Vineyard Blues

Deep in the Blues is a fascinating jam session between James Cotton, guitarist Joe Louis Walker, and jazz bassist Charlie Haden. The trio runs through a number of classic blues songs written by Muddy Waters, Percy Mayfield, and Sonny Boy Williamson and a few originals by Walker and Cotton. The sound is intimate and raw, which is a welcome change from Cotton's usual overproduced records.

The fourth album from Jon Zeeman is another classic. Intense blues-rock spiked with jazzy elements. A real treat for every connoisseur. From the age of 8, Jon Zeeman has been obsessed with guitars, amplifiers, wah-wah pedals, power tubes, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones. Growing up outside NYC, he studied classical piano and decided on a career in music at the ripe age of 13. Early jobs at IHop and other occupations taught him that the business world, or anything that required waking up early was not for him, and so he spent his high school years practicing more and more and doing less and less homework.

Jon Zeeman's 3rd release features a new direction with 11 great original blues rock songs, with superb vocals. Think Allman bros./SRV meets Hendrix & Johnny Winter. A new Florida twist on a great genre!

John Carter & Bobby Bradford - Mosaic Select 36 (2010) {3CD Set, Mosaic MS-036 rec 1969-1979}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 1.33 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 473 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 56 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1969-79, 2010 Mosaic Records / Revelation | MS-036
Jazz / Post Bop / Trumpet / Saxophone

An amazing collection of music – some of the hippest jazz to ever come out of the west coast scene, and a legendary pairing of trumpeter Bobby Bradford and saxophonist John Carter! Both players have really gone onto leave their mark in later years – but honestly, they almost reached the peak of their powers with these incredible early recordings – beautifully bracing modern jazz, of a sort that somewhat follows an Ornette Coleman lineage, but which also opens up into the new spirituality that was hitting the LA scene in the post-Coltrane years – almost a bridge between the Coleman/Dolphy generation, and the later Nimbus scene that would rise in the west! The music here is stark, simple, and quite organic – yet has an energy that's all its own – an amazing progression of rhythms and horn sounds, wrapped together beautifully through a killer set of original compositions.