One album I really enjoy is "Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive," in which Joe Jackson did a kind of tribute album to jump blues from decades earlier. This is a similar sort of tribute to music that was way out of style in the early 1970s. What's even more interesting is that there isn't much overlap with her studio albums. I checked the two albums she released at the time of this concert. From her first album, "Maria Muldaur," released in 1973, she played two songs: "Any Old Time" and "Don't You Feel My Leg (Don't You Make Me High)." And from 1974's "Waitress in a Donut Shop," she played three songs: "Squeeze Me," "I'm a Woman," and "It Ain't the Meat (It's the Motion)." Also, there are no songs from the album she'd release in 1975. So about half of the songs here were not put on her albums.
It seems this concert was not part of her usual tour at the time with her usual backing musicians. Instead, it was one of only a handful where she performed with the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars, which led to the different set list. Benny Carter had a very respected and long career as a composer, musician and bandleader. In fact, his career was so long that he first recorded in the 1920s, and ended up recording in eight different decades! (He died in 2003 at the age of 95.)
I don't know if or when I'm going to post more Maria Muldaur albums. "Midnight at the Oasis" wasn't included in this concert, though I don't know if this recording is incomplete or she just chose not to play it. But since I associate that song so strongly with her, and it was a hit the year before this concert, I stuck a live version of it at the end as a quasi bonus track. It's from a concert at Ebbets Field, Denver, Colorado, on January 30, 1974.
Everything here is unreleased, and sounds great, including the song at the end from the other source.
This album is 51 minutes long.
01 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
02 Squeeze Me (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
03 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
04 Any Old Time (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
05 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
06 Ain't I Good to You (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
07 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
08 Sweetheart (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
09 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
10 Doozy [Instrumental] (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
11 It Don't Mean a Thing [If It Ain't Got That Swing] (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
12 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
13 Lover Man [Oh, Where Can You Be] (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
14 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
15 Walking One and Only (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
16 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
17 Don't You Get Me High [Don't You Feel My Leg] (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
18 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
19 I'm a Woman (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
20 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
21 It Ain't the Meat [It's the Motion] (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
22 Midnight at the Oasis (Maria Muldaur)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/Lh9xtDcC
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/6X1fS1wLxMgFHVy/file
The cover photo is from a concert in Montreux, Switzerland, on July 20, 1975. I used the Krea AI program to clean it up and sharpen it a bit.
