Via this post at Metafilter, here's Big Mama Thornton, with Buddy Guy:
This is great too - Down Home Shakedown, with Big Mama heading a bunch of harp players, including Walter "Shakey" Horton, Doc Ross and John Lee Hooker, queueing up to have their turn at the microphone. There's no doubt who's the boss, though.
This little treasure keeps vanishing from youtube, so must be enjoyed NOW.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v-6AH-S8L8&feature=related
Posted by: dearieme | June 21, 2008 at 08:05 AM
I love those Reinhardt-Grappelli duets. The video that dearieme posted reminds me that I never understood why critics always gave Grappelli a back seat to Reinhardt.
Posted by: Dom | June 21, 2008 at 08:07 PM
I went to three or four Grapelli concerts. Wonderful fellow - he'd take a solo, you'd be convinced that he'd painted himself into a corner and then "in one bound he was free". To vary a remark of Larkin's, how dreadful to have lived in the twentieth century but died before hearing the music of The Quintet of The Hot Club of France!
Posted by: dearieme | June 22, 2008 at 04:17 PM