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Grammy-winning New Orleans musician Dr. John lifeless at 77

http://tinyurl.com/yy5z88dk (Reuters) – Dr. John, a six-time Grammy winner who in his incarnation because the “Night time Tripper” introduced the New Orleans voodoo vibe to America’s music scene and have become some of the honored pianists within the metropolis’s wealthy musical historical past, died on Thursday at age 77. FILE PHOTO: Musician Dr. John gestures to the group through the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Competition in New Orleans, Louisiana April 26, 2013. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman/File Picture The New Orleans native, born Malcolm John Rebennack right into a household of beginner musicians, together with an aunt who taught him to play piano, died “towards the daybreak” from a coronary heart assault, his household introduced on his official Twitter account. Immersed in music from a younger age, he was an avid radio listener, and his father, who offered data in his equipment retailer, generally took his son alongside to nightclubs when he labored on their sound programs. In grade college he started hanging round golf equipment, and by the point he was a youngster, Rebennack was taking part in in tough bars and strip golf equipment. Alongside the way in which, he absorbed a mix of rhythm and blues, cowboy songs, gospel and jazz, in addition to New Orleans’ Mardi Gras music, boogie, barrelhouse piano and funk – or “fonk,” as he pronounced it. Early on he was principally a guitarist, however errant gunplay in 1961 led him to vary course. One in every of his fingers was almost blown off when he intervened to assist the singer in his band, who was being pistol-whipped by one other man. The finger didn’t heal sufficiently for correct guitar taking part in instantly, however was much less troublesome on a piano, and finally Dr. John would grow to be an inheritor to the New Orleans keyboard custom of Jelly Roll Morton, Professor Longhair, Huey “Piano” Smith and Fat Domino. OFF TO PRISON He additionally was a profitable report producer, session participant and songwriter in New Orleans earlier than a life-style of hanging round addicts, hustlers and thieves whereas working as a pimp caught up with him. He had began smoking marijuana at age 12, and was a daily heroin person earlier than being kicked out of highschool and touchdown in jail on drug costs in 1965, he wrote in his autobiography, “Below a Hoodoo Moon.” By the point he had completed his jail sentence in Texas, the native prosecutor in New Orleans was making an attempt to wash up town, and he was suggested to not return. That was how he ended up in Los Angeles, almost 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from his hometown, creating the persona of Dr. John the Night time Tripper, a shaman-like determine draped in furs and feathers, beads and Mardi Gras Indian-style headdresses who would make his entrance in a cloud of smoke. He had concocted the stage character, based mostly on a 19th-century New Orleans drugs man, for one more singer however took it on himself when that performer declined to go alongside. After working as a studio musician for everybody from Sonny and Cher to the Monkees, Dr. John recorded his first album, “Gris-Gris,” in 1968 with the assistance of a number of New Orleans natives. The report, named for a protecting amulet worn in voodoo tradition, was impressed by town’s music along with his personal twists, making it moody and mysterious with a tinge of psychedelia. It was not an enormous vendor however discovered a cult viewers amongst rock followers. In 1972 his “Dr. John’s Gumbo” album featured extra conventional New Orleans songs, reminiscent of “Iko Iko,” “Junko Companion,” “Blow Wind Blow,” “Massive Chief” and “Let the Good Occasions Roll.” BULLFROG WITH A HANGOVER That was adopted in 1973 by “Within the Proper Place,” which featured two standbys of the New Orleans music scene – producer Allen Touissant and the band The Meters. With a novel vocal type harking back to a bullfrog with a hangover, the album would grow to be Dr. John’s largest industrial success, due to the hits “Proper Place, Flawed Time” and “Such a Night time.” “Music is the one factor that retains me alive and joyful. If it don’t be for music, I believe I might have threw within the towel,” he instructed the Occasions-Picayune newspaper in a 2011 interview. A dialog with Dr. John virtually required a translator to know his malapropisms, Creole patois, hipster lingo and fabricated phrases, all spiced with profanities. “What goes round slides round, and what slides round slips round,” he as soon as instructed the Occasions-Picayune in typical Dr. John-speak. “So long as it’s slippin’ and slidin’ round, we ain’t received to journey by means of the shortcuts of life. We will