Paul Bryant - Groove Essence

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:27
Size: 81.2 MB
Styles: Blues-jazz guitar
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[3:46] 1. Doesn't Really Matter
[3:52] 2. Smoothus Groovus
[2:37] 3. She's Trouble
[3:56] 4. Gettin' Funky
[3:25] 5. Stylin'
[4:27] 6. Other Things To Do
[3:56] 7. Shake What Ya Got
[3:24] 8. Don't Waste Away
[3:03] 9. Father Time
[2:56] 10. The Cat Walk

A premier Blues guitarist from Los Angeles, Paul is highly regarded as an authentic Blues player. He is proficient in all styles of Blues and is a leading innovator of West Coast Swing and Jump. Paul got his first "break" in 1982, when "PeeWee" Crayton asked him to join his band. During this period he got a real education, working with such Blues Legends as "Big Joe" Turner, Lowell Fulson, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Lee Allen, Guitar Shorty, Joe Houston, and Harmonica Fats. Paul hit the National Blues Scene in 1986 as Grand Prize Winners of the Long Beach Blues Festival Talent Search, with "Luke & The Locomotives," a band he co-founded with Audioquest Recording Artist Robert Lucas.

Since then, he has toured internationally with "Canned Heat", William Clarke, King Ernest, Robert Lucas, "Luke & The Locomotives," and Smokey Wilson, to name a few. Paul can be heard on the "Luke & The Locomotives" CD release on Audioquest Records, the Robert Lucas CD release, "Layaway," also on Audioquest Records, the King Ernest CD release, "King of Hearts," on Evidence Records, the Jimmy Morello CD release, "Can't Be Denied," on JSP Records, and the Lester Butler CD release "13", on High Tone Records. Paul has also shared the stage with Carey Bell, Frankie Lee Sims, Finis Tasby, Slash, "Big Daddy" Kinsey, Johnny Dyer, Frank Frost, Lester Davenport, Big Jack Johnson, Charlie Musselwhite, George Thoroughgood, James "Supe" Bradshaw, Henry Butler, Mitch Kashmar, Johnny Rivers, Phillip Walker, Jimmy Vivino, Spencer Davis, R.J. Mischo, A.C. Reed, Janiva Magness, Harvey Mandel, Debbie Davies, Rod Piazza, James Harman, and many others.

Groove Essence

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Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant - Meetin' Here

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 65:23
Size: 149.7 MB
Styles: Saxophone jazz, Straight ahead jazz
Year: 1961/2013
Art: Front

[7:08] 1. Meetin' Here
[6:46] 2. Early In The Morning
[6:04] 3. If I Were A Bell
[8:02] 4. One More Hamhock Please
[6:22] 5. Angel Eyes
[4:12] 6. Just Friends
[3:23] 7. Meet Me In The Bottom
[4:32] 8. In The Evening
[2:42] 9. New B & O Blues
[5:00] 10. Puppy Love
[2:45] 11. Wake Up In The Mornin'
[5:50] 12. Wee Baby Blues
[2:32] 13. I'm The One

Curtis Amy was an accomplished Texas tenor who moved freely and productively between straightahead jazz, blues and rhythm and blues, and both aspects of his musical personality are fruitfully deployed on these enjoyable early 60s West Coast sessions. On the first, “Meetin’ Here,” he brings a fiery conviction to bear on a relaxed, grooving date with organist Paul Bryant. Sharing the front line with them is the solid trombone of Roy Brewster, and the results have the hand-inglove feel of a group to which cooking is as natural as breathing. Whether on a ballad or up-tempo driving, Amy is the main man, bringing a declamatory edge to his tone that reinforces his expressiveness.

After this, the tenor’s career soon shifted into higher gear. Pacific Jazz producer Richard Bock used him in an all-star jazz group to back the veteran blues singer and guitarist Bumble Bee Slim on the second session of this set. Recorded a year later under Slim’s leadership as part of the album “Back in Town!,” it offered, in addition to Slim’s unpretentious, relaxed, and undeniably expressive way with slow, medium and up-tempo blues tunes, gripping soloing by Curtis Amy, and fine contributions by organist “Groove” Holmes and trombonist Lou Blackburn.

Curtis Amy (ts), Roy Brewster, Lou Blackburn (tb), Paul Bryant, Richard 'Groove' Holmes (org), Bumble Bee Slim (vcl, g), Clarence Jones (b), Jimmy Miller, Leroy Henderson (d). Recorded at Pacific Jazz Enterprises Inc./Rex Studios, Los Angeles, on March 30, 1962

Meetin' Here

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