The Party Album (Alexis Korner album)

Occupation

  • Zoot Money: Keyboard ( -, -) / song (,)
  • Mel Collins ( -): Tenor-/Sopransaxophon
  • Dick Heckstall -Smith ( - ): Tenor Saxophone
  • John Surman (-, -): Baritone Saxophone / Soprano Saxophone
  • Dick Morrissey (-, ): Tenor Saxophone
  • Kind of theme (-, ): Tenor Saxophone
  • Mike Zwerin (-, ): Trombone
  • Sappho Gillet (): vocals, tambourine
  • Chris Farlowe (-): vocals, tambourine
  • Eric Clapton (-): guitar
  • Colin Hodgkinson: bass
  • Stu Speer: drums
  • Duffy Power ( -): harmonica
  • Paul Jones (-): harmonica
  • Neil Ford (-): guitar

The Party album is a double album by the British blues musician Alexis Korner from 1979, in which participated many of his old companions. Alongside some Blue classics and original Korner It also includes classic jazz numbers.

Genesis

The album was recorded at Alexis Korner's 50th birthday (April 19, 1978) live in the Gatsby Room, Pinewood Studios in London. At the concert Korner had next to blues musicians invited some wind from the jazz scene, with whom he had sometimes played together at the beginning of the 1960s. The musical arrangements come mainly from grains. The concert was specially organized for the WDR Rockpalast and recorded in collaboration with the BBC and filmed. Eighteen months later it also appeared on plate ( initially only for the German market ).

Effect story

The critics of Music Express awarded in 1979 only two stars and said " Relaxed and casual play and Korner ( up to fourteen ) Musicians ... blues and jazz, but really can inspire me, the music still does not, on the contrary, I feel even often referred to as boring. The pieces ( standards such as Spoonful and some Korner title ) lack a bit of drive, also I find the six wind instruments often annoying. Quite good I like only the last page with Chris Farlowe (voc ), Eric Clapton ( g ), Paul Jones ( harm) and a very huge bass solo by Colin Hodgkinson. "

Title list

This does not correspond to the setlist of the evening, because furthermore were played the following pieces in the initial transmission at Rockpalast: Lining Track, Got to Get You Off of My Mind, Help Me, and Louisiana blues.

Editions

The concert recordings - both pieces in big band line-up, then in a quartet line-up and at the end in an informal jam session was first released on a double LP. Some of the pieces were also published in the GDR. The recording has not yet appeared in the Rockpalast DVD series.

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