take the great distance round. It’s the shortcuts that kill you.” After Los Angeles, Dr. John moved to New York within the late 1970s, and in 1989 he lastly overcame his heroin downside. He returned to stay within the New Orleans space in 2009. Dr. John recorded some 35 albums, and three of them received Grammys – “Goin’ Again to New Orleans” for finest custom album in 1992; “Metropolis That Care Forgot” in regards to the destruction and heartbreak of Hurricane Katrina; and 2013’s “Locked Down,” which touched on his jail time, medication and efforts to restore his relationship along with his kids. He additionally picked up Grammys for a 1989 duet with Rickie Lee Jones on “Makin’ Whoopee” and his contributions on the songs “SRV Shuffle” in 1996 and “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t (My Child)” in 2000. Slideshow (Three Photographs) He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2011. Dr. John was married twice and instructed the New York Occasions he had “quite a bit” of youngsters. (The story refiles so as to add dropped phrase “of” in 2nd paragraph.) Reporting and Writing by Invoice Trott in Washington; extra reporting by Jill Serjeant; modifying by Diane Craft Our Requirements:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. 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VHS #346

Cat Stevens – Majicat concert, excerpts from The 60s Experience, Louis Prima – The Wildest, Concert for Hurricane Relief (8-9/05), Shelter from the Storm – Concert for Hurricane Katrina, Live from Lincoln Center hurricane benefit – Higher Ground! (excellent!) *** Cat Stevens – Majicat concert, BBCWilliamsburg, VA2/22/76 See the whole thing here: https://youtu.be/bnmhXxginRQ(My version has the PBS pledge breaks edited out and the songs are in a different order.) MoonshadowWhere Do the Children Play?Tuesday's DeadHard Headed WomanMiles from NowhereKing of TreesC79Lady D'ArbanvilleBanapple GasMajik of MajiksSad LisaTwo Fine PeopleFill My EyesFather and SonPeace Train Songs not in this version:How Can I Tell YouWild World The WindAnother Saturday NightOh Very Young” The HurtRuins *** The 60s Experience a 2005 PBS retro music concert with some live performances and some old music clips.excerpts only Procol Harum - Whiter Shade of Pale, Gary Brooker playing piano, Matthew Fisher on organ. (https://youtu.be/OQyFixb54JU) This clip!Roger McGuinn intros Big Brother and The Holding Company (w/ Janis Joplin) - Piece of My Heart (https://youtu.be/7uG2gYE5KOs) Not this clip.London hippy footage/Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin (https://youtu.be/88uv7S9Bz9U) This clip!Roger McGuinn intros Jimi Hendrix segmentJimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze (https://youtu.be/VFHPgoZlSWY) This clip!The Doors - Light My Fire (https://youtu.be/2euBN3gbKc8) This clip! (On Ed Sullivan, 9/16/67)Roger McGuinn intros SteppenwolfSteppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride & Born To Be Wild (https://youtu.be/4OxYklvrDMo) This clip! *** Louis Prima – The Wildest1 hr w/o pledge breaks, an edited version of what I have on VHS #320 See the whole thing here: https://youtu.be/mGz1EdXFZvQ *** A Concert for Hurricane Relief Jon Goodman, Glenn Close9/2/05, live during the event.MSNBCedited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Concert_for_Hurricane_Relief Aaron Neville - Louisiana 1927 (https://youtu.be/-OxcXHuAY0k) Not this clip.- Amazing Grace (https://youtu.be/gfq1fvxDido) Not this clip. whole cast - When The Saints Come Marching In(Harry Connick, Jr, Wynton Marsalis, Victor Goines, Lucien Barbarin, Charles Neville, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Aaron Neville, Joe Scarborough, Jimmy Smits, Brian Williams, others) *** Shelter from the Storm – A Concert for the Gulf Coast (Katrina)edited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelter_from_the_Storm:_A_Concert_for_the_Gulf_Coast(The making of this: https://youtu.be/earCly9GEAA) Randy Newman - Louisiana 1927 (https://youtu.be/91Eb3FiebTs) Not this clip.Morgan Freeman (Ry Cooder bed) William Faulkner quoteAlicia Keys with Shirley Caesar, Alvin Slaughter, and Bishop Daniels - Father I Stretch My Hand To Thee (https://youtu.be/gVQAbC_ksfY) This clip!Jack Nicholson on the phone singing Maria to a contributorCameron Diaz tells a storyNeil Young - When God Made Me (https://youtu.be/Rd3zxRnDGlM) This clip!Chris RockBruce WillisPaul Simon and unknown New Orleans brass band, coda - Take Me to the Mardi Gras (https://youtu.be/ITDgDkqYbss) This clip. *** Live from Lincoln Center Hurricane benefit – Higher Ground 9/17/053 hours on this tape, see VHS #320 for the rest of what I taped (after Toni Morrison) Hear the whole thing here: https://www.npr.org/2005/09/17/4837922/higher-ground-a-show-for-hurricane-reliefSee a review(JazzTimes' Bill Milkowski on