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 Al Kooper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kooper told producer Tom Wilson that he had a good organ part for the song, and before Wilson could answer, he (Wilson) got a phone call.
Kooper played on hundreds of records, including The Rolling Stones, B.B. King, The Who and Cream.
Kooper also produced a now rare album by a group called Appaloosa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Kooper   (595 words)

  
 Child Is Father to the Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Child Is Father to the Man is the debut album by a Blood, Sweat and Tears, released in February of 1968 (see 1968 in music).
Al Kooper - organ, piano, keyboard, vocals, ondioline
Widely regarded as a classic fusion of jazz, rock and roll, psychedelia and classical music, Child Is Father to the Man is one of bandleader Al Kooper's most enduring works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Is_Father_to_the_Man   (258 words)

  
 Al Kooper
Kooper left the band after touring in support of the first album, but it marked a turning point in his career.
Al Kooper remembers standing in the wings of a stage somewhere in Middle America in the midst of one of notorious DJ and impresario Alan Freed's travelling rock and roll extravaganzas, watching an argument between Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry unfold.
Kooper took them to MCA Records, which gave him his own label, Sounds Of The South Records, as a way to break into the burgeoning Southern rock scene.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan05/articles/alkooper.htm   (3409 words)

  
 SPECIAL CONCERT NOTES: Al Kooper
Kooper later played as part of the band that backed Dylan when he introduced electric music to the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, and was on the Blonde on Blonde album as well.
Kooper's other major contribution during his tenure at Columbia was signing the Zombies, a British Invasion-era band that hadn't charted a single in two years, for one album.
Kooper wrote original music and chose source music for each episode from his vast record collection, giving the show it's 60s noir feel.
http://mypeoplepc.com/members/careydriscoll/musicforyou2/id32.html   (2228 words)

  
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When Al Kooper last recorded a true solo album, Gerald Ford was winding up his run as President, a new company called Apple was introducing something called the home computer and Lynyrd Skynyrd, a band that Al had discovered, was one of the hottest names in rock.
For four years Al taught such courses as the history of record production, advanced record production, the history of songwriting and advanced songwriting, as well as vocal recording in the studio.
Al's solo career began in earnest with 1968's I Stand Alone, and continued into the early '70s with such well-received albums as You Never Know Who Your Friends Are, Easy Does It, New York City (You're A Woman), Naked Songs and A Possible Projection Of The Future/Childhood's End.
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 Al Kooper: Black Coffee - PopMatters Music Review
Kooper was there when Bob Dylan went electric and performed the famous organ solo on the recently voted best rock song of all time, "Like a Rolling Stone".
The strangest moment on the disc occurs during Kooper and the band's live rendition of self-penned "Comin' Back in a Cadillac", recorded in Norway during 2001.
Although the song was written when Kooper was many years younger, the lyrics have more meaning now that the singer has aged.
http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/k/kooperal-blackcoffee.shtml   (800 words)

  
 Al Kooper Main
AL KOOPER GOES OUT FOR A CUP OF Legendary musician/producer/songwriter Al Kooper is celebrating the release of his new CD on Favored Nations Entertainment, Black Coffee, his first true solo studio album in 30 years, with a series of shows that feature him backed by two different bands: The Funky Faculty and The Rekooperators.
For many of these shows, Al will be accompanied by The Funky Faculty, the band he put together comprised entirely of instructors at the Berklee College of Music during the four years he taught at the prestigious music school.
Kooper released six solo albums between 1968 and 1976, including I Stand Alone and New York City (You’re A Woman).
http://www.markpuccimedia.com/almain.htm   (373 words)

  
 Al Kooper: Rare & Well Done: The Greatest and Rarest of Al Kooper - PopMatters Music Review
Kooper's amazing piano work on the track just simply burns, as does his vocal prowess once again.
Al Kooper continues to play a highly influential part in the music industry.
Kooper's voice instantly moves one emotionally as much as those fantastic piano, organ, and guitar parts.
http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/k/kooperal-rare.shtml   (1730 words)

  
 Al Kooper
I would have guys younger than my son coming in and telling me, `I don't think you should do that song.' In the old days you didn't mind listening to that because the people who ran record companies were record men -- with vinyl running through their veins.
Kooper joined the Blues Project, but after three albums he left New York for LA.
Kooper also contributed heavily to Dylan's next album, Blonde on Blonde (Columbia).
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/music/98/02/05/AL_KOOPER.html   (1560 words)

