Attention James Booker Fans! Interesting Audio Documentary - Blues Piano Genius
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- If you're fan of New Orleans blues piano legend, James Booker, you'll enjoy this audio documentary. bluespianosheet... BLUES PIANO SHEETS "Keeping The Blues Alive" The all new channel for pianists looking for real professional blues sheet music.
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Attention James Booker Fans! Interesting Audio Documentary - Blues Piano Genius
• Attention James Booker...
“It’s true..I’m crazy over you..” Without question, my favorite musician. Lord Booker, I wish life would have treated you better. I think of you often. I know you are finally at peace. 🎼🙏🏻❤️
Mr. Blues Piano Sheets, thank you for the good memories, Sir! And not so good ones in "Angola", for him.
He loved to be in Yurrope. :) Germany LOVED him. From one who knows... :)
A sad story of a brilliant piano player, may James Rest in Peace 🙏- a line from an Earth Wind & Fire song “ sounds never dissipate, they only recreate in another place in time” so must James Booker’s Piano riffs 🙏
How fortunate was I to have seen Booker perform live in NOLA when I was a young man in my 20s. Though my memories of those years have become clouded (because that's what happens in NOLA), I remember the first time I saw him was at Tipitina's, where Napoleon Avenue ends at the Mississippi River. Also used to see Professor Longhair in many of the same joints. Those were the days.
You're very fortunate to have had that experience. Priceless, yep those were the days
The Master of the piano, hands down! Fantastic talent always burn out too soon! Rest peaceful in Paradise Ivory Emperor.
Thank you so much for this upload! You helped me discover a genius. Even a more amazing human being. Gone to soon!
I wish someone could just make a bunch of cds of all of the James Bookers' unpublished music. Wow could that guy play everything! I wish I could have met him and listened to him live. I also love the mix of blues and classical music. :)
'The Black Liberace' is a BBC Radio 4 radio documentary presented by Joe Boyd on the late great New Orleans pianist James Booker. He was asked to do it (1) because he produced Booker’s first solo album in 1976 and (2) the BBC 'liked my dulcet tones'.
Thanks so much for posting this extraordinary audio documentary. Booker is perhaps the most significant, under-recognized musician in the history of New Orleans music. Legendary, almost mythical, by those in 'the know' but almost unheard of by the general music-listening public. Alas, the brilliance of his musicianship was almost matched by his craving for chemical bliss and his best not-talked-about (especially in 1969 Louisiana) and generally unrequited passion for younger white men. A tragically gifted man, New Orleans' best one-eyed, gay, Black, piano-playing junkie left this incarnation too soon. But while he was here----didn't he ramble!
James was the best. unlike any other
Supposedly, Jimmy Smith -- Bach of the Hammond b3 -- went to NOLA and played a concert. After the concert, Booker approached Smith & said he liked the playing but that Smith had made a mistake. An incredulous Smith asked, "Where?" Booker then sat down and replayed the song where the mistake was at. Then he replayed the song backwards, note-for-note to a stupefied Smith.
David Kunian of WWOZ did a two CD audio documentary for WWOZ and I got it for as a bonus for joining WWOZ during their pledge drive. It's a classic.
that's now on youtube, and its great
@@jimdixon3470 I'll look for them , my cd's are worn out.
Thanks so much for uploading this! And being able to hear from the guy who recorded "Junco Partner"? Incredible, invaluable recording!
Love this but also frustrating. Producers had a national treasure in their studios, and they should have paid him more. Same with the Magnolia Bar. Drinks on the house don’t feed the soul. James Booker was certainly more together and talented than many highly-paid stars today. So, when I hear “successful” voices (producers, musicians, historians) laid over tracks of his priceless talent, I am saddened by the wage discrimination of that era. These tributes are all so late in coming. #LongLiveJamesCarrolBooker #BetterLateThanNever #JuncoPartner
Very True
For me James Bookers is the best piano player that I see in blues and songs and Glen Gould the best in classical music…
There are probably a lot of Booker concert tapes from his tour in Europe. Would love to hear them.
Thanks so much, I see him 1975 live, I did'n know him, but I have the most extraordinary impact in my life, as a human been and as a musician...., I make a casette that night he was playing with johnny guitar watson, and some other artist, and from that moment I have to buy all his albums...His voice was unique and genuin as Bob Dylan's, it was like listening to one amerinan native Indian singing in the colarado canyons.....
What an amazing performer in spite of!!!
Great stuff, very interesting!
Just Great! THanks, Jay
thank you for posting this.
Thanks for posting. Great.
Yes, all these tunes are on James' albums.
This story is so unfinished, I keep coming back to it hoping that it will continue, and that I recollected improperly. He died in 1983, and never finished his journey, such a stale and brutal loss. He never reached his true potential.
Dr. John and Harry Connick Jr. learned how to play the Keyboard/Piano/Organ from the the great James Booker! James Booker is the King of the piano! :)
Mac also was an admirer of Professor Longhair.
@@brickboo1 Professor Longhair was good too, he was good to Dr. John too!
Bookers playing sounding like the whole band is what his idol Jelly Roll Morton did.
Hi, I'm wondering if you all know where I might be able to find an accurate transcript of this audio documentary as well as information about who created the documentary, etc. Let me know if you can...thanks!
something special
Does anyone have any of those personal Booker cassettes???
Booker was the Van Gogh of the piano and Van Gogh was the James Booker of the paint canvas. Both died before the rest of the world could catch up to them.
Hi, I'm wondering if there is a way I could find out where all the recordings used in this video are from? like the classical ones? and everything really.
Steven Hobert Hi Steven, great question, Regarding the classical ones, I only wish I had the answer. Some of it was recorded at the BBC Maida Vaie recording studio in London. Hopefully someone else can shed more light on this.
Greg
Steven Hobert
A lot of these are actually on his albums...google them....some are on bootlegs too.
Go to the Louisiana Music Factory on Frenchmen Street in New Orleans, they should have all this on different lps and cds. Everything I've heard on this great documentary, I have on cd's or vinyl. Most of which I purchased at the LMF.