Various Artist - The Monterey Jazz & Blues Festival 1966-67 (Bootleg)

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BB King playing with his idol T-Bone Walker on BB's birthday at the Monterey Jazz Festival on 16 September 1967. The set starts off with T-Bone Walker doing what he does best. Next, is a nice set of BB King with the last two songs joined by T-Bone Walker... During the second track with T-Bone, BB totally messes up the introductions - sounds as if he's nervous playing with T-Bone. Bonus tracks include the great Otis Rush playing in a trio format at the 1966 Prague Jazz festival with Chicago legends Fred Below and Jack Myers, and Buddy Guy and Junior Wells from the same venue.

This is from Reel-to-Reel Masters. My friend and I got a chance to transfer some great mono soundboards from Reel-to-Reels in the early 80s. This is actually a Teac Reel-to-Reel to Cassette (top-of-the-line Yamaha TC-1000 cassette deck from the 80s) and then transferred straight to my Philips CDR-765 deck. This is as close to a first generation as possible, since the reels where sent off to never-never land surplus probably never to see the light of day from the original source. CD Burners didn't exist yet so I had to wait until they were available to transfer this show This is a live soundboard that may or may not have been broadcast. The sound quality speaks for itself. Hope you enjoy this as much as I have over the years.

These came as a mix of parts of Otis Rush & Junior Wells/Buddy Guy from Prague Jazz Festival in 1966, along with unrelated parts of T-Bone Walker and B.B. King's sets at Monterey Jazz Festival, Sept 16 1967. I decided to separtate them for my own archive, and figured I would share them as well. It's not every day material as historic as this appears, and therefore I personally decided it needed some better treatment. I also cleaned up some typos, and corrected song titles. Online research has shown that Prague Jazz Fest was held on the dates above from early/mid Oct., so that it narrows down the date some.

10th Anniversary headliners 1967 artists:
T-Bone Walker, B. B. King, Richie Havens, the Clara Ward Singers, Dizzy Gillespie Quintet, Modern Jazz Quartet, Ornette Coleman Quartet, Carmen McRae, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Richie Havens, and Big Brother & The Holding Company w/Janis Joplin

T-Bone Walker
01.Crazy Bout My Baby 4:23
02.You Don’t Love Me 4:02
03.Stormy Monday 4:39
04.You Left Me 3:02

Monterey Jazz Festival 9-16-67
Personnel: 
T-Bone Walker-Guitar and Vocals
Jesse Price-Drums
Lloyd Glenn-Piano
Melvin Moore-Tumpet
Illinois Jacquet-Tenor Sax

BB King
05.Everyday I Have The Blues 2:29
06.How Blue Can You Get 5:58
07.You Know I Love You 2:33
08.Don’t Want A Soul 5:34
09.Instrumental W/T-Bone 2:42
10.Bad News/Sweet Sixteen W/T-Bone 5:26

Monterey Jazz Festival 9-16-67
Personnel: 
BB King-Guitar and Vocals
T-Bone Walker-Guitar and Vocals
Sonny Freeman-Drums
Duke Jethro-Organ
Lloyd Glenn-Piano
Melvin Moore-Tumpet
Illinois Jacquet-Tenor Sax

Otis Rush 
11.Instrumental 4:57
12.Doing The Things You Do 7:14

Prague Jazz Festival 1966
Personnel: 
Otis Rush-Guitar and Vocals
Fred Below-Drums
Jack Myers-Bass

Junior Wells & Buddy Guy
13.Checking On My Baby 4:26
14.My Little Girl 5:09
15.Lucille 4:50

Prague Jazz Festival 1966
Personnel: 
Buddy Guy-Guitar
Junior Wells-Vocals and Harmonica
Fred Below-Drums
Jack Myers-Bass

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