  
 Al Kooper with The Blues Project and Blood, Sweat and Tears
So when Kooper drags the band through an 11+ minute version of Donovan's "Season of the Witch" with Stills' jagged wah-wah guitar buried during the listener's fleecing.
While Kooper may have an excellent idea, this album shows both the heights and perils of an unscripted session.
Kooper dishes out an blend of classical, jazz influences into songs that are mainly blues based.
http://jhendrix110.tripod.com/AlKooper.html   (1543 words)

  
 Al Kooper
Kooper's ability to recharge the batteries of the little-big-band sound that was the stuff early rock and roll and the greatest soul hits were made of is estimable.
The high point was "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know," Kooper's showpiece from one of his crowning achievements, 1967's debut Blood, Sweat and Tears album, Child Is Father to the Man (Columbia).
Saxist Daryl Lowery and trumpeter Jeff Stout were burning, guitarist Bob Doezema was making like Steve Cropper on crank, bassist Tom Stein and drummer Larry Finn were wallowing in Memphis stew, and Kooper was hunched over his B-3 organ pulling slide bars and pressing keys like a mad scientist unraveling the music's mysteries.
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/music/00/11/02/REX/AL_KOOPER.html   (504 words)

  
 Elvin Jones, Al Kooper Receive Honorary Doctorates
Kooper's biggest hist, "This Diamond Ring," which he wrote in the early '60s as an R&B song, became a hit for Gary Lewis and The Playboys and has since logged close to three million radio performances.
Introducing Al Kooper, Berk said: "Al Kooper played a vital role in bringing some of the most noteworthy, roots-based rock music and musicians of the '60s and '70s to a vast audience.
Jazz drummer Elvin Jones and rock musician/songwriter/producer Al Kooper received honorary doctor of music degrees during Berklee College of Music's (Boston) 2001 Entering Student Convocation on September 7, 2001.
http://mixonline.com/news/audio_elvin_jones_al/index.html   (623 words)

  
 Black Coffee - Al Kooper
Over the years, Kooper has stockpiled an arsenal of approximately 140 original songs, nine of which were selected to be recorded for Black Coffee.
Kooper himself considers Black Coffee to be the finest collection of new material since the legendary first Blood, Sweat and Tears album which was released over 3 decades ago.
The band is comprised of actual professors from the Berklee College of Music in Boston where Kooper himself was an instructor for a number of years, and they have a tight, funky, RandB sound that serves as the perfect companion to Mr.
http://www.areuonsomething.com/reviews_kooper.html   (816 words)

  
 Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper/Steve Stills: Super Session (Remastered) - All CDs $5.99 and Free Shipping at yourmusic.com
Kooper's frisky organ solo alternately bops and scats along as he nudges the melody forward.
In Kooper's "Producer's Notes" essay, he indicates that the remixed readings of “Albert'S Shuffle" and “Season Of The Witch" are included for those who "have asked for years to hear the tracks as they were originally recorded sans horns".
In the space of mere months, the sound scape of rock shifted radically from two and three-minute danceable pop songs to comparatively longer works with more attention to technical and musical subtleties.
http://www.yourmusic.com/browse/album/50918.html   (708 words)

  
 'Nobody invited me' The San Diego Union-Tribune
Happily, Kooper finally appears tomorrow night at the Acoustic Music San Diego series, and you must attend this concert.
Meanwhile, Kooper recorded several solo albums through the mid-'70s; many magnificent in parts, overly arty/experimental in others, each inevitably a commercial disappointment.
Fans rejoiced when, against the odds, Kooper reunited with key members of the Blues Project and BSandT for a superb 1995 live concert album, "Soul of a Man." In 2001, he compiled the anthology "Rare and Well Done," which coupled essential recordings with intriguing demos and unreleased tracks.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050113/news_lz1w13nobody.html   (1142 words)

