Prince Robinson - Some Other Time (2012)
BAND/ARTIST: Prince Robinson
- Title: Some Other Time
- Year Of Release: 2012
- Label: Prince Robinson Music
- Genre: Blues Jazz, Guitar Jazz
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 00:40:22
- Total Size: 169 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. They Can't Take That Away from Me
02. My Foolish Heart
03. Ain't Misbehavin'
04. Time Remembered
05. Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
06. My Bells
07. The Thrill Is Gone
08. Children's Play Song
09. Some Other Time
10. When You Wish Upon a Star
One of the greatest guitarists the world never got to know. "Some Other Time" shows a mellower side of Prince Robinson’s complex personality. These ten intimate interpretations of jazz, blues and soul classics, featuring his expertly intricate multi-tracked guitar arrangements and the warm gruffness of his gently expressive vocals, are part of an archive of wide-ranging material that he recorded in the last years of his life at his home in Berlin, Germany, as he was battling the cancer that would eventually kill him.
Prince Robinson was born in Glendale, California in 1953 and grew up listening to the jazz records in his father’s collection as avidly as the pop music he heard on the radio. At the age of ten he was given his first guitar – an early model Fender Stratocaster direct from the factory, handed over by Leo Fender himself – which he kept all his life. Throughout his teens he soaked up the new music of the 60s: Hendrix, Coltrane, Zappa, Cream and all; and at the age of twenty he formed his own blues band and opened shows for Robben Ford, Little Feat, John Mayall and Yellowjackets, amongst others, before getting into some serious dues-paying as a member of Ike Turner’s band. He went on to establish himself on the LA session scene, playing with such diverse artists as Thelma Houston, Kenny Loggins and Dizzy Gillespie, while as a member of keyboardist David Garfield’s acclaimed Karizma band he played alongside such luminaries as bassist John Patittucci and drummer Greg Bissonette.
But darkness intervened as a predilection for alcohol turned into an addiction and he began the long slide down to the bottom, leaving his promising career behind. By the mid-90s he had kicked the habit, thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous, but he was living in his van, making deliveries to survive. In 2000 he got a tip from a musician friend in Berlin that there was a guitarist job available in the orchestra pit for the musical Falco, so with nothing to lose, he spontaneously gave away his van and bought a one-way ticket to Germany, arriving with one guitar and a bag. The job was gone but he fell in with some expatriate friends and landed in the band of the redoubtable American jazz, soul and blues singer Queen Yahna, long a popular figure on the German music scene. When not gigging with Queen Yahna, he played and sang jazz standards in the Intercontinental Hotel in Berlin and thus became, as John F. Kennedy before him, a Berliner.
Back in the restorative power of music, he spent the last decade of his life in Berlin, during which time he recorded two albums with famed LA producer Dennis Moody: Burning Desire, a collection of mostly original blues, rock and fusion based songs exhibiting the compelling dark imagery of his lyrics, backed by the top-class bass and drums of Chris Chaney and Gary Novak and the virtuoso Hammond Organ stylings of Wolfgang Roggenkamp; and Almost From Sunrise, a collection of well-known Blues standards in stunningly fresh arrangements, backed once again by Wolfgang Roggenkamp on Hammond Organ and electric piano, British bass player Colin Bass and ex-Defunkt drummer Kenny Martin.
Prince Robinson died in Berlin, Germany on the 4th of December 2011.
01. They Can't Take That Away from Me
02. My Foolish Heart
03. Ain't Misbehavin'
04. Time Remembered
05. Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
06. My Bells
07. The Thrill Is Gone
08. Children's Play Song
09. Some Other Time
10. When You Wish Upon a Star
One of the greatest guitarists the world never got to know. "Some Other Time" shows a mellower side of Prince Robinson’s complex personality. These ten intimate interpretations of jazz, blues and soul classics, featuring his expertly intricate multi-tracked guitar arrangements and the warm gruffness of his gently expressive vocals, are part of an archive of wide-ranging material that he recorded in the last years of his life at his home in Berlin, Germany, as he was battling the cancer that would eventually kill him.
Prince Robinson was born in Glendale, California in 1953 and grew up listening to the jazz records in his father’s collection as avidly as the pop music he heard on the radio. At the age of ten he was given his first guitar – an early model Fender Stratocaster direct from the factory, handed over by Leo Fender himself – which he kept all his life. Throughout his teens he soaked up the new music of the 60s: Hendrix, Coltrane, Zappa, Cream and all; and at the age of twenty he formed his own blues band and opened shows for Robben Ford, Little Feat, John Mayall and Yellowjackets, amongst others, before getting into some serious dues-paying as a member of Ike Turner’s band. He went on to establish himself on the LA session scene, playing with such diverse artists as Thelma Houston, Kenny Loggins and Dizzy Gillespie, while as a member of keyboardist David Garfield’s acclaimed Karizma band he played alongside such luminaries as bassist John Patittucci and drummer Greg Bissonette.
But darkness intervened as a predilection for alcohol turned into an addiction and he began the long slide down to the bottom, leaving his promising career behind. By the mid-90s he had kicked the habit, thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous, but he was living in his van, making deliveries to survive. In 2000 he got a tip from a musician friend in Berlin that there was a guitarist job available in the orchestra pit for the musical Falco, so with nothing to lose, he spontaneously gave away his van and bought a one-way ticket to Germany, arriving with one guitar and a bag. The job was gone but he fell in with some expatriate friends and landed in the band of the redoubtable American jazz, soul and blues singer Queen Yahna, long a popular figure on the German music scene. When not gigging with Queen Yahna, he played and sang jazz standards in the Intercontinental Hotel in Berlin and thus became, as John F. Kennedy before him, a Berliner.
Back in the restorative power of music, he spent the last decade of his life in Berlin, during which time he recorded two albums with famed LA producer Dennis Moody: Burning Desire, a collection of mostly original blues, rock and fusion based songs exhibiting the compelling dark imagery of his lyrics, backed by the top-class bass and drums of Chris Chaney and Gary Novak and the virtuoso Hammond Organ stylings of Wolfgang Roggenkamp; and Almost From Sunrise, a collection of well-known Blues standards in stunningly fresh arrangements, backed once again by Wolfgang Roggenkamp on Hammond Organ and electric piano, British bass player Colin Bass and ex-Defunkt drummer Kenny Martin.
Prince Robinson died in Berlin, Germany on the 4th of December 2011.
Jazz | Blues | FLAC / APE
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