The late Almond had played sessions on sax previously with Mayall (and others like Chicken Shack) before joining Mayall’s band then after that he and Mark formed a duo (Mark-Almond). chart hit, but received a lot of airplay on underground FM radio. Almond and Mayall get into some crazy mouth percussion in the middle, but it is the flute riff that makes the song (in tandem with the guitar and at times the harmonica). On this song (recorded at the Fillmore East in New York), Mayall’s vocals and blues harp are joined by Steve Thompson on bass, Jon Mark on acoustic guitar and Johnny Almond on flute. Now I can appreciate the music, but then I wanted grinding guitar blues rock. I admit that sitting in my buddy Dan’s basement playing records for each other, this one didn’t grab me back in high school as it wasn’t heavy enough. On this album the sound was pretty much acoustic instruments with no drummer. The order is not terribly important after the first few songs.Īfter years of electric blues with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers (and some amazing guitarists in Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor), Mayall made a complete left turn with his 1969 live album The Turning Point. I decided to leave out the fine work by Ted Cole with Colorado band Runaway Express since at this time you can’t find any of it on youtube.
#Best flute music plus#
Again, only one song by one artist is the rule here plus no recorders which nixes “Ruby Tuesday” and “The Fool On The Hill” and no piccolos which melts “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead”. Sheryl Cohen created the Rampal School to study his methods and influences. Top musicians Andre Jolviet and Francis Poulenc also composed musical works for him. Trivia Facts:He published an autobiography titled Music, My Love, in 1989. My Uncle rightly pointed out another fine work that isn’t pop, but is kinda fun to listen to – “Suite For Flute & Jazz Piano Trio” by Rampal and Bolling. As far as raw skill goes, Rampal is definitely one of the best flute players, period. Zaftig flute-playing rapper Lizzo didn’t quite make the cut, but let’s at least give her props for trying something new (one assumes James Galway never shook his rump while tootling). Up for the challenge, there proved to be enough to make it difficult to limit the list to just 25 (sorry Herbie Mann). This expands a topic yours truly tackled years ago in a published article when it was posited by a reader in a magazine that there were very few rock flute players (indeed most music fans can only think of one). The songs are not all rock, but generally that is the category of the music included. This list will be of known musicians which leaves out unknown session players otherwise a song like “Comin’ In The Back Door” by The Baja Marimba Band would be included (one of the Wrecking Crew played on it, but who?). The kind of instrument we will look at exclusively has a hole meant to be blown over, not into and is categorized as a Western Concert Flute. There are myriad variations – the piccolo, fife, tin whistle, recorder, etc. Crude flutes made from bone and tusks have been dated back as far as 35-42,000 years (at least a hollow tube with holes in it meant to be blown into). Family flautists Brenna and Cheryl demanded equal time for their chosen instrument so this month we will look at the woodwind without a reed – the flute. Two posts ago your RnR Dentist tackled the bagpipes in a rock music context.
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