Saturday Music Club: some concerts and such, mostly rock, some jazz-pop

Some better recorded than others...

Aretha Franklin on The Steve Allen Show for Westinghouse stations and national syndication by them (the series that most influenced David Letterman's '80s chat show work), 1964...piano not always mic'd correctly, alas. (Clips-series repeats after first play.) 

"Lover, Come Back to Me"

"Rockabye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody"

"Won't Be Long"

"Skylark"

"Evil Gal Blues"

...then repeats the same sequence.

Fanny: 1971-73. and some later, television and related performances (click link for video combo, or this one for Beat Club gig in entirety.)

FLiP: Love the Toxic City, 2020

01. Tarantula - 0:00 02. ニル・アドミラリ - 3:26 03. カザーナ - 6:44 04. Dear Miss Mirror - 11:04 05. Shut Up, Men! - 14:14 06. 二十億光年の漂流 - 18:47 07. かごめかごめ - 22:22 08. ライラ - 26:26 09. Raspberry Rhapsody - 30:07 10. darkish teddy bear - 34:25 11. ホシイモノハ - 37:30 12. a will - 41:36 13. 永遠夜~エンヤ~ - 47:29 14. Log in “Rabbit Hole” - 53:27 15. CHERRY BOMB - 57:09 16. カミングアウト- 1:00:57 17. カートニアゴ - 1:04:17 18. 最後の晩餐 - 1:08:36 19. Bat Boy! Bat Girl! - 1:12:36 -Encore- 20. 平成ジュラシック - 1:18:51 21. ナガイキス - 1:24:45

The Dream Syndicate at Rockpalast, 2017

1. Halloween 00:00:00 2. The Circle 00:06:48 3. 80 West 00:11:03 4. Armed With An Empty Gun 00:15:07 5. Like Mary 00:19:28 6. Out Of My Head 00:24:50 7. Filter Me Through You 00:28:50 8. Burn 00:32:33 9. Whatever You Please 00:38:12 10. Medicine Show Go 00:42:03 11. How Did I Find Myself Here 00:45:31 12. Forrest For The Trees 00:56:06 13. That’s What You Always Say 01:00:19 14. The Days Of Wine & Roses 01:04:30 15. Interview 01:11:41 16. Glide 01:15:07 17. Boston 01:20:58 Steve Wynn - lead vocals, guitar;  Jason Victor - guitar, backing vocals; Mark Walton - bass, backing vocals; Chris Cacavas - keyboards, backing vocals; Dennis Duck - drums

Bôa: Acton Live

1. Ambula - 0:00 2. Bitch - 1:40 3. Disco - 5:08 4. DIY - 9:13 5. Freakshow - 16:51 6. Headstrong - 19:52 7. I Am A Woman - 23:57 8. I Love You - 29:33 9. It Could Be Better - 34:27 10. Love Peace Harmony - 37:27 11. Smooth Water - 41:47 12. Snake - 45:27 13. Welcome - 50:14 14. Who Are You - 56:07 15. You're Wrong - 1:00:55 Ed Herten - Drums; Alex Caird - Bass; Ben Henderson - Sax; Paul Turrell - Keyboards; Steve Rodgers - Guitar, vocals; Jasmine Rodgers - Vocals

Jawbox live at the Black Cat, 2022

:00:57 FF=66 0:03:49 Mirrorful 0:06:51 Nickel Nickel Millionaire 0:09:53 Reel 0:13:23 68 0:16:50 Desert Sea 0:20:02 Won't come off 0:23:19 Spoiler 0:25:49 Consolation Prize 0:29:19 Grip 0:33:46 Lowdown 0:36:34 Under Glass 0:38:22 Static 0:42:05 Ones and Zeros 0:45:09 Send Down 0:48:33 Iodine 0:52:04 Livid 0:56:20 Cruel Swing 0:58:56 Motorist 1:02:44 Jackpot Plus 1:06:09 Savory 1:20:30 U-Trau 1:15:50 Cornflake Girl

The Zombies, Colingswood NJ, 2018

Road Runner 

The Look of Love 

I Want You Back Again 

I Love You 

Sanctuary 

Moving On Edge of the Rainbow 

Tell Her No 

You've Really Got a Hold on Me/Bring It On Home to Me 

Chasing the Past 

Care of Cell 44 

This Will Be Our Year 

I Want Her She Wants Me 

Time of the Season 

Hold Your Head Up 

She's Not There 

God Gave Rock and Roll to You

The Go! Team US tour 2018

1. Flashlight Fight 2. Mayday 4:40 3. Ladyflash 9:34 4. The Answer’s No 13:42 5. Hey! 18:37 6. Semicircle Song 22:27 7. Chainlink Fence 26:26 8. Get It Together 30:29 9. Rolling Blackouts 34:20 10. Everyone's a VIP to Someone 38:35 11. Huddle Information 43:06 12. All the Way Live 47:26 13. Keys to the City 51:53 14. She’s Got Guns 57:01 15. The Power Is On 1:01:07

Underappreciated Music: August selections: Aretha Franklin memorial, Leonard Bernstein centennial month

The monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you readers/listeners of...Aretha Franklin's funeral happened yesterday, among other remembrance (and, sadly, inevitably, more deaths); August 18th was the centennial of the birth of Leonard Bernstein. 

