What's Spinning

Cross post from the always fun March Challenge thread...

What is this? Is it......

Memphis horns?
Punk beats?
Latin trance?
Beat poetry?
Angular post-punk?
Free jazz skronk?
Psych blues?

Yes. Yes it is.

When I talked with Bob Kidney about this record, he told me his influences were primitive blues, Check Berry, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and Archie Shepp. As Bob put it, "Elton John, he's original, right? I wanted to create something more, something uniquely original.'

He did such a great job that the industry couldn't figure out what to do with 15-60-75 and they never signed to a record deal. They've been playing regularly for 53 years without any label support.

15-60-75 - Jimmy Bell's Still In Town







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