Attention James Booker Fans! Interesting Audio Documentary - Blues Piano Genius

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Attention James Booker Fans! Interesting Audio Documentary - Blues Piano Genius

[kaomicruce]

“It’s true..I’m crazy over you..” Without question, my favorite musician. Lord Booker, I wish life would have treated you better. I think of you often. I know you are finally at peace. 🎼🙏🏻❤️

[chrishall]

How fortunate was I to have seen Booker perform live in NOLA when I was a young man in my 20s. Though my memories of those years have become clouded (because that's what happens in NOLA), I remember the first time I saw him was at Tipitina's, where Napoleon Avenue ends at the Mississippi River. Also used to see Professor Longhair in many of the same joints. Those were the days.

[Mike-fxut]

Mr. Blues Piano Sheets, thank you for the good memories, Sir! And not so good ones in "Angola", for him.
He loved to be in Yurrope. :) Germany LOVED him. From one who knows... :)

[rustnite]

The Master of the piano, hands down! Fantastic talent always burn out too soon! Rest peaceful in Paradise Ivory Emperor.

[basusri]

A sad story of a brilliant piano player, may James Rest in Peace 🙏- a line from an Earth Wind & Fire song “ sounds never dissipate, they only recreate in another place in time” so must James Booker’s Piano riffs 🙏

[andrearothmaller]

Thank you so much for this upload! You helped me discover a genius. Even a more amazing human being. Gone to soon!

[brendanforemandesign]

'The Black Liberace' is a BBC Radio 4 radio documentary presented by Joe Boyd on the late great New Orleans pianist James Booker. He was asked to do it (1) because he produced Booker’s first solo album in 1976 and (2) the BBC 'liked my dulcet tones'.

[albertabouck]

I wish someone could just make a bunch of cds of all of the James Bookers' unpublished music. Wow could that guy play everything! I wish I could have met him and listened to him live. I also love the mix of blues and classical music. :)

[louisbyron]

Thanks so much for posting this extraordinary audio documentary. Booker is perhaps the most significant, under-recognized musician in the history of New Orleans music. Legendary, almost mythical, by those in 'the know' but almost unheard of by the general music-listening public. Alas, the brilliance of his musicianship was almost matched by his craving for chemical bliss and his best not-talked-about (especially in 1969 Louisiana) and generally unrequited passion for younger white men. A tragically gifted man, New Orleans' best one-eyed, gay, Black, piano-playing junkie left this incarnation too soon. But while he was here----didn't he ramble!

[ConservativeAnthem]

Supposedly, Jimmy Smith -- Bach of the Hammond b3 -- went to NOLA and played a concert. After the concert, Booker approached Smith & said he liked the playing but that Smith had made a mistake. An incredulous Smith asked, "Where?" Booker then sat down and replayed the song where the mistake was at. Then he replayed the song backwards, note-for-note to a stupefied Smith.

[argotero]

For me James Bookers is the best piano player that I see in blues and songs and Glen Gould the best in classical music…

[cocreatechange]

Love this but also frustrating. Producers had a national treasure in their studios, and they should have paid him more. Same with the Magnolia Bar. Drinks on the house don’t feed the soul. James Booker was certainly more together and talented than many highly-paid stars today. So, when I hear “successful” voices (producers, musicians, historians) laid over tracks of his priceless talent, I am saddened by the wage discrimination of that era. These tributes are all so late in coming. #LongLiveJamesCarrolBooker #BetterLateThanNever #JuncoPartner

[blastman]

David Kunian of WWOZ did a two CD audio documentary for WWOZ and I got it for as a bonus for joining WWOZ during their pledge drive. It's a classic.

[BeardedMonkeyRecords]

Thanks so much for uploading this! And being able to hear from the guy who recorded "Junco Partner"? Incredible, invaluable recording!

[blastman]

There are probably a lot of Booker concert tapes from his tour in Europe. Would love to hear them.

[Marvelous.Leonardo]

This story is so unfinished, I keep coming back to it hoping that it will continue, and that I recollected improperly. He died in 1983, and never finished his journey, such a stale and brutal loss. He never reached his true potential.

[Argotero]

Thanks so much, I see him 1975 live, I did'n know him, but I have the most extraordinary impact in my life, as a human been and as a musician...., I make a casette that night he was playing with johnny guitar watson, and some other artist, and from that moment I have to buy all his albums...His voice was unique and genuin as Bob Dylan's, it was like listening to one amerinan native Indian singing in the colarado

[britishlad]

What an amazing performer in spite of!!!

[CarpetCleaningAnnArb]

Yes, all these tunes are on James' albums.

[Datanditto]

Bookers playing sounding like the whole band is what his idol Jelly Roll Morton did.