T.V. Slim

Backgrounder: Leon Spencer's 'Louisiana Slim'

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
April 22, 2022

Leon Spencer Jr. was and remains my favorite organist. In the early 1970s, he was part of Prestige's stable of soul-jazz musicians who recorded relentlessly as leaders and sidemen on other artists' albums. One of my first albums purchased, in 1971, was Spencer's Louisiana Slim. Backing Spencer were Virgil Jones (tb) Grover Washington, Jr. (ts, flute), Melvin Sparks (g) Idris Muhammad (d) and Buddy Caldwell (congas)—the classic Prestige lineup at the time. Bob Porter produced and the engineer was Rudy ...
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Linda, Slim and David

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 21, 2019

This week in The Wall Street Journal, I interviewed retired singer Linda Ronstadt for my “House Call" column in the Mansion section (go here). We talked about growing up in Arizona, singing around her family house, Linda's fondness for Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney, and her new diagnosis (it's not Parkinson's). Here's Linda singing Tracks of My Tears in 1975... Jan Menu. Following my post on 10 Gerry Mulligan tribute albums, readers wanted to know a little more about baritone ...
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Perfect Album: Louisiana Slim

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
March 21, 2019

One of my favorite 1970s Hammond organists is Leon Spencer Jr. Along with Melvin Sparks (g) Idris Muhammad (d) and Buddy Caldwell (cga), Spencer was a virtual house organist for Prestige during that decade. In addition to recording behind Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons, Spencer was on several Blue Note albums by Lou Donaldson. In between, Spencer recorded a handful of leadership albums for Prestige. His finest album, Louisiana Slim, is perfect on every score. Recorded in 1971 and produced ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Memphis Slim

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September 3, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Memphis Slim's birthday today!

Memphis Slim - Blues Pianist and composer Memphis Slim would take the Blues to places it never imagined. He was a prolific author of many enduring classics of the Blues lexicon, including “Mother Earth,” “Everyday I Have the Blues,” and countless others. But as a performer, his everlasting significance was in opening unexpected doors, and letting the music take wing in places where it had never extended...Memphis Slim - Blues Pianist ...
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David Byrne and Fatboy Slim: Here Lies Love Due 02/23

Source: JamBase
December 15, 2009

David Byrne & Fatboy Slim To Release Here Lies Love on Todomundo / Nonesuch February 23

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim have paired up for a 22-track song cycle about the life of former First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos and her childhood servant, Estrella Cumpas. Due February 23 on Todomundo / Nonesuch Records, the album includes a 100-page book detailing the project and a DVD.

In addition to Byrne and Fatboy Slim, Here Lies Love features performances by ...
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Supergenerous:Sao Paulo Slim

Source: JamBase
April 7, 2009

By: Dennis Cook

A bundle of sweet, expertly molded madness, Sao Paulo Slim (OMM) harks back to early Caetano Veloso with splashes of Bonzo Dog Band, Captain Beefheart and the Sun City Girls--all purveyors of sublime perversity that's a ball to imbibe. Released last year, Slim is the byproduct of a rich collaboration between Cyro Baptista (percussion), Kevin Breit (guitar) and newest member Ian de Souza (bass). Unlike some of their more horn honking, noisemaker swinging forebears, Supergenerous has an ...
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Too Slim & the Taildraggers Guitarist/Leader Tim "Too Slim" Langford Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2009

Listening to Too Slim & The Taildraggers is, as one reviewer put it, .".. like taking a journey through the history of American music." Absorbing everything he could at first, Tim “Too Slim" Langford, lead guitarist and vocalist for the group, today plays what he likes. Although his focus at first may have been blues, today what Langford likes may encompass everything from down home blues, to funky blues rock, Americana, southern swamp rock and instrumental guitar styles.

This works ...
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Correspondence: On Slim Gaillard

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
July 13, 2008

Rifftides reader Ries Niemi reflects on the Slim Gaillard performance in the clip from Hellzapoppin'.

It's interesting to contrast this with one of the very last Slim Gaillard clips I have seen, in the movie Absolute Beginners, from 1986. Gaillard was in real life what he plays in that movie- one of the midwives of the birth of postmodernism in music.

The novel Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes, on which the movie is based, is part of a trilogy about ...
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Watermelon Slim & the Workers Win Two Top Industry Honors for "Band of the Year" and "Album of the Year"

Source: Just Roots PR
May 14, 2008

The NorthernBlues Music release The Wheel Man wins “Album of the Year" over peers Koko Taylor, Bettye LaVette and Jimmie Vaughan.

Watermelon Slim and the Workers won a pair of awards at the Memphis-based Blues Foundation's 2008 Blues Music Awards (formerly W.C. Handy Awards) on Thursday May 8, 2008 at the Grand Casino Event Center in Tunica, Mississippi.

Watermelon Slim is a relatively new luminary of the blues, rapidly building a career behind four albums and constant touring. In 2008 ...
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Too Slim and the Taildraggers Bring the Blues to Mid-Michigan

Source: All About Jazz
October 6, 2007

Bay City, MI -- Too Slim and The Taildraggers will be the concert headliner at Indian Barry's located at 505 E. Midland St. Bay City, MI 48706. Opening for Too Slim and the Taildraggers will be special guests: Scott Baker and the Universal Expressions, Quinn Keon and starting the show at 7:30 pm will be The Thunderchickens.

Currently, Seattle WA's Too Slim and the Taildraggers are #9 on the Billboard charts for their top selling Blues album The Fortune Teller. ...
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