My very special guest..
Posted by Obdewlla on 16 October 2008 - 6:48pm.
Ipod just shuffled Stevie Wonder's "Do I Do" into focus. Great stuff featuring none other than Dizzy Gillespie. This got me ruminating on other jazzers guesting outside their chosen field e.g.
Humphrey Lyttleton with Radiohead
Don Cherry on Steve Hillage's L album
Archie Shepp on one of Frank Zappa's YCDTOSA series
Chet Baker on Elvis's version of "Shipbuilding"
Any other examples of mainstream jazzers (i.e not fusioneers) slumming it?
I know he's been partial to a drop of fusion in the past and has cropped up with Joni Mitchell occasionally but I always thought that Herbie Hancock and Simple Minds was an unusual combination. ("King Is White And In The Crowd" on New Gold Dream, for the curious)
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Miles
Didn't Miles Davis turn up on a Scritti Politti record?
also
bit of a mutual admiration thing going on there as Miles recorded "Perfect Way" for his album Tutu.
Yes, it was on "Oh Patti".
Yes, it was on "Oh Patti". And by the way, the Simple Minds/Herbie Hancock combination is on "Hunter and the Hunted", not "King is white..."
Oops
Should've checked more throughly. I knew it was near the end of the album.
Stephane Grapelli...
...is on Wish You Were Here (albeit mixed *very* quietly)
Pat Metheny...
...played on several Joni albums - as did Lyle Mays and Don Alias. I'll leave Jaco Pastorius off the list as he probably doesn't qualify as mainstream jazz.
Not quite
I'm a huge fan of Pat's. He and Lyle played on "Shadows and Light" the live album from her 1979 tour but otherwise haven't recorded with her. I would have expected others to class him as a fusioneer. More surprising is that he appeared on Bruce Hornsby's Harbor Lights album and I think one other.
Weren't they on...
...Hejira??
'Fraid not
Bass- Jaco, Max Bennett, Chuck Domanico
Drums - John Guerin
Geet - Larry Carlton & Joni
Percussion - Bobbye Hall
Vibes - Victor Feldman
Harmonica - Neil Young
Clarinet - Abe Moss
Horns - Chuck Findley & Tom Scott
Keith Tippett...
...is all over the second King Crimson album - In The Wake Of Poseidon
Sorry again
Good call on Tippett but he only appeared on Cat Food on ITWOP. He WAS all over Lizard though.
D'oh!
You're right...
Peter King
played on a few of the early Everything But The Girl albums as well as gigging with them.
The reverse is true too
Christine Aguilera and Herbie Hancock:
Actually slightly more restrained on the studio version. Dig the microphone technique, more frantic pulling it away from the mouth than even Ms O'Connor!
Ronnie Scott...
...is on Der Fabs' Lady Madonna.
From the Joe Henry Party
Ornette Coleman solos on Joe's brilliantly-titled 'Richard Pryor Addresses A Tearful Nation'. Which is from the fantastic 'Scar' album.
Stones
I think that's Wayne Shorter on the Stones' "How Can I Stop" off "Bridges to Babylon"
I KNOW that's..
Sonny Rollins on "Waiting for a Friend"
Jacques Loussier
on an Icicle Works album. Now that's slumming it.
One hazards to mention..
Sting and Edin Karamazov.
Sting obviously thinks he's nearly as good on the old Lute.