BTW, I notice this old e-mail mentions Melvin Sparks. For those
interested parties, he's playing at the Elbo Room in Chgo next month.
Bernard Prettie Purdie (he's played with just about everyone including
Gil Scott-Heron and Reuben Wilson) plays there with local Chris Foreman
and guitarist George Freeman this Saturday. But get there early or buy
tics in advance through evil Ticketmaster, cause the room fills up fast
...
Cheers,
dawn
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> From: Funk To The Folks[SMTP:beatbop@tiac.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 1998 9:11 AM
> To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: b3 heaven/lonnie smith
>
> For any Organ addicts and otherwise interested parties:
>
> There's an album coming out in late February called "Charles Earland's
> Organ Summit" that could very well be an incredibly sick affair. It
> was
> recorded live last year at the DuSable (sp?) Museum of
> African-American
> History in Chicago and features a pretty amazing lineup: "The Mighty
> Burner" (of course), Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jimmy McGriff and the late
> Johnny
> "Hammond" Smith (his final performance). I think at one point they've
> got
> all four on stage at once.
>
> It's on a label called Cannonball out of Minneapolis that is also
> doing new
> stuff by Melvin Sparks, Idris Muhammad, Pucho & The Latin Soul
> Brothers and
> Reuben Wilson. Ron Levy, a great B3 player himself (he was with B. B.
> King
> for 7-8 years in the '70s and has played with every blues guy and gal
> under
> the sun) owns and runs the label. Definitely check it out. They must
> have a
> homepage, but I haven't seen it yet.
>
> See ya,
>
> B.Ski.C
> Beantown
>
> p.s. As far as I know, Dr. Lonnie Smith lives in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
> still
> and performs pretty regularly with Lou Donaldson, and occasionally
> does
> solo gigs. He played in Boston about a year-and-a-half ago with his
> own
> group and it was amazing.
>
>
>
>
>