"This is a 90s live gig with #VernonReid (Living Colour, Zig Zag Trio), #DennisChambers (#P-Funk, Santana, #SteelyDan), and JP Bourelly (#MilesDavis, Cassandra Wilson) and is an hour of both accessible and experimental jams of original material, as well as some very eccentric covers of The Meters‘ “Cissy Strut” and Sonny Sharrock’s “Dick Dogs”.
"Peg" is a song by the American #rock group #SteelyDan, first released on the band's 1977 album #Aja. The track was released as a single in 1977 and reached number 11 on the #US Billboard chart in 1978 and number eight on the #CashBox chart. With a chart run of 19 weeks, "Peg" is tied with "#RikkiDontLoseThatNumber" and "#HeyNineteen" for being Steely Dan's longest-running chart hit. In #Canada, "Peg" spent three weeks at number seven in March 1978. https://youtu.be/LI7NDDQLvbo
Thelonious, my old friend
Step on in and let me shake your hand
So glad that you're here again
For one more time
Let your madness run with mine
Streets still unseen, we'll find somehow
No time is better than now
The George Wallington Quintet (with Phil Woods and Donald Byrd) - Jazz for the Carriage Trade
I'd never heard of this album from 1956, but I was intrigued by the presence of Phil Woods and Donald Byrd, in early appearances.
You may know Woods from his appearance on Katy Lied, 20 years after this session. This recent AP release was pressed at QRP and, apart from the too small center hole (always a thing with QRP), it's a great sounding record.
On this day 50 years ago #SteelyDan released Countdown to Ecstay’ which featured the defiant track My Old School’.
“California tumbles into the sea
That'll be the day I go back to Annandale
Tried to warn you
About Chino and Daddy Gee
But I can't seem to get to you through the U.S. Mail”
Gaucho is making a second appearance here, mostly because I broke out a Japanese import. As was typical at the time, it's an immaculate pressing of a great album.