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| Wet Streets |
| Bill Heid |
első megjelenés éve: 1999
66 perc |
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| (1999)
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| 5.357 Ft
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| 1. | 400,000 Miles
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| 2. | Birds Flapping Their Wings
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| 3. | This Little Puppy
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| 4. | Covert Ops
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| 5. | Bar B Que Sauce
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| 6. | Fall Tones
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| 7. | Tsun Hun
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| 8. | Big John
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| 9. | Little George Von
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| 10. | Rubber Marshmallows
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| 11. | Wet Streets
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Jazz / Ballads, Soul-Jazz, Jazz Blues
Bill Heid - Hammond Organ
Scott 'E. Dog' Peterson - tenor saxophone/soprano saxophone
Russ Miller - tenor saxophone/alto saxophone/soprano saxophone/flute
Randy Gelespie - drums
Of the three organ combo CD's Heid has recently released he considers this his best. It's different in that he employs two saxophonists, Scott Peterson and Russ Miller. They're excellent foils, for each other and the leader. Add drummer Randy Gelespie, an uncrowned king of the kit, and you have a recording unique unto itself, sporting an ultimately provocative approach beyond that of any other B-3 date you may have ever heard.
On this project Heid also sounds out-of-body, even more animated. His approach is more as a space filler, comping and urging his front liners with pungent, stinging lines that swell and expand. In a more orchestral fashion, he supplies the foundation to this rich, meaty stew. All of the eleven compositions are written by Heid, and they're far from typical chitlin laced groove biscuits, going past standard musical nomenclature. You'l hear latin informed numbers, straight ahead or hard funk variations, slow and spooky or hard bop flagwavers, and undeniably bluesy and soulful underpinnings. This group attacks the music, Peterson's wailing tenor solos and Miller's prismatic diversity, shining whether on alto, tenor, soprano or flute. Their contributions make the music happen, especially when they play unison lines as on "Covert Ops." The most impressive piece is the modal, ultra-modern "Tsun Hun" evoking images of Heid's influences, Larry Young and McCoy Tyner. Heid is like greased lightning on his runs, the saxes grind, Peterson on soprano reaches for the stratosphere, and the sound goes way beyond the norm. Heid also has a penchant for dedicational titles like "400,000 Miles" (he's the -Guiness record holder for miles hitch-hiked, ) "This Little Puppy" (for his recently deceased Corgi, ) the out-and-out groove number "Big John" (for Big John Patton, ) and the hard bopper "Rubber Marshmallows." Heid is going to demand your attention before much more time passes. His refusal to be strident and predictable is his greatest quality, but he's also a undeniable virtuoso, and as imaginative a musician as there is out there. Highly recommended. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide
Bill Heid
Active Decades: '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Aug 11, 1948 in Pittsburgh, PA
Genre: Jazz
Keyboardist/vocalist Bill Heid was born August 11, 1948 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A natural and virtuosic musician who was inspired to play jazz and blues by listening to the radio, he played in both piano and organ groups. His brother is the well-respected drummer and producer George Heid. Originally influenced by Jimmy Smith and Don Patterson, Heid heard the chitlin' circuit greats at the Hurricane Bar, including Smith and Patterson, Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff and Dr. Lonnie Smith. Down the street at the Crawford Grill were the jazz bands led by Freddie Hubbard, Max Roach, Gene Harris, Bobby Timmons and Wynton Kelly. On occasion he would sit-in with some of those groups and pester them for information. Spending time in Chicago and later in New York, he met and hung out with his mentor, Larry Young, often visiting the family-owned Newark Club in Young's hometown of Newark, New Jersey. He also was privy to playing with the best organ drummers like Joe Dukes and Billy James. And he heard the local contingent of jazz greats like Ahmad Jamal, Art Blakey, Erroll Garner, George Benson, Eddie Jefferson, Mary Lou Williams and Stanley Turrentine. His quest for musical knowledge found him on the road when in 1963, in search of rare 78 r.p.m. rhythm and blues record, he began a journey career of hitchhiking. He did this in the contiguous 48 U.S. states, through Canada, Mexico, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, China and the Thailand/Cambodia border. His over 400,000 documented miles of thumbing a ride gained Heid a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records. Some of his journeys led him to the so-called chicken houses and organ rooms of major cities where he interned with Jimmy Witherspoon, Jimmy Ponder, Sonny Stitt, Grant Green, David ‘Fathead' Newman, Ira Sullivan, Mickey Roker, and was a pianist with Don Patterson. A move to Chicago brought him closer to the urban blues as he worked or recorded with Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and especially Son Seals, Koko Taylor, Fenton Robinson and Roy Buchanan. He also did two LP's and played in the bands of contemporary jazz guitarist Henry Johnson. Moving to Detroit, he spent two decades there playing in his own groups, and helping to revive the career of the local legend of blues guitar and vocals, Johnnie Bassett as the music director of his Blues Insurgents, and backed the veteran singer Alberta Adams. During and since his time in Detroit, Heid was found making music soundtracks for adult films in Los Angeles, then was touring worldwide for the U.S. State Department as a jazz ambassador, particularly on tours of Japan and Vietnam. In August 2003, Heid played more of the Pacific Rim in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Upon moving back east, he is heard on organ and piano engagements at various venues in the Washington, D.C. area. Of his mind-set, Heid was quoted as saying "I can't live a day without playing 1-4-5s," incorporating those standard blues changes with cool McCoy Tyner minor riffs, vicious funk songs in Japanese, and what he calls Talifunk. "I approach this thing like total war and have been lucky to have avoided a day job." His hip vernacular, unique vocal language and risque sense of humor, melded with his passion for baseball, has made him an entertainer non-pariel.
---Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide |
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