  
 Decatur Daily Democrat
During his recovery, Kooper decided that he wanted to produce a seventh solo album with some of the 140 songs he'd written since he'd recorded his sixth, "Act Like Nothing's Wrong," in 1975.
The album's range also reaffirms Kooper's influence on rock, which began when he performed "Short Shorts" with the Royal Teens at age 14 and wrote "This Diamond Ring" before he was 20.
Kooper recorded with such legends as The Rolling Stones, Joan Baez, Simon & Garfunkel, and Jimi Hendrix; assembled the original Blood, Sweat and Tears band; discovered Lynyrd Skynyrd; produced Rick Nelson, Johnny Van Zant, Eddie & The Hot Rods, ran his own record company, composed movie and television scores and wrote books.
http://www.decaturdailydemocrat.com/articles/2005/07/12/news/opinion/editorial03.txt   (859 words)

  
 Al Kooper : Easy Does It - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
The extended run-time of the double album format likewise allows Kooper to thoroughly exhibit his wide-ranging and virtually mythical adaptability as an artist whose sheer talent defies the boundaries of genre or style.
The "morning after" fallout from a particularly potent experience with LSD is credited as the inspiration behind "Sad, Sad Sunshine." The cut features some heavily Eastern-influenced lead sitar work reminiscent of the sounds of Donovan circa Hurdy Gurdy Man (1968) and the burgeoning Canterbury-based progressive folk movement of the late '60s and early '70s.
This is the third solo effort from rock & roll wunderkind Al Kooper.
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,116189,00.html   (406 words)

  
 Al Kooper/Mike Bloomfield/Stephen Stills Super Session and Fillmore East: The Lost Concert Tapes by Steve Guttenberg
Kooper and Bloomfield initially bonded when they met in the studio to back up Dylan on a little record you may have heard of, Highway 61 Revisited.
Now it's remastered and tweaked, back in the vinyl era the first side of the LP was a Kooper/Bloomfield suite; the Kooper/Stills second side was more of a laid back, late night crawl.
Bloomfield’s fierce Chicago blues chops are leavened by Kooper’s pop sensibilities and elastic falsetto vocals.
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/Magazine/music/0403/kooper.htm   (543 words)

  
 BERKLEE Berklee News Al Kooper/Blood, Sweat & Chutzpah
Now back to making music full-time, Kooper returns to Berklee for an honorary doctor of music degree at this year's Convocation; he says he's especially honored to be receiving the award alongside jazz drummer Elvin Jones.
Dylan was working out a new, five-minute song with a lot of words; Kooper was determined to get himself on the record and swore he had the perfect organ part.
Something similar happened when Kooper came to Berklee in 1997: He'd never taught before, but wound up leading popular classes in songwriting and record production.
http://www.berklee.edu/news/2001/09/koopconv.html   (919 words)

  
 NPR : Al Kooper: A Legend Returns with New CD
Morning Edition, September 26, 2005 · Legendary musician, producer and songwriter Al Kooper has released Black Coffee, his seventh solo album and his first in 30 years.
Steve Inskeep talks with Al Kooper about his music.
Al Kooper: A Legend Returns with New CD by Steve Inskeep
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4864066   (150 words)

  
 Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Steven Stills: Supersession [extra tracks] - PopMatters Music Review
There've been two CD releases that Al Kooper has bulldogged back to the bins.
This Super Session has been remastered for the first time to the producer's (that was Al Kooper then, and now) original specifications, and the original nine tracks are expanded to include four tasty bonus tracks that are genuinely bonus tracks.
Though the album became a resounding commercial success, it was widely reported then and now that Bloomfield viewed it not so much as a super session but a super-successful scam.
http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/b/bloomfieldmike-supersession.shtml   (1096 words)

  
 Alibris: Al Kooper
Kooper continues to produce music and tour with his band.
Little Labels -- Big Sound celebrates 10 legendary record labels, their founders and the artists they developed, people who created original and enduring music on the tide of social change.
http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Al_Kooper   (322 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on You Never Know Who Your... - Al Kooper at Epinions.com
Al Kooper's second solo album remains a classic along with its most notable album cover!
Here...Kooper's album represents not only the music of the day but also our world situation back in 1969 with a significant black and white picture album cover that depicts police in riot gear and campus unrest.
Make no mistake friends...both Al Kooper and this great album were very much a part of the select pieces of the puzzle that would redefine American music forever!...P2 Recommended:
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 SH Forums - Al Kooper related SACD's are done....but.......
After reading Kooper's remarks in the album description, I am beginning to wonder if maybe the reason this album has not seen a domestic release is because Al does not appear to be particularly fond of it...
I talked to Marshall Blonstein at Audio Fidelity about it and he though that Al Kooper had a deal going with Sundazed, so I contacted them and was told they have no plans to release anything by Al Kooper.
I cannot for the life of me understand why this has not made it to CD when we're talking about the third and fourth reissue of these other albums.
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=33753   (1501 words)