Patti Abbott: night music

Brian Arnold: Billy Preston: "That's the Way God Planned It"


Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos

Paul D. Brazill: A Song for Saturday

Jim Cameron: Farewell to Aretha;  Bobby Hutcherson: Smokin' at Montreaux

Sean Coleman: The Kinks: Arthur, or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire

Jeff Gemmill: Top 5s; Suzanne Vega: Solitude Standing;  Jane Willow: Q&A; Mikaela Davis: Delivery; Aretha Franklin in Concert, 2014; Aretha Franklin R.I.P.; Shelby Lynne: Here I Am; Mikaela Davis: Disposable Camera

Keiko Hassler: X: "Some Other Time"; "White Girl"


Jerry House: Roger Miller & William Hauptmann/Original Cast: Big River; Hymn Time; Music from the Past


Jackie Kashian: Kristen Studard on dance music

George Kelley: Aretha Franklin: The Atlantic Singles Collection 1967-1970;  Aladdin: The Musical; Ben Yagoda: The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song

Kate Laity: Song for a Saturday

Steve Lewis: Music I'm Listening To

Barry Malzberg: Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic: "Francesca da Rimini" (Pyotr Tchaikovsky) and

Tuba Skinny: "Tom Cat Blues"


J. Eric Mason: Madeleine Peyroux: "All My Heroes"


Todd Mason: Aretha Franklin: Rest in Glory; gods of rock (including Franklin and Ray Charles in duet)

Inez Matthews: "Stay Well"


Laura Nakatsuka: Nikodimos Kabamos: Kratimata in Mode 1 and

Azi Schwartz: Hasidic Kaddish


Andrew Orley: The Young-Holt Trio: "Ain't There Something That Money Can't Buy?"


Charlie Ricci: The Hooters: "All You Zombies", "Fightin' on the Same Side"/"Wireless"; John Prine: John Prine; Jakob Dylan: Seeing Things 

Richard Robinson: Miklos Rozsa, the Victor Symphony Orchestra and Sabu Dastagir: Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book

Jeff Segal: Superorganism: "The Prawn Song"; "Night Time"; "Something for Your M.I.N.D."


W. Royal Stokes: Tony Pringle and the New Black Eagle Jazz Band

George Russell and the Swedish Radio Jazz Orchestra: Vertical Form VI

"Event I" - 9:07 "Event II" - 15:03 "Event III" - 4:36 "Event IV" - 9:24 "Event V" - 1:59 Recorded in Estrad, Sodertalje, Sweden on March 10, 1977.
George Russell - conductor, arranger Arne Domnérus - soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet Ian Uling - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, flute Lennart Åberg, Bernet Rosengren - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute Erik Nilsson - baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, flute Americo Bellotto, Bertil Lövgren - trumpet, flugelhorn Håken Nyquist - trumpet, flugelhorn, french horn Jan Allan - trumpet, french horn Ivar Olsen - french horn Lars Olofsson, Bengt Edvarsson, Jörgen Johansson - trombone Sven Larsson - bass trombone, tuba Rune Gustafsson - guitar Stefan Brolund - electric bass Bronislav Suchanek, Lars-Urban Helje - acoustic bass Björn Lind - electric piano Vlodek Gulgowski - synthesizer, electric piano Monica Dominique - celeste, organ, electric piano, clavinet Lars Beijbon, Leroy Lowe - drums Sabu Martinez - congas

The Brubeck Quartet and the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein: Brubeck Plays Bernstein Plays Brubeck


Bernstein/NYP: Dialogues for Jazz Combo and Symphony Orchestra (Howard Brubeck)
Brubeck Quartet: "Maria"; "I Feel Pretty"; "Somewhere"; "A Quiet Place"; "Tonight"
Brubeck Quartet: Jazz Impressions of Japan (apparently added as a bonus to BPBPB)

Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles: "Spirit in the Dark"

Aretha Franklin, Rest in Glory 1942-2018

From an ABC-TV News profile, 1968:


Take It Like You Give It  (Columbia Records 1967)


Performances on The Steve Allen Westinghouse Show, 1963-64


In concert, Amsterdam 1968


A clip survey, 1956-2017


In Detroit, performing for the visit of Nelson Mandela in 1990


A documentary broken into three parts.




Thanks for all the good work, Ms. Franklin.

Aretha Franklin on Sweet Freedom

Saturday Music Club: mostly jazz, a lot of keyboards, some singing...

Teo Macero and the Prestige Jazz Quartet: "Just Spring"

Randy Weston: "African Village/Bedford Stuyvesant"

Blossom Dearie Trio and Quartet: "I Wish You Love"; "Bag's Groove" 


Aretha Franklin Band: "Won't Be Long"


Toshiko Akiyoshi: "The Village"


Toshiko Akiyoshi 2007 interview:

from the same interview: on being a Japanese jazz artist

Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra: "Drum Conference"


Thelonious Monk: "Don't Blame Me"


Lenny Bruce's tv series pilot The World of Lenny Bruce