the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit, Bill Milkowski,  JazzTimes Magazine) ct.com/Katrina-Reflections--Photographer-Eric-Waters-still-yearns-for-New-Orleans-home.html?soid=1011087220895&aid=ToRxID8yDPI Beverly Sills introWynton Marsalis Septet - Ain' No (https://youtu.be/tu_EGt6vhZs) This clip.Wynton thanks everyoneRenee Fleming with Mark O'Connor and Eric Reid - Amazing GracenarratorShirley Caesar -  Medley: You're Next for a Miracle/He's Working It Out for You/This JoyLaurence Fishburne readsAaron and Art Neville and others (including Wynton, Herlin Riley, Allen Toussaint) - Go to the Mardi Gras (Aaron sings it all in high falsetto.) Tootie Montana mentioned. (https://youtu.be/ww6Ub-O_dX8) This clip.Robert DeNiro reads a short statementHerbie Hancock (w/ Idris Muhammad and Reginald…)  - Eye of the Hurricane (https://youtu.be/6SgFDrWeJGo) Not this clip.narratorbackstage: Tavis Smiley - poverty is the real weapon of mass destruction(I switch between Chs 13, 21 and 50 which are simulcasting it)Tavis with Wynton talk, the blues can teach us.narratorKen Burns!Wynton Marsalis & Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra - ?narratorCounsel General from the Republic of Turkey - we know about suffering, donate $500,000 to Higher Ground Relief Fund (adds to more contributed a few days ago)Bette Midler and Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (and others, Don Vappie, Herlin) - Is That All There Is? (https://youtu.be/hO_7cPwWyHA) This clip.Meryl Streep reads a Lafcadio Hearn piece!Abbey Lincoln - For All We Know (https://youtu.be/7BYs03JQEQY) Not this clip.Joe Lovano - Blackwell's Message (https://youtu.be/zqcN4ditVpU) This clip.Laurence Fishburne - we will rebuild, rejoice at the death, cry at the birth, we are the melting pot.Diana Krall (Cyrus Chestnut, Victor Goines, and others) - Basin Street Blues (https://youtu.be/z-pitpl3xm8) This clip.Marcus Roberts (and Jason Marsalis and...) - New Orleans’ Blues (https://youtu.be/2-RfyG6epKk) This clip.Robin Williams starts with a routine, mom from Pass Christian, floats will have to float, drive through daiquiris, blues riff from farts, (censored?).Tavis SmileybreakTavis talks with Mitch Landrieu, football…  (the Saints win), Paul Simon w/ Buckwheat Zydeco - That Was Your Mother (https://youtu.be/pb__F31k5fI) Not this clip. Paul comes in too early for the second verse. Dianne Reeves - The House I Live In (https://youtu.be/RclTqGbwc7s) This clip.Laurence Fishburne - I love my country, Roy Blount Jr book read from (excerpts from page 17 - 20), all kinds of things from New Orleans!, (https://books.google.com/booksid=30E907M2wHgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=roy+blount+jr+Feet+on+the+Street:+Rambles+Around+New+Orleans&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZ0L2S2snYAhUR11MKHV1MAs4Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=whitman&f=false) Irvin Mayfield w/ Ron Markham - Just a Closer Walk With Thee (https://youtu.be/Ix9DAEcBwhA) This clip. His father is still missing at this time.Norah Jones - I Think It's Gonna Rain Today (https://youtu.be/AxQXGtVPTys) This clip.McCoy Tyner - Trane-Like (https://youtu.be/RVNg3Y3KaJw) Not this clip.Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte -Katrina reveals a poverty of imagination, check for $200,000Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint - Freedom for the Stallion (https://youtu.be/GeCeC4-qUIg) This clip. Elvis' intro is low level.(Tavis?)Buckwheat Zydeco - I'm Gonna Love You Anyway (https://youtu.be/esGfdv_56HI) This clip.Laurence Fishburne - Big Chief Harry Belafonte, if you don’t like what the Big Chief say, Jockomo feena nay!, Wynton Marsalis Septet (a la King Oliver), w/ Don Vappie and others - Dippermouth Blues (https://youtu.be/SV3nIUXc8Uc) This clip.James Taylor - Never Die Young (https://youtu.be/cqin8vuWOHo) This clip.Toni Morrison reading various passages from her novel Jazz. (continued on VHS #320.) (VHS #320)Maya Angelou reading something (missed beginning)The Jordan family - Here’s To Life (https://youtu.be/Es82Ao44CJE) Not this clip. Terence Blanchard - Over There (https://youtu.be/5ijyYcHn7TY) This clip. Marsalis family - Twelves It (https://youtu.be/ltP9tgdm7uA) Not this clip. Tavis Smiley, Laurence Fishburne Bill Cosby talks about how the government should serve the people, take out the whole levee and redo it properly (missed this)Jon Hendricks: This Love of Mine and Tell Me the TruthPeter Cincotti - Bring Back New Orleans (https://youtu.be/0CiaUowQf0U) This clip. Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra - Havana Blues with Salt Peanuts (https://youtu.be/imyYrXtu8vM) This clip. Cassandra Wilson w/Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and Mark O’Connor - Come Sunday (https://youtu.be/EGfTtusRVLQ) This clip. Closing: Music from Duke Ellington's New Orleans Suite Also the Marsalis family...