  
 Bob Dylan Who's Who - Rosevelt Gook
That particular Roosevelt Gook is apparently Al Kooper himself in an overdub to the live album.
Roosevelt Gook is a name used frequently by Al Kooper when he didn't want to credit his piano playing for one reason or another.
Plus I seem to remember Tom Rush stating somewhere that Dylan did not play on the album, although I suppose it's possible that he was overdubbed later without Tom's knowledge.
http://www.expectingrain.com/dok/who/g/gookroosevelt.html   (1023 words)

  
 index
Kooper's page has little or no information on his older solo albums.
This view is geared almost entirely around his solo albums as that is the extent of my knowledge - albums that I have been enjoying for some 30 years now.
So this page is designed to reflect my personal view of Koopers musical life.
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/9992   (315 words)

  
 20th Century Music: Al Kooper !
Al joked, “You songs are like your children – they come back to take care of you in your old age!”…he said he re-modeled the master bathroom with the royalty checks from “I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know”.
But that isn’t the only song that came back to take care of senior citizen Al – “Flute Thing” (a Blues Project song) was sampled by The Beastie Boys (or The Dust Brothers?) and ended up on a 5 million-selling album.
More recently, rapper Jay-Z sampled the title track from an obscure soundtrack that Al did in the 70’s, “The Apartment”…into a multi-million-selling album.
http://20thcentmusic.blogspot.com/2005/01/al-kooper.html   (413 words)

  
 NewBeats.com: Al Kooper
Even before his tenure at the Berklee School of Music, Kooper is well-known to serious music fans.
A balance between songs and instrumentals, the set list included new material ("Wrestle With This," which sounded tailor-made for Mick Jagger, Kooper admitted), a soulful reworking of his familiar rendition of "I Can't Quit Her," and standards both popular ("Just For a Thrill") and soul ("Green Onions").
His stellar keyboard/organ work on those early Dylan records is still a part of rock lore.
http://www.newbeats.com/kooperlive.html   (527 words)

  
 Al Kooper : Al's Big Deal/Unclaimed Freight - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
As a musician, his ability to interact and improvise are no more evident than on "Albert's Shuffle" and "Season of the Witch" from the definitive Super Session album.
The 1989 CD pressing of Al's Big Deal/Unclaimed Freight omitted the tracks "Without Her," " "My Days Are Numbered," and "So Much Love" and added "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" -- which was concurrently not available on CD elsewhere.
These include "Brand New Day" and the haunting cover of John Prine's "Sam Stone," as well as the respective title tracks from the LPs I Stand Alone and New York City (You're a Woman).
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,116192,00.html   (435 words)

  
 Al Kooper MP3 Downloads - Al Kooper Music Downloads - Al Kooper Music Videos
Ironically, it was a contractually obligated album, but never one to throw away an opportunity, Kooper embraced soul, gospel, blues, pop, and even country music in the course of filling its two sides.
The album benefits from the fact that Kooper had spent a good chunk of the prior year working with the Atlanta Rhythm Section (which appears here) as well as discovering Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Where that first album was recorded very gradually at the outset of his solo career, soon after exiting Blood, Sweat & Tears, Naked Songs was a much more cohesive work (cut in New York and Georgia) from the end of his stay at Columbia Records.
http://www.mp3.com/albums/9161/summary.html   (402 words)

  
 Jimmy Vivino - Al Kooper Discography
Jimmy Vivino, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, national steel guitar, vocals with: Al Kooper, Hammond B-3 organ, Wurlitzer electric piano, mandolin, acoustic piano; Harvey Brooks on Electric Bass; Anton Fig on Drums.
Al Kooper, The Lovin' Spoonful, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Tom Rush, Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse
Mike Bloomfield: guitar, Steve Stills: guitar, Al Kooper: piano, organ, ondioline, vocals, electric guitar and 12-string guitar, Harvey Brooks: bass, Eddie Hoh: drums, Barry Goldberg: electric piano
http://www.jimmyvivino.com/kooperdiscs.html   (826 words)

  
 eBay - al kooper, CDs, Records items on eBay.com
Al Kooper +2 Signed Act Like Nothings Wrong Album LP
AL KOOPER New Sealed 2006 LIVE CONCERT and MORE DVD
Al Kooper Mike Bloomfield Lost Fillmore Concert CD
http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=al+kooper&newu=1&krd=1   (487 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Rekooperation: Music: Al Kooper
This is a beautiful example of listening to a musician that has lived through the amazing times of his rock and roll years, to produce an intelligent and fun cd full of inspired Kooper.
As always Big Al surrounds himself with superb musicians of the highest quality and the results are simply wonderful.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000FOQ?v=glance   (858 words)

