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Station Blues – Storehouse
(Free mp3 on www.storehousemusic.com)

Tom Rodwell has been mentioned on this blog before (in the days before I lost all my data). He’s based in the UK, but was raised in New Zealand and cut his musical teeth on the Auckland scene.

Tom’s mean line in old blues and spirituals is often rolled out as a solo show, but his duo project with bass player Joe Pineapple is called Storehouse.

Rarely have I heard a room more deeply rocked by a small group than at a Storehouse gig. The guys are funky and minimal – in sum, everything they need to be, and no more.

Storehouse also exist on myspace and YouTube.

Here he is blowing his way to a frenzy on his instrument of choice – firstly on his own composition Waltz of the Jive Cats with a German radio band featuring Johnny Griffin, Donald Byrd and the late Nils Henning Øersted-Pedersen (among others…) in 1964.

And then a live recording from the 1977 Montreux Jazz Festival, with Etta James, David Newman (ss), Herbie Mann (fl), Brian Ray (g), Jeff Berlin (b), Richard Tee (p) and Steve Jordan (d).