Rob Walsh

Rob Walsh

Music radio the way it should be, rare beats and sonic treats. I play what I like, which is plenty. Over 120 one hour radio shows! PLUS specials on Lee Perry, Roots Radics & Scientist, soul, R'nB, dub, Studio One, Gregory Isaacs.. and more. I'm also a pompificator and photographer - https://www.instagram.com/roberto.walsh/ Yorkshire, England. read less
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Blowin - 6 Oct 2024
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Blowin - 6 Oct 2024
Crackling & corruscating - some right humdingers on this week's Blowin. Sign up for weekly Blowin playlist: https://podomatic.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=4cccfbf88c39b7cd47092e608&id=af700f8f44 PLAYLIST Sister Nancy – Bam Bam – Dub Store Records, download from Bandcamp https://dubstorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/sister-nancy-bam-bam Nas – Halftime – Greatest Hits CD – Sony - 1992 Sir Victor Uwaifo – Ebibi – Guitar-Boy Superstar 1970-1976 CD – SoundWay Lloyd Charmers (Viceroys?) – Death A Come – Skinhead Revolt CD – Trojan – 1969 Roots Radics & Scientist – Time Passage – Dub Landing Vol 1 & 2 CD – Auralux – 1981 Television – Glory – Adventure CD – Elektra – 1978 Pere Ubu – Non-Alignment Pact – 1988 Prince Fari – Foggy Road – Black Man Land CD – Virgin Front Line – thanks to the Turbynes Wailing Souls – Things & Time – Wailing Souls At Channel One CD – Pressure Sounds Santana – Just In Time To See The Sun – Caravanserai CD – 1972 Gil Evans – Time Of The Barracudas – Individualism Of Gil Evans CD – Universal – 1964 Love – Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark & Hillsdale – Forever Changes CD – Elektra – 1967 Duke Ellington – In A Sentimental Mood – Best Of The Complete Mid-Forties Recordings CD – RCA – 1945 Bukka White – Fixin' To Die Blues – Parchman Farm Blues CD – Blues Collection – 1940 Smog – Cold Blooded Old Times – Knock Knock CD - 1999 Soul Syndicate – Riot – Green Door 7”, produced by Keith Hudson
Neil Young - Echoes
04-09-2024
Neil Young - Echoes
Once upon a time.. there was a massive 12 x CD set of LIVE Neil Young tunes, called Perfect Echo -1967-2002, many from soundboards. Then.. someone edited it down to a single CD of great tunes and called that ECHOES. And that single CD is what you get here. (Big shout out to the Perfect Echo compiler, whoever they were - see the full 12 x CD tracklisting here https://tinyurl.com/4e7297r5 ) 1. Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown (New York 6.3.70) 4.05 Disc 1-1 tk 8 2. Like A Hurricane (Chicago 15.11.76) 11.18 Disc 1-2 tk 13 3. Don’t Be Denied (Dayton Ohio 18.9.83) 5.02 Disc 2-1 tk 6 4. Tonight’s The Night (Santa Cruz 7.2.84) 9.12 Disc 2-1 tk 9 5. Down By The River (Austin 25.9.84) 9.25 Disc 2-1 tk 12 6. Hippie Dream (Minneapolis 17.10.86) 5.13 Disc 2-2 tk 4 7. Forever Young (San Francisco w.Grateful Dead 3.12.91) 6.36 Disc 3-2 tk 2 8. All Along The Watchtower (Booker T & MGs Belgium 3.7.93) 6.51 Disc 3-2 tk 12 9. The Loner (Booker T & The MGs Terhout Belgium 3.7.93) 3.49 Disc 4-1 tk 1 10. Going Home (Booker T & the MGs, Eifel, Germany 18.5.02) 10.19 Disc 5-2 tk 4 11. Violent Side (Crazy Horse, Santa Cruz, 7.2.84) 6.03 Disc 6-1 tk 10 'Compilation of soundboard recordings 1967-2001. Some true soundboards, others FM, TV, ALD, or video-sourced recordings. Taken from CDRs or videos circulating in the trading community.' 'Each track checked out in Cool Edit, and may have had cleanup to remove clicks, hiss, etc. Volume set to have them at similar volumes. Most of banter between tracks removed to make room for more tracks.'
MILES AND MCLAUGHLIN
21-08-2024
MILES AND MCLAUGHLIN
Miles left jazz critics in the dust when his band started using electric instruments in 1969 - mainly keyboards, bass and guitar. Firstly with the In A Silent Way album, closely followed by Bitches Brew and Tribute To Jack Johnson. These albums and subsequent others featured the soaring playing of Yorkshire guitarist John McLaughlin, which is why we're here.. McLaughlin's career started when he went to London in the late 1950s to look for playing opportunities, starting off with a trad jazz outfit. Along the way he played with Clapton, Graham Bond and Ginger Baker, but eventually it became a hand-to-mouth existence and he had to take on sessions with pop singers - Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck, Petula Clark etc. He found this very unsatisfying musically and gave up, discouraged, returning to Doncaster to stay with his mum. Then, during a short period playing free jazz in Germany he heard from his friend, the bassist Dave Holland, who had recently been summoned to play with Miles Davis in New York. Holland said that Miles' drummer, Tony Williams, was starting his own band and wanted John to join. So, early in 1969 McLaughlin ended up in New York playing with Tony Williams' band Lifetime, and was then quickly poached to play on Miles Davis sessions, an astonishing experience for a European jazz player. On the first day with Miles, they recorded In A Silent Way. McLaughlin was so nervous he was drenched with sweat, and had to ask Miles what to play. Miles told him, “Play it like you don’t know how to play the guitar.” Miles gave John his head after that and the tracks on this compilation are chock-full of searing and exhilarating guitar work. As Miles says at some point here, "That's some raunchy shit John!" More details on the tracklisting below. I haven't included tunes from In A Silent Way, my gateway to Miles' electric years (and still one of my top albums) - as that's best heard as a separate album. 1. Maiysha - 5.07 (edit) 7 Oct 1974 - Get Up With It 2xCD 2. Duran take 4 - 5.39 17 March 1970 - Complete Jack Johnson Sessions 5xCD 3. On The Corner early take - 5.15 1 June 1972 - Complete On The Corner Sessions 6xCD 4. Duran take 6 - 11.27 17 March 1970 - Complete Jack Johnson Sessions 5xCD 5. Double Image – 5.52 28 Jan 1970 – Bitches Brew 4CD (Holland, Cobham, DeJohnette, Corea, Zawinul. Maupin, Shorter, John McLaughlin, Moreira) 6. Go Ahead John Part Two A - 7.02 3 March 1970 - Complete Jack Johnson Sessions 5xCD 7. Agharta excerpt – 5.09 1 Feb 1975, Osaka Festival Hall, afternoon(McLaughlin isn't on this session, but you can hear his legacy) 8. Medley: Gemini / Double Image 5.51 6 February 1970 - Live Evil 2xLP 9. On The Corner (edit) - 8.38 1 June 1972 - On The Corner CD
Eric Dolphy - 1960-1964
19-08-2024
Eric Dolphy - 1960-1964
'Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and bandleader. Primarily an alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and flautist, Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence during the same era. His use of the bass clarinet helped to establish the unconventional instrument within jazz. Dolphy extended the vocabulary and boundaries of the alto saxophone, and was among the earliest significant jazz flute soloists.' From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Dolphy Who was Eric Dolphy? Well.. he played with John Coltrane and Charles Mingus, and - in my opinion - his playing was more lyrical, more versatile and more exhilarating than both of them. This compilation covers the period 1960-1964, when he was really coming into his own, both as a bandleader and as a collaborator. Whilst touring Europe in 1964 his undiagnosed diabetes cause him to collapse and fall into a coma. Allegedly, the attending hospital physicians did not know Dolphy was a diabetic and assumed, based on a stereotype of jazz musicians, that he had overdosed on drugs. This is a compilation of my personal Dolphy favourites. I haven't included anything from Out To Lunch, still waiting for my brain to catch up with that. 1 Eric Dolphy - Warm Canto 1961 5.32 The Quest (Dolphy & Waldron) Mal Waldron piano, Joe Benjamin – bass, Ron Carter - cello , Charles Persip – drums 2 Oliver Nelson - Stolen Moments 1961 8.42 – The Blues And The Abstract Truth LP. Eric Dolphy - Alto Sax Flute, Oliver Nelson - Alto & Tenor Sax, George Barrow - Baritone Sax, Paul Chambers – Bass, Roy Haynes – Drums, Bill Evans – Piano, Freddie Hubbard - Trumpet 3 Eric Dolphy – God Bless The Child (live) 1961 5.31 Live - solo bass clarinet, from LP Status 4 John Coltrane - Spiritual (live) 1961 12.49 – live at the Village Vanguard Reggie Workman - Bass, Eric Dolphy - Bass Clarinet, Elvin Jones - Drums, McCoy Tyner - Piano, John Coltrane - Soprano Sax 5 Eric Dolphy - Eclipse - Out There 1960 2.47 Eric Dolphy - Alto Sax, Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, George Duvivier - Bass, Ron Carter - Cello, Roy Haynes - Drums 6 Eric Dolphy – Feathers 5.00 As 5 7 Eric Dolphy - Sketch Of Melba - Out There 1960 4.40 As 5 8 Eric Dolphy - Love Me 1963 3.11 Solo saxophone, Musical Prophet 3xCD, 2019 reissue of Alan Douglas sessions. Orginally on Conversations album. 9 Eric Dolphy - You Don't Know What Love Is (live) 1964 11.22 Last Date, Hilversum, Holland. Eric Dolphy - Flute, Bass Clarinet, Alto Sax, Jacques Schols - Bass, Han Bennink – Drums, Misja Mengelberg – Piano 10 Eric Dolphy – Jitterbug Waltz (a Fats Waller tune) 7.16 Flute - Eric Dolphy, Bass – Eddie Kahn, Drums – J.C. Moses, Trumpet – Woody Shaw, Vibraphone – Bobby Hutcherson