  
 Metroactive Music Al Kooper
These days, Kooper is busy hosting a radio show on the U.K.'s hip Radio Caroline, compiling a Mike Bloomfield box set, producing a soon-to-be-released 5.1 surround-sound version of BS&T's classic debut Father Is Child to the Man, recording an audio book of his controversial autobiography and recording his first solo album in 30 years.
When George Harrison needed an arranger and keyboardist for his Beatles tribute "All Those Years Ago," which also featured fellow Fab Four members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, he tapped Kooper for the historic session, which paved the way for the Beatles Anthology series.
He's also contributed keyboards to recordings by Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, the Who and Tom Petty, among others.
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/01.04.06/kooper-0601.html   (493 words)

  
 Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper: The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper
Kooper later was involved with Paul Butterfield's Blues Band and Blood, Sweat & Tears, and guested on records by Dylan, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, which he kind of discovered and produced.
It's a typical '60s live album, rather unfocused but notable for Bloomfield's singing debut.
, a follow-up to the successful 1968 jam album Super Session with Bloomfield, Kooper and Stephen Stills, was recorded over three nights in 1968 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco.
http://theband.hiof.no/albums/live_adventures_of_mike_bloomfield_and_al_kooper.html   (220 words)

  
 AudioKarma.org Discussion Forums - Al Kooper- Black Coffee
Kooper has been a huge presence in the music industry for almost 40 years, and a favorite of mine for about that long.
When I heard late last year that he was putting out a new sol album, I sat in the weeds and salivated in anticipation.
I’d like to hear Taj Mahal cover this song with his urban blues based stance.
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43799   (466 words)

  
 AL KOOPER - STORE
Al is not the guy who sells CDs or Tshirts at gigs.
Al’s first solo outing in 30 years !!!
- MEN ONLY -makes a unique gift for any Kooper fan or your favorite musician.
http://www.alkooper.com/store.html   (234 words)

  
 CD Reviews - Reissues
Kooper’s session work with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, The Who, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix is just another aspect in his litany of musical achievements, the better part of which is fondly remembered on his new double disc retrospective on Columbia / Legacy.
When rock legend Al Kooper burst on the scene back in the mid ‘60s with The Blues Project he was just at the doorstep of his illustrious career as a musical pioneer, aandr guru, session man and band leader.
Following his trend-setting work in Blues Project, Kooper went on to form Blood, Sweat and Tears, only to depart that band after their now-classic album debut.
http://www.mwe3.com/archive/pastreview/2001/reisOct01.htm   (1496 words)

  
 Giving to Berklee: Faculty Profile: Al Kooper
The concert, which raised $10,000, was sponsored by Newbury Comics and Risky Records.
He's taught some songwriting courses but principally has made his home in the Music Production and Engineering Department and at Berklee College of Music as a whole.
"Al is not just an academic; he's an enthusiast," says Chair of Music Production and Engineering William Scheniman.
http://www.berklee.edu/giving/giving2002/profile.kooper.html   (948 words)

  
 Al Kooper : Championship Wrestling - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Sony made that a lot easier by reissuing it as a mini-LP-sleeve CD in Japan to coincide with Kooper's concert tour of the country, and Kooper thought enough of it despite some unpleasant memories to include one track on his first Columbia Records anthology.
It wasn't what Columbia Records expected, and it was dumped on the market -- based on the paucity of reviews, it's doubtful that promo copies or even a press release went out to A- or B-list critics -- and forgotten.
Al Kooper : Championship Wrestling - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,116194,00.html   (269 words)

