Lucky Peterson, one of the greatest bluesicians on the planet, talks about Jimmy Reed in a promo video for 50 – Just Warming Up released by the folks at French label Jazz Village recently. Lucky, a regular visitor to Ireland and the UK, is playing a decent run of mainly French dates this autumn running through the winter and into the spring next year. The album is the best blues thing to come along this year that all us jazz folks can dig too.
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Track of the day is from Jaimie Branch's FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise released by International Anthem. ''Recorded,'' the label notes ''(mostly) in studio at Total Refreshment Centre and live at Café OTO in London UK… Branch and company are on a quest for sonic saturation here and they conjure up moments of real reckoning – hopefulness, hopelessness, danger, and joy.'' Don't let that put you off. More seriously, all compositions on the album are by trumpeter Branch with Lester St. Louis on cello, Jason Ajemian, double bass and Chad Taylor, drums + guests. 'Simple Silver Surfer' thrives on a riff and it is an infectious sound to say the least.