baritone Saxophone

Alex Frank, Bosco Mann, Chris Hill, Chuck Berghofer, Dan Krekeler, David Grossman, Eric Shetzen, Erik Kertes, Greg Wells, Gregg August, Jeff Carney, Michael Valerio, Ryan Shaw, Sean Hurley, Thomas Hartem, Jr. - Bass

Claire McInerney - Bass Clarinet

Anthony Parnther - Bassoon

Tom Richards - Arranger, Clarinet, Flute, Tenor Saxophone

Andrew Janss, Charles Tyler, Chris Worsey, Christopher Ahn, David Heiss, Eric Byers, Hillary Ahn Smith, Ian Burdge, Jacob Braun, James Douglas, Julia Bruskin, Julie Jung, Kyeyoung Kwon, Paula Hochhalter, Ru-Pei Yeh, Tim Loo, Vanessa Freebairn Smith, Wendy Sutter - Cello

Dean LeBlanc, Jonathan Sacdalan, Liam Burke, Martin Williams, Pavel Vinnitsky, Rory Mazella, Simon Marsh, Stuart Clark, - Clarinet

Pedro Diaz - English Horn

Heather Clark, Howard McGill, Jennifer Olson, Martin Williams, Rachel Mellis, Simon Marsh, Tara O'Connor, Zac Zinger - Flute

Clay Sears, David Levita, Graham Dechter, Greg Wells, Lyle Workman, Michael Landau, Rusty Anderson, Tommy Emmerton - Guitar

Gayle Levant, Hugh Webb - Harp

Adam Wolf, Anne Scharer, Dan Wions, Dylan Hart, Hugo Valverde, Jennifer Montone, Katelyn Faraudo, Laura Brenes, Mike McCoy, Teag Reaves - Horn

Greg Wells, Jamie Muhoberac, Ross Stanley - Keyboards

Lelie Resnick, Ryan Walsh - Oboe

Rafael Padilla - Percussion

Alan Chang, Greg Wells, Josh Nelson, Michael Mitchell, Michael Pollack - Piano

Chris Sullivan, Martin Williams, Ramsey Castanedas - Tenor Saxophone

Alex Iles, Alistair White, Andrew Martin, Ido Meshulam, Jennifer Wharton, Joseph Fiedler, John Allred, Jon Hatamiya, Lemar Guillary, Mark Frost, Nichol Thomson, Nicholas Daley, Nick Lee, Phillip Keen, Trevor Mires - Trombone

Andy Greenwood, Barry Perkins, Daniel Rosenboom, Harry Ostrander, Jamie Hovorka, Jonah Levy, Louis Dowdeswell, Mike Cottone, Robert Schaer, Ryan DeWeese, Ryan Quigley, Tom Walsh - Trumpet

Andrew Bove, Philip Blake Cooper, Doug Tornquist - Tuba

Adrienne Somerville-Kiamie, Alma Fernandez, Andrew Duckles, Annie Beilby, Bruce White, Danielle Farina, Diana Wade, Erik Rynearson, Irene Breslaw, Jonathan Moerschel, Kaye Musker, Linnea Powell, Luke Maurer, Meredith Crawford, Molly Carr, Monica Davis, Reiad Chibah, Shawn Mann, Shmuel Katz, Stefan Smith - Viola

Ahra Cho, Alison Dods, Alyssa Park, Annaliesa Place, Ashoka Thiagarajan, Benjamin Jacobson, Camille Miller, Catherine Sim, Charlie Bisharat, Charlie Brown, Ciaran McCabe, David Southorn, Duoming Ba, Emily Popham, Eriko Kano, Everton Nelson, Garth Neustadter, Hector Falcon, Ian Humphries, Ina Veli, Jenny Sacha, Joanna Maurer, Josefina Vergara, Josh Henderson, Julia Choi, Justin Smith, Katie Sloan, Kay Stephan, Kelly Cho, Krzysztof Kuznik, Kuan Cheng Lu, Luanne Homzy, Magnus Johnston, Marianna Haynes, Mario DeLeon, Marisa Kuney, Mark Robertson, Megan Shung Smith, Michele Richards, Natalia Bonner, Natalie Leggett, Neel Hammond, Nicky Sweeney, Patrick Kiernan, Paul Cartwright, Richard George, Roberto Cani, Sang Wook Bahng, Sara Perkins, Sarah Thornblade, Shalini Vijayan, Songa Lee, Suzanne Ornstein, Tamara Hatwan, Tom Pigott-Smith, Warren Zielinski, Yurika Mok - Violin

Remembering Charlie Watts

 

Jim Keltner On Jake Feinberg Show

 

Timothy B. Schmit - Day By Day

 

Timothy B. Schmit - Day By Day

CD Baby 5640808609 (2022)

Track Listing:

1. Simple Man

2. The Next Rainbow

3. Heartbeat

4. Mr. X

5. Question of the Heart

6. Something You Should Know

7. I Come Alive

8. Feather in the Wind

9. Grinding Stone

10. Taste Like Candy

11. Conflicted

12. Where We Belong

Personnel:

Jim Keltner - drums (11)

Timothy B. Schmit - guitars, vocals, producer, harmonica, bass, percussion, hand claps, piano, keyboards, tambourine

Jeff Peters - producer

Lindsey Buckingham - guitar, vocals, 

Matt Jardine, Chris Farmer, Jackson Browne, John Fogerty, Darian Sahanaja, Jeddrah, Donna DeLory, Marlena Jeter, Lynne Fiddmont, Mortonette Stevens - backing vocals

John McFee - fiddle

Herman Matthews - drums

Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Randy Ray Mitchell, Hank Linderman, Errol Cooney, Will Ivy - guitar

Benmont Tench, Mike Finnigan, John 'JT' Thomas - organ

Udit Goel - hand claps

David Ralicke - tenor, baritone & alto sax, trombone, trumpet

Arlan Schierbaum - bridge organ, clavinet

Mike Finnigan - organ

Ella Jean Schmit - heartbeat

Phil Jones - drums

Phil Parlapiano - piano, accordion

Vanessa Freebairn-Smith, Zach Dellinger - strings

Clint Walsh - strings arranger

John Thomas - piano

Jim Keltner On Joseph Zigaboo Modeliste

 

“Zig is the originator of New Orleans style drumming, he is my hero.”