  
 Blogcritics.org: Legendary keyboardist Al Kooper and the Season of the Ditch
Al Kooper was dispatched to spend the better part of a year reworking the tapes and sifting through all the tracks to reconstruct both "Super Session" and his debut Blood Sweat and Tear's release for audiophile consumption.
Bloomfield is one of the great unsung guitar heroes (commercially, at least, but that's no surprise) of the 60s, and Stills' country-laced fills and solos remain some of his best playing to date.
In the next few weeks, all the major record labels will release their schedules for 2005.
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/12/29/092727.php   (1520 words)

  
 JR.com: Al Kooper/Mike Bloomfield - Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield & Al... in Music: Blues:
Fantasy," which gives Kooper the opportunity to quote from the Beatles then-current hit "Hey Jude." The ensemble playing is occasionally a little sloppy, and some of the soloing is by modern standards a tad indulgent, but by and large this is highly creative music-making regardless of its era.
Personnel: Al Kooper (vocals, keyboards); Mike Bloomfield, Carlos Santana (electric guitar); Roosevelt Gook (piano); John Kahn (bass); Skip Prokop (drums); Paul Simon (background vocals); Elvin Bishop.
Includes liner notes by Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper and Tom Wheeler.
http://jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product_Id=3731829&...   (289 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock 'N' Roll Survivor: Books: Al Kooper
Kooper's accounting of himself and his personal musical endeavor's however were so captivating and humorous that I checked out his compilation CD (Rare and Well Done) and LOVED it!
This book details Al's life in the music business and his insistence at putting the music ahead of commercial success.
A great book about Al, the record business, and gives great insight into some of the key musical events/artists of our times.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0823082571?v=glance   (1457 words)

  
 Fufkin.com: The Al Kooper Interview: June, 2002
He went into the recording studio as a skinny teenaged guitarist for the first time in the late 1950s.
And that doesn’t even scratch the surface of the power wielded by the one of the most influential personalities in music you may never have heard about.
AK: There was an unreleased concert from The Fillmore East with Mike Bloomfield that took place in December 1968 that we are readying for release.
http://www.fufkin.com/columns/klutho/klutho_06_02.htm   (1549 words)

  
 As the Years Go Passing By by Al Kooper: Song Music Downloads
Check the albums tab for other downloads from Al Kooper.
Sorry, at this time no streams have been found for "As the Years Go Passing By" on album Naked Songs.
Sorry, at this time no downloads have been found for "As the Years Go Passing By" on album Naked Songs.
http://www.mp3.com/tracks/97421/dl_streams.html   (132 words)

  
 LIVE WITH THE BAND, AL KOOPER AND MIKE BLOOMFIELD
But to be avoided in either form as a haplessly scrambled, sonically inferior collection of unrelated tracks, all circulating in superior sound in more complete form.
The issuer's identification of the Hawks session tracks as coming from 1965 tour rehearsals is ludicrously incorrect.
Overall the sound is quite a step below Record Document's other Dylan CDs.
http://www.angelfire.com/wa/monicasdude/115.htm   (147 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Al Kooper stuff you need to own
Several of these performances transcend the original studio versions, and Allie shows tremendous growth as a singer, despite suffering a nasty cold the night of the show.
– this is currently the best and most comprehensive Kooper Kollection available, until Rhino Records or some other culturally responsible party gets off its bum and releases the multi-disc boxed set we need.
SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Al Kooper stuff you need to own
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20050113-9999-lz1w13kooper.html   (288 words)

  
 RE/Search Publications -- Books -- Me and Big Joe
Playing with Bob Dylan, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and the Electric Flag in the '60s, and on record and film soundtracks in the '70s, Michael Bloomfield was one of the foremost blues guitarists of his generation.
His next venture was 'Super Session,' an album of jams with Steve Stills and Al Kooper, cut in 1968.
This collaboration was an enormous success--as was its successor, a live double album 'The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper.'"
http://www.researchpubs.com/books/mbjoe.shtml   (704 words)

  
 WFUV Bulletin Boards : Al Kooper
It's funny thought that he would just get up and leave in the middle of recording an album, but I guess that's just one of those quirky artistic temperament things.
WFUV Bulletin Boards » Music Programs » 'FUV Jamboree » Al Kooper
Also, you mentioned an upcoming concert with Kooper & Jimmy Vivino.
http://www.wfuv.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=19&t=000008   (255 words)

  
 Rhapsody Music: Download, Listen, Play & Burn Al Kooper
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