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