More Wild Bill Davis in Rheinfelden (1986) (part 3)

My last weeks have been very unjazzy, so that is why not much happened on this here blog. And the stress will not let up for a while ..

But here for your entertainment comes part 3of  the 120 minute private video of a concert Wild Bill Davis gave at the Hotel Schützen in Rheinfelden, Switzerland on (probably) April 13 1986. The other members of Davis’ quartet were saxophonist Jimmy Tyler, the legendary Dickie Thompson on guitar and drummer Clyde Lucas.

I still do not know who filmed this footage. If someone who was involved in the making of this video reads this, I would like to hear from you so I can give proper credit.

So here you get – after some talking – the Wild Bill Davis Quartet playing Nat Adderley’s Jive Samba followed by Wild Bill Davis’ Stolen Sweets.

There will be more to come from this concert – if nobody objects.

Until then:Enjoy!

More Wild Bill Davis in Rheinfelden (1986) (part 2)

As promised in this post, I am putting up more footage from the 120 minute private video of a concert Wild Bill Davis gave at the Hotel Schützen in Rheinfelden, Switzerland on (probably) April 13 1986. The other members of Davis’ quartet were saxophonist Jimmy Tyler, the legendary Dickie Thompson on guitar and drummer Clyde Lucas.

I still do not know who filmed this footage. If someone who was involved in the making of this video reads this, I would like to hear from you so I can give proper credit.

So here you get the Wild Bill Davis Quartet playing Stardust followed by Ray Bryant’s Cubano Chant. Then a little  April in Paris coda à la mode de Basie concludes this (the first?) set.

There will be more from this concert – if nobody objects.

Until then:Enjoy!

Wild Bill Davis / Jimmy Tyler / Dickie Thompson (1986)

As soon as he could afford the equipment, my friend, the late Otto Flückiger, used movies of musicians that he was fond of and that he himself or somebody else had filmed and made nice little movie clips from the footage. One example would be this short movie featuring the Wild Bill Davis Quartet at an unidentified location (possibly in switzerland). In between the footage of the band, Otto cut some N.Y.C. footage that he himself had filmed sometime in the mid-80s.

Personnel of Wild Bill’s quartet on this occasion: Jimmy Tyler (1919–1998) (as), Wild Bill Davis (1918–1995) (org), Dickie Thompson (1918–2007) (g), Clyde Lucas (1943–2010) (dr).

Enjoy!