Topic: Jesse Fuller In Canada

[mississippijohnhurt1928]

This is a great video. The best part, of course, is the audience.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DSgDVRTZoOQ

[CF]

Man that is a strange & intense video. What a rare privilege to watch some of the blues greats watch another blues great. Seems to me they didn't think a whole lot of what Jessie was laying down . . . or they were tired or . . . can't make out all who is there . . . pretty interesting & rare stuff. Jessie isn't even shown ONCE throughout his actual performance.

[dj]

Yeah, that's a pretty all-star cast.  I'm sure I didn't catch everyone, but the audience included Willie Dixon, Big Joe Williams, Sunnyland Slim, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Booker White, and Muddy Waters. Was James Cotton in there too?.  Was that Sam Lawhorn holding the guitar?  Who'd I miss?

Anyone know when and where that was recorded?       

[CF]

I believe I saw Sunnyland Slim, & yes, looked like James Cotton to me . . . I think there was a blues summit or something in Canada in '68 & the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) did a Tv show featuring many of those performers which I saw years later & was hosted (yrs later) by Canadian rock blues jazz cat Colin James. . . first time I saw Brownie & Sonny, Otis Span (who may have stolen the show), Slim & etc.

[Bunker Hill]

I believe I saw Sunnyland Slim, & yes, looked like James Cotton to me . . . I think there was a blues summit or something in Canada in '68 & the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) did a Tv show featuring many of those performers which I saw years later & was hosted (yrs later) by Canadian rock blues jazz cat Colin James. . . first time I saw Brownie & Sonny, Otis Span (who may have stolen the show), Slim & etc.

Event took place Toronto, Thursday 27-Saturday 29th January 1966. TV program called Festival Presents The Blues, directed by Paddy Simpson, broadcast by CBC Sunday 23rd February. This topic has cropped up elsewhere on WC but can't locate it. Somewhere I have a full list of participants which I m-a-y have listed at the thread I can't locate!

[Rivers]

Here you go: http://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?amp;Itemid=114&topic=3411

[Bunker Hill]

Here you go: http://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?amp;Itemid=114&topic=3411

Here you go: http://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?amp;Itemid=114&topic=3411

Thanks Rivers but that's not what I had in mind which was originally by Dick Flohil or John Norris published by either Blues Unlimited or Jazz Journal shortly after the original event had taken place.

Maybe something I posted in another time, at another place, as another person!  Is there a term for people suffering multiple personality disorders? No, don't answer that. 

[Bunker Hill]

Here is an alphabetical list of those taking part in the concert:

James Cotton
Willie Dixon
Jesse Fuller
Mable Hillery
Sammy Lawhorn
S.P. Leary
Brownie McGhee
Pee Wee Madison
Jimmy Lee Morrison*
Muddy Waters
Otis Spann
Sunnyland Slim
Sonny Terry
"Bukka" White
Big Joe Williams

*probably a typographical error for Jimmy Lee Morris bass guitarist with Muddy's band of the time.

[mississippijohnhurt1928]

This is from two years later, but is in Canada and includes Willie Dixon and Big Joe, of course.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vjyTxxfjX88