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Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra - Sex & Jazz & Rock & Roll - 1996

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Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra - Sex & Jazz & Rock & Roll - 1996

Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra - Sex & Jazz & Rock & Roll - 1996
Lossless (Flac Individual Files + Cue + Log + Audiochecker Log): 324 Mb | EAC Secure Mode Rip | Mp3 (CBR 320 kbps): 116 Mb | Front Cover
Audio CD (14 Oct 1996) - Number of Discs: 1 - Label / Distributor: Warner ESP / Cinram Logistics - Catalog Number: 0630164652
Pop/Rock, Rhythm & Blues

Biography: Depending on who you talk to, the irrepressible Jools Holland is best known as a blisteringly energetic piano-pounding performer of boogie-woogie, jazz, and R&B; or as the keyboard-wizard sideman to one of the great new wave pop bands of the '70s and '80s; or as one of the U.K.'s most popular television presenters. And while any one of these accomplishments would be enough for most people, Jools Holland has managed to be all those things in his remarkable showbiz career – a career that's seen him work with almost everybody who was anybody on the U.K. or U.S. music scene from the late '70s onward.

Julian Miles Holland was born on January 24, 1958, in London. Even as a young boy, he showed a flair for the piano, learning the rudiments of boogie-woogie piano from an uncle at the age of eight. And though never possessed of a classic singing voice, young Jools quickly learned to adapt his somewhat reedy, nasal tone into an enthusiastic cockney-ish singing style that complemented his rollicking, joyous piano playing perfectly. By his teens, he was playing for pay in clubs and pubs in South London and in London's East End. Then in 1974, while still only 16, Holland became the keyboardist for the original lineup of Squeeze, which released their first record in 1977 (the EP Packet of Three), and their first full-length album the following year. Almost immediately, the band vaulted into the upper reaches of the U.K. charts with the new wave hits "Take Me I'm Yours" and "Bang Bang" (both 1978), both of which were penned by Squeeze leaders Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook.
That same year, Holland released his solo debut, a 7" five-song EP called Boogie Woogie '78, which showcased Holland's penchant for boogie-woogie, R&B, and jazz far more effectively than any of Squeeze's much more pop-oriented recordings. However, Holland stayed with Squeeze through 1980, playing keyboards on a series of classic Difford and Tilbrook-composed hit singles, including "Cool for Cats," "Up the Junction," "Another Nail in My Heart," and "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)" (in which he laid down a memorable piano solo). Holland's occasional contributions as a composer/frontman for Squeeze were limited exclusively to B-sides or album tracks.
Finally, in 1980 Holland announced that he was leaving Squeeze on amicable terms for a full-time solo career. He emerged in 1981 as leader of Jools Holland & His Millionaires, a guitar-less sextet that included Jools on "lead vocals, keys and good ideas" as well as Pino Palladino (bass), Martin T. Deegan (drums), Mike Paice (sax), and the Fabulous Wealthy Tarts (Kim Lesley and Maz Roberts) on backing vocals. Their lone self-titled album, however, was a flop, despite production by Glyn Johns (the Rolling Stones, the Eagles, the Who, etc.) and lyrical help from Squeeze's Chris Difford. Soon after the album's release, the Millionaires disbanded, although Jools would continue to work with all of them individually throughout the rest of his solo career.
For the next few years, Holland then busied himself musically with session work for the likes of the The, and with a couple of U.K. solo singles that were eventually collected as part of the excellent U.S.-only release Jools Holland Meets Rock-a-Boogie Billy (1984). Perhaps more importantly, though, around this time Holland also secured a job as host of the seminal British music series The Tube, which presented both established stars and cutting-edge musical acts every week. A critical and popular success from the word go, The Tube made the effervescent, enthusiastic South Londoner a household name in Great Britain, and introduced a lot of great music to the world besides.
Then, unexpectedly, Squeeze stalwarts Difford and Tilbrook decided to re-form their band in 1985, and asked Holland to return. (Squeeze had continued for two years after Holland's departure before packing it in at the end of 1982.) Holland accepted, and by the end of 1985, a new Squeeze record called Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti was in the shops, featuring the keyboards of "Julian Holland" (as he now billed himself). For the next five years, TV personality Holland was again largely a sideman on Squeeze's records, although his piano was unquestionably a vital component in the poppy, vaguely Beatlesque mid-'80s Squeeze sound. It was during this phase of their career that Squeeze had their biggest U.S. success, the Top 20 "Hourglass," and Holland got to play Madison Square Garden with his bandmates. His musical success in the U.S. was also at least partly responsible for helping Holland to land a gig as the co-host of NBC's Night Music, a live-in-the-studio jazz, blues, and pop music program that had a strong cult following for the few years it was on the air. It later became the blueprint for such popular music shows as Sessions at West 54th.
However, by 1990, Holland was still only being given the occasional album track in which to showcase his prodigious talents, so he once again left Squeeze on amicable terms to resume his solo career. That year, he reclaimed the first name "Jools" and released World of His Own, which mixed up the boogie-woogie with more contemporary sounds and featured contributions from all of his Squeeze bandmates, as well as all of the ex-Millionaires and his celebrity pal Sting. In 1991, the more overtly swing/R&B-themed The Full Complement followed. These albums sold respectably, but generated no hit singles: from this point on, Holland increasingly became (in the U.K. at least) a television personality who also happened to make records, rather than a recording star who also happened to be on television. And while his recording career could hardly be called stagnant, his television career really took off starting in 1992, when he began hosting Later with Jools Holland. This long-running late-night music show featured a dazzling array of musical talent (absolutely everyone from Tori Amos to David Bowie to Rickie Lee Jones to B.B. King to the Verve showed up at one point or another), and it was required viewing for any Brit with even the vaguest pretensions toward musical hipness.

Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra - Sex & Jazz & Rock & Roll - 1996

Perhaps in order to not spread himself too thin, for the next little while Holland (the musician) released albums that concentrated solely on his keyboard playing. These included The A to Z Geographer's Guide to the Piano (1992) and Solo Piano (1994). As well, Holland compiled three CDs that traced the history of different styles of piano playing: Boogie Woogie Piano, Ragtime Piano, and Jazz Piano (all 1995). He also continued to work diligently as a session musician throughout the '90s, appearing on dozens of recordings by artists such as Dr. John, Eddi Reader, Marcella Detroit, and others.
But by the mid-'90s, however, Holland's fame as a television presenter (and his consequent list of celebrity contacts), coupled with his well-earned reputation for top-notch musicianship, meant that he had the clout to tour with (and record big-budget albums with) a full-scale '40s-style big band. Increasingly as the years went by, these albums would also feature big-name guest vocalists. These albums, which covered the gamut from swing to boogie-woogie to jump blues to jazz, were credited to Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, and include Live Performance (1994); Sex & Jazz & Rock & Roll (1996); and Lift the Lid (1997), on which Sam Brown is the featured vocalist on several numbers. In 1998, a Best of Jools Holland compilation appeared, with selections from all of his '90s albums to date.
Not slowing down at all as one century led into another (he was still touring constantly throughout the U.K., performing an average of two big-band shows a week as well as hosting Later), Jools then released Sunset Over London in 1999, which featured guest turns by Jamiroquai and actor Robbie Coltrane, followed by Hop the Wag in 2000. In 2001, the U.S.-based Valley label issued a compilation of tracks from all of Jools' various big-band swing albums called, not unreasonably, The Swing Album; it was his first stateside release in over a decade.
Later that same year, Holland led his big band through an all-star album that featured contributions from Steve Winwood, Paul Weller, Sting, Dr. John, Mark Knopfler, and many, many others. Called Small World Big Band in the U.K. and Jools Holland's Big Band Rhythm & Blues in the U.S., the record quickly gained attention for containing the last ever song and performance from George Harrison, who died shortly after the album's U.K. release. In the U.S., the record came out in early 2002 to generally positive reviews, although the focus of most of the initial critical attention was on Harrison, not Holland. Ignoring the splash the record made in the U.S., for the rest of the year Jools continued to tour in his native U.K. while making frequent radio and television appearances.
The new millennium found Holland issuing at least one significant album each year and the continuation of his collaborative projects with the Small World Big Band. Small World Big Band, Vol. 2: More Friends was released in 2002, followed by Small World Big Band Friends, Vol. 3: Jack o the Green in 2003. In 2004, Holland collaborated with the legendary Tom Jones (on Tom Jones & Jools Holland) but quickly returned to the "everyone's welcome" big band with two albums in 2005, Beatroute and Swinging the Blues Dancing the Ska. For 2006, Holland tackled classic country with his big band and issued Moving Out to the Country, which featured an eclectic mix of artists, from Mark Knopfler to Marc Almond. Best of Friends hit shelves in 2007 and was followed by yet another collaboration (this time with British soul singer Ruby Turner), 2008's The Informer. That same year, a hits anthology was issued (The Collection). ~ Rudyard Kennedy & J. Scott McClintock, All Music Guide

Review: The first full album recorded by Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra opens with the brilliant instrumental Boogie-Woogie of Jools' `Hamsters Wheel' (`Jubals Discovery' being one of many protracted intros) before Fairground Attraction's Eddie Reader leads the band through Squeeze lyricist Chris Difford's brilliant `Waiting Game' (Which Jools originally performed on his 1982 `Jools Holland and his Millionaires' album).
Next up is Holland's song for his daughter `Able Mabel' which with Ska legend Rico Rodriquez highlighting the Ska beat which was underplayed on its previous outing, on the album `Live Performance'. Then we have what is possibly the greatest Holland composition `I, is All I ever Here' which contains the fantastic line `Never look down on anyone unless your helping to pick them up'. Brother Christopher takes over the vocal duties on the Difford lyric for `Instrumental Love' and sounds very much like Jools in a higher register.
Jools then gives us a potentially too light a version of Charles Mingus' `Atom Bomb'. Chris Difford then makes a surprise vocal appearance on his lyric for the fabulous `Scorpio Rising' before Jools brings it all home with the standards `Well Alright', `Count to Ten' and `Wang Dang Doodle'. The last two Difford/Holland compositions are the atmospheric `I Love a Train' and the country flavoured `Lonesome Joe' which had been in Jools' set for some time.
Possibly the most immediate of Jools recording up to this point with a full set using the Rhythm and Blues Orchestra to full effect giving us a consistently high standard.
Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra - Sex & Jazz & Rock & Roll - 1996
Track Listing:
01 - Jubals Discovery - 0:16
02 - Hamsters Wheel - 2:49
03 - Waiting Game - 4:12
04 - Able Mabel - 3:34
05 - uj - 0:50
06 - I, is All I Ever Hear - 3:47
07 - Instrumental Love - 2:49
08 - Atom Bomb - 5:50
09 - Rab Elpmet - 0:22
10 - Scorpio Rising - 4:10
11 - Well Alright - 3:10
12 - Count To Ten - 4:09
13 - Escaped Stripe - 0:53
14 - I Love a Train - 3:35
15 - Wang Dang Doodle - 4:05
16 - Martians Playing Boogie Woogie - 0:16
17 - Lonesome Joe - 4:51
18 - Absit Invidia - 0:27
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