John Mayall - Rolling With The Blues - Music & Performance - CD

Product information for John Mayall - Rolling With The Blues - Music & Performance - CD

Double CD retrospective of John Mayall with extensive sleeve notes. The seven concerts from which these recordings are taken span just 10 years (1972 to 82) in John Mayall s 60 years-plus-and-still-going-strong career. Musically though what you have here are brilliant performances which resonate with virtually all stages of his remarkable journey as band leader multi-instrumentalist songwriter and blues crusader on both sides of the Atlantic. There is a 1982 Bluesbreakers reunion featuring Mick Taylor and John McVie and there are also jazz soloists from the lineup that produced what Melody Maker then regarded as John s finest album to date - 1972 s Jazz Blues Fusion. In effect the music on these two CDs takes you anywhere from the Flamingo Club to Fillmores East and West. Musicians on this release are: John Mayall - Vocals Harmonica Piano Guitar Freddie Robinson - Guitar Blue Mitchell - Trumpet Clifford Solomon - Tenor Sax Victor Gaskin - String Bass Keef Hartley - Drums Red Holloway - Tenor Sax James Quill Smith - Guitar Kevin McCormick - Bass Guitar Soko Richardson - Drums Mick Taylor - Guitar John McVie - El Bass Colin Allen - Drums Steve Thompson - Bass