While I’m on the Headhunters kick, check out this tune. Y’all know Paul Jackson, The Black Octopus, right? This is from the 1998 Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters reunion tour. A soundboard recording from a festival in Gainesville, FL, remastered by TheTooleMan. (full recording available to download here: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=364160.
P.S.S. Did you know that Mike Clark & Paul Jackson made an instructional VHS tape called “Rhythm Combination” in 1992? I think it was a Japanese only release. Parts of it are on youtube:
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Second night in New Orleans, back to the Maple Leaf again:
George Porter Jr, Johnny Vidacovich, Marco Benevento & Skerik.
Unfortunately there was no one recording audio this night, so these videos are the only recordings that exist. It was also unfortunate that I didn’t record the sublime gospel piece that Marco & George came up with. After they finished playing it George remarked that he hadn’t brought his recorder so it was all just going “into the air.” George even asked me after the set if I had gotten it, but alas.
Improvisation:
I Don’t Know:
Improvisation?:
Encore: They All Ask’d For You (a classic Meters tune):
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Third night in New Orleans, I couldn’t get into George Porter’s 2am Superjam with Brian Stoltz, Marco Benevento & Adam Deitch at the House of Blues because it sold out, so I ended up, you guessed it, back at the Maple Leaf.
Jacob Fred Fred Jazz Odyssey “Gets Horny” at 3am with Steven Bernstein on slide trumpet, Jeff Coffin on sax, Mark Southerland on all kinds of weird instruments, and Matthew Leland on trombone. It was a near mystical experience, maybe due to the lack of sleep, or maybe it was the haunting sounds coming from the stage, or both.
Excerpt from the Race Riot Suite:
Improvisation No. 1: Tatontious Was Not A Cat
Improvisation No. 2: Kitty Boy Floyd Is A Cat
We left at 5:15 a.m. as JFJO were beginning their second set. I only had three hours of sleep the night before (after being at Tipitina’s till 6 a.m. for Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe’s Cinco De Mayo throwdown) and I had hit the wall. I didn’t feel too bad though, as Steven Bernstein was calling it a night, I mean morning, also…
BTW, what the hell is this instrument Mark Southerland is playing? You should have heard it when he started swinging the tube around in the air. Whoa nellie!
