Sunday, October 12, 2008

Cane Break

A most welcome reissue-here's a review of a great long out of print live album done in 1972 by the late great jazz violinist Don "Sugar Cane" Harris.

Cane, who left the building in 1999, was perhaps best known for his early work with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers as well as Frank Zappa and the Mothers. His first band was started in the 1950s and was called "Don and Dewey"; in the early 1970s another electric violin player named David LaFlamme wrote a smoking tribute instrumental song by the same name which graced the second album by It's a Beautiful Day, "Marrying Maiden".

Click on the post title for the review, and click below to see Don at work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7pv